OVER the years, it has been occasionally stated online that the fight to sink the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Haguro on May 16, 1945 - also known as the Battle of the Malacca Strait - was led by a captain of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy named Manley Power. Is this true?
What is your name and your current occupation?
Mark Mayerson. I’m currently the coordinator of the Bachelor of Animation program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I was a messenger, photocopier and proofreader for a corporate law firm on Wall St.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I worked on a series of TV specials for HBO and PBS produced by Michael Sporn. One of them was Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and I animated about a quarter of the film. I was an animator on Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, which was the first TV series to include cgi characters. I created a TV series called Monster By Mistake and worked on it as a director, writer and producer.
In writer-director Steven Kostanski s science fiction-horror-comedy
PG: Psycho Goreman (out Jan. 22), a pair of siblings discover something very unexpected, large, and homicidal in their backyard. The basic premise of the movie is that a brother and sister dig up an ancient evil warlord in they go on adventures with him because they are in possession of a magical gem, says the filmmaker, whose previous directing credits include the 2016 horror movie
The Void. When they resurrect him they unwittingly send out a signal into space that allows all sorts of other crazy aliens and creatures to converge on earth and wage war on PG.