Carrie Holecek has joined charlieuniformtango as executive producer. Her recent postproduction background includes having served as managing director of Red Car Chicago after a tenure as executive producer at Whitehouse Post, Chicago.
Prior to that, she was at Company 3, Santa Monica, and worked at EFILM and Technicolor as an executive producer on such feature films as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Frida, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Pleasantville, The Island, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Her career has led her to work with agencies including Leo Burnett, DDB, Fallon, Draftfcb, mcgarrybowen, and The Richards Group. Holecek has overseen post on multiple award-winning ad campaigns for Allstate, Discover, McDonald’s, BMW, Nintendo, and Bud Light, among others.
Lola Lott, charlieuniformtango owner/CEO, noted that Holecek has already contributed as part of the company team on campaigns for AT&T out of GSD&M in Austin, and Ford for Team Detroit.
Holecek is from Marion, Iowa. She studied business, marketing, and speech communications at the Minnesota State University at Mankato and started her career in advertising in Minneapolis, including serving as an associate producer at Fallon.
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this โ and those many "Babadook" memes โ unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables โ "Bah-Bah-Doooook" โ an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More