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Roe Bressan has decided to leave her position as managing director of The Whitehouse, New York, in order to start her own consultancy business. Her last day on staff at The Whitehouse will be Feb. 25, capping three-and-a-half years at the shop. The Whitehouse has committed to being Bressan’s first consultancy client. Bressan explained that she had attained her goal at The Whitehouse, helping it establish a strong New York operation in consort with offices in London, Chicago and Santa Monica. Now she’s looking to take on new challenges….
Blue Rock, New York, has launched a satellite division, Tranquility Base, New York, under the aegis of managing director/creative director Andy Milkis. The new venture’s visual effects and design services will complement those of Blue Rock’s sister company, Spontaneous, New York. Another key staffer at Tranquility Base is producer/sales rep Glen Carey, who comes over from McCann-Erickson, New York….
Editor Tina Mintus has been named a partner in editorial/visual effects/design company Version2, New York. She will head the company with owner/editor Vito DeSario–whom she has worked with for eight years–and will be responsible for new recruitment…..
Editor Erik Johnson, most recently with Crew Cuts, New York, has come aboard Homestead Editorial, New York, becoming part of a roster that includes editors Charly Bender, Chris Hellman, Greg Dougherty, Skip Duff, Sam Welch and Lisa Barnable….
Editor Joel Marcus, who spent the past two years in his native England on a personal sabbatical, has returned to the U.S. market, joining Cake, a Santa Monica shop launched by president/executive producer Tatiana Derovanessian. Prior to his recent U.K. stay, Marcus was cutting via Rock Paper Scissors, Los Angeles. Derovanessian formed Cake in collaboration with editor Rick Lobo and visual effects compositor Josh Kirschenbaum….
The Mill, London, has added several staffers: producers Lee Pavey and Daniel Sapiano; visual effects supervision and compositing vet Yourick van Impe and Flame artist Hsu-Hung Tai. The latter has worked throughout Asia on global accounts such as Nissan, Hitachi, LG and Sony. Van Impe has been with such shops as Ace Post Production, Brussels, and Golden Square Post, London. Sapiano most recently headed the production department at Das Werk, Hamburg. Pavey is also an alumnus of Golden Square Post….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