Cut+Run NY has promoted Adam Bazadona to editor and Ellese Jobin to head of production.
Adam Bazadona started as an assistant at Cut+Run in 2009 and, over the years, has worked alongside Jon Grover, Gary Knight, Akiko Iwakawa, among other editors. From assisting to editing has been a fluid transition for Bazadona with credits that include co-editor on Green Day’s “Oh Love” directed by Sam Bayer and the CFDA Fashion Fund film directed by Jun Diaz, a collaboration with Andres Cortes on “Rehearsal Space” featuring Lee Renaldo from Sonic Youth, and the recent Panda Designer video. Each of these projects demonstrates Bazadona’s love of editing projects with distinct visual style set to music. In 2015, he cut Scott McFarnon’s “Crazy Heart” directed by Floyd Russ, which highlights the stark reality of human trafficking in America. In the commercial realm, Bazadona has contributed his editing talent to a diverse collection of projects for clients Mercedes-Benz, Kobe Bryant, Verizon Wireless and Blue Apron.
Jobin’s career was forged at Cut+Run; she joined the company shortly after Bazadona, working in client service and reception. She quickly became involved in projects, assuming the role of producer and eventually sr. producer. As head of production, Jobin will oversee Cut+Run’s NY producer team and all facets of the postproduction process in a management capacity.
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