EditShare, a supplier of media management solutions for broadcast and production industries, has appointed Martin Bennett to serve as EMEA marketing director. The hire reinforces the company’s continued drive to grow business across the region after expanding its sales operation during 2014.
Martin has worked in the media business for 20 years, having previously held senior leadership positions with leading technology manufacturers and resellers including Avid Technology, Digital Vision and Tyrell CCT.
“It’s a great time to be joining EditShare as it takes new technology to market and expands it operations within Europe and across the world,” said Bennett. “The company has built up a fantastic range of solutions, such as its Flow MAM platform, that have been quietly taking market share and allowing customers to manage content and collaborate across complex projects. It’s part of my role to make sure even more customers understand the key benefits EditShare can bring to their own workflows.”
EditShare offers networked shared storage and tapeless, end-to-end workflow solutions for the postproduction, TV, and film industries. EditShare’s products include video capture and playout servers, high-performance central shared storage, archiving and backup software, media asset management, and Lightworks, which is billed as the first three-platform (Windows/OS X/Linux) professional non-linear video editing application.
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