Harbor set out to create an environment where the co-mingling of craft leads to new discoveries. Our friend and collaborator, Tim LeGallo, EVP, Head of Production, Team Verizon at McCann, said it best – “You need the room to evolve each time.” And in order to do so, you have to take risks, you have to accept other people’s risks, and perhaps most importantly you have to be vulnerable and listen. I’m honored that every month I get to showcase conversations with our artists, clients, and collaborators discussing just that, in a space that was built for risk-taking.
You can trace this theme through this magazine. Starting with our feature on Artistry Unfiltered, our annual Pride panel, in partnership with Soho House. This event aims to open channels of conversation around the creative process and how we can make it a more inclusive environment.
The theme continues through our guest contributor Zifeng Zhuo’s short film “Code Red,” about a notoriously vulnerable occurrence: getting your period.
And finally, you’ll find it in my interview with senior colorist Andrea Chlebak and cinematographer Jo Jo Lam on their collaboration for Playland.
Jo Jo and Andrea discuss what it took to conjure (what would have been, had it not closed) the oldest gay bar in Boston. This required an enormous amount of prep and experimentation
to explore what director Gordon West described at the North American premiere of the film at Tribeca as “a new syntax for Queer filmmaking.”
Oh, and don’t forget, risks reap rewards. Or awards (AICP and Cannes Lions) and film festival laurels (Tribeca).
—Ellie Powers
