Anonymous Content has signed award-winning comedy director Brian Billow for commercial representation as well as film and TV management. Billow’s body of work is versatile across the comedy genre, spanning performance, dialogue and visually driven storytelling. Honored this year with a One Show Silver Pencil for Walmart’s “Baby Comedian” (The Martin Agency) and a Bronze Lion for GameStop’s “Yay” (The Richards Group), Billow has an industry pedigree that also includes honored work as a creative director at DDB Chicago and McCann Erickson NY for brands such as MasterCard, Budweiser and Wrigley’s.
Billow’s directorial credits include spots for Paddy Power (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), Miracle Whip (mcgarrybowen, Chicago) and White Pages (Clemenger BBDO). He has also directed notable spots for Nike, Chicago White Sox, Honda, Keystone Beer, McDonald’s, M&Ms and IKEA.
He formerly was at Hungry Man which signed him back in 2008, just prior to his gaining inclusion into that year’s SHOOT New Directors Showcase at the DGA Theatre in New York.
Eric Stern, sr. executive producer at Anonymous Content, said that Billow offers “a unique, understated and subtle comedic style” which is “a great complement to our roster that tends to get a lot of attention for big visual storytelling. He’s someone I have had my eye on since he was a creative director.”
Billow is managed for film and TV by Anonymous Content’s Bard Dorros and Luke Rivett.
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