Editor Doug Cox has launched Misfit, a creative editorial boutique. He and executive producer Kelly Koppen will head up the new venture which also features editor Regina Rivard. Among Cox’s recent credits was a package of five promos for the Levi’s Station to Station public art project which invited artists to take part in a cross-country train trip in order to push the limits of creativity and discovery while searching for “the modern frontier.”
In fact, Cox’s cut of the Levi’s :60 titled “Modern Frontier Train” won an AICE Award earlier this month. Cox edited the piece via Umlaut–his roots prior to Misfit–for agency AKQA. This marked the second AICE Award won by Cox, the first coming in 2012 for Old Navy in the Best of San Francisco category. Thus far in his career, Cox has garnered seven AICE Award nominations. He has also come up a winner of multiple ADDYs and ANDYs.
Cox has served in many capacities during his industry career. He’s been a creative, an editor and a producer. In the past 15 years, he’s cut content for Camp + King, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Venables Bell & Partners, DOJO, Grey, AKQA and DDB. Cox began his first stint at Publicis & Hal Riney as a producer, and then built out the shop’s first postproduction suite. He joined the roster at S.F. shop Barbary Post after a period of working freelance, and most recently served as editor at Umlaut.
Koppen started her career in client services at Jigsaw, where she wore several hats. In her eight years at the company, she took on editor and producer roles while also serving as operations manager. Next she moved to São Paulo with her fiancé; soon freelance work found her, and she had to make one of the world’s longest commutes. After a few years, she relocated to the Bay Area with her husband and son, then grabbed the chance to produce at Cut + Run. She now starts a new career chapter at Misfit.
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