Editors Greg Scruton and Debbie Berman have joined Cabin Editing Company. Also added to the company roster is Scott Butzer who’s been promoted to editor.
Scruton joins Cabin from Arcade Edit, and brings an innate talent for visual storytelling and comedy. He has worked on dozens of high profile commercials and music videos throughout his career including Pepsi’s 2019 Grammy spot “Okurrr” starring Cardi B, Palms Resort Casino’s star-studded “Unstatus Quo,” and Kendrick Lamar’s iconic “Humble” music video, which earned an AICE Award. Scruton has longstanding relationships with some notable ad agencies and directors including Anomaly, Wieden+Kennedy, 72andSunny, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Dave Meyers and Nadia Lee Cohen.
Feature film standout Berman joins Cabin on the heels of her successful run with Marvel Studios, having recently served as an editor on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel. Her strengths as a storyteller extend across mediums, with experience editing everything from PSAs and documentaries to animated features. Now expanding her commercial portfolio with Cabin, Berman is currently at work on a Toyota campaign through Saatchi & Saatchi; she will continue to work in features as well.
Cabin’s Butzer was recently promoted to editor after joining the company in 2017 and honing his talent across many platforms, including commercials, music videos, and documentaries, with particular strengths in visual storytelling, narrative, and automotive work. His recent credits include “Every Day Is Your Day” for Gatorade celebrating the 2019 Women’s World Cup, “The Professor” for Mercedes Benz, and Vince Staples’ “FUN!” music video. Butzer has worked with many ad agencies and directors including TBWAChiatDay, Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Team One, Marcus Sonderland, Ryan Booth, and Rachel McDonald. Butzer previously held editorial positions at Final Cut and Whitehouse Post, and he studied film at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More