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Several talents active in spotmaking have been nominated for American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards in the feature film category. The nominees were feature and commercial DP Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS, and DP Paul Cameron for Collateral; director/cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, ASC, who helms commercials via West Hollywood-based Dark Light Pictures, for his cinematography of The Passion of the Christ; director/cinematographer Robert Richardson, ASC, who is repped as a spot helmer by bicoastal Tool of North America, for lensing The Aviator; Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, for A Very Long Engagement; and Pawl Edelman, PSC, for Ray. The winner will be named at the ASC Awards gala on Feb. 13 in Hollywood. Deschanel is the only one from this field of nominees to have won an ASC Outstanding Achievement Award–in 2000 for The Patriot. He earned another nomination in ’97 for Fly Away Home. Richardson has a slew of ASC nominations for such films as Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, A Few Good Men, Heaven & Earth, The Horse Whisperer and Snow Falling on Cedars. Delbonnel was a prior nominee for Amelie as was Edelman for The Pianist. Collateral marks the first ASC nomination for both Beebe and Cameron…..Ralph Laucella has joined Hungry Man as a staff executive producer. He had been a longstanding freelance producer for the bicoastal/international shop….Thomas Winter Cooke, Santa Monica, has hired Jeff Snyder as head of production. Snyder has worked as a freelance line producer and production manager for the past five years…..Denver-headquartered Thought Equity Management, a stock footage supplier and video licensing house, has opened an office in Burbank, Calif., to serve its West Coast-based accounts. The new office is run by Paul Weiser, Thought Equity’s VP of sales…..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