Tim Dingersen and Morgan Leykam have joined digital marketing agency Reason2Be as creative director and strategist, respectively. Dingersen was previously associate creative director at Click 3X, Reason2Be’s parent company. Dingersen has had multiple stints at Click 3X, originally starting with the company over a decade ago. In 2008 Dingersen left to develop Luckeyou, a boutique creative services agency based in New York. During his time at Luckeyou, he oversaw all creative and managed direct-to-brand relationships with a select roster of clientele including Norwegian Cruise Line and ESPN before returning to Click 3X in 2013. Leykam worked for Dentsu Aegis Network in quantitative research at Copernicus, where she helped build segmentations for brands like Office Depot, Diageo, Scotts Miracle-Gro and Kaplan University before joining Carat’s consumer insight division where she worked on Macy’s and Pfizer. Reason2Be, formally known as Raison D’Être, has a client roster including The Estee Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, VFILES, Make Up For Ever and The Lymphoma Research Foundation….
Directors Dave Mead and Walter May have joined the roster of Dallas-based RockHouse Films, the production house headed by owner and director Rocky Powell. Mead recently wrapped spots for North Texas Water Authority and the Center for Child Protection. Mead spent 10 years at GSD&M, mostly as a broadcast producer. After leaving GSD&M, Mead carved out a successful career as a commercial photographer. Ten years of producing combined with 10 years of shooting has led Mead to the director’s chair. Director May’s credits span such brands as Toyota, Starbucks, ESPN, Walmart and Smirnoff. He has worked with celebrity talent including Katy Perry, Kobe Bryant, Mike Ditka, Serena Williams and Eminem. Most recently he was at ad agency 72andSunny where he was director/editor/creative….
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