Cutters has promoted Kristin Gerhart to editor. The announcement was made by executive producer Megan Dahlman and executive producer/partner Craig Duncan.
Gerhart landed with Cutters in Chicago soon after earning her B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2008. Beginning as an assistant editor honing her craft alongside the company’s highly regarded editors, she relocated to California in 2012. “She has been cutting for the last year with clients,” noted Dahlman, “so we decided it was time to make it official.”
In the commercial realm, Gerhart has edited campaigns for BCBG, CVS Health, Esurance, Jack In The Box, Kellogg’s, and Toyota, among many others. According to Duncan, not only is she actively sought-after for projects happening all across America, she is also largely responsible for earning many ongoing assignments related to network television upfront presentations.
Currently busy preparing presentations for dozens of new network dramas and comedies for ABC Television, Gerhart said, “I honestly love working on a wide variety of projects: documentary-style, montage, drama and comedy. For me, I just love to tell a story in the best way possible. I’ve edited commercials and films that are everything from comedy to crime dramas and even sci-fi.”
Following her interests, she has recently edited director Anthony Vietro’s narrative feature film “Collusions,” which is set to debut later this year, as well as director Raphael Rogers’ dramatic short “Revelations: The Fall” and the half-hour documentary “The Chain” from director Scott Weintrob.
“The Chain is about altruistic kidney donors starting off a chain reaction by paying it forward,” Gerhart continued. “I engulfed myself in that project for several months as I pieced it together from over 50 hours of footage. After screening at the American Documentary Film Festival and elsewhere, many donations were made to UCLA and the National Kidney Registry because of it. There’s something really fun in the challenge of being handed a project with 30-50 hours of footage and no script and turning it into something beautiful with a powerful message.”
At Cutters LA, Gerhart joins staff editors Chris Hafner, Barnett Kiel, Jacob Kuehl and Adam Parker, each of whom is available for projects anywhere through any of Cutters’ facilities.
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