Creative production studio Ambassadors has brought Justin Blyth on board as head of creative across its Amsterdam and New York studios. In the new role, Justin will lead Ambassadors’ multidisciplinary team of artists on crafting beautiful, engaging, and story-driven creative work.
Blyth originally hails from Los Angeles and has lived and worked in Amsterdam for over 10 years as a creative director and motion graphics artist. His previous experience has seen him working with agencies, brands and studios including Anomaly, Wieden + Kennedy, and Woodwork–even a stint freelancing at Ambassadors.
Blyth will work closely with head of production Daphne Litjens, founding partner Halbo van der Klaauw, and head of VFX Will Jeffers as they continue to offer a mix of remote production solutions and working from the studio under COVID guidelines.
Ambassadors’ latest work produced under lockdown includes “ActieHelden” (“ActionHeroes”) for Albert Heijn, which mixes live-action and animation to create a mini superhero universe inside the supermarket, as well as VFX for Lynk & Co’s launch campaign “96%” with Halal.
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