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I’m gonna be doing an oc master list on hear just so everyone can see it more better this is also gonna have the people relationship to .
Oc master list :
Eden gate :
Michaela Reece Campbell - Jeanine Mason
Katarina Maya Morgan - Elizabeth Gilles
Jayda Raven wright - Danielle Victoria Perry
Bryson Kai grant - max Parker
Adam Blaine Strickland - Travis fimmel
Trenton Enzo collymore - Kori Sampson
Jayla Rae ford - aj Naomi king
Renne Mia Huxley - Lauren cohen
Natalie Quinn Kramer - Katheryn winnick
Lindsey Cerys Morris - Bryce Dallas Howard
Braeden Weston Raymond - will Graham
Audrey Cara baker - Maia Michelle
Keira Beth white - Madeline peutch
Nicholas Matteo Pearce - Kyle Allen
Preston James huff - Richard harman
Darin Shane Reid - Brant daughtery
Martinez Campbell - Tom ellis
Stephanie woods - inbar lavi
Nadia Jane Sutton - Katheryn newton
Felix Micah porter - Freddy thorp
Parker Lance Dawson - Tyler Blackburn
Maliah cass Gordon - Morgan Crabtree
Kayden Lucian Morgan - Chris Evan’s
Michael trace Sullivan - will poulter
Antonio Kyson chambers - Kieron Moore
Blake chandler miller - Matthew naszka
Cassidy everly Quinn - Madeline cline
Relationship for oc :
Jacob & Michaela
John & Katarina
Jayda & Braeden
Bryson & Audrey
Adam & Natalie
Trenton & jayla
Renne & Nicholas
Lindsey & Keira
Preston & Nadia
Darin & Felix
Parker & Maliah
Cassidy &
Kayden &
Michael &
Antonio &
Blake &
Resistance:
Larissa Leah Palmer - Marie avgeropoulos
Terrence miles Harvey - Chris wood
Chase Luca gray - Theo James
Malcolm Jay Bryant - Ryan Guzman
Lauren grace Shaffer - Hillary Burton
Annabel Kaylyn Chavez - rose Salazar
Charles gage fisher - Pedro pascal
Elena Katie smith - Lucy hale
Izaiah Theo Farley - Federico massaro
Conner Ryder knight - Logan lerman
Robin Kelsey Norwood - Diana agron
Sean Corey Harrison - Alexander Ludwig
Aiden Nico Davenport - Rafael l Silva
Davina Brielle Ramsey - Rachel Zegler
Sage Damon Harrison - Travis van winkle not yet posted
Relationship:
Larissa & Conner
Terrence & Joey
Chase & Jess
Malcolm & Mary
Eli & Robin
Lauren & Earl
Charles & Adelaide
Isaiah & Skyler
Cameron & Annabel
Tammy & Sean
Aiden & Davina
Shaw &
Miner oc :
Jessica Nora miner - Rosamund pike
Calvin madden price - Tyler hoechlin
Trey Draven Sanford - Aaron Taylor Johnson
Emery cordella combs - ayo edebiri
Jayne rose Frey - Alexandra Breckenridge
Liam Cole mullens - Jesse Williams
Relationship:
Jessica & Calvin
Trey & Jayne
Emery & Liam
Kids oc :
Thea raine seed -
Cod oc :
Olive Maeve Rowland - Leah pipes
Makenna sky marks - Zoey deuch
Relationship:
Olive & soap
Makenna & konig
Red dead redemption two oc’s
Eliza Jane Evermore- Isabel may
Rdr2 relationships:
Eliza x Micah Bell
These are all my master oc list and I hope this makes it better some of my people are brother or sister with my sister oc just in case if anyone wonders why there are a last names that are the same .
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If Star Trek Was Trans
The Original Series
James T. Kirk played by Brian Michael Smith (he/him)
Spock played by Asia Kate Dillon (they/them)
I know there’s a Thing™ about enbies only getting to play non-humans, but I really liked the idea of Asia Kate Dillon as Spock. But don’t worry. I tried to include more human enbies in the fan cast too. For context: if I cast a nonbinary actor to play the character imagine that the character would be nonbinary.
Leonard McCoy played by Alex Blue Davis (he/him)
Pavel Chekov played by Elliot Page (he/him & they/them)
Montgomery “Scotty” Scott played by iris menas (zie/hir)
Uhura played by Janet Mock (she/her)
Hikaru Sulu played by Leo Sheng (he/him)
The Next Generation
Jean Luc Picard played by Sara Ramirez (she/her & they/them)
This is a bit of a departure from the OG Picard but I really wanted to include Sara Ramirez in this and liked the idea of an enby Picard.
William Riker played by Jake Graf (he/him)
Geordi La Forge played by Kingston Farady (he/him)
Worf played by Skyler Cooper (he/him)
Beverly Crusher played by Alexandra Billings (she/her & they/them)
Deanna Troi played by Trace Lysette (she/her)
Data played by Scott Turner Schofield (he/him)
Wesley Crusher played by Lachlan Watson (they/them)
Deep Space Nine
I actually am not very far into “DS9″, I haven’t even finished season 2. So keep that in mind as you see this next bit.
Benjamin Sisko played by Marquise Vilson (he/him)
Kira Nerys played by Michaela Jae Rodriguez (she/her)
Odo played by ?
I love Odo, but I had no idea who to cast as him. Did I cast a trans dude, an enby, someone agender? I didn’t know so I left it open. Feel free to share your thoughts!
Julian Bashir played by Theo Germaine (he/him & they/them)
So I know the original actor who played Bashir was half Sudanese but unfortunately I am not familiar with any trans actors with that background. Feel free to share your thoughts on this too though!
Jadzia Dax played by Amiyah Scott (she/her)
Miles O’Brien played by Michael D. Cohen (he/him)
I didn’t include Quark because he’s a slimy, misogynistic sleaze ball (at least he is by where I am in this serious). So he can be played by a cisgender actor. Or Caitlyn Jenner.
Voyager
Full disclosure: I haven’t seen a single episode of “Voyager” so the only characters I really know are Cpt. Janeway and Seven of Nine (& even then I don’t know a TON about them). So I only cast them for the next part.
Kathryn Janeway played by Laverne Cox (she/her)
Seven of Nine played by Jamie Clayton (she/her)
And that’s all the Star Trek I know. I’ve never seen “Enterprise” or any of the newer shows, but if I ever watch them maybe I’ll revisit this. Anyways, this was just for fun! Feel free to chime in with any thoughts you have. :)
#Star Trek#Transgender#Laverne Cox#Elliot Page#Michaela Jae Rodriguez#Trace Lysette#Marquise Vilson#Mine#Fan Cast#Jamie Clayton#Sara Ramirez#Michael D Cohen#Brian Michael Smith#Alex Blue Davis#iris menas#Janet Mock#Alexandra Billings#Amiyah Scott#Scott Turner Schofield#Jake Graf#Asia Kate Dillon#Kingston Farady#Leo Sheng#Skyler Cooper#Lachlan Watson#Theo Germaine
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20/20.
This year, in hindsight, was a real write-off. I had grand plans for it, and while I ushered it in in a very low-key manner since I was recovering from the flu, I’d expected things to look up. Well, you know what they say about plans (RIP, my trip to Europe). I got very, very sick in early February, and I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t COVID. Since March, the days have been a carousel of monotony: coffee, run, work, cook, yoga, existential spiral, sleep. My Own Private Year of Rest and Relaxation, if you will. Of course, life has a way of breaking through regardless; I attended protests, completed my thesis, graduated from grad school, took a couple of road trips upstate, and celebrated the accomplishments and birthdays of friends and family from a safe social distance. It was all a bit of a blur, and not ideal circumstances to re-enter the real world, or whatever this COVID-present is.
Throughout it all, in lieu of happy hours, coffee dates, and panel discussions, I’ve turned even more to culture and cuisine to fill the the negative space on my calendar where my social life once resided. However, since a global pandemic ought not to disrupt every tradition, here’s my year-end round up of what made this terrible one slightly more tolerable.
TV
After an ascetic fall semester abstaining from TV in 2019 (save for my beloved Succession), I allowed myself to watch more as the year wore on, and especially after graduation. I caught up on some cultural blind spots by finally getting around to The Sopranos, Ramy, Search Party, and Girlfriends. I wasn’t alone in bingeing Sopranos, it absolutely lived up to the hype and then some; this Jersey Girl can’t get enough gabagool-adjacent content, pizzeria culture is my culture!
Speaking of my culture, there was also a disproportionate amount of UK and European shows in my queue. Nothing like being in social isolation and watching the horny Irish teens in Normal People brood. I’m partial to it because I share a surname with the showrunner, so I have to embrace blind loyalty even though there was, in my opinion, a Marianne problem in the casting. Speaking of charming Irish characters with limited emotional vocabularies, I belatedly discovered This Way Up a 2019 show from Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan. And while Connell and Marianne are actually exceptional students, I found the real normal people on GBBO to bring me a bit more joy. Baking was abundantly therapeutic for me this year, and watching charming people drink loads of tea and fret over soggy bottoms was a comfort. I also discovered the Great Pottery Throw Down, and as a lifelong ceramics enthusiast, I cannot recommend it highly enough if you care about things like slips, coils, and glazing techniques. GPTD embraces wabi sabi in a way that GBBO eschews flaws in favor of perfection, and in a time of uncertainty, the former reminded me why I miss getting my hands in the mud as a coping mechanism (hence all the baking). Speaking of coping mechanisms, like everybody else with two eyes and an HBO password, I loved Michaela Cole’s I May Destroy You; though we’ve all had enough distress this year for a lifetime, watching Cole’s Arabella process her assault and search for meaning, justice, and closure was a compelling portrait of grief and purpose in the aftermath of trauma. Arabella’s creative and patient friends Kwame and Terry steal the show throughout, as they deal with their own setbacks and emotional turmoil. Where I May Destroy You provides catharsis, Ted Lasso presents British eccentricity in all its stereotypical glory. At first I was skeptical of the show’s hype on Twitter, but once I gave in it charmed me, if only for Roy Kent’s emotional trajectory and extolling the restorative powers of shortbread. For a more accurate depiction of life in London, Steve McQueen’s series Small Axe provides a visually lush and politically clear-eyed depiction of the lives of British West Indians in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Lastly, how could I get through a recap of my year in tv if I don’t mention The Crown. Normal People may have needed an intimacy coordinator, but the number of Barbours at Balmoral was the real phonographic content for me.
Turning my attention across the Channel, after the trainwreck that was Emily in Paris, I started watching a proper French show, Call My Agent! It’s truly delightful, and unlike the binge-worthy format of "ambient shows” I have been really relishing taking an hour each week to watch CMA, subtitles, cigarettes, and all.
Honorable mention: The Last Dance for its in-depth look at many notable former Chicago residents; High Fidelity for reminding me of the years in college when my brother and I would drive around listening to Beta Band; and Big Mouth.
Music
My Spotify wrapped this year was a bit odd. I don‘t think “Chromatica II into 911″ is technically a song, so it revealed other things about my listening habits this year, which turned out to remain very much stuck in the last, sonically. I listened to a lot more podcasts than new music this year, but there were some records that found their way into heavy rotation. While I listened to a lot of classics both old and new to write my thesis (Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Prokofiev, and Bach) the soundtrack to my coursework, runs, walks, and editing was more contemporary. Standouts include:
Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, which makes me feel like I’m breathing fresh air even when I’m stuck inside all day
La Bella Vita by Niia, which was there for me when I walked past my ex on 7th avenue (twice!) and he pretended that I didn’t exist
Fetch the Bolt Cutters by THEE Fiona Apple, because Fiona, our social distancing queen, has always been my Talmud, her songs shimmering, evolving, and living with me every year
Shore by Fleet Foxes, for the long drive to the Catskills
Women in Music, Pt. III by HAIM, because these days, these days...
