October 21, 2011
Epoch Films has secured filmmaker Tom McCarthy for commercial representation. McCarthy has received critical acclaim for his writing and direction work for the independent films The Station Agent, Win Win and The Visitor. For the latter, McCarthy won the Best Director honor at the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. Five years earlier, he earned his first WGA Awards Best Original Screenplay nomination for The Station Agent, which premiered at the ‘03 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award as well as the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Win Win won the 2011 Humanitas Prize in the Feature Film category. Additionally, McCarthy earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Pixar’s Up, a shared writing credit with Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. McCarthy was recently tapped to pen the Disney sports drama Million Dollar Arm….Alasdair Lloyd-Jones, former co-president and chief strategic officer at San Francisco advertising agency Cutwater, has joined Brooklyn, New York-based creative shop Big Spaceship as partner and chief operations officer….. Boxer Films has signed Italian director Igor Borghi for U.S. commercial representation. He is currently also repped by Mercurio Film, Milan, for clients and agencies in Italy; Madrid-based Brownie for Spain; Magali, Paris, for the French market; and Cream, Munich, for Germany.
October 20, 2006
Commercial production house HKM has formed a partnership with music video shop Streetgang Films. The connection provides a music clip outlet for HKM directors while giving HKM access to talent who could translate well into spotmaking….Hans Hansen has joined and Eric Sorensen has returned to Fallon Minneapolis. Both will carry the title of creative director and continue to work as a team. Hansen and Sorensen come over from Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, where as a duo they turned out work for such clients as Porsche and Harley-Davidson….The Joneses has signed Norwegian comedy director Sten Hellevig—a.k.a. Sten—for U.S. representation. He continues to be repped in Norway by The Moland Film Company….Kerry Shaw Brown, a former agency creative who made the transition to director, has joined the roster of Millennium Pictures for U.S. spot representation. He had previously been with production company Uncle….
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