Director Emilie Thalund has signed with bicoastal production company Epoch Films for representation in the U.S. spanning commercials and branded content. This marks her first career representation in the American ad market. She continues to be handled by Bacon Films in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and by Czar in the Netherlands.
Hailing from Copenhagen, Thalund achieved a master in Art & Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts but chose to pursue her love of film, characters and storytelling. She was hired as an assistant to Martin Werner, acclaimed director and founder of Bacon Films, which ultimately led to her own directing career.
A sensitive observer, a dreamer and a visually strong narrator, Thalund is interested in the stories of women and wants to lend her insights to those narratives.
She has won a Gold Screen in the Young Directors Awards at Cannes Lions with her film “Period” for the Passion Project. She was also recently named “Talent of the Year” within the Danish advertising industry.
Thalund and Epoch are represented in the West by Dexter Randazzo and Jonathan Logan at The Department of Sales; in the East by Tara Averill and John Robertson at Representation; and in the Midwest by Chris Brown and Nicole Feddock at Baer Brown Reps.
Stakes Are High In Next Week’s Presidential Debate–For Harris, Trump and ABC News
Hours after ABC News released the rules for next Tuesday's presidential debate, resolving a final dispute in Donald Trump's favor, the former president was on the attack — against ABC News.
"I think a lot of people will be watching to see how nasty they are, how unfair they are," he said Wednesday on a Fox News town hall.
It was an unsubtle reminder that Trump and Kamala Harris aren't the only ones with a lot at stake next week. The same is true for ABC News and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, in what is the only scheduled debate between the presidential contenders this fall.
Multiple outlets will televise and stream it. But unlike in past years, when presidential debates were organized by a bipartisan commission, this is solely an ABC News production. It won't include a live audience.
"This is a huge opportunity for ABC News," said Ben Sherwood, former ABC News president and now publisher & CEO of the Daily Beast. "It's like getting to host, moderate and produce the Super Bowl of politics. It gives the network luster at a time broadcast television is in decline."
That is, of course, if things go well.
ABC sees it as a 'huge responsibility'
The ABC debate was set last spring, when President Joe Biden was the likely Democratic nominee. When he dropped out, it was unclear if the debate would go on. Harris and Trump eventually gave the go-ahead, although the Republican's repeated criticism of ABC last month raised questions about it again.
It all had little effect on ABC's planning, said Rick Klein, the network's Washington bureau chief. "It truly wasn't a lot of turmoil on our end of things," he said.
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