Musicians have been reckoning with tumult this year as much as the rest of us, and the industry has dealt with loss on all fronts. I’d be remiss not to talk about how the passing of John Prine brought his music into my life, and McCoy Tyner, who has been a companion through good and bad over the years.
Honorable mention to: græ by Moses Sumney; The Main Thing by Real Estate; on the tender spot of every calloused moment by Ambrose Akinmusire; Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers; folklore by you know who; and songs by Adrianne Lenker.
Reading
What would this overlong blob be without a list of the best things I read this year? While I left publishing temporarily, books, the news, and newsletters still took up a majority of my attention (duh and/or doomscrolling by any other name). I can’t be comprehensive, and frankly, there are already great roundups of the best longform this year out there, so this is mostly books and praising random writers.
Last year I wrote about peak newsletter. Apparently, my prediction was a bit premature as this year saw an even bigger Substack Boom. But two new newsletters in particular have delighted me: Aminatou Sow’s Crème de la Crème and Hunter Harris’ Hung Up (her ”this one line” series is true force of chaotic good on Blue Ivy’s internet). Relatedly, Sow and Ann Friedman’s Big Friendship was gifted to me by a dear friend and another bff and I are going to read it in tandem next week.
On the “Barack Obama published a 700+ page memoir, crippling the printing industry’s supply chains” front, grad school severely hamstrung my ability to read for pleasure, but I managed to get through almost 30 books this year, some old (Master and Margarita), most new-ish (Say Nothing, Nickel Boys). Four 2020 books in particular enthralled me:
Uncanny Valley: Anna Wiener’s memoir has been buzzed about since n+1 published her essay of the same name in 2016. Her ability to see, clear-eyed, the industry for both its foibles and allure captured that era when the excess and solipsism of the Valley seemed more of a cultural quirk than the harbinger of societal schism.
Transcendent Kingdom: Yaa Gyasi’s novel about faith, family, loss, and--naturally--grad school was deeply empathetic, relatable, and moving. I think this was my favorite book of the year. Following the life of a Ghanaian family that settles in Alabama, it captured the kind of emotional ennui that comes from having one foot in the belief of childhood and one foot in the bewilderment that comes from losing faith in the aftermath of tragedy.
Vanishing Half: Similarly to Transcendent Kingdom, Brit Bennett’s novel about siblings who are separated; it’s also about the ways that colorism can be internalized and the ways chosen family can (and cannot) replace your real kin. It was a compassionate story that captured the pain of abuse and abandonment in two pages in a way that Hanya Yanagihara couldn’t do in 720.
Dessert Person: Ok, so this is a cookbook, but it’s a good read, and the recipes are approachable and delicious. After all the BA Test Kitchen chaos this summer, it’s nice we didn’t have to cancel Claire. Make the thrice baked rye cookies!!!! You will thank me later.
Honorable mention goes to: Leave The World Behind for hitting the Severance/Station Eleven dystopian apocalypse novel sweet spot; Exciting Times for reminding me why I liked Sally Rooney; and Summer by Ali Smith, which wasn’t the strongest of the seasonal quartet, but was a series I enjoyed for two years.
Podcasts
I’m saving my most enthusiastic section for last: ever since 2018, I’ve been listening to an embarrassing amount of podcasts. Moving into a studio apartment will do that to you, as will grad school, add a pandemic to that equation and there’s a lot of time to fill with what has sort of become white noise to me (or, in one case, nice white parents noise). In addition to the shows that I’ve written about before (Still Processing, Popcast, Who? Weekly, and Why is This Happening?), these are the shows I started listening to this year that fueled my parasocial fire:
You’re Wrong About: If you like history, hate patriarchy, and are a millennial, you’ll love Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes’ deep dives into the most notable stories of the past few decades (think Enron and Princess Diana) and also some other cultural flashpoints that briefly but memorably shaped the national discourse (think Terri Schiavo, Elian González, and the Duke Lacrosse rape case).
Home Cooking: This mini series started (and ended) during the pandemic. As someone who stress baked her way through the past nine months, Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway’s show is filled with warmth, banter, and useful advice. Home Cooking has been a reassuring companion in the kitchen, and even though it will be a time capsule once we’re all vaccinated and close talking again, it’s still worth a listen for tips and inspiration while we’re hunkered down for the time being.
How Long Gone: I don’t really know how to explain this other than saying that media twitter broke my brain and enjoying Chris Black and Jason Stewart’s ridiculous banter is the price I pay for it.
Blank Check: Blank Check is like the GBBO of podcasts--Griffin Newman and David Sims’ enthusiasm for and encyclopedic knowledge of film, combined with their hilarious guests and inevitable cultural tangents is always a welcome distraction. Exploring a different film from a director’s oeuvre each week over the course of months, the podcast delves into careers and creative decisions with the passion of completists who want to honor the filmmaking process even when the finished products end up falling short. The Nancy Meyers and Norah Ephron series were favorites because I’d seen most of the movies, but I also have been enjoying the Robert Zemeckis episodes they’re doing right now. The possibility of Soderbergh comes up often (The Big Picture just did a nice episode about/with him), and I’d love to hear them talk about his movies or Spike Lee (or, obviously, Martin Scorsese).
Odds & Ends
If you’re still reading this, you’re a real one, so let’s get into the fun stuff. This was a horrible way to start a new decade, but at least we ended our long national nightmare. We got an excellent dumb twitter meme. I obviously made banana bread, got into home made nut butters, and baked an obscene amount of granola as I try to manifest a future where I own a Subaru Outback. Amanda Mull answered every question I had about Why [Insert Quarantine Trend] Happens. My brother started an organization that is working to eliminate food insecurity in LA. Discovering the Down Dog app allowed me to stay moderately sane, despite busting both of my knees in separate stupid falls on the criminally messed up sidewalks and streets of Philadelphia. I can’t stop burning these candles. Jim Carrey confused us all. We have a Jewish Second Gentleman! Grub Street Diets continued to spark joy. Dolly Parton remains America’s Sweetheart (and possible vaccine savior). And, last, but certainly not least: no one still knows how to pronounce X Æ A-12 Boucher-Musk.
#year in review#2020#this was a terrible year#books#podcasts#tv#movies#banana bread#dessert person#niia#transcendent kingdom#vanishing half#gbbo#pottery throw down#the crown#you're wrong about#blank check#how long gone#chris black#home cooking#baking#uncanny valley#fiona apple#fetch the bolt cutters#waxahatchee#saint cloud#haim#fleet foxes#john prine#music
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Family Task
Earlier on, @iamalyssadalton put out an optional task, challenging everyone to take a look at and share more about their families. So, I thought it couldn’t hurt to get the ball rolling!
My mother’s name was Michaela Renee Taylor. She was born and raised in a small southern town in South Carolina, and was the oldest of two girls. Being raised in the South had a huge impact on her, and her personality. My mother was beautiful, intelligent, sweet, and kind. She had an open-door policy, and really never met a stranger. And, despite living in the Northern US for numerous years, she never quite lost that hint of Southern twang. Growing up she was a straight-A student and beauty queen; she won both local and state titles and held nearly 30 crowns. Mom was her high school’s Salutatorian, and graduated college with honors and a double degree in business and finance. She owned and operated one of the largest accounting firms in Detroit (where I was born, and spent the first 10 years of my life), despite not being an accountant herself.
My father’s name was Gregory Michael Reilly. My dad was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived in the projects for the first 18 years of his life. Despite his upbringing, school was always immensely important to him, and he spent all his free time studying, or working- stashing money like the true hustler he was. My dad was highly intelligent, funny, personable, and compassionate. He would’ve gone to the ends of the Earth, just to help someone in need, no matter if he knew them or not. He graduated high school as his class Valedictorian, and was in the top 5% of his college’s graduating class. His degrees were in Biochemistry, and he was one of our nation’s leading scientists, paving the way for some of the biggest medical discoveries of our time.
My parents met when my father sought the services of my mother’s firm. My mother was a Domme, and my father her ever-faithful Submissive, from the moment they laid eyes on each other. They had the type of relationship you see on TV, or read about in books. The love between them was beautiful, pure, and strong, and seeing them with each other taught me everything about who I wanted to be, and what I wanted my future relationship to look like. The bond I shared with my parents was strong, and I’ve come to learn one that many children don’t have the blessing of experiencing. My parents were my best friends, my biggest supporters, and my whole world.
When I was 10-years-old, my parents were killed in a drunk driving accident. Following their deaths, I was sent here to Ohio live with my aunt- my Mom’s baby sister. Another Domme, my Aunt Fiona. It was strange, considering I’d only ever heard stories of my estranged Aunt, never having met her due to some of her more unfavorable behaviors which my mother chose not to expose me to. Still, living with family after experiencing something like that, I’d hoped, would bring comfort. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case. My Aunt is...About the furthest thing from a nice person anyone might imagine, and living with her was one of the worst times of my life.
Fortunately, it was short lived. I was removed from her care and transitioned into foster care. Although I bounced around for a couple of years, I eventually landed in the Cohen-Chang home, which would become the place that had one of the biggest impacts on me. Being one of the older children in the home, one with several other foster siblings, I found my place in the ‘Big Sister’ role. It was there that I found my family- the ones I still love and claim. And in fact, two of my beautiful siblings are here- Ambrose Abrams and Liliana Garcia. I love them both, to the moon and back. They’ve been such huge parts of my life, and honestly speaking I’m not even close to sure where I’d be without them.
It’s interesting, looking back on my life, examining my family, and noticing the similarities and differences. I am nothing like my Aunt Fiona, and I strive to maintain that every single day. Cruelty is unnecessary, in a world that does so well at creating ugliness all on its own. I hope I’m like my mother, and my father. Compassionate, and kind. Patient, and trustworthy. Intelligent, and hardworking. My career path and my love for science I gained from my father, while my need for organization came from my mother. My love of books and learning is a trait gained from both, and one I’m very proud of. From Ambrose, I’ve gained patience and understanding, along with the ability to look at the world through the most accepting of eyes. From Liliana, I’ve learned to love myself as I am, and to be fiercely and infinitely passionate. Life and family haven’t always been easy. There have been ups, downs, highs, lows, and plenty of love, laughter, and tears. But no matter what, I’ll always be grateful for the life I’ve lived, and the love I’ve been blessed with.
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The 2019 Silver Garbage Award Nominations
The reboot of Magnum P.I. leads all programs with 12 nominations, including Worst Drama Series, Worst New Series of the Year, Worst Remake or Spin-Off, and Worst Actor in a Drama Series. The cancelled Showtime comedy SMILF leads all comedies with 11 nominations, including Worst Comedy Series and Actress for Frankie Shaw, whose allegations of misconduct on the set led to the show’s demise in March after its second season. Shaw has five of the nominations for SMILF, as she was also Executive Producer, and a writer and director of SMILF.
Not far behind are the sixth and final film of the Sharknado series and the failed revival of 1990s sitcom Murphy Brown, which both netted ten nominations each.
Among the acting nominees for the Silver Garbage Awards, which celebrates the worst of the past television season include R. Kelly, Lori Loughlin, and Felicity Huffman, who all have made headlines in recent months for their respective legal issues. Even former White House Press Secretary Anthony Scaramucci is nominated for Worst Special Class Supporting Actor for his week long stint last Winter on Celebrity Big Brother.
The winners will be posted on Saturday September 21, the eve of the 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards telecast on Fox.
