Visual effects and animation house Luma Pictures, Los Angeles, has named Lindsay Burnett to the newly created post of director of business development. Burnett, formerly executive producer for feature films at Riot in Santa Monica, will focus on growing Luma’s feature film business. She will also oversee the company’s marketing efforts. Luma has created visual effects for such films as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, City of Ember and No Country for Old Men. Its current projects include X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming Coen Brothers film A Serious Man. Burnett’s hiring marks her return to Luma. She earlier served as a producer with the company….Culver City, Calif.-based production company Karma Kollective has signed Daria Zeliger of A:D Talent Management, as the company’s East Coast rep for commercials. Zeliger joins other KK reps Lauren McNamara of the rep firm Lauren McNamara, Inc. for the Midwest, Jack Reed of Jack Reed Reps for the South, and Yvette Lubinsky of the rep firm YvetteReps for the West Coast….Cinematographer David G. Wilson has signed with Radiant Artists, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation in spots, music videos and features….
Jane Schoenbrun Jolts Cannes With Queer Slasher Movie “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”
"A good electric chair" is how Jane Schoenbrun describes their first Cannes Film Festival premiere.
"I really felt like my body was in a state of convulsion," says Schoenbrun.
The day after the premiere of "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma," a bold, bloody queer slasher film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, Schoenbrun and their co-stars were still buzzing from the ecstatic response. The movie, one of the most prominent American films in Cannes this year, gave the festival a gonzo jolt.
For Schoenbrun, the leading trans filmmaker of their generation, the film extends their intensely personal exploration of gender and the movies that defined their youth. But their first two films — 2024's "I Saw the TV Glow" and 2021's "We're All Going to the World's Fair" — were the raw, burning products of Schoenbrun's transition. "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma," drawn from Schoenbrun's happy, exploratory post-transition life, isn't that.
It's about desire and sex. It's a biting satire of reboot-mad Hollywood. It's a schlocky and subversive slasher movie homage. It's a lot of fun, and quite tender, even when bodies are blood-spurting geysers.
"This is the first movie that feels like it represents the fullness of who I am," Schoenbrun says.
But Wednesday's moment of triumph in Cannes was hard-won. Ten years ago, Schoenbrun, now 39, was working in the film industry in a job they hated.
"The first time I came here, I just felt like, 'Oh my, god. I can't believe I'm in Cannes.' I went to, like, 'The Lobster,' at the Palais in my boy tux. I was like: 'This is it. I've done it,'" says Schoenbrun. "Then the next year I came back and I was so depressed. I decided to quit my job. If I'm depressed at Cannes,... Read More