Director Eivind Holmboe has joined B-Reel’s U.S. and U.K. rosters. He comes over from @radical.media.
Eivind, a World Cup Freestyle skier, began his career as a copywriter at Deutsch LA after graduating from The Art Institute, San Francisco.
Michael McQuhae, executive producer and managing director of B-Reel, said, “A visual storyteller of his talent is rare to come by. Eivind’s “VW Paper Clip” spot has been on my radar for years.”
Holmboe is currently developing his first self-written feature film project while continuing his love of directing commercials.
B-Reel has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Stockholm, Barcelona and Berlin.
B-Reel Commercials’ directorial roster includes Jeffery Plansker, Miles Jay, Filip Tellander, Jon+Torey, Anders Hallberg, Tom Malmros, Steven Tsuchida, Patrik Bergh, Josh Miller, Roye Segal, Mikael Marcimain, Johan Perjus, Jens Sjรถgren, Anders Forsman, and Holmboe.
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 โ and those many "Babadook" memes โ 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 โ "Bah-Bah-Doooook" โ 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