WORST NEW SERIES:
The Alec Baldwin Show (ABC)
Camping (HBO)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
Million Dollar Mile (CBS)
The Rookie (ABC)
The Village (NBC)
WORST COMEDY SERIES:
Abby’s (NBC)
Camping (HBO)
Fam (CBS)
Murphy Brown (CBS)
SMILF (Showtime)
Splitting Up Together (ABC)
WORST DRAMA SERIES:
I’m Dying Up Here (Showtime)
Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
The Rookie (ABC)
Shades of Blue (NBC)
The Village (NBC)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAM:
The Bad Seed (Lifetime)
The Bobby Brown Story (BET)
CBS News Presents The Gayle King Interview With R. Kelly (CBS)
The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (SyFy)
Megyn Kelly Today (NBC)
RENT Live (Fox)
WORST REALITY PROGRAM:
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV)
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E)
Made in Staten Island (MTV)
Million Dollar Mile (CBS)
Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)
Who Is America? (Showtime)
WORST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Tone Bell - Fam (CBS)
Sacha Baron Cohen - Who Is America? (Showtime)
Oliver Hudson - Splitting Up Together (ABC)
Ashton Kutcher - The Ranch (Netflix)
Dax Shepard - Bless This Mess (ABC)
Damon Wayans Jr. - Happy Together (CBS)
WORST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Nathan Fillion - The Rookie (ABC)
Rob Lowe - Code Black (CBS)
Jay Rodriguez - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
Seann William Scott - Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Damon Wayans Sr. - Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Michael Weatherly - Bull (CBS)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS LEAD ACTOR:
Alec Baldwin - The Alec Baldwin Show (ABC)
Pauly D - A Double Shot of Love & Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (both MTV)
R. Kelly - CBS News Presents The Gayle King Interview With R. Kelly (CBS)
Rob Lowe - The Bad Seed (Lifetime)
Woody McClain - The Bobby Brown Story (BET)
Ian Ziering - The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (SyFy)
WORST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown (CBS)
Nina Dobrev - Fam (CBS)
Jenna Fischer - Splitting Up Together (ABC)
Jennifer Garner - Camping (HBO)
Natalie Morales - Abby’s (NBC)
Frankie Shaw - SMILF (Showtime)
WORST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Jessica Alba - L.A.’s Finest (Spectrum)
Jennifer Carpenter - The Enemy Within (NBC)
Marcia Gay Harden - Code Black (CBS)
Jennifer Lopez - Shades of Blue (NBC)
Michaela McManus - The Village (NBC)
Robin Tunney - The Fix (ABC)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS LEAD ACTRESS:
Julie Chen-Moonves - Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, and The Talk (CBS)
Megyn Kelly - Megyn Kelly Today (NBC)
Aubrey Peeples - Death of a Cheerleader (Lifetime)
Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi - Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV)
Tara Reid - The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (SyFy)
Leah Remini - Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Nik Dodani - Murphy Brown (CBS)
Brad Garrett - Single Parents (ABC)
Miguel Gomez - SMILF (Showtime)
Felix Mallard - Happy Together (CBS)
Jake McDorman - Murphy Brown (CBS)
Brian Stokes Mitchell - Fam (CBS)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Scott Cohen - The Fix (ABC)
Frankie Faison - The Village (NBC)
Brad Garrett - I’m Dying Up Here (Showtime)
Zachary Knighton - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
Kevin Rahm - Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Jussie Smollett - Empire (Fox)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Lorne Cardinal - The Bad Seed (Lifetime)
Tate Donovan - Love You To Death (Lifetime)
Judah Friedlander - The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (SyFy)
Matt Lauer - Leaving Neverland (HBO)
Anthony Scaramucci - Celebrity Big Brother (CBS)
The Situation - Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Tyne Daly - Murphy Brown (CBS)
Faith Ford - Murphy Brown (CBS)
Juliette Lewis - Camping (HBO)
Lori Loughlin - Fuller House (Netflix)
Rosie O’Donnell - SMILF (Showtime)
Samara Weaving - SMILF (Showtime)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Drea deMatteo - Shades of Blue (NBC)
Ari Graynor - I’m Dying Up Here (Showtime)
Amy Hill - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
Lori Loughlin - When Calls The Heart (Hallmark Channel)
Keesha Sharp - Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Perdita Weeks - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Cara Buono - The Bad Seed (Lifetime)
Gabrielle Dennis - The Bobby Brown Story (Lifetime)
Donshea Hopkins - The Bobby Brown Story (Lifetime)
Felicity Huffman - When They See Us (Netflix)
Dina Lohan - Celebrity Big Brother (CBS)
Tori Spelling - The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (SyFy)
WORST REBOOT/SPIN-OFF:
Camping (HBO) - Americanized Re-Boot of 2016 Britcom “Camping”
The Conners (ABC) - Spin-Off of 1990s Series, “Roseanne”
A Double Shot of Love (MTV) - Re-Boot of “A Double Shot of Love with Tia Tequila”
The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (SyFy) - Sixth and FINAL Movie of the Sharknado Series
Magnum P.I. (CBS) - Re-boot of the 1980s Action Series
Murphy Brown (CBS) - Revival of the 1990s Sitcom
WORST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Kevin Bacon - SMILF (Showtime)
Laura Benanti (as Melania Trump) - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Connie Britton - SMILF (Showtime)
Matt Damon (as Brett Kavanaugh) - Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Ken Jeong - The Kids Are Alright (ABC)
Ali Larter - Splitting Up Together (ABC)
Damon Wayans Sr. - Happy Together (CBS)
WORST GUEST PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Chris Diamantapoulos - The Twilight Zone (CBS All-Access)
Lars Mikkelsen - House of Cards (Netflix)
Elisabeth Rohm - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
Rebecca Romjin - Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All-Access)
Bob Saget - The Good Cop (Netflix)
Ben Vereen - Magnum P.I. (CBS)
WORST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN TELEVISION:
Camping (HBO)
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV)
The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (SyFy)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
SMILF (Showtime)
Splitting Up Together (ABC)
WORST WRITING IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Abby’s (NBC)
Camping (HBO)
Happy Together (CBS)
Murphy Brown (CBS)
SMILF (Showtime)
Splitting Up Together (ABC)
WORST DIRECTING IN A COMEDY SERIES:
Abby’s (NBC)
Camping (HBO)
Happy Together (CBS)
Murphy Brown (CBS)
SMILF (Showtime)
Splitting Up Together (ABC)
WORST WRITING IN A DRAMA SERIES:
The Enemy Within (NBC)
I’m Dying Up Here (Showtime)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
The Rookie (ABC)
The Village (NBC)
WORST DIRECTING IN A DRAMA SERIES:
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS)
Lethal Weapon (Fox)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
The Rookie (ABC)
Shades of Blue (NBC)
The Village (NBC)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS WRITING:
The Bobby Brown Story (BET)
Death of a Cheerleader (Lifetime)
Kim Possible (Disney)
Love You To Death (Lifetime)
The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (Lifetime)
Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter (Lifetime)
WORST SPECIAL CLASS DIRECTING:
The Bad Seed (Lifetime)
The Bobby Brown Story (BET)
Death of a Cheerleader (Lifetime)
Kim Possible (Disney)
The Last Sharknado: It’s Time (SyFy)
The Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show (CBS)
WORST SCREEN DUO:
Rob Lowe and either McKenna Grace (The Bad Seed, Lifetime) or Marcia Gay Harden (Code Black, CBS)
R. Kelly & Gayle King (CBS News Presents the Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly, CBS)
Any two housemates (Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, MTV)
Candice Bergen & Jake McDorman (Murphy Brown, CBS)
Frankie Shaw and Rosie O’Donnell (SMILF, Showtime)
Jenna Fischer & Oliver Hudson (Splitting Up Together, ABC)
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What’s New In 2019: The Cartoons.
PART 2:
Separated by network. All premiere dates are estimated until confirmed. Timings are in EST.
DISNEY CHANNEL:
- Amphibia (TBA): Created and executive produced by Matt Braly (Gravity Falls), Amphibia chronicles the adventures of Anne Boonchuy, a self-centered 13-year-old who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will transform into a hero and discover the first true friendship of her life.
The series was announced to be greenlit for production in early 2018 and is expected to premiere later in 2019.
- The Owl House (TBA): Created and executive produced by Dana Terrace (DuckTales) is a horror-comedy series that follows Luz, a self-assured teenage human girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to the Demon Realm. There she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King. Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda’s apprentice at the Owl House and ultimately finds a new family in an unlikely setting.
The series was announced at the same time as Amphibia and a Season 4 renewal of Star vs the Forces of Evil in early 2018. Similar to Amphibia, it is expected to release in late 2019.
- Vikingskool (end 2019): The series will follow a group of young would-be Viking warriors in an elite Vikingskool. Ross described the alumni as being “Like freshmen in ‘Top Gun,’ but for Vikings. ”The group will embark on a series of humorous and exciting adventures in a mystical world. At the heart of the tale are three best friends: Erik, Arnie and Ilba, each with their own unique Viking strengths and weaknesses.
The series is being produced by Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon (“The Secret of Kells,” “The Breadwinner”) and France’s Samka Productions (“Jamie’s Got Tentacles”) with post-production from Norwegian VFX company Storm Films. It’s this pedigree that prompted Ross to explain to Variety: “There is a substantial Viking history in Ireland and Northern France. As a co-production we can say it’s the only Viking show made by actual Vikings.”
The series’ 26 half-hours are scheduled for broadcast at the end of 2019.
- 101 Dalmatian Street (early 2019): Inspired by Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel and the 1961 movie, it will be based in Camden Town, London.
Featuring 43 cast members covering 106 speaking roles, the modern tale will focus on dalmatians Dylan and Dolly, their parents Doug and Delilah and 97 younger puppies whose names all also begin with D. Miriam Margolyes, known for her portrayal of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series, will voice Bessie the Cornish Cow.American actors Josh Brener and Michaela Dietz will voice Dylan and Dolly, the eldest Dalmatian siblings. Rapper Ben Bailey Smith, also known as Doc Brown, will voice Sid Squirrel as well as Spencer Sausage Dog. The series will also feature EastEnders star Tameka Empson as Pearl Police Horse and Bethan Wright as Prunella Pug.
The series has premiered its first episode on Disney Channel Africa and is set to premiere on Disney Channel UK in January. It will premiere in the US in spring 2019.
NETFLIX:
- Pinky Malinky (January 1, 2019): Pinky Malinky is a brand-new fly-on-the-wall reality show that follows the everyday life of Pinky, an infectiously positive hot dog living in a human world. With his best friends Babs and JJ by his side, Pinky reaches for the stars in the small town of Sackenhack. Through his good spirits and sausage sensibilities, Pinky proves that a "wiener" is only one small letter away from being a "WINNER!"
Using the tropes of a mockumentary and reality show format, Pinky and his friends will talk directly to the camera and the audience to share their absurd and silly take on real life. At times, all children feel like they don't fit in and Pinky's undeniably unique point of view as a literal wiener amongst humans will allow kids to laugh at his familiar struggles and enjoy his unusual perspective on the challenges of being a school-aged kid. By always reaching for the stars, Pinky pushes himself further than anyone could imagine. Pinky and his friends' humorous experiences will also be shared across social media and Nickelodeon's digital platforms.
Co-created and co-executive produced by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern (The Amazing World of Gumball) and executive produced by Scott Kreamer (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness), the trio are a part of the Artist Collective, an internal diverse group of experienced creators who mentor and support up-and-coming talent while also collaborating to cultivate, challenge and inspire Nickelodeon's development pipeline.
Pinky Malinky will star Lucas Grabeel (Glenn Martin DDS, I Kissed A Vampire) as Pinky Malinky, Diamond White (The Haunted Hathaways) as Babs Buttman, and Nathan Kress (iCarly) as JJ Jameson.
Under the deal with Netflix, Nickelodeon is producing two seasons — 59 episodes — of Pinky Malinky for the streaming service. The first season, consisting of 28 episodes is now available on Netflix.
