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.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More