Specialized creative agency Leviathan has added executive producer Luvy Delgado, creative director Pedro Andres Sanchez and senior motion designer Krzysztof Pianko.
Delgado joins Leviathan from Ayzenberg Group in Los Angeles, where she spent two years as director of digital products, working on award-winning AR, VR and MR projects for clients including Facebook, Netflix and Microsoft. Prior to that, she led five back-to-back global brand launches for The CDM Group in New York, where she was the lead integrated project manager who also helped to lead the group’s L.A. operation. A highly accomplished illustrator and producer, Delgado has experience spanning all facets of creative and production development for cutting-edge integrated campaign development.
An award-winning creative director and technologist with more than 15 years of experience, Sanchez is widely known for his design expertise leveraging technology for groundbreaking user experiences. As a leader and multidisciplinary team-member, Sanchez has played integral roles in hundreds of interactive projects for brands such as Coca-Cola, ESPN, IBM, Target and Verizon, to name but a few. Formerly sr. VP of creative technology at Monster Media leading the creative and software engineering departments, Sanchez helped pioneer the interactive out-of-home space with some of the first interactive storefronts deployed in North America and the U.K.
Originally from NYC, Pianko has spent the past 16 years honing his skills as a freelance designer, animator, and art director, working for top design and VFX companies, including Leviathan. Pianko’s work features creations for the likes of Amazon, Audi, Intel, Lexus, MTV, Nike, and Sony.
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