Editor Jessica Rosa has joined the roster of creative editorial boutique Northern Lights, which maintains shops in NY and L.A. Her experience spans trailers, promos, launch campaigns, web content assignments, and commercials. Rosa comes to Northern Lights from HBO where she developed and edited work for Game of Thrones, True Detective, Big Little Lies, and Westworld. Prior to HBO she cut at Ultrabland. Her diverse client list includes HBO, Cinemax, CNN, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Sony, Colgate, Budweiser, and AT&T.
Originally from Puerto Rico, Rosa has seen her career take her from NY to LA and back, starting at Guede Films, with jobs at Mojo, Motive Creative, Mob Scene, Goldcrest Films, Showtime, Ultrabland and HBO. Along the way Rosa’s signature editorial style has earned her numerous Promax and New York Festival Awards.
Northern Lights EP Robin Hall said of Rosa, “I’m particularly impressed with her ability to tell a story and simultaneously create a mood with her edits.”
Rosa will also be available for entertainment marketing assignments through the Northern Lights Agency.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More