Global production company and animation studio Partizan has secured GRG Partners–comprised of partners Gay Guthrey, Katy Richter and Heather Guillen–to handle representation in the Midwest. GRG Partners’ client roster includes MJZ, Sanctuary, Park Pictures, Fela, Community, Work Editorial, Golden LA, Unicorns & Unicorns, The Mill, Optimus and ONE, and now Partizan and Partizan Studios Animation…
Milk & Honey Productions, a global production company with studios in Los Angeles, Prague, Budapest, Santiago, Perth, and Cape Town, has hired Los Angeles-based Rogue Rep Inc. for domestic U.S. representation for global production services and live action production…Also connecting with Rogue Rep–in this case for U.S. representation on the West Coast and in Texas–is Fresh Film, a female-led global company and creative studio founded by owner/managing director Kim Griffin, with locations in London, New York, Los Angeles, Asia and Prague. Fresh Film also encompasses Fresh Studio, Real People Casting, and New York’s photography agency Ray Brown Represents….
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Review: Director-Writer Megan Park’s “My Old Ass”
They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old restless Canadian, they prompt a visitor.
"Dude, I'm you," says the guest, as she nonchalantly burns a 'smores on a campfire next to a very high and stunned Elliott. "Well, I'm a 39-year-old you. What's up?"
What's up, indeed: Director-writer Megan Park has crafted a wistful coming-of-age tale using this comedic device for "My Old Ass" and the results are uneven even though she nails the landing.
After the older Elliott proves who she is — they share a particular scar, childhood memories and a smaller left boob — the time-travel advice begins: Be nice to your brothers and mom, and stay away from a guy named Chad.
"Can we hug?" asks the older Elliott. They do. "This is so weird," says the younger Elliott, who then makes things even weirder when she asks for a kiss — to know what it's like kissing yourself. The older Elliott soon puts her number into the younger's phone under the name "My Old Ass." Then they keep in touch, long after the effects of the 'shrooms have gone.
Part of the movie's problem that can't be ignored is that the two Elliotts look nothing alike. Maisy Stella plays the coltish young version and a wry Aubrey Plaza the older. Both turn in fine performances but the visuals are slowly grating.
The arrival of the older Elliott coincides with her younger self counting down the days until she can flee from her small town of 300 in the Muskoka Lakes region to college in Toronto, where "my life is about to start." She's sick of life on a cranberry farm.
Park's scenes and dialogue are unrushed and honest as Elliott takes her older self's advice and tries to repair... Read More