- Tuca & Bertie (TBA): The series, which has received a 10-episode order, is an adult-oriented comedy about the friendship between two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building: Tuca (Haddish), a cocky, care-free toucan, and Bertie (Wong), an anxious, daydreaming songbird.
Both Haddish and Wong will also serve as executive producers in addition to starring. Lisa Hanawalt created the series and will serve as executive producer. Hanawalt is the production designer and producer on Netflix’s critically-acclaimed animated series “BoJack Horseman.” Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of “BoJack” will also executive produce along with “BoJack” executive producers Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen. Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company, which produces “BoJack,” will produce. Animation is being done at Shadowmachine.
The series was announced to be in production in February 2018 and is set to release in the summer.
- Carmen Sandiego (January 18, 2019): Carmen Sandiego started as a video game in 1985 and ventured out into books, television, and comics. Children of the ‘90s have searched for Sandiego in the U.S.A., in Europe, in Space, and back in Time. The PBS animated series Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? ran for 295 episodes between 1991 and 1995. Author John Peel wrote 10 Carmen Sandiego books in the '90s. DC Comics published four issues of a Carmen Sandiego comic starting in June 1996.
Believe it or not, after more than two decades Sandiego, a notorious crook, is still on the loose. Can she outrun the Netflix binge watchers? We’ll have see if Rodriguez has what it takes.
Insiders say that Netflix has ordered 20 episodes of the series, which aims to be as educational as it is entertaining, given the title character’s globetrotting adventures. The series is set to release on Netflix on January 18, 2019.
- Cannon Busters (March 1, 2019): Cannon Busters tells the story of a royal droid named S.A.M., who is searching for her best friend, and heir to the throne. Along the way, she’s joined by an old maintenance droid and a fugitive. The 12-episode series buy is part of Netflix’s impending wave of anime titles including Ultraman, Kengan Ashura, and season two of Aggretsuko.
Cannon Busters was created by LeSean Thomas, a storyboard artist and character designer known for his work on The Boondocks, the animated Black Dynamite series, and The Legend of Korra. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Netflix has bought 12 episodes, adapted from a 2003 comic of the same title.
The series was first announced at the Netflix panel at the 2018 Anime Expo and is set to release on Netflix on March 1, 2019.
- Twelve Forever (TBA): The series centers on 12-year-old Reggie, whose desire to remain a child is so powerful it creates a fantasy world in which she never has to grow up. She’s joined by her friends Todd and Esther, who visit this amazing world to live out their superhero fantasies and escape the responsibilities of impending adulthood.
Production companies behind the series are the Cartel and Puny Entertainment. In addition to Vickerman, executive producers include the Cartel’s Stan Spry and Bradford Bricken, and Puny’s Chris Hardwick and Shadi Petosky.
The original pilot was first aired on Cartoon Network in 2015 and was not picked up by the network until Netflix was announced to have picked it up for a first season in December 2017 and is set to release sometime in 2019.
So that’s the stuff you can expect from the major networks (and Netflix) in terms of animation this year. Which shows are you most excited to watch this year? Here’s to an amazing 2019 full of amazing cartoons.
For the upcoming cartoons on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, go check out Part 1.
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PERSON TO PERSON (2017)
Starring Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Bene Coopersmith, George Sample III, Philip Baker Hall, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Michaela Watkins, Olivia Luccardi, Ben Rosenfield, Buddy Duress, Eleonore Hendricks, Benny Safdie, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Okieriete Onandowan, Brian Tyree Henry, Steve Urbanski, Craig Butta, Dakota O'Hara and David Zellner.
Screenplay by Dustin Guy Defa.
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa.
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 84 minutes. Not Rated.
Person to Person is an interesting experiment, a look at a day in the life of about a dozen eccentric New York types. Most of the stories intersect peripherally. Most of the people are somewhat neurotic; looking for love, or professional gratification, or friendship, or understanding, or even simply a safe place to be themselves.
It is a normal day for them. Not much happens and at the same time lots of things do. It is a sweet and fond look at some of life’s outcasts.
Even though the plot includes such things as a murder investigation, counterfeiting, revenge porn, speed metal, tabloid journalism and lesbianism, the film never warms beyond a pleasant simmer. If you are looking for something to boil over with big moves and big climaxes, Person to Person is not the place for you. As action-packed as this film gets is a not-so-high-speed chase on bicycles.
However, if you are looking for a character study which is consistently pleasantly amusing – though rarely more than that – you are in the right place. Person to Person is not going to raise the pulse of any viewer, however it is a sweet and amiable diversion.
The movie tries to get inside the heads of a whole group of lovable oddballs, filming them airing their quirks in a bunch of cool Manhattan locations. The film is oddly old-fashioned. Even though it takes place in the current day, no one seems comfortable with cell phones, lots of people wear hip vintage clothing, some of the characters are obsessive vinyl collectors, one of the characters has an extended monologue about Frank Sinatra, and one of the storylines revolves around a wristwatch that is being repaired.
The movie opens with Claire (Abbi Jacobson), a timid former librarian, waking up in bed with her cat. It is her first day of a new job as a reporter and she is not comfortable with her new career choice. Her editor Phil (Michael Cera), a writer with a side-light as a bassist for a speed metal band, thinks she is cute so decides to show her the ropes.
Despite the fact that she does not feel ready for a big story, he assigns her to a high-profile case in which a woman who claims her husband killed himself may have murdered him instead. Phil tries to impress Claire with his music (her musical tastes veer more towards Leonard Cohen or Dylan) and his journalistic skills (which seem to be less than top notch). All the while, she is questioning her career choice.
The investigation also takes us into the watch shop of a venerable but timeworn watch repairman Jimmy (played by the always wonderful hangdog character actor Philip Baker Hall). The wife of the dead man (Michaela Watkins) drops off his broken watch to be fixed, and suddenly the police and reporters are all over, looking for information on the watch. Jimmy’s buddy (Isaiah Whitlock, Jr.) sees the crime as an exciting break in the everyday, but Jimmy doesn’t want to be dragged into any of it.
There is also record-collector Bene (played by non-actor Bene Coopersmith, owner of a Brooklyn record shop), a self-conscious, unassuming and sweet man who is angered when he is sold a counterfeit copy of a rare and valuable jazz album. He spends the rest of the film tracking down the crook who took advantage of him.
Bene’s best friend and roommate is Ray (George Sample III), a guy who found out that his girlfriend cheated on him and in a fit of irrationality had her naked pictures uploaded onto the internet. Even though Ray recognized his mistake and had them taken down, her tough brothers are out looking for him.
Then there is Wendy (Tavi Gevinson), a smart, sensitive, mopey, shy and sexually-confused teen. She has talked her best friend Melanie (Olivia Luccardi) into cutting school with her, but then gets roped in to an uncomfortable double-date situation when Melanie’s boyfriend and a buddy show up.
There were other characters flitting in and out of the film, but mostly they did not make a huge impression.
Person to Person feels like a particularly laid-back mumblecore film, or perhaps even an old forgotten 1970s John Cassavettes or Robert Altman character drama. It is sweetly amiable and pleasant to watch, but when the movie is through you can’t help but notice that not much really happened. However, the company of the characters was in general charming enough to make it worth a gander, anyway.
Jay S. Jacobs
Copyright ©2017 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: August 4, 2017.
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Character Information
Full Name. Tatiana Michaela Cohen-Chang.
Age & Birthday. 23 | November 22.
Gender Identity. Cisfemale.
Preferred Pronouns. She/her.
Romantic Orientation. Bisexual.
Sexual Orientation. Biromantic.
Hometown. Houston, Texas.
Neighborhood. Orchard Park.
Family Information
Mother. Sabrina Cohen-Chang.
Father. Timothy Cohen-Chang.
Siblings. Tina Cohen Chang (Age TBD), Cohen-Chang #2 (Age TBD).
Pets. Tatum (English Bulldog)
Other Family Members of Importance. Camila Moreno (biological mother).
Please describe your character’s family dynamics. The Cohen-Chang’s always made sure that their children were open-minded. Sabrina and Timothy sat them down to talk about the current news to make sure they knew what was going on in the world. They also made sure that the kids were in touch with their culture. Sabrina and Timothy were very loving which sometimes came off as a bit overprotective. She’s been in contact with her biological mother, Camila, over the years but she’s not close. In fact, she still resents her mother for everything but she can’t seem to part from her.
Personality Information
Positive Traits. Responsible, loyal, intelligent, clear-headed, cultured.
Negative Traits. Insecure, gullible, rebellious, bossy, impulsive.
Star Sign. Sagittarius.
Likes. Singing, travelling, shopping, movies, dogs.
Dislikes. Pain, being late, being alone, mustard, coffee.
Pet Peeves. Slow walkers, close-minded people, and line cutters.
Most Embarrassing Memory. When Tatiana got her first period, she was at school. She had no idea that she was about to come on so when she stood up, she was a bloody mess. The kids oh-so cleverly called her ‘Bloody Mary’ for the rest of the year.
Hobbies. Binge watching shows and cookie even though she’s bad at it.
Guilty Pleasure. Eating baby food.
Unusual Talents. She can draw perfect circles.
Habits. Swearing and emotional shopping.
Occupation Information
If your character is currently employed:
Occupation. Post Office Clerk/Stripper.
Place of Work. Lemon Grove Post Office/Molly’s Room.
Character Development
Plans for Development.
One. Tatiana is very stubborn and it’s hard to get through to her. It’s her world and everyone else is just living in it. I want her to realize that she isn’t always right and everything doesn’t have to go her way. Her stubbornness often gets in the way of important relationships but she’s too bull-headed to see that.
Two. Tatiana deals with some abandonment issues. Because of this, she doesn’t like letting people too close to her. Sure, she’s cool with a lot of people but she never allows herself to get close to them. With the few friends that she has, she finds herself clinging onto them. Tatiana is afraid of them leaving her so she does everything in her power to make them stay. I’d like her to sort through these issues of hers one day and learn how to be okay with being by herself. Moving to Lemon Grove by herself was a big step for her but she’s gotta keep on pushing.
Three. Tatiana wants to be adored and cherished. She wants to fit in somewhere. It was a struggle being adopted growing up. She accepted the fact that she was adopted but others couldn’t. She was constantly teased for having parents that ‘didn’t look like her.’ She tries to fit in for all of the wrong reasons and would do whatever it takes to be accepted. I want her to realize and understand that she doesn’t have to change for a single soul, to see that she’s perfect the way she is. Her insecurities are holding her back from reaching this goal but I know she can get there.
Other.
She’s halfway there but I just want her to be more independent! She’s been living on her own for three years now but she still feels like this is her first year being alone. I want her to develop some genuine relationships/friendships.
Character Biography
MENTIONS OF DRUG USE AND CHILD NEGLECT
Sabrina and Timothy Cohen-Chang always wanted a house full of kids. They tried to get pregnant as soon as possible. After several failed attempts, the doctors told the couple that Sabrina couldn’t have children. This was hard on them, of course, but they knew they had other options: adoption. She didn’t know it yet but this was great news for Tatiana. Her mother, Camila, was in no position to raise her daughter. She didn’t have a steady job and the longest that she had ever stayed sober was for the duration of her pregnancy. Camila wasn’t a great mom to say the least. She was addicted to drugs and becoming clean was not in her near future. Tatiana spent time with her grandmother who didn’t want much to do with her either. For four years, Tatiana was stuck in a hellhole. Being neglected took a huge toll on her. She ended up being taken away from her family and placed into foster care. She stayed there until she was almost six. When she was five and a half, Tatiana met the Cohen-Chang’s. They fostered her for awhile but soon grew attached to her and adopted her.
