Film and TV marketing veteran Sharre Jacoby has been named executive producer of Buster, the animation and design studio of Los Angeles-based Stun Creative. She will report directly to Michael Vamosy, Stun’s chief creative officer. Jacoby will oversee all aspects of production at Buster, and take an active role in new business development.
Prior to joining Buster, Jacoby was executive producer/head of operations at Pembrook Productions, a design and marketing agency with clients including HBO, BET, Discovery, OWN, ITV and Lifetime. Before that, she was sr. producer, and then head of production at New Wave Entertainment where she worked for over a decade producing film main titles and broadcast design for clients such as HBO, MTV, Discovery Channel, BET and Bravo. She began her career working as a postproduction supervisor/post producer on films including Terry Gilliam’s “The Fisher King” and Robert Duvall’s “The Apostle.” She has been honored with PromaxBDA Gold for Discovery’s “Shark Week,” a Create Award for HBO’s “Sports of the 20th Century” main title design, and an Emmy nomination for “On the Record with Bob Costas.”
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