Mary Knox, who most recently served as managing director of commercials for New York-based animation and mixed media production company Curious Pictures, has been hired as managing director of Red Car New York, which maintains a roster of editors that includes Deidre Bell, JP Cadaveira, Charlie Cusumano, Jonathan Edwards, Joe K, John Maloney, Anthony Marinelli, and Wendy Rosen. Additionally, all of Red Car’s editors in its offices throughout the U.S. and internationally are available to work out of any Red Car shop in the global network.
Beyond its core of creative editors, Red Car offers clients an ensemble of producers, designers and visual effects artists backed by a state-of-the-art technical infrastructure, as well as complete finishing services. The company also maintains a Redhead division with animation, design, and VFX talent and resources.
“Curious grew dramatically under Mary’s leadership, and the work she produced won many awards including an Emmy, several Webbys, One Show Pencils, and numerous AICP nominations,” said editor/director Larry Bridges, founder of Red Car, about the appointment. “I’ve known her for a long time and have always respected and admired her management abilities and her knowledge of the business. She’s going to be an enormous asset for Red Car as we enter a period of tremendous change in our industry.”
During Knox’s tenure at Curious she successfully expanded the company’s directorial roster to include a range of talents beyond the animation genre, including Steve Chase, Greg Ramsey, Douglas Keeve, and David Turnley. She also oversaw the development of the studio’s roster of animation directors, bringing on several promising new talents such as Ugly Pictures (now directors Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear), man vs magnet (Matt Smithson) and Hayley Morris, all of whom have gone on to produce notable work. Knox, who joined Curious in 2005 as executive producer, oversaw all of the company’s advertising assignments, which included the production of TV commercials as well as longer format web video work, network promos and show opens.
Of Bridges, Knox said, “Larry is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met in this business, so it’s beyond exciting now to become part of the Red Car team. The Red Car brand is one of the strongest in the entire ad industry–not just among editing companies–and I look forward to working with Larry to realize his exciting ideas for the creative manifest destiny that lays ahead for us.”
Knox succeeds Jennifer Lederman in running Red Car New York. Lederman served as overall national managing director of Red Car before joining New York-headquartered creative editorial house BlueRock as VP/managing director (SHOOTonline, 2/23).
Prior to joining Curious, Knox represented a number of top production and post production companies, including Lost Planet, The Whitehouse, Believe Media, and A Band Apart. She began her career as a journalist and segued into advertising, working as a copywriter for Hill Holliday and Young & Rubicam. She then was named editor of what is now SHOOT.
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More