Jan 22, 2025 · 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.

Jan 22, 2025 · 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 leaves in the wind," Menon says. Later, when they saw the flames, they grabbed their hard ...

1 day ago · The Eaton Fire started almost literally in Menon and Gleason’s backyard, visible to them before it was all over the news. Menon and Gleason evacuated to Fishman’s house on the other side of town.

15 hours ago · Three weeks before the Sundance Midnight Madness premiere of her zombie dramedy Didn’t Die, director Meera Menon (whose credits appositely include episodes of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead) and her partner Paul Gleason (who co-wrote and shot the film) lost their home in the Eaton fire that devastated Altadena, Los Angeles.Not only that, the film’s producer Erica Fishman and ...

1 day ago · It’s daylight, and a family is racing from their home with their infant child, unsure if they’ll ever be able to come back. That scene is the climax to “Didn’t Die,” an indie zombie film premiering in the Midnight section at Sundance, but it’s also the reality that director Meera Menon, cinematographer and writer Paul Gleason (and Menon’s …

Jan 22, 2025 · Meera Menon directed a film in which a young podcast host clings to her ever-shrinking audience in a zombie ... Menon hiked in Eaton Canyon that day with husband Paul and their daughter Lakshmi ...

1 day ago · Meera Menon’s 2025 Sundance Film Festival Midnights selection follows Vinita, a snarky podcast host in a post-apocalyptic world dealing with a philandering ex, traumatized siblings, and a dwindling audience. ... Boothby: I mean, this is really fresh, but both Meera and Paul’s house and our house were lost in the Eaton fire, so the movie has ...

4 days ago · This low-budget thriller, written and directed by Meera Menon and edited by Geoff Boothby, pays homage to zombie pioneer George Romero to creatively capture the emotional toll of living through a civilizational crisis. ... Unfortunately, we just lost our home in the Eaton fire [in Los Angeles], so that workspace and the things in it are gone ...

Jan 22, 2025 · 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 leaves in the wind," Menon says. Later, when they saw the flames, they grabbed their hard ...

2 days ago · Meera Menon has directed episodes of some of the biggest series on television, including “The Walking Dead,” “Westworld” and “Ms. Marvel.” But after she had a baby, she wanted to make ...