Eric Bonniot, an industry veteran with extensive experience on the production and post sides of the business?
Eric Bonniot, an industry veteran with extensive experience on the production and post sides of the business, has joined Nerve as exec producer of its studios in Los Angeles and Mexico City, which specialize in visual effects, mixed media motion graphics, commercial photography and print design. Bonniot most recently served as exec producer at production house Uncle, and prior to that in the same capacity in the commercials division of A Band Apart. He earlier was president/CEO of post/VFX house 525 Studios (which was later consolidated into Riot, Santa Monica), and managing director of London post facility Rushes….The Corner Store, Toronto, has signed director Philip Kates for Canadian representation. He continues to be handled in the western Canada spot market via Joe Media, Calgary, and for French Canadian work through Moskito Films, Montreal. Kates is with New York-based Harpoon for spot representation in the U.S., Mad Cow Films, London, for U.K. adverts, JSA International for European and national jobs, and Republic, Sydney, for commercials out of Australia and New Zealand. The Jennifer Hollyer Agency reps Kates for film and television projects….Holiday Films, the Toronto shop headed by exec producers Derek Sewell and Josefina Nadurata, have added director Adam Massey for Canadian representation. Massey, who's repped in the U.S. by Los Angeles-based Untitled Inc., has directed campaigns for Budweiser, Coke, McDonald's, Molson's, Southwest Airlines, Lucky Jeans, Ford and Altoids….
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