MARCH 31, 2000
Bicoastal production company hungry man has signed director Martin Canellakis for commercial representation….Jamie Hartman has signed with New York-based music house JSM….Nearly eight months after dissolving her former Venice, Calif.-based company Us 2 Editorial, editor Elisa Bonora has joined Harley’s House, a Santa Monica-based editorial/design and graphics company that services the commercial, music video, trailer and broadcast promo market….Director Ra’uf Glasgow has signed with Dublin Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation….Spots BME, a Chicago-based post boutique, has added editor Alaric Martin….Richard Sampson, a former freelance and agency producer, has come aboard Pogo Pictures, Atlanta, as its executive producer….Josh Kirsch has ended his eight-year tenure as a composer at JSM, New York, and opened his own shop, Kirsch Electric, also in New York….
MARCH 31, 1995
Director Pascal Baes, formerly handled stateside by bicoastal Crossroads Films, is now being represented for U.S. spotwork via bicoastal 1/33 Productions….Co-directors Erich Joiner and Scott Burns has set up shop in Santa Monica as Tool of North America. Joiner and Burns were noted agency creatives before making the formal plunge into filmmaking….Comedy director Billy Kent, who recently joined Crash Films, Santa Monica, has signed a production deal with Full Blue, New York. The director augmented his deal with Crash Films by signing with Full Blue for office space and access to Full Blue’s stage facility and associated post house Click 3X….Following three years at a facility, postproduction industry veteran Paul Hansil has returned to the manufacturer side, taking the reigns as senior VP of sales and marketing at Accom, Menlo Park, Calif….September Productions, Boston, has added comedy director Neil Salley for exclusive U.S. commercial
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