Philip Detchmendy–most recently a partner/executive producer at Paranoid, and prior to that managing director with Tool of North America–has come aboard New York-headquartered Humble as its L.A.-based executive producer. He joins a Humble management team of founder/exec producer Eric Berkowitz, director of marketing Dawn Goodburn and head of production Persis Koch.
Detchmendy, who also served earlier in his career as exec producer of the since closed Satellite, said he was drawn to the flexibility and versatility of the Humble business model, which spans production, creative development, postproduction and any combination thereof.
This mesh of creativity and scalable start-to-finish solutions, he contended, makes the Humble model relevant in today’s marketplace.
The Humble directorial roster includes Melissa Silverman, Sam Stephens, Ariel Danziger, Ben Hartenstein, Alan Poon, Jimmy Diebold, the creative collective Hydra, and John Hobbs and Jeff Bitsack.
The latter two are former notable agency artisans, with Bitsack added to the Humble fold earlier this year (SHOOT, 6/19) after having served as executive creative director at Euro RSCG, New York. The agency pedigrees of Hobbs (BBH and Lowe, New York) and Bitsack reflect in part Humble’s earlier alluded to creative chops. Bitsack is no stranger to the director’s chair. Back when he was exec creative director at JWT New York, he directed a Domino’s viral campaign that garnered multiple Clios and an Emmy nomination. Earlier he logged time as a writer and/or creative director at top agencies including Wieden+Kennedy in both Portland, Ore., and New York, as well as N.Y. shops Cliff Freeman and Partners, Merkley & Partners, Ogilvy & Mather, Toy, BBH, and BBDO.
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