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    Editor Ben McCambridge joins Uppercut

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    NEW YORK --

    Editorial, finishing, and VFX studio Uppercut has brought editor Ben McCambridge aboard its growing Los Angeles team. 

    Among his credits is the manifesto for barbering and styling tools company Andis, Create Your Way. The film thoughtfully elevates the ethos of the brand, fueled by expression, curiosity, and creativity. His edit for Lyft in It All Started With A Bike beautifully illustrates the company’s partnership with LeBron James and Uninterrupted to provide bikeshare access to teenagers across the country. 

    Also counted among McCambridge’s best work are the powerful Veterans for Gun Reform; an over-the-top comedy-meets-action spot for Jack In The Box; and the National Geographic film out of 72andSunny, Nujeen, which follows a Syrian refugee as she relives her journey to safety and her dream of a path to the stars. McCambridge has also cut for such clients as Halo Top, Facebook, Starbucks, Dockers, VICE and Smirnoff. Prior to joining Uppercut, McCambridge had most recently been with Cut+Run.

    “I have always been drawn to editing in order to bring order to chaos,” said McCambridge. “That has never changed. Whether it’s a well-told joke or the ability to tap into the emotional vein of a story in a visceral way and move it forward… I love the projects that allow me to learn something about the world and, in the process, something about myself. I can’t wait to do more of this with the amazing crew at Uppercut.” 

    “Ben’s extreme skill is in his restrained approach and his knack for finding the emotion in the quiet,” said Lisa Houck, managing director of Uppercut. “His depth of understanding of his craft, and of storytelling itself, is what makes us so thrilled to have him onboard.”

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    Lucy Walker Made A Searing Documentary About Wildfires In 2021; Now, People May Be More Inclined To Listen

    Tuesday, January 14, 2025

    When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, "Bring Your Own Brigade," at Sundance in 2021, it was during peak COVID. Not the best time for a film on a wholly different scourge.

    "It was really hard," the Oscar-nominated filmmaker says now. "I didn't blame people for not wanting to watch a film about the fires in the middle of the pandemic, because it was just too much horror."

    And so the film, though acclaimed — it was named one of the 10 best films of the year by the New York Times – didn't reach an audience as large as Walker had hoped, with its urgent display of the human cost of wildfires and its tough, crucial questions for the future.

    That could change. Walker thinks people may now be more receptive to her message, given the devastating wildfires that have wrought havoc on Los Angeles itself the past week. Firefighters were preparing on Tuesday to attack new blazes amid warnings that winds combined with severely dry conditions created a " particularly dangerous situation."

    "This is probably the moment where it becomes undeniable," she said in an interview.

    She added: "It does feel like people are now asking the question that I was asking a few years ago, like, 'Is it safe to live in Los Angeles? And why is this happening, and what can we do about it? And the good news is that there are some things we can do about it. What's tricky is that they're really hard to accomplish."

    Documenting the human cost, confronting complacency
    In "Bring Your Own Brigade" (available on Paramount+), Walker portrays in sometimes terrifying detail the devastation caused by two wildfires on the same day in 2018, products of the same wind event — the Camp Fire that engulfed the... Read More

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