Growing up in the Cohen-Chang household was a wonderful change. Her hair no longer smelled of cigarettes. It smelled like strawberries. She ate good meals. Three times a day. She even had a snack. Tatiana’s parents were successful surgeons and made a great earning. Even though they had busy schedules, they always made time for their kids. Sabrina and Timothy not only showered them with gifts but with love and attention. Tatiana was open-minded, just how she was raised to be. She grew up knowing all that happened in the world and she was articulate enough to fully understand what was going on. Her parents always taught her to be nonjudgmental and to treat everyone kindly. Her parents also always made sure that she was in touch with her Mexican-Colombian roots. They knew how important culture was and didn’t want Tatiana to miss out on anything.
Overprotective was an understatement when it came to Mr. and Mrs. Cohen-Chang. They treated their children like glass and didn’t want anything to happen to them. Tatiana wasn’t a big fan of this and would find herself rebelling against her parents. She even went through a “I hate you, you aren’t my real parents” phase. It wasn’t her proudest moment. Tatiana and her parents had a rocky relationship during her teenage years. With her sneaking out, coming home late, and talking back it was a lot for them to deal with. They weren’t used to this Tatiana. They were used to the one that had good grades, president of student council, and mathletes member. It took awhile for her to shake her rebellious ways. Mainly because she believed she was stubborn and believed that this was her world and everyone was just living in it.
When she was 20, Tatiana moved to Lemon Grove all on her own. It was one of the hardest things that she had to do but it needed to be done. She felt caged, like she couldn’t be herself. She was wild, she was fun, she was a mess. At home, she felt the need to be so clean cut. And that wasn’t her in the slightest bit. Tatiana knew she was intelligent and could go far in life but she didn’t want to go to Harvard like her parents. Going to medical school wasn’t her goal. In all honesty, she hated school. She was great at it but she really only did well to make her parents proud. Working in a postal office and becoming a stripper wasn’t something she saw herself doing but it paid the bills. Besides, she was still young and had a lot of aspirations. Being away from her parents were great but they still wanted to keep tabs on Tatiana. They had some serious empty nest syndrome. Tatiana usually goes back to Tampa to visit her parents so they won’t come to her. Lemon Grove wasn’t the biggest town and it wasn’t full of opportunities. But it was cheap and it was quiet and she kind of liked it here. She knew that her parents would be disappointed in her so she tried to hide her job and living situation for as long as she could. Would it blow up in her face? For sure. But she was willing to take her chances and live life the way she wanted to.
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Hey, I hope this is not weird...was just curious if you have some book recommendations :)
Hey, of course it’s not weird, I’m happy to help, especially when it comes to books! ;) So I don’t know which genre you’re looking for, so I’ll just recommend some books and if you need more you can tell me more details like genre etc. I’ll also link all books to their goodreads page, so you can quickly look at the description, author etc. :)Ok, so if you’re into fantasy and like reading series, I recommend the following: 1) the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas (there are currently 5 books out, the sixth to come this September). It’s a really easy read, like you don’t have to focus much and it’s very entertaining, with really great characters, it gets better and better with each book and is super exciting, funny and just a joy to read. One of my all time favourite series everrrrr!2) Another series I love is The Paper Magican by Charlie N. Holmberg, three books, but really short ones, so a quick read and what I loved about those books was the magic system. Like it’s really different to the way magic is usually potrayed (you can do magic with paper, glass etc) and it has a really sweet love story and I usually hate love stories, but this one was really cute.3) Game of Thrones of course! But I don’t know how old you are and how much into reading. This series is honestly up there with Lord of the Rings, George R.R. Martin is a genius, but it’s A LOT to read and really really complex, with sooo many characters, so you really have to be up for that, otherwise I wouldn’t recommend it since it’s anything but an easy read.4) The Selection series. At first I didn’t think it would be something for me, since it looked really girly and all and that’s not so my style, but they were sooo good. It kinda reminded me of the show the Bachelor lol? I hate the Bachelor, so it’s not like this, don’t worry. The concept just reminded me of it. :D Like there is a prince who is supposed to marry and girls all over the country can sign up for it and then they “draw lots” and 35 of them get chosen and get to the palace and then he has to eliminate one by one, but that’s just one of the story lines, like there are rebel movements involved (it’s kinda a dystopian society) and it just all gets bigger and bigger, so yeah.5) An Ember in the Ashes by @sabaatahir, it was really hyped, so I was reluctant at first, but just a few pages in and I was hooked! Such a great series, I certainly recommend it! It’s a really brutal world, kinda inspired by Ancient Rome (?), but also by real events from our world today and you have two main characters from whose point of view the story is told, both on different “sides” of the political system portrayed in that world, but I don’t want to say more, just read what goodreads says lol, I’m so bad at explaining without giving anything away.6) Red Queen, loved it! It kinda reminded me of the Selection Series and it had this dystopian vibe about it again, but also this “palace atmosphere” (sorry, don’t know how to describe it, but some parts take place in a palace), I liked the main character a lot (also she’s a POC), there are currently two books out, but the third one will come out February 7th (the day I’m done with exams, what a great coincidence!).
7) If you’re into mythology, I recommend reading anything by Rick Riordan! He’s amazing, I loved the Percy Jackson series, you’ll learn a lot about Greek mythology, but in a super fun way, Percy is honestly hilarious, the entire series is and it’s super diverse, which is great and a super easy read, not complicated at all and I know so many who loved this series, no matter what age, so yeah!8) The Song of the Lioness Quartet! I stumbled across it when I was about 11 I think, total coincidence, someone had lost it in school and we never found the owner, so I read it and then went to get all the other books of the series. It’s about a young girl and her twin brother. He is supposed to become a knight and train at the palace of the king, she’s supposed to become a “lady”. But he’s much more into magic and she loves fighting, so they switch roles and she pretends to be a boy and goes to the palace and trains to become a knight and it’s honestly such an empowering story, especially for young girls to read, but also for grown women. He’s trainging to become a powerful magician and kinda gets on a bad path, but I won’t say more. It’s super fun to read!9) If you’re more into daker material, the Abhorsen series might be something for you! It’s quite dark and scary if I remember it correctly (i read it about 7 or more years ago), but sooo good! Really different from other fantasy in my opinion!
If you’re looking for a good biography and are into dance (which you probably are if you follow me), I can recommend Michaela De Prince’s biography, Taking Flight! It’s told beautifully and she talks not only about her hard childhood being a war orphan and all, but also about racism in the ballet world.Another biography I can recommend is about Sasha Cohen (if you’re into figure skating), she’s my favourite figure skater and her biography was super interesting to read!I don’t know many love stories and stand alones (i read so many series omg), but I can recommend The Siren, it’s a love story, really different from many books I’ve read. It took me some time to get into it, but when it did, I cried and laughed and just had so many feelings. It’s about a girl who became a siren and wasn’t allowed to use her voice in front of real people anymore, who lost her family to the see and had to “sing” ships into ruin about every 6 months killing all the people on it to feed the sea. It’s kinda a double love story, to a man and to the sea (strange, I know!). It’s really sweet and sad and different and a stand alone (not to big), so it’s certainly worth a try too! Oh and it’s by the same author as the Selection Series I recommended above, so if you like her style, she writes a lot!If you’re looking for good classics, I can recommend anything by Jane Austen honestly, her books are easy to read and super sweet love stories! Also Oscar Wilde if you’re a bit older and like a challenge and a good laugh (and are like me way to cynical in life).Okay so I could go on and on, but I probably already bored you to death and spammed all my followers, so sorry for that! If you need more, feel free to send another ask, it’s also easier for me if you tell me your favourite genre and what you like to read. I’ve mainly recommended fantasy now since that’s my favourite genre, but I’ve also read tons of other stuff, so I can certainly recommend more! ;)
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The Teleprompter Interview: Laura Carmichael ‘Doctor Who Used to Give Me Nightmares’
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Australian thriller The Secrets She Keeps, currently airing on BBC One and iPlayer, takes the audience to a very dark place says Laura Carmichael. Her character Agatha, a supermarket worker who befriends a pregnant blogger, ‘does such unbelievable things, the most irresponsible things’ driven ‘by the impulse of motherhood’.
Building a crime thriller around that impulse makes the series relatable, says Carmichael. At its heart, the show is about ‘wanting to be a mum and wanting to be the perfect mum.’ As her character’s backstory unfolds, ‘you understand her’ says Carmichael, though ‘she absolutely puts people through hell.’ Whether Agatha could ever be forgiven, she says, is a question for the audience to mull.
There’s no talk of a second series as yet for The Secret She Keeps. ‘It was taken from the book, which stands alone,’ Carmichael explains, ‘but it would be great to revisit and see what would happen.’
As the finale arrives in the US on streaming service Sundance Now, the Downton Abbey and The Spanish Princess actor talks Den of Geek through her TV obsessions and memories.
Which TV show inspired you to start your acting career?
I loved all of the Sunday afternoon BBC shows. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and all of the Narnia series, that we had on VHS. I loved Five Children and It and those classic dramas, mixed with MGM musicals. Those big productions always seemed like a dream. From a kid, I was very much spending Sunday afternoons in front of the TV.
What was your first TV love?
I remember loving Pride and Prejudice and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, they were the mad two worlds when I think about what I loved as a kid, watching lots of TV with my sisters.
Was there a TV character you wanted to be when you were little?
Deeply inappropriately as a child I remember being obsessed with Ab Fab. Before I knew anything about what they were talking about or what any of the jokes meant, I wanted to be Patsy and Eddie.
Have you ever done fancy dress as a TV character?
Yes, Ab Fab. We were around 10 or 11. I was Eddie, my younger sister was Patsy. I had a Kangol beret and had curled my hair and wore bright red lipstick with a 70s-style shirt with a crop top over it and a jazzy waistcoat. The outfit was so good, it was really perfect.
And there is photographic evidence which I have shown to Joanna Lumley when she came to do a charity event on Downton and we were able to recreate the pose.
What’s your current TV obsession?
I’m going to struggle to not answer every single question with I May Destroy You because of how brilliant that is. What Michaela Coel’s been able to do is so personal and yet it feels as though the world is just saying ‘yes!’ We are so tuned in to what she is saying and how she is saying it.
When did you last cry watching television?
This morning, watching the finale of I May Destroy You.
And when did you last laugh out loud watching television?
During lockdown, we’ve been watching lots of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We’ve gone the whole way through and back again. It’s just getting better and better as Larry David allows himself to go further and further into Larryisms, and it always makes me l-o-l. ‘Lol’ is a joke in the series, by the way! It really annoys Larry that this woman says l-o-l rather than laughing.
Which TV show has given you nightmares?
I’ve been watching The Sopranos again and I have been having gangster dreams. Because it’s the story of the family, it doesn’t always feel like it’s about violence but then it’ll catch you unawares and you’ll see someone be tipped into a river and I’ve definitely had one of those nightmares.
From childhood, there’s so many things. Doctor Who used to give me nightmares, anything with weird sound effects. Also the film The Water Babies, it’s really creepy. It’s about a kid who drowns and then becomes a water baby and it’s terrifying.
What was the last TV show you recommended to someone?
I really loved Shrill with the brilliant actress Aidy Bryant who’s in lots of Saturday Night Live, and also Lolly Adefope, who I think is hysterical. You can watch it on BBC iPlayer. It’s another great female-led comedy show, very relatable and very funny. Also I’m always telling people to watch Stath Lets Flats, which I think is just genius. This Country, amazing. When you’re doing some heavy drama in the day I really like switching off and just laughing my head off.
Older comedies, French and Saunders again, I have fangirled over them and am a huge fan of their work. Smack the Pony when I was growing up was such a huge thing for me. They were so cool and sexy. When you think of Britpop and cool 90s, I do think of those girls. Sally Phillips is so funny. I have done a comedy film with her and she was very gracious about the fact that I was supposed to throw something at her head and not hit her but I hit her square in the head with a baby monitor and she was so lovely about it! I always cringe when I remember that.
Which TV show have you never seen that everybody keeps nagging you to watch?
I have not seen Breaking Bad, which is terrible. This is a confession.
Straight to prison!
It’s really bad, I know. I find dramas really consuming, and that feels like going into something quite intense and stressful. That’s one I’m working up to.
Which TV theme songs do you know the words to?
I guess that would be The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Does it come out at parties?
Only after several beers.
Is there a TV show from your back catalogue that you think deserves a wider audience?
I really did love Man in an Orange Shirt which was out a few years ago on the BBC. I’m in it a bit, but it’s about these two guys that fall in love during the Second World War and have this amazing love story. You see the characters and their families later and see how it’s affected them. It’s a really beautiful piece of writing and really amazing performances from James McArdle and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Given the power, which TV show would you commission?
A tricky one. I think it might have to be something to do with dogs. I have a hilarious Jack Russell and since getting him, I find myself watching more dog programmes because I get a kick out of him watching it as well, so maybe just a Dogs Behaving Badly compilation.
What was the most fun you’ve had making television?
Oh man. Probably the finale of Downton. It was a real riot because it was the end of a really happy job. The day that we shot [Michelle Dockery] Mary’s wedding to Matthew Goode, it was really sunny and there wasn’t lots of dialogue or a lot of heavy lifting but everyone was in. I’ve got lots of funny photos on my phone of Michelle and Matthew just messing around. We were just all being quite silly and giddy, sitting in the gardens laughing our heads off. That’s a very happy memory.
The Secrets She Keeps is available to stream on Sundance Now and BBC iPlayer
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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews
I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger.
The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.
Liz Brownlee
is a National Poetry Day Ambassador, A School Patron of Reading, and does readings and workshops in schools, performs at literary festivals and libraries etc., and organises poetry events.
Her other books are Reaching the Stars, Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls, Liz Brownlee, Jan Dean and Michaela Morgan, Macmillan, The Same inside, Poems About Empathy and Friendship, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens, Macmillan, Apes to Zebras, An A-Z of Animal Shape Poems, Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson and Roger Stevens, Bloomsbury, and Be the Change, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow, and Roger Stevens, Macmillan.
Wombwell Rainbow Interviews
1. What inspired you to write poetry?
I’d been writing stories for my local primary school, and a friend suggested I should go on a writing course. I can’t drive, and when some time later she said she had to go on a creative writing course and would I like to go with her, I accepted. Then, when someone else we got to know there turned out to live near enough to give me a lift, she dropped out. Her creative writing enthusiasm was really a ruse to get me there (I have some very good friends).
The (luckily) excellent tutor said the first thing I wrote showed I was a poet. Subsequent writing did seem to confirm this, and I enjoyed it. I wrote my first children’s poem there about my son, who stuffed his pockets full of all sorts of things, which ended up in the washing machine.
Then the second friend asked me if I’d like to accompany her to Bath Uni for a course and gave me the list of courses to choose from. One was for children’s poets, run by children’s poet Mike Johnson, serendipitously on the same day and at the same time as the course she was doing. He sent off some of my course poems with his to poet anthologists and I was published (thanks, Mike!). In fact, that first poem I wrote was my second to be published. When my first poem was published, my mum gave me a box from her attic – it was called ‘Lizzy’s kiddy drawings and poems.’ I’d forgotten all about my earlier efforts!
2. Who introduced you to poetry?
Poetry was everywhere when we were little. There were always children’s pages in all the newspapers, with puzzles, cartoons, crosswords and poems. My first poetry book was called Jolly Jingles, read to my brother and I often by my mum and dad, and I still have it. Children’s annuals always contained poetry – Treasure Annual introduced me to Edward Lear’s The Pobble, who drank lavender water tinged with pink, and who lost all his toes swimming in the Bristol Channel – very glamorous and slightly unsettling to a child who was born in Bristol. R L Stevenson’s From a Railway Carriage was wonderful to charge around quoting – who could not fall in love with the rhythm of Faster than fairies, faster than witches/Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches! AND – my favourite poem read in childhood, Overheard on a Saltmarsh by Harold Munro, which still sends shivers up and down my arms.
At Grammar School, we had a wonderful English teacher (who is still alive), who read us delights to tingle spines and make us breathless, such as The Listeners by Walter De la Mare, and Tarantella by Hillaire Belloc. Other poets were introduced by the O and A Level curriculum.
3. What is your daily writing routine?
I get up. Have breakfast. Do some Tweeting and any blog work that needs done, and round about 11 when I have finally woken up after a coffee I start researching, or writing, depending what stage I’m at. It takes a while to get into the writing. Lots of false starts. Lots of deleting and starting again in a different form or style or pace or angle. If I’m deeply into a project of writing I will start that straight away and carry on, my husband comes home around 7, and I’m still at it, and I often continue through the evening, because once I have got going, I find it hard to stop. The final poem may not be the final poem. Sometimes it takes a few weeks or months of tweaking. Sometimes you just know that is it.
4. What motivates you to write?
Enjoyment.
5. What is your work ethic?
Write the truth.
6. How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?
I loved animals and read a lot of animal books, Gerald Durrell, James Herriot, and lots of non-fiction facts about animals. I write a lot of animal poetry. But I also read a LOT of fiction, very eclectically, favourites being Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov, all Brontës, Jane Austen, John Wyndham, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Böll, J R Tolkein, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula Le Guin, Enid Blyton, J Meade Faulkner, Marjorie Rawlings (never read the Yearling again, too sad!) E Nesbitt, Alan Garner, C S Lewis … my parents did not censor anything. I made no distinction between adult or children’s books and read them both, and have done ever since. I think everything you read influences you and feeds into the rhythms in your mind that you can source to create.
7. Which writers do you admire the most and why?
I don’t admire anyone the most. How can you? People are so different, writers are so different, you read them all for different experiences. I can tell you my favourite books – To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (we read this at school, and my teacher let me keep my copy as she could see I was having hard time handing it back!), Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut Jr The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall, Cancer Ward, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Time Must Have a Stop, Aldous Huxley, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, The Chrysalids, John Wyndham, Helen Dunmore and Bill Bryson always, and anything by Paul Auster, Tim Winton and Raymond Chandler, those spare prose styles I find delicious, I Robot Isaac Asimov, oh, I can’t write them all – anything that makes me laugh.
Poets? Let’s just say I try and read everything I can get my hands on. Particular favourites, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, Leonard Cohen, Pablo Neruda. Children’s poets? I read them ALL. Lots are my friends. I have my favourites but I’m not saying.
9. Why do you write, as opposed to doing anything else?
My brain flits. Poetry fits the flits.
10. What would you say to someone who asked you “How do you become a writer?”
Read a lot. Write a lot. Go to a writing class. Never expect to finish learning how to write.
11. Tell me about the writing projects you have on at the moment.
My newest book, just out, is Be the Change, Poems to Help You Save the World. I was noticing and reading that children are worried about the continuous feed of worrying information about the climate crisis. They are powerless, and that makes them feel more scared. The poems in the book, which I’ve written with Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens, address most of the 17 UN sustainability goals, and each poem has little tips at the end, which give a child small ways of helping the climate themselves. Having something constructive to do helps with anxiety. And I believe that if we all pull together, we can save the world. Here is the last poem in the book:
Snow
Swirling slowly
in lilting flight,
as cold as stars,
the soundless white
of drifting feathers
spreading wings,
to sing the songs
that snowflakes sing,
of how small gifts
of peace and light
can change the world
in just one night.
>© Liz Brownlee
I’ve also just handed in a book of shape poems about people who have shaped the world – this is an anthology and my first project as an editor. I thoroughly enjoyed this process!
I’m busy writing for another few books, but it’s too soon to mention those – but it is true that I am never happier than when ‘ping’ I suddenly ‘get’ how to shape the words I want into a poem, or how to shape the words I’ve already written into a shape poem, or when I’m shaping poems into a book.
12. Do you do anything other than write children’s poetry?
I used to draw a lot. If I’m not writing I have strong urges to do something else creative – draw, sew, make something! But if I’m not writing, and even when I am writing, I run several websites and Twitter accounts. I have my own blog which I add to fairly often (http://www,lizbrownleepoet.com), and Poetry Roundabout (http://www.poetryroundabout.com), a website on which I post anything and everything to do with children’s poetry, there is an A-Z of current children’s poets, I’m doing a series of famous children’s poets and their favourite children’s poetry books at the minute, and I also post reviews, information for poets and people who love poetry, poetry news and competitions etc. I believe supporting children’s poets and poetry helps us all. Then there’s my Twitter – https://twitter.com/Lizpoet
I also post the blogs on the Children’s Poetry Summit blog (https://childrenspoetrysummit.com/) and run that Twitter account, https://twitter.com/kidspoetsummit
And last but not least, I walk my assistance dog, Lola.
Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Liz Brownlee Wombwell Rainbow Interviews I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me.
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Natalie Morales shows off her bartending skills on ‘Abby’s’
Abby’s | Thursday, 9:30 p.m., NBC The bar within the NBC sitcom “Abby’s” differs a bit from the one within the community’s 1982-93 hit “Cheers.” The setting is an unlawful yard speakeasy run by an ex-Marine named Abby (Natalie Morales), not a neighborhood hangout owned by a former professional ballplayer named Sam (performed by Ted Danson); it’s based mostly in San Diego, not Boston; and in a primary for a sitcom it’s filmed open air — not indoors — in entrance of a stay viewers at Common Studios in LA. (Taping takes place within the Wisteria Lane yard of “Determined Housewives” character Edie Britt, who was performed by Nicolette Sheridan in that 2004-12 ABC collection.) Within the comedy, Abby affords low-cost drinks and witty banter to a parade of neighbors like retiree Fred (Neil Flynn, “The Center”) and frazzled mother Beth (Jessica Chaffin, “Massive Mouth”), beneath the worrisome eyes of her landlord, Invoice (Nelson Franklin, “Black-ish”). Collection star Morales, 34, spoke with The Submit on Tuesday earlier than heading to her first-ever late-night discuss present look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Why did Abby resolve to start out a yard bar? She acquired sick of individuals telling her what to do, which I can relate to. It simply occurred organically in that individuals began coming over and she or he was like, “Are you able to kick some cash into this?” after which it simply was one thing she actually loved and a house she may present for individuals. Is she filling an emotional void? I’m certain — yeah. Her group of mates actually fills that; that’s her household. How totally different is it to movie a sitcom exterior? It’s actually enjoyable, however a bizarre factor. It form of feels such as you’re doing Shakespeare within the Park, however extra necessary and longer-lasting, I suppose. Extra time-tested. How do you cope with outside noise? The great factor is we’re not attempting to cover that we’re exterior, so if there’s wind or a shadow or a chook chirping, we embrace it. Nevertheless, when there’s an ambulance or helicopter, then you’ll be able to’t hear — that you must await. Each infrequently, a skunk will stroll throughout the set and everyone has to remain very nonetheless. That truly occurred? Did it go away an odor behind? It didn’t go away something behind. They don’t mess with you if you happen to don’t mess with them. It simply went alongside its merry means. Have you ever beforehand been a bartender your self? I certain have. I bartended at a number of locations in LA and Miami for fairly a while as a result of it’s sometimes a great job that’s form of versatile and doesn’t at all times intrude with auditioning. Have been you good at it? I used to be a wonderful bartender! You will notice my skills if you happen to watch the present. There’s not drink that I make that doesn’t embrace all of the components which can be truly how I’d make it. Is there any actual booze within the bar? No, no — that might impede our potential to behave. It’s nonalcoholic beer that comes out of the spouts. Although we now have been recognized to have an after-party or two and hook up an actual keg. Do you’ve a least favourite drink to make? A Lengthy Island iced tea — it’s simply gross, throwing as many alternative sorts of alcohol as yow will discover in a glass. There’s no creativity and it’s simply gonna get whomever I’m giving it to wasted. [Laughs.] There’s no pleasure in that. How usually do you get confused with NBC’s “At this time” present anchor Natalie Morales? Always! I’ll examine Twitter within the morning and somebody will say, “Hey, your legs look nice as we speak.” And I’ve to do not forget that somebody’s not in my partitions and it’s simply that they’re watching the “At this time” present. — Eric Hegedüs And right here’s what else to look at this week: What We Do within the Shadows | Wednesday, 10 p.m., FX Collection premiere. Right here’s a shopworn matter a couple of collection: vampires. The novelty right here is that these bloodsuckers stay in Staten Island. Nandor (Kayvan Novak) is a superb warrior who has taken the helm of the group. Laszlo is a lover of mischief and an incredible soirée, however not as a lot as he loves seeing Nandor fail miserably in each try. Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) is the vampiric Bonnie to Laszlo’s Clyde. Her provocative tales from occasions previous enable us perception into the numerous ups and downs of dwelling an immortal life. [embedded content] The Village | Tuesay, 10 p.m., NBC Sarah (Michaela McManus ) uncovers extra of Katie’s (Grace Van Dien) secret and confronts Nick (Warren Christie). In the meantime, Enzo (Dominic Chianese) struggles with a disappointing new roommate and Ava (Moran Atias) makes progress with her case. The Repair | Monday, 10 p.m., ABC Maya (Robin Tunney) and Matthew (Adam Rayner) get hold of a search warrant to comb Sevvy’s (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) home for something which may result in an arrest as Wiest (Breckin Meyer ) pressures them to construct a case rapidly. In the meantime, Ezra (Scott Cohen) performs injury management on Sevvy’s picture and finds a brand new suspect to take the eye off of his consumer. Black-ish | Tuesday, 9 p.m., ABC After Kyra’s (Quvenzhané Wallis) estranged father, Perry (Katt Williams), shows as much as deliver her residence to Houston, Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Bow (Tracee Ellis-Ross) work to point out him the wonderful life they will present for her. Saturday Evening Stay | Saturday, 11:35 p.m., NBC Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh hosts prematurely of the April 7 premiere of “Killing Eve.” The musical visitor is Tame Impala. Empire | Wednesday, eight p.m., Fox Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) is obtainable a profession game-changer which may jeopardize her future within the household enterprise. In the meantime, Jamal (Jussie Smollett ) works diligently to attempt to make Tiana (Serayah McNeill) and Treasure’s (Katlynn Simone) observe successful. Lucious (Terrence Howard ) and Cookie deliberate over Hakeem’s (Bryshere Grey) future plans at Empire. Hanna | Friday, Amazon Collection premiere. A TV model of the teenage murderer film that starred Saoirse Ronan again within the day. Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos of “The Killing” are reunited (and it felt so good) within the collection which stars Esme Creed-Miles within the title function. the journey of a unprecedented younger lady raised within the forest, as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the reality behind who she is. [embedded content] Share this: https://nypost.com/2019/03/22/natalie-morales-shows-off-her-bartending-skills-on-abbys/ The post Natalie Morales shows off her bartending skills on ‘Abby’s’ appeared first on My style by Kartia.
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Sundance 2019 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Last year’s Sundance Film Festival launched movies like “Sorry to Bother You,” “Hereditary,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” “Leave No Trace,” “Wildlife,” “On Her Shoulders,” “Eighth Grade,” “Mandy,” “Shirkers” and so much more. So it’s with great excitement we present the roster for the next batch of movies that have the festival’s approval, a type of sneak peek at what the film scene will be like in 2019.
It’s a massive list of 112 features, with more titles to be announced leading up to the fest. But at a glance, there are such enticing projects as “Late Night,” written by and starring Mindy Kaling (directed by Nisha Ganatra), a new film from “Swiss Army Man” co-director Daniel Scheinert (“The Death of Dick Long”), an art-house thriller from “Nightcrawler” writer/director Tony Gilroy starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette and John Malkovich (“Velvet Buzzsaw”), the directorial debut of Chiwetel Ejiofor (“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”), the latest from “Gook” writer/director Justin Chon (“Ms. Purple”), the latest from “Land Ho!” director Martha Stephens (“To the Stars”) and a modern adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” starring Ashton Sanders of “Moonlight” (directed by Rashid Johnson).
And those are just some of the narrative features; in the documentary category, there are films about Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (“Knock Down the House”), Roy Cohn (“Where’s My Roy Cohn?”), Dr. Ruth (“Ask Dr. Ruth”), David Crosby (“David Crosby: Remember My Name”), Stieg Larsson (“Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire,”, Anton Yelchin (“Love, Antosha”), Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen (“Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love”, Miles Davis (“Miles Davis: Birth of Cool”), Harvey Weinstein (“Untouchable”), and the Satanic Temple (“Hail Satan”).
A complete listing of the newly announced titles (straight from the press release) can be found below.
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Wildlife, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You, The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Swiss Army Man. 53% of the directors in this year’s U.S. Dramatic Competition are women; 41% are people of color; 18% identify as LGBTQIA+.
Before You Know It / U.S.A. (Director: Hannah Pearl Utt, Screenwriters: Hannah Pearl Utt, Jen Tullock, Producers: Mallory Schwartz, Josh Hetzler, James Brown) — A long-kept family secret thrusts codependent, thirty-something sisters Rachel and Jackie Gurner into a literal soap opera. A journey that proves that you really can come of age, at any age. Cast: Hannah Pearl Utt, Jen Tullock, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin, Mike Colter, Alec Baldwin. World Premiere
Big Time Adolescence
Big Time Adolescence / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jason Orley, Producers: Jeremy Garelick, Mickey Liddell, Pete Shiliamon, Mason Novick, Will Phelps) — A suburban teenager comes of age under the destructive guidance of his best friend, a charismatic college dropout. Cast: Pete Davidson, Griffin Gluck, Jon Cryer, Sydney Sweeney, Emily Arlook, Colson Baker. World Premiere
Brittany Runs A Marathon / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Paul Downs Colaizzo, Producers: Matthew Plouffe, Tobey Maguire, Margot Hand) — A woman living in New York takes control of her life – one city block at a time. Cast: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery, Micah Stock, Alice Lee. World Premiere
Clemency / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Chinonye Chukwu, Producers: Bronwyn Cornelius, Julian Cautherley, Peter Wong, Timur Bekbosunov) — Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Richard Gunn, Danielle Brooks. World Premiere
The Farewell / U.S.A.,China (Director and screenwriter: Lulu Wang, Producers: Daniele Melia, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano, Anita Gou) — A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family’s decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time. Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo. World Premiere
Hala
Hala / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Minhal Baig, Producers: Clarence Hammond, Jamal Watson, Minhal Baig) — Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own. Cast: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi, Azad Khan, Anna Chlumsky. World Premiere
Honey Boy / U.S.A. (Director: Alma Har'el, Screenwriter: Shia LaBeouf, Producers: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Anita Gou, Christopher Leggett, Alma Har'el) — A child TV star and his ex-rodeo clown father face their stormy past through time and cinema. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe. World Premiere
Imaginary Order / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Debra Eisenstadt, Producers: Debra Eisenstadt, Cosmos Kiindarius) — The sexual, psychological and moral unraveling of an obsessive-compulsive suburban mom. Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Christine Woods, Max Burkholder, Steve Little, Catherine Curtin, Kate Alberts. World Premiere
The Last Black Man in San Francisco / U.S.A. (Director: Joe Talbot, Screenwriters: Joe Talbot, Rob Richert, Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh, Khaliah Neal, Joe Talbot) — Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. Cast: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Danny Glover. World Premiere
Luce
Luce / U.S.A. (Director: Julius Onah, Screenwriters: JC Lee, Julius Onah, Producers: John Baker, Julius Onah, Andrew Yang) — A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student. Cast: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz. World Premiere
Ms. Purple / U.S.A. (Director: Justin Chon, Screenwriters: Justin Chon, Chris Dinh, Producer: Alex Chi, Justin Chon) — Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death. Cast: Tiffany Chu, Teddy Lee, Octavio Pizano, James Kang. World Premiere
Native Son / U.S.A. (Director: Rashid Johnson, Screenwriter: Suzan-Lori Parks, Producers: Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman) — In this modern reimagining of Richard Wright’s seminal novel, a young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever. Cast: Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne, Bill Camp, Sanaa Lathan. World Premiere. DAY ONE
Share / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Pippa Bianco, Producers: Carly Hugo, Tyler Byrne, Matt Parker) — After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout. Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan, J.C. MacKenzie, Nick Galitzine, Lovie Simone. World Premiere
The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence / U.S.A. (Director: Michael Tyburski, Screenwriters: Ben Nabors, Michael Tyburski, Producers: Ben Nabors, Michael Prall, Tariq Merhab, Charlie Scully, Mandy Tagger Brockey, Adi Ezroni) — A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori, Austin Pendleton. World Premiere
Them That Follow / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage, Producers: Bradley Gallo, Michael Helfant, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Danielle Robinson) — Inside a snake-handling church deep in Appalachia, a forbidden relationship forces a pastor’s daughter to confront her community’s deadly tradition. Cast: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann. World Premiere
To The Stars / U.S.A. (Director: Martha Stephens, Screenwriter: Shannon Bradley-Colleary, Producers: Kristin Mann, Laura D. Smith, Erik Rommesmo) — Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma. Cast: Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman, Tony Hale. World Premiere
Always in Season
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people and events that shape the present day. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Three Identical Strangers, On Her Shoulders, Cartel Land and City of Gold. 44% of the directors in this year’s U.S. Documentary Competition are women; 22% are people of color; 5% identify as LGBTQIA+.
Always in Season / U.S.A. (Director: Jacqueline Olive) — When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins as the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present. World Premiere
American Factory / U.S.A. (Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Producers: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello) — In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. World Premiere
APOLLO 11 / U.S.A. (Director: Todd Douglas Miller, Producers: Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Petersen, Evan Krauss) — A purely archival reconstruction of humanity’s first trip to another world, featuring never-before-seen 70mm footage and never-before-heard audio from the mission. World Premiere
Bedlam / U.S.A. (Director: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Producers: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Peter Miller) — A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind one of the greatest social crises of our time. A personal and intense journey into the world of the seriously mentally ill. World Premiere
David Crosby: Remember My Name / U.S.A. (Director: A.J. Eaton, Producers: Cameron Crowe, Michele Farinola, Greg Mariotti) — You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, Crosby shares his often challenging journey. World Premiere
Hail Satan / U.S.A. (Director: Penny Lane, Producer: Gabriel Sedgwick) — A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation’s soul. But are they for real? World Premiere
Jawline / U.S.A. (Director: Liza Mandelup, Producers: Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Hannah Reyer) — The film follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee. World Premiere
Knock Down the House
Knock Down the House / U.S.A. (Director: Rachel Lears, Producers: Sarah Olson, Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears) — A young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. One of their races will become the most shocking political upset in recent American history. Cast: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. World Premiere
Midnight Family / Mexico, U.S.A. (Director: Luke Lorentzen, Producers: Kellen Quinn, Daniela Alatorre, Elena Fortes) — In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As they try to make a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care. World Premiere
Mike Wallace Is Here / U.S.A. (Director: Avi Belkin, Producers: Rafael Marmor, John Battsek, Peggy Drexler, Avi Belkin, Christopher Leggett) — For over half a century, 60 Minutes’ fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world’s most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike’s storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point. World Premiere
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements / U.S.A. (Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky, Producers: Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tahria Sheather) — A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. World Premiere
One Child Nation
One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. (Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Producers: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christoph Jörg, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn) — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment. World Premiere
Pahokee / U.S.A. (Directors: Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, Producers: Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, Maida Lynn) — In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year. World Premiere
TIGERLAND / U.S.A. (Director: Ross Kauffman, Producers: Fisher Stevens, Xan Parker, Zara Duffy) — 50 years ago, a young forest officer in India rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the creed is carried on in Far East Russia by the guardians of the last Siberian tigers, who risk everything to save the species. World Premiere
Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ben Berman, Producers: Miranda Bailey, Ben Berman, Russell Groves, Amanda Marshall, Jacob Perlin) — What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician -- "The Amazing Johnathan" -- becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion. Cast: Johnathan Szeles. World Premiere
Where's My Roy Cohn? / U.S.A. (Director: Matt Tyrnauer, Producers: Matt Tyrnauer , Corey Reeser, Marie Brenner, Andrea Lewis) — Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues – from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare. World Premiere
Dirty God
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents around the world offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Yardie, The Nile Hilton Incident, Second Mother, Berlin Syndrome and The Lure.
Dirty God / Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland (Director: Sacha Polak, Screenwriters: Sacha Polak, Susanne Farrell, Producers: Marleen Slot, Michael Elliott) — Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life. Cast: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-Girard, Rebecca Stone, Bluey Robinson, Dana Marienci. International Premiere
Divine Love / Brazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway (Director: Gabriel Mascaro, Screenwriters: Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra, Producer: Rachel Daisy Ellis) — Brazil, 2027. A deeply religious woman uses her position in a notary’s office to advance her mission to save struggling couples from divorce. Whilst waiting for a sign in recognition of her efforts, she's confronted with a crisis in her own marriage that ultimately brings her closer to God. Cast: Dira Praes, Julio Machado, Emilio de Melo, Teca Pereira, Mariana Nunes, Thalita Carauta. World Premiere
Dolce Fine Giornata / Poland (Director: Jacek Borcuch, Screenwriters: Jacek Borcuch, Szczepan Twardoch, Producer: Marta Habior) — In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and eroding democracy. Cast: Krystyna Janda, Katarzyna Smutniak, Vincent Riotta, Antonio Catania, Lorenzo de Moor, Robin Renucci. World Premiere
Judy & Punch / Australia (Director and screenwriter: Mirrah Foulkes, Producers: Michele Bennett, Nash Edgerton, Danny Gabai) — In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge. Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Tom Budge, Benedict Hardie, Lucy Velik, Terry Norris. World Premiere
Koko-di Koko-da / Sweden, Denmark (Director and screenwriter: Johannes Nyholm, Producer: Johannes Nyholm) — As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. Cast: Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Peter Belli, Katarina Jacobson. World Premiere
The Last Tree / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Shola Amoo, Producers: Lee Thomas, Myf Hopkins) — Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take. Cast: Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Tai Golding. World Premiere
Monos / Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay (Director: Alejandro Landes, Screenwriters: Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos, Producers: Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes) — On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias, Sofia Buenaventura, Deibi Rueda, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón. World Premiere
Queen of Hearts / Denmark (Director: May el-Toukhy, Screenwriters: Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy, Producers: Caroline Blanco, René Ezra) — A woman jeopardizes both her career and her family when she seduces her teenage stepson and is forced to make an irreversible decision with fatal consequences. Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper. World Premiere
The Sharks / Uruguay, Argentina, Spain (Director and screenwriter: Lucía Garibaldi, Producers: Pancho Magnou Arnábal, Isabel García) — While a rumor about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's. Cast: Romina Bentancur, Federico Morosini, Fabián Arenillas, Valeria Lois, Antonella Aquistapache. World Premiere
The Souvenir
The Souvenir / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Joanna Hogg, Producers: Luke Schiller, Joanna Hogg) — A quiet film student begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton. World Premiere
This is not Berlin / Mexico (Director: Hari Sama, Screenwriters: Rodrigo Ordóñez, Hari Sama, Max Zunino, Producers: Ale García, Antonio Urdapilleta, Hari Sama, Verónica Valadez P.) — 1986, Mexico City. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs. Cast: Xabiani Ponce de León, José Antonio Toledano, Ximena Romo, Mauro Sánchez Navarro, Klaudia García, Marina de Tavira. World Premiere
WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES / Japan (Director and screenwriter: Makoto Nagahisa, Producers: Shinichi Takahashi, Tahei Tamanishi, Haruki Yokoyama, Haruhiko Hasegawa) — Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions. Cast: Keita Ninomiya, Satoshi Mizuno, Mondo Okumura, Sena Nakajima. World Premiere
Advocate
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Shirkers, This is Home, Motherland, Last Men in Aleppo and Hooligan Sparrow.
Advocate / Israel, Canada, Switzerland (Directors: Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaïche, Producers: Philippe Bellaïche, Rachel Leah Jones, Paul Cadieux, Joelle Bertossa) Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years, Tsemel, in her tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits. World Premiere
Cold Case Hammarskjold / Denmark (Director: Mads Brügger, Producers: Peter Engel, Andreas Rocksén, Bjarte M. Tveit) — Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Bjorkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjold. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations. World Premiere
Untitled Brazil Documentary / Brazil (Director and screenwriter: Petra Costa, Producers: Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan) — A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis - the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains. World Premiere
The Disappearance of My Mother / Italy (Director and screenwriter: Beniamino Barrese, Producer: Filippo Macelloni) — An aging fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze. World Premiere
Gaza
Gaza / Ireland (Directors: Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell, Producers: Brendan J. Byrne, Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell, Paul Cadieux) — Gaza brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict. World Premiere
Honeyland / Macedonia (Directors: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Producer: Atanas Georgiev) — When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland's basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance. World Premiere
Lapü / Colombia (Directors: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes, Screenwriters: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes, María Canela Reyes, Producer: Julián David Quintero) — In the middle of the Guajira Desert, Doris, a young Wayuu woman, exhumes her cousin's remains in order to meet her for the last time. Through a sensory journey this ritual leads her to confront death and blend the world of the dreams with the world of the living. Cast: Doris González Jusayú, Carmen González Jusayú. World Premiere
The Magic Life of V / Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria (Director: Tonislav Hristov, Screenwriters: Tonislav Hristov, Kaarle Aho, Producers: Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg) — Haunted by childhood traumas, Veera is trying to become more independent through live roleplaying. As she guides herself and her mentally-challenged brother through worlds of multiple roles and identities, witches and wizards, she finds the courage to face the demons of her own past and her abusive father's legacy. World Premiere
Midnight Traveler / U.S.A., Qatar, United Kingdom, Canada (Director: Hassan Fazili, Screenwriter: Emelie Mahdavian, Producers: Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim) — When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run. World Premiere
Sea of Shadows / Austria (Director: Richard Ladkani, Producers: Walter Koehler, Wolfgang Knoepfler) —The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multimillion-dollar business. World Premiere
Shooting the Mafia / Ireland (Director: Kim Longinotto, Producer: Niamh Fagan) — Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first pointed her camera at a brutally slain victim. Documenting the Cosa Nostra's barbaric rule, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes. Her photographs, art, and bravery helped to bring an end to a shocking reign of slaughter. World Premiere
Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played With Fire / Sweden (Director and screenwriter: Henrik Georgsson, Producers: Mattias Nohrborg, Fredrik Heinig) — A documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis, an obsession with fatal consequences. International Premiere
Adam
NEXT Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program. Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape a "greater" next wave in American cinema. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Searching, Skate Kitchen, A Ghost Story and Tangerine. NEXT presented by Adobe.
Adam / U.S.A. (Director: Rhys Ernst, Screenwriter: Ariel Schrag, Producers: Howard Gertler, James Schamus) — Awkward teenager Adam arrives to spend his final high school summer with his older sister, who has thrown herself into New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. Over the summer, Adam and those around him experience love, friendship, and attendant hard truths in this coming-of-age comedy. Cast: Nicholas Alexander, India Menuez, Leo Sheng, Chloe Levine, Margaret Qualley. World Premiere
Give Me Liberty / U.S.A. (Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky, Screenwriters: Alice Austen, Kirill Mikhanovsky, Producers: Alice Austen, George Rush, Walter S. Hall, Michael Manasseri, Sergey Shtern, Val Abel) — When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS. Cast: Lauren "Lolo" Spencer, Chris Galust, Maksim Stoyanov, Darya Ekamasova. World Premiere
Light From Light / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Paul Harrill, Producers: James M. Johnston, Kelly Williams, Toby Halbrooks, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Headington, Theresa Page) — Shelia, a single mom and sometime paranormal investigator, is enlisted to investigate a possible “haunting” at a widower’s farmhouse in East Tennessee. Cast: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Wiggins, Atheena Frizzell, David Cale. World Premiere
Paradise Hills
Paradise Hills / Spain, U.S.A. (Director: Alice Waddington, Screenwriters: Nacho Vigalondo, Brian DeLeeuw, Producers: Adrian Guerra, Núria Valls) — A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret. Cast: Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Eiza González, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Irvine. World Premiere
Premature / U.S.A. (Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green, Screenwriters: Rashaad Ernesto Green, Zora Howard, Producers: Joy Ganes, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Darren Dean) — The summer before she leaves for college, Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah; her entire world is turned upside down as she navigates the demanding terrain of young love against a changing Harlem landscape. Cast: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone, Michelle Wilson, Alexis Marie Wint, Imani Lewis, Tashiana Washington. World Premiere
Selah and the Spades / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tayarisha Poe, Producers: Lauren McBride, Lucas Joaquin, Drew Houpt, Tayarisha Poe, Jill Ahrens) — Five factions run the underground life of the prestigious Haldwell boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction - The Spades - sits Selah Summers. By turns charming and callous, she chooses whom to keep close and whom to cut loose, walking the fine line between being feared and loved. Cast: Lovie Simone, Celeste O'Connor, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres, Jesse Williams. World Premiere
Sister Aimee / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann, Producers: Bettina Barrow, David Hartstein, Katherine Harper) — In 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up. Cast: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Michael Mosley, Andrea Suarez Paz, Julie White, Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves. World Premiere
The Death of Dick Long
The Death of Dick Long / U.S.A. (Director: Daniel Scheinert, Screenwriter: Billy Chew, Producers: Jonathan Wang, Daniel Scheinert) — Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama. Cast: Michael Abbott Jr., Virginia Newcomb, Andre Hyland, Sarah Baker, Jess Weixler. World Premiere
The Infiltrators / U.S.A. (Directors: Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra, Screenwriters: Alex Rivera, Aldo Velasco, Producers: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera, Darren Dean) — A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center. Cast: Maynor Alvarado, Manuel Uriza, Chelsea Rendon, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Vik Sahay. World Premiere
The Wolf Hour / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Alistair Banks Griffin, Producers: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Bailey Conway Anglewicz, Bradley Pilz) — Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June’s weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel. Cast: Naomi Watts, Emory Cohen, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr. World Premiere
After the Wedding
PREMIERES A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, Boyhood and Mudbound.
After The Wedding / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Bart Freundlich, Producers: Joel B. Michaels, Harry Finkel) — Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film by Susanne Bier. Cast: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup, Abby Quinn. World Premiere. DAY ONE
Animals / United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia (Director: Sophie Hyde, Screenwriter: Emma Jane Unsworth, Producers: Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, Cormac Fox, Sophie Hyde) — After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler's friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on her novel. A snapshot of a modern woman with competing desires, at once a celebration of female friendship and an examination of the choices we make when facing a crossroads.Cast: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat. World Premiere
Blinded by the