Amrita Sen Music has added feature film sound engineer Tony Joy to its team. The announcement was made by composer/artist Amrita Sen who is probably best known for her performance at the 2009 Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing “Jai Ho” from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Her music reel includes collaborations with artists Justin Timberlake, Weezer and Timbaland.
According to Sen, she first met Joy through composer/singer/songwriter Rahman, composer of the soundtrack for the aforementioned Slumdog Millionaire. Joy is no stranger to mixing commercials for both TV and radio, having overseen hundreds of ad projects during his tenure as a radio producer in Dubai. Joy has been based in Los Angeles since 2010. Joy’s mastering and sound engineering credits include work on the feature films Million Dollar Arm, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Om Shanti Om, and Jab tak Hai Jaan.
“Tony is one of the best mixing and mastering engineers in the music industry,” said Sen. “He is also an expert in mixing for Virtual Reality (VR), which is a genre we’re going to get further involved with.”
Joy was born in India and educated in the UK. He holds a Masters in Post Production-Sound Design from Bournemouth University and also holds a degree in Audio Engineering from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Chennai, India. “I love navigating through the both the creative and logistical chaos in music,” said Joy. “As an engineer, I love cutting through the ambiguity to deliver stellar work.”
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