The film is personal to Menon: everyone on the skeleton cast and crew is friends and family, the dog and the baby in the film are her own (“The baby came cheap,” quips Menon in the press notes) and the film was largely shot in Monroe,

The filmmakers lost their... Just hours before the Eaton Fire barreled through Altadena earlier this month, filmmaker Meera Menon and her husband, Paul Gleason, were in Eaton Canyon playing with ...

Just hours before the Eaton Fire barreled through Altadena earlier this month, filmmaker Meera Menon and her husband, Paul Gleason, were in Eaton Canyon playing with their 3-year-old. "We have all these pictures on our camera roll of her, just playing with ...

The US film industry's first major gathering since wildfires devastated Los Angeles begins today at Sundance, where Olivia Colman and John Lithgow

Driving up to the Rocky Mountains for the Sundance premiere of her new movie would be a joyful experience for Meera ... Menon. "We loved it so much. I mean, it can't be overstated -- Altadena ...

which was partly shot in the filmmakers's now-destroyed Altadena homes. "We turned the film in, and a few days later... our homes were lost," director Meera Menon told AFP. The film's producer and ...

the first real rain of winter fell in Southern California, bringing elevated risk of floods and landslides to areas recently burned by wildfires. Jan. 27, 2025 Sam James, who grew up in Altadena ...

Members of the California National Guard stand near rising smoke, as the Eaton Fire continues, in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 12, 2025. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Twenty-three people have been reported ...

Under mandatory evacuation, Jones and several other Altadena residents were met by yellow caution tape and National Guard and California Highway Patrol personnel. Frustrated and unable to reach ...

Meera Menon has directed ... feels leveled by something.” Menon is debuting the film in the wake of another tragedy, as the Eaton Fire burned down the Altadena home she shared with Gleason ...

Sundance: Director Meera Menon, cinematographer ... were completely burned down in the fires, both Menon and Gleason’s on the east side of Altadena near Eaton Canyon, as well as Fishman ...

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