Zulu Alpha Kilo’s Catherine Allen and Ian Simpson have been promoted to creative directors. Both joined Zulu in November 2015 as associate creative directors.
Prior to working at Zulu, they were the team behind Nabob’s Respect the Bean campaign at Ogilvy, and Kokanee’s “The Movie Out Here” at Grip Limited. At Zulu, they’ve been the creative leads on Bell creating work for Bell’s Rio Summer Olympic sponsorship, Fibe TV, Bell mobility, and Fibe Internet. They’ve also created campaigns at Zulu for Mott’s Venom + Vodka, KitchenAid’s Cook for the Cure program, and ParticipACTION’s 150 Play List.
In addition to the promotions on the creative team, Zulu announced two promotions in the account team. Terri Mattucci and David Tremblay have both been promoted to group account directors.
Mattucci joined Zulu from Juniper Park in the fall of 2015. She will continue to lead the Bell and ParticipACTION business in her new role. Meanwhile, Tremblay who joined Zulu in the fall of 2014 from JWT, is currently overseeing the Harley Davidson business.
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