Vancouver, BC-based creative collective Thinkingbox has added Dan Culic to its global leadership team as director of client services. Formerly a group account director at Rethink, Culic spent the last seven years spearheading some of that agency’s largest accounts, including A&W, BCAA, Science World, and the Vancouver Canucks. He was instrumental in helping A&W continue its category leader position through successful first-in-industry launches such as its better ingredients brand platform, the Beyond Meat Burger, an innovative digital coupon program and mobile ordering platform, all laddering up to an Effies Sustained Success category award win. Before his induction into agency life, Culic was a part of the marketing and merchandise teams for Future Shop and Best Buy Canada.
Chrosziel, which innovates, designs and builds professional camera equpment and lens testing instrument solutions, has brought Michael Burnham aboard as international sales representative Americas in the USA. Burnham has spent his career working in the fields of broadcast, cinema and still photography. He achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in art photography and immediately put it to use working for the U.S. distributor of Tokina lenses and leading the Daiwa broadcast camera support sales of the company. Recently, he worked to establish the Musashi Optical cinema lens brand in the U.S. before coming to Chrosziel….
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