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Exclusive: Film Independent has named Law Chen, Raven Jackson, Erin Li, Miguel Nuñez, Victoria Rivera and Claudia Sparrow as the filmmakers set for its second annual Episodic Directing Intensive.
Each of the six is an alum of Film Independent Artist Development programs including the Directing Lab, Documentary Lab, Screenwriting Lab, Fast Track finance market and Project Involve, which collectively celebrate their 30th anniversary this year. Over the course of the three-day program, the accomplished up-and-comers will learn from veterans of the episodic landscape, taking in the wisdom and experience of a group of directors, showrunners, actors and cinematographers.
Among those set as industry participants are Hikari, Johnson Cheng, Aurora Guerrero, Rachel Goldberg, Michelle Lawler, Glen Mazzara, Leonardo Nam, Jeremy Podeswa, James Ponsoldt, Angel Kristi Williams, Daniel Willis and more.
Said Film Independent’s Associate Director of Fiction Programs, Dea Vazquez, “As we celebrate the 30th year of our Artist Development programs,...
Each of the six is an alum of Film Independent Artist Development programs including the Directing Lab, Documentary Lab, Screenwriting Lab, Fast Track finance market and Project Involve, which collectively celebrate their 30th anniversary this year. Over the course of the three-day program, the accomplished up-and-comers will learn from veterans of the episodic landscape, taking in the wisdom and experience of a group of directors, showrunners, actors and cinematographers.
Among those set as industry participants are Hikari, Johnson Cheng, Aurora Guerrero, Rachel Goldberg, Michelle Lawler, Glen Mazzara, Leonardo Nam, Jeremy Podeswa, James Ponsoldt, Angel Kristi Williams, Daniel Willis and more.
Said Film Independent’s Associate Director of Fiction Programs, Dea Vazquez, “As we celebrate the 30th year of our Artist Development programs,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Snowfall writer Aziza Barnes and Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell are developing an adaptation of Ibi Zoboi’s novel Pride for HBO.
Pride is an update to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a Haitian-Dominican coming of age story that explores young love, teenage angst, and gentrification through magical realism.
Barnes, who also wrote on Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters, is writing the adaptation, and will exec produce with Rothwell. Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin producer Alloy Entertainment is producing in association with Warner Bros. Television with Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo exec producing through Alloy Entertainment.
The book follows Zuri Benitez, who has pride, Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons,...
Pride is an update to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a Haitian-Dominican coming of age story that explores young love, teenage angst, and gentrification through magical realism.
Barnes, who also wrote on Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters, is writing the adaptation, and will exec produce with Rothwell. Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin producer Alloy Entertainment is producing in association with Warner Bros. Television with Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo exec producing through Alloy Entertainment.
The book follows Zuri Benitez, who has pride, Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell is to star and exec produce Malltown, an animated comedy pilot for Comedy Central from Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer.
Rothwell, who plays Kelli in the HBO comedy, which she also writes on and acts as supervising producer, will voice 13-year old Libby in the project for the ViacomCBS network.
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The show, set in a declining mall, follows the coming-of-age adventures of Libby. Seen through the eyes of the budding teen, the mall is a microcosm of America and everything that’s totally screwed up about it.
Rothwell will exec produce alongside Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer and Mike Perry.
The show was put...
Rothwell, who plays Kelli in the HBO comedy, which she also writes on and acts as supervising producer, will voice 13-year old Libby in the project for the ViacomCBS network.
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The show, set in a declining mall, follows the coming-of-age adventures of Libby. Seen through the eyes of the budding teen, the mall is a microcosm of America and everything that’s totally screwed up about it.
Rothwell will exec produce alongside Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer and Mike Perry.
The show was put...
- 4/20/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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Paula Pell will receive the WGA East’s Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the 72nd annual WGA Awards, which will be held February 1. The award will be presented by her longtime friend and former SNL colleague Amy Poehler.
The honor will be bestowed in New York at the Edison Ballroom; the WGA Awards ceremonies will be held concurrently in New York and at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
“I am truly thrilled and honored to receive the WGA Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence,” Pell said. “I heard many stories of Herb’s legendary work when I joined SNL in 1953,” she joked. “I will proudly put this next to my lifetime achievement award from Clever Matron Magazine.”
The Sargent Award is presented to writers who embody “the spirit, commitment and comic genius of Mr. Sargent, as well as his dedication to mentoring new writers,” the guild said.
The honor will be bestowed in New York at the Edison Ballroom; the WGA Awards ceremonies will be held concurrently in New York and at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
“I am truly thrilled and honored to receive the WGA Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence,” Pell said. “I heard many stories of Herb’s legendary work when I joined SNL in 1953,” she joked. “I will proudly put this next to my lifetime achievement award from Clever Matron Magazine.”
The Sargent Award is presented to writers who embody “the spirit, commitment and comic genius of Mr. Sargent, as well as his dedication to mentoring new writers,” the guild said.
