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The Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC)–a private nonprofit that facilitates on-location film, TV and commercial production in Los Angeles and surrounding areas–has elected Steve Dayan, a business agent with Teamsters, Local 399 (Studio Drivers and Location Managers), to chair its 2005 board of directors. The EIDC also oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office. The EIDC board consists of members from the industry, labor, the business/civic sector, and residential representatives. Among the industry players on the board are Randy Winograd of SBE Entertainment Group, Culver City, Calif., and Steve Caplan, executive VP of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers…. Director Brandon Dickerson, formerly of bicoastal X-Ray Productions, has returned to kaboom productions, San Francisco, for representation in commercials. He continues to be handled for music videos by X-Ray sister shop, Merge@Crossroads….Cheri Anderson has been named executive producer of the New York office of bicoastal/international Believe Media., a company founded by executive producers Liz Silver and Luke Thornton. Anderson most recently served as a freelance producer. Prior to that, she was director of project development at bicoastal Tool of North America, and a senior producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day….Media Distributors has named former Sony executive Tom Evans as senior VP/managing partner-Eastern operations. He will head the company’s recently launched New York office. A distributor of professional media products for the entertainment industry, including videotape, film stock, recording media and storage and data media products, Media Distributors also maintains operations in Studio City, Calif., Seattle and Las Vegas…..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