Sara Worthington and Aryan Aminzadeh have been promoted to creative directors at Eleven San Francisco, working on the business for the Julep, Next Issue, and Aria Resort & Casino accounts. The duo will report directly to chief creative officer Mike McKay and will lead content creation for creative campaign work.
Most recently, Worthington and Aminzadeh were the team behind the “Creepy, Warholian, and sort of brilliant” BLAH Airlines film for Virgin America. The work became a cult favorite and was awarded three Pencils at The One Show.
Prior to her promotion, Aminzadeh was a sr. copywriter at Eleven where she worked on business for Virgin America, Aria Resort & Casino, The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and Dignity Health. Before joining Eleven, Aminzadeh held positions at agencies BBDO SF, Pereira O’Dell, David&Goliath, and Saatchi & Saatchi. Her campaigns have been recognized at The One Show, CLIO, and Cannes.
Worthington rises to creative director from a previous role as sr. art director at Eleven, where she worked on Virgin America, Aria Resort & Casino, Dignity Health and Sun Valley. Prior to Eleven, Worthington held positions at agencies Goodby Silverstein & Partners and JWT NY. Her campaigns have been recognized at The One Show, ANDYs, and Cannes.
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 — and those many "Babadook" memes — 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 — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — 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