- 12/11/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, Sean O’Bryan, Jeremy Glazer | Written by Julie Lipson, Stu Pollard | Directed by Jen McGowan
Rising British star Hermione Corfield takes the lead in Rust Creek, an engaging low budget survival thriller that starts out like a Wrong Turn knock-off but becomes something more substantial instead.
Directed by Jen McGowan, Rust Creek centres on Kentucky college student Sawyer Scott (Corfield), who impulsively decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family and drive to Washington D.C. for a job interview. However, her Gps strands her in the frozen backwoods, where she has an encounter with scuzzy meth-dealers Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and Buck (Daniel R. Hill) that leaves her injured and fleeing for her life.
After collapsing, Sawyer is rescued by meth cook Lowell (Jay Paulson) and hides out in his trailer, though she’s not entirely sure she can trust him.
Rising British star Hermione Corfield takes the lead in Rust Creek, an engaging low budget survival thriller that starts out like a Wrong Turn knock-off but becomes something more substantial instead.
Directed by Jen McGowan, Rust Creek centres on Kentucky college student Sawyer Scott (Corfield), who impulsively decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family and drive to Washington D.C. for a job interview. However, her Gps strands her in the frozen backwoods, where she has an encounter with scuzzy meth-dealers Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and Buck (Daniel R. Hill) that leaves her injured and fleeing for her life.
After collapsing, Sawyer is rescued by meth cook Lowell (Jay Paulson) and hides out in his trailer, though she’s not entirely sure she can trust him.
- 3/15/2019
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Netflix has acquired Hometown, a feature comedy that will star Insecure‘s Natasha Rothwell, who is writing the script with Paula Pell and Michelle Lawler. Little Stranger’s Tina Fey and Eric Gurian will produce alongside Pell and Rothwell. Jeff Richmond is exec producer.
They are keeping the plot under wraps but it is a two-hander. Rothwell got a NAACP Image Award nom for Insecure and is developing an original HBO series she’ll exec produce. She wrote and starred in Netflix Presents: The Characters, an original sketch series, and was a writer on Saturday Night Live. Her next film turns are Sonic The Hedgehog and Wonder Woman 1984.
Pell wrote on SNL for 20 years and scripted Sisters. She’ll next star in Wine Country. She produced This is 40 and currently stars in NBC’s AP Bio. Lawler is the cinematographer of Rust Creek and Boomerang.
Rothwell is repped...
They are keeping the plot under wraps but it is a two-hander. Rothwell got a NAACP Image Award nom for Insecure and is developing an original HBO series she’ll exec produce. She wrote and starred in Netflix Presents: The Characters, an original sketch series, and was a writer on Saturday Night Live. Her next film turns are Sonic The Hedgehog and Wonder Woman 1984.
Pell wrote on SNL for 20 years and scripted Sisters. She’ll next star in Wine Country. She produced This is 40 and currently stars in NBC’s AP Bio. Lawler is the cinematographer of Rust Creek and Boomerang.
Rothwell is repped...
- 3/8/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Too often, filmmakers forget that less can be more. Luckily, the creative forces behind Rust Creek, a new thriller hitting theaters, they know this. Within the first ten minutes, the action and story are already set into motion. Independent cinema like this is always preferable to overly pretentious fare. This flick just wants to tell a lean, mean, and razor sharp story. Without question, they do. This is a really solid film that only pauses to breathe once a breath needs to be taken. It suggests a real strong future for the filmmakers and especially for its star, who is a real find. As mentioned above, the movie gets down to it rather quickly. Sawyer Scott (Hermione Corfield) is a college student with a plum job interview scheduled in Washington D.C. in a few days. En route, she winds up getting horribly lost in the maze-like Kentucky forest. One...
- 1/4/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
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Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
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Queer Genius
Logline: “Queer Genius” explores the lives of four visionary queer artists: Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron and Shannon Funchess.
Elevator Pitch:
“Queer Genius” is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and sexuality. The film embraces the communal possibilities of “genius” from a particularly queer perspective crossing genre and generational perspective.
The film features intertwined portraits of Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag), and Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum.
Production Team:
Catherine Pancake – Director/Producer
L.A. Teodosio – Consulting Producer (“Little Men”)
Laura Terruso – Consultant,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Queer Genius
Logline: “Queer Genius” explores the lives of four visionary queer artists: Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron and Shannon Funchess.
Elevator Pitch:
“Queer Genius” is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and sexuality. The film embraces the communal possibilities of “genius” from a particularly queer perspective crossing genre and generational perspective.
The film features intertwined portraits of Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag), and Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum.
Production Team:
Catherine Pancake – Director/Producer
L.A. Teodosio – Consulting Producer (“Little Men”)
Laura Terruso – Consultant,...
- 8/18/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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