Longtime commercial sales managers Stacie Gillman and Paul Muniz have launched their own East Coast company, Gillman + Muniz. Collectively they have represented top industry talent across the globe for many years. They will continue to manage and develop directors and artists at Anonymous Content, Iconoclast, NOCO, Serial Pictures, Somesuch and Ummah Chroma Creative Partners….
Sales executive David Feldman has returned to Company 3 New York to rejoin the global postproduction company’s sales and business development group. Feldman was one of the team that helped expand Company 3 in the early 2000s from a leading Los Angeles commercial finishing house to an internationally renowned feature film and episodic TV studio. In addition to creating new business opportunities in areas of color grading, audio, dailies, finishing editorial and creative offline editorial space, Feldman will devote a significant portion of his time developing and promoting up-and-coming artists within the company, particularly in the New York and other East Coast markets. In 2016 he accepted an expansive role at the formerly-named Post Factory, where he helped build that business from a small color grading concern with a handful of freelance colorists into what eventually became SIM Digital. Feldman began his career as assistant editor on major feature films including Man on Fire, Bad Boys II, Runaway Bride and Evita. He made the transition from client to one of the company’s first feature DI producers before segueing into sales, where he has been able to combine his diverse experience and refined understanding of all facets of the post process into all his sales and business development efforts….
Tabletop production company MacGuffin Films in New York has secured Laura Dane of Catalyst for representation on the East Coast…
Production company ArtClass has named Todd Griffin as director of growth. A seasoned agency entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in advertising and content marketing, Griffin will oversee growth strategies at ArtClass, building on his vast experience spanning client relations, new business acquisition, and developing breakthrough content, advertising, and marketing solutions for global brands. Before joining ArtClass, Griffin was sr, director for Cognizant Interactive, specializing in content strategies for the retail, consumer goods, and hospitality industries. Griffin was also a founding partner and chief growth officer at Mustache, working with such global brands as Netflix, P&G, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Audi, Showtime, A&E, Discovery Communications, and Nickelodeon, among others….
NYC-based creative music agency Groove Guild has brought on Lori Youmans to handle national U.S. sales representation. Youmans is the founder/president of talent representation firm Matchmaker Media. Additional clients on the Matchmaker Media roster include Instant Karma, Extreme Velocity Content, Sugaroo!, Conteur TV, Synthetic Pictures and Kode. In addition to its roster of clients, Matchmaker Media maintains an extensive network of freelance talent to provide agencies and brands with customized creative solutions for any project need. The signing of Youmans comes on the heels of Groove Guild’s recently launched Artist-in-Residence program launched to connect brands with top musical talent to bring more musical relevance to today’s pop culture. Current artists in this program include multi-platinum producer/artist Frans Mernick, who has collaborated with such top artists as Mark Ronson, Kanye West and Danger Mouse, and celebrated television and film score composer Fil Eisler, who has lent his cinematic talents to titles including Empire and Sony’s action thriller Proud Mary…
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