Director, designer and artist Ken Lambert has signed with Accomplice Media for exclusive representation in the U.S. Lambert, who is based in Australia, has created ads for major brands in Australia, Asia and Europe, including Coca Cola, Disney, Hyundai, Pepsi, Optus, Foxtel, Kenmore, Sanitarium and VW. He is known for his strong visual style and storytelling skills. Lambert is the founder of the live action production company Sheepish Lion and creative director of the design studio Ink Project, both based in Sydney. His directing career spans 14 years with his most recent project being a campaign for Disneyland, Shanghai, currently in postproduction. Other notable recent work includes an ongoing campaign for Foxtel, Australia, featuring actor Chris Hemsworth. In its latest iteration, the star of Thor strolls through the sets of different television shows, seamlessly knitted together through clever camera work and special effects. After studying art and design at the University of Western Sydney, Lambert began his career with Earth Exchange Museum. He later served as creative director at Garner MacLennan Design before joining Ink Project in 2001. His work there included broadcast campaigns for SyFy, SBS, TVNZ Network One, 2, 7, Maori Television, Foxtel Movies, 2010 Winter Olympics, 2012 London Games, the Arts Channel and World Heritage Channel. Lambert is also a photographer and fine-art painter….
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation announced its tributes to director/producer/writer Lee Daniels, producer Megan Ellison, and director/producer Rob Marshall with the first “Patron of the Artists Awards” at the nonprofit’s 30th Anniversary Celebration on November 5t. Honoring industry leaders who are champions of the arts, the award recognizes individuals whose history of fostering creativity and creating opportunities for actors has made a positive impact on the acting profession and the performing arts….
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