Creative agency Eleven has appointed Dave Evans to serve as head of digital and content production. Evans will manage the San Francisco-based agency’s internal content production team, The Bunker, as well as its editorial facility.
As head of digital and content production, Evans will be tasked with leading the digital executions and strategies across the agency’s accounts for Oakley, SurveyMonkey, Dignity Health, Pella, and Columbus Craft Meats. Evans will report directly to Mike McKay, CCO at Eleven.
Prior to joining Eleven, Evans was chief marketing officer at Inboard Technology where he led marketing efforts for the M1™ Electric Skateboard, a high-performance, lightweight transportation solution changing the landscape of rideables (and seen on Season 8 of the ABC TV series Shark Tank).
Evans was also partner and director of production and business development at digitally focused creative agency Hook, and was co-founder of its sister company Hook QA. During his tenure at Hook, the company transitioned from being a small, 10-person production company based in Michigan to a medium-sized digital advertising agency with over 70 people and offices in Michigan and LA.
Before Hook, Evans was integrated executive producer at Saatchi & Saatchi LA, where he worked (with Mike McKay) on Toyota’s digital advertising for North. Prior to that he was integrated sr. producer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, running digital production for Burger King, Coke Zero, Domino’s, Microsoft, and Zune.
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