The Corner Shop, the production house formed by producer Anna Hashmi and director Peter Thwaites, has added director Wilfrid Brimo to its roster for U.S. representation. Brimo continues to be handled by Wanda Productions in France. He was last represented stateside by Paranoid.
Over the years, Brimo’s work has garnered Gold and Silver Lions at Cannes, multiple Clios and a White Pencil at the D&AD’s. His last spot for Mercedes-Benz won the Grand Prix at the Cristal Festival.
Brimo rounds out a roster at The Corner Shop which also includes Thwaites and Ellen Kuras.
Brimo’s wide ranging body of work includes varied genres and disciplines, including a Carlos preview film for Canal+ which featured a mix of live action, special effects, motion control, matte painting and 3D.
The sales team for The Corner Shop consists of Resource–Dana Balkin and Frank Antonoff–on the West Coast: Mary-Kate Hatfield in the Midwest; and Peter Ziegler and Jonathan Jakubowicz on the East Coast.
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