HARBOR has grown its visual effects and finishing service by bringing on board lead VFX artists Terry Silberman and Matt Motal and their longstanding producing partner Pravina Sippy. Silberman has decades of experience handling complex and tight turnaround VFX projects for a slate of brand name clients including Lexus, Mazda, Asics, Redbull, Beats and Toyota, and he joins HARBOR after his recent tenure as partner at Arsenal Creative and founding partner of Apache Digital. Motal has built an impressive reputation for his skill and approach over the past 15 years, after holding senior positions with Arsenal Creative, Mirada Studios, 1.1 VFX and Motion Theory. Sippy joins HARBOR as executive producer, commercial VFX and finishing, LA. Sippy’s 11+ year career has seen her partner with brands including GM, State Farm, Toyota, NFL and Kia. Sippy has also collaborated across genres working on music videos for Dr. Dre and Muse, and short films including one for Canon directed Bryce Dallas Howard. Most recently, Sippy oversaw Arsenal Creative’s color department. HARBOR maintains NY, L.A., and U.K. studios….
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