Dynamic duo brings dialogue acumen to LA-based comedy shop.
Directing together for more than 9 years, Jyson Mclean and Chris Mozdzen have lasted longer than some marriages. Their intimate chemistry helps to hone an acute sense of comedic timing. "Two heads are better than one, which attributes to the duo‘s impeccable execution of dialogue-driven storytelling," says executive producer Natalie Sakai. Collectively, they’ve worked on campaigns for MTV, DDB, BBDO. and most recently Fred and Farid Paris.
Mclean and Mozdzen also each have individual ventures which keep them creatively sharp. Chris Mozdzen’s short, Scent of Slade, is currently traveling the festival circuit, and Jyson Mclean is the recent recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation award for his original screenplay, Mercy Road, which he plans to direct in 2013. The duo joins directors Jeff Jenkins and Andrew Laurich to round out the ContagiousLA roster. Three directors are from southeast Michigan… coincidentally.
About ContagiousLA
ContagiousLA is a full service production company and creative collective, founded by film and commercial producer Natalie Sakai and directors Andrew Laurich and Jeff Jenkins, with sales teams Lisa Schreiber-Naber/Boardalicious on the West and Daryl Devlin on the East. The ContagiousLA roster highlights directors that have been chosen as the next rising stars, and the team is known for incessantly nurturing their creative abilities. The team is in on the advertising industry’s most talked about documentary "Art & Corny" covering the legendary advertising mogul who vanished in the 1960’s: Cornelius Trunchpole and starring the likes of Lee Clow, Gerry Graf, and other famous culturemakers @ www.contagiousla.com.
Natalie Sakai Executive Producer Contact Natlie via email
“Ǝvolution” Comes Full Circle At The Chelsea Film Festival
The Chelsea Film Festival, running from October 16th through October 20th, 2024, at Regal Cinemas here in Union Square, is set to host the East Coast premiere of Ǝvolution, a thought-provoking experimental micro-short film that proves big ideas can come in small packages and in perfect circles.
In just 1 minute 16 seconds, this cinematic gem by Award-Winning Director Romina Schwedler, with original music by Argentine Composer Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, explores a cycle as old as time: life leads to progress, progress leads to destruction, and destruction, well, leads back to life. But is this vicious circle unbreakable? Ǝvolution suggests the answer is yes, unless we decide to open our eyes.
Inspired by the overwhelming number of recent events that threaten human existence, Ǝvolution, possibly the shortest film in this 12th edition of the festival, plays out entirely through the symbolism of circles, cleverly illustrating —in the blink of an eye— the repeating patterns of history, and confronting viewers with the uncomfortable truth that our so-called “progress” may, in fact, be guiding us to our own ruin.Premiering at the Regal 14 Union Square, New York City, on October 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., Romina Schwedler's micro-short, featuring Leah Young with cinematography by Alan J. Carmona, will be sure to spark conversations longer than the film itself! Forcing viewers to reconsider the true meaning of evolution, not just as a biological process, but as a reflection of our collective journey as humans.
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