Korean-American multi-hyphenate artist and director Amber Park has signed with Ridley Scott Creative Group’s Black Dog Films for U.K. and U.S. commercial representation. She has collaborated with artists including Katy Perry, Camila Cabello, Chloe & Halle, Madison Beer, Lil Yachty and Ty Dolla $ign, and created immersive and linear content for the likes of Apple Music–“Unapologetically Asian”–Solana, Verizon, Vevo and Vogue.
Among the vanguard of young visual artists working today, Park has credits which span graphic design, CG and illustration, creative direction, multimedia projects, branded content, music video and visual art. Her distinctive aesthetic disrupts cultural norms and empowers female, Asian and Queer voices. On the strength of her “Love Music” music video for Lil Yachty, Park earned a slot in SHOOT’s 2021 New Directors Showcase. At the time she was with Believe Media, her production company roost prior to joining Black Dog.
With her 2022 NFT series “I LIKE YOU, YOU’RE WEIRD” (ILYYW) Park formed a dynamic web3 forward-community built to foster self-expression and celebrate the beauty of diversity to a mainstream audience, amplifying marginalized voices. In contrast to many of the projects and creators dominating the space, Park’s mission with ILYYW and future web3 projects is humanitarian and philanthropic. The ILYYW project provided thousands of women with crypto educations.
Park’s most recent brand project, “Play! Pop! Go!,” marks her first step into visualizing her own creative omniverse. Featuring a series of streetwear capsules, novelty items, web3 metaverse entertainment and gaming, “Play! Pop! Go!” is a wildly colorful and playful polysexual brand, building bridges between real-life art consumerism and web3 metaverse world building.
“I am truly humbled and thankful to join the amazing support and network of the Black Dog family,” said Park. “As a young director, I am excited to grow, evolve and share my voice and work with like-minded people who want to keep pushing the boundaries and disrupting the creative industry. As a multi-hyphenate creative, I love thinking outside the box and am excited to take things to the next level and continue to make a splash and create waves of visibility and representation for my inner child. To be able to build with the amazing Black Dog team is going to be wild!”
“Amber is one of the most talented visual artists that I’ve ever come across, said Black Dog directors’ representative Nancy Eld. “Her desire to discover and work across new creative mediums is something that resonates with all of us at Black Dog. From NFT development to creating 3D alternate universes and of course, the art of film and photography. We are so happy to be welcoming Amber to the Black Dog family on both sides of the pond.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More