Postproduction and editorial company PS260 has hired Megan Dahlman as executive producer in its Los Angeles office. She has more than 20 years experience in the commercial advertising industry.
Dahlman will be reporting to managing partner Zarina Mak and editor/co-founder JJ Lask in her new role, and will be responsible for growing the L.A. business and working with PS260’s agency and brand clients. She joins PS260 from Cutters Studios where she served as EP, overseeing projects, negotiating vendor rates, ensuring complete efficiency of all projects, and maintaining client relationships. She previously held producing roles at Union Editorial, Harley’s House, and Jigsaw Editorial among others, producing work for top brands including Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Toyota, Volkswagen, Lexus, Mercedes, Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Honda, McDonald’s and Facebook.
Outside of her experience as an EP, Dahlman has served on the AICP board as an advocate to help maintain best practices for postproduction workflows and regulations, and has served on the AICE board over the years as an active voice to address all issues postproduction that editorial companies face on a daily basis.
Dahlman joins at a time of strong growth for PS260, as reflected by the launch of creative content studio, We Know The Future, and the recent hiring of India Wadsworth in the role of new business development, inaugural to PS260, over the past year.
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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