Anonymous Content has signed filmmaker Jovan Todorovic for commercial and music video representation in the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands. The Serbian-born Todorovic has directed numerous commercials, music videos and short films for clients including Samsung, T-Mobile, Adidas, Puma, Bacardi, MTV and Diesel. As a director, photographer and musician, he is drawn to storytelling as a means to use heightened visual, auditory and textural experiences to showcase the extraordinary in the ordinary, broadening our ideas of beauty and our understanding of what it means to be human.
Todorovic’s latest project is the quarantine-inspired music video for Japanese indie sensation Vaundy. Shot in Fukuoka and produced by the Nakama studio, the video features a group of young people slowly venturing out into the empty city and, upon discovering each other, joining together in a celebratory dance that’s a joyful allegory to the (hopefully) ending of the pandemic and humanity slowly opening up again.
“With his clear vision and compelling aesthetic, his work is inspiring to watch and always beautifully crafted,” said Tor Fitzwilliams, Anonymous Content’s UK managing director.
Born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Todorovic first discovered his passion for visual artistry when he found himself on the road escaping the Balkan wars, traveling through Europe and North America with the camera given to him on his 13th birthday.
He received his B.A. in Film and Television directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, and went on to study directing and cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago, later earning his MFA in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, as well.
Now based in New York, Todorovic has received several awards for his commercials and documentary films, including his “Hate Couture” campaign for Diesel, which was a 2019 APA winner and the same year also awarded two Golds and a Bronze at the London International Awards, Silver at the Clio Awards, Merit at the One Show, and shortlisted for D&AD. In 2010, he won Ogilvy David’s Award Grand Prix for TVCs for his MTV spots; in 2011, Best TV Spots, Beverage at Croatia’s IdejaX Festival for PAN Beer; and the Golden Bell for best TVC at the Croatian FESTO for his T-Com commercial.
His first feature, the historical documentary The Belgrade Phantom, was voted best Serbian film of 2009, and his 2016 documentary Juvenile, which follows minors incarcerated in the largest juvenile correctional facility in the Balkans, was released through Dazed Digital and his Vaults promo was named a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Prior to joining Anonymous, Todorovic had been repped by Stink in the U.S. and U.K.
Review: Director James Watkins’ “Speak No Evil”
Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
Nope, and there's no signal at Paddy and Ciara's house, either, deep in the English countryside. Soon, that land line will be cut, too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Paddy and Ciara are that fun-but-somewhat-odd British couple whom Louise and Ben, early in "Speak No Evil," meet on their idyllic Tuscan family holiday. Americans based in London, Louise and Ben are at loose ends, with both job and relationship issues. And so, when the new acquaintances write to invite them for a country weekend, they decide to go.
After all, how bad could it be?
Don't answer that. There are many such moments in the first two-thirds of "Speak No Evil," a Hollywood remake of the 2022 Danish film, here starring a deeply menacing James McAvoy. Moments where Louise and Ben, out of mere politeness and social convention, act against their instincts, which tell them something is wrong – very wrong.
Director James Watkins and especially his excellent troupe of actors, adult and children alike, do a nice job of building the tension, slowly but surely. Until all bloody hell breaks loose, of course. And then, in its third act, "Speak No Evil" becomes an entertaining but routine horror flick, with predictable results.
But for a while, it's a way more intelligent film. And the jumpy moments work — I'll confess to literally springing out of my seat when someone uneventfully turned on a power drill.
We begin in stunning Tuscany, where Louise (Mackenzie Davis, in the film's most accessible and empathetic performance) and Ben (Scoot McNairy, all nerves and insecurity) are vacationing with 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler). At the pool, they... Read More