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    Christjan Jordan Joins Union as Partner/Editor 

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    SANTA MONICA, Calif. --

    Christjan Jordan, who has cut award-winning work for Amazon (Lucky Generals), GEICO (Martin Agency) and Madden NFL (Heat), among others, has joined bicoastal Union Editorial as partner/editor. Last week, Amazon’s “Alexa Loses Her Voice” was nominated for a primetime commercial Emmy, adding to a list of acclaimed career credits for the editor (often known simply as Christjan) spanning Cannes Lions, AICE, AICP, Clio, D&AD, One Show, and Sports Emmy awards.
     
    Christjan’s latest work, GEICO’s “Longest Goal Celebration Ever,” in which a soccer player celebrates his winning goal by sliding endlessly around the field on his knees, enjoyed extensive play during this year’s World Cup coverage. The spot was helmed by frequent collaborator Wayne McClammy, for whom Christjan cut the Clio-winning #notspecialneeds spot for World Down Syndrome Day out of Publicis NY. 
     
    “Alexa Loses Her Voice” for Amazon–featuring cameos from Cardi B, Gordon Ramsay, Rebel Wilson and Anthony Hopkins–was the most talked-about campaign in the week leading up to the 2018 Super Bowl, earning over 1.5 billion media impressions, and then topping USA Today’s Admeter. The spot was viewed more than 43M times.
     
    “I love the craft, creativity and challenge of editing,” Christjan explained. “I like starting from the initial idea and working with every moment that’s been filmed, coming up with the best piece possible.” In addition to #notspecialneeds, powerful spots edited by Christjan include IN-Q’s gun violence PSA, directed by Unjoo Moon. 
     
    Union president/managing partner Michael Raimondi said of Christjan, “His dedication to his craft and desire to do great work drew us to him immediately. We knew from the minute we met Christjan that we wanted him as our partner. He shares our vision of the future and we are thrilled to start the next chapter at Union with him as a collaborator.”  

    After receiving his Bachelors in Communications from Southern Oregon University, Christjan served tenures as an editor at Arcade Editorial, and Cosmo Street Editorial and Rock Paper Scissors, turning out a stream of high-profile work for brands such as LG (directed by Traktor), Hotwire (David Shane), and Apple (Terri Timely). Prior to joining Union, Christjan was with Rock Paper Scissors.
     
    Of the Union partnership, Christjan said, “This is a great place with talented people who share my passion for the craft.”

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    How “Pee-wee as Himself” Documentary Came Together After Paul Reubens’ Death

    Friday, May 23, 2025

    Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying.

    On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens' death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him to make the ambitious two-part documentary "Pee-wee as Himself," now streaming on HBO Max, and over 40 hours interviewing him on camera.

    But in 2023, the project was in danger of falling apart: The two had been at an impasse for a while over the issue of creative control and they'd finally found a way forward. He had one last interview scheduled, set for the first week of August. Then the texts started coming in. Wolf sat there shaking.

    They'd spoken about everything — Reubens' childhood, his complicated relationship with fame, his ambitions, his commitment to his alter-ego Pee-wee Herman, his sexuality, his arrest — except the fact that he'd been battling cancer for the past six years. But after the initial shock, a renewed purpose set in.

    "I went to work the day after Paul died. I started to read the 1,500-page transcript of our interview through the night and was struck by the significance and meaning that came by understanding that he was privately contemplating mortality," Wolf said. "I was aware that this was an extraordinary situation that was part of the story of the film and that the stakes were the highest I had ever experienced."

    For the next year, Wolf would wake up and say to himself, "You cannot drop the ball. Rise to the occasion." It was, he said, "the most challenging and involved and emotional process of filmmaking that I've ever gone through and maybe that I'll ever go through again."

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