JANUARY 21, 2000 JANUARY 20, 1995
Bicoastal commercial production house RSA USA has finalized an agreement with executive producer Susanne Preissler for the formal launch of RSA Independent. The new venture specializes in garnering spots for select feature filmmakers….Jump, New York, has added editor Julie Drazen to its roster….After recently ending a 20-year tenure at Chicago-based music/sound design house Com/track, composer/producer Gary Fry has joined commercial music shop Catfish Music, Chicago….Editor Hannah Neufeld has joined Wildchild Editorial, New York. Neufeld comes over after five years at New York-based Homestead Editorial….Miles Goodall, a director/DP currently based in Cape Town, has signed with New York-based Taxi Films….Magick Lantern, Atlanta, has added Amy Henderson as operations manager/postproduction producer….
Director/cameraman Kinka Usher, formerly with Stiefel & Co., Hollywood, has joined bicoastal Smillie Films, finalizing a deal that had been rumored for several months….Mike Cunningham, president of Western Images, San Francisco, will return to the International Teleproduction Society (ITS) board after suddenly resigning his position as president in late December. At press time, he had not yet decided if he will return as president or as a member….Editor T.G. Herrington has departed the two-and-a-half-year-old NaHo Editorial, Santa Monica, to launch MOJO/L.A., Santa Monica. Herrington was a partner in and the sole editor at NaHo….Santiago, New York, has signed tabletop director Beth Galton, who is also a noted print photographer, for exclusive representation. Galton comes from Five Union Square Productions, New York, where she began directing two years ago….
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More