Backrooms’ 20-year-old Kane Parsons: From YouTube sensation to A24’s youngest director
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Director Kane Parsons at the screening of Backrooms in Santa Monica, California, in May.
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Kyle Buchanan
NEW YORK – At 16, an age when most teenagers are concerned with driving tests and prom dates, Kane Parsons made a nine-minute short called The Backrooms (Found Footage), about a man trapped in an unnerving realm of maze-like hallways.
The film and its follow-ups became such a YouTube sensation that, just months after Parsons turned 17, A24 signed him to direct a feature-length adaptation, making him the youngest director in the film studio’s history.
