Station Film has signed a partnership deal with Academy Films, London.
Station Film has signed a partnership deal with Academy Films, London. Station will represent Academy's directors in the U.S. for commercials and digital content. And Academy, in turn, will represent Station's directors in London. Station thus now offers such Academy directors as Jonathan Glazer, Si & Ad, Seb Edwards, Frederic Planchon, Walter Stern, Nick Gordon, Tony Barry, Kim Gehrig and Conkerco to the American ad market. This infusion of visualists complements a core Station roster comprised largely of comedy and performance directors….Independent sales rep Denise Blate Roederer has taken on the East Coast territory for Chelsea and its new Pulse @Chelsea division….Shari L. Shankewitz has joined William Morris Endeavor's production department as a commercial and music video agent. Joining her are cinematographers Giles Dunning, Richard Henkels and Steve McGehee, and production designers Ged Clarke, Jeffrey Everett and Regan Jackson for exclusive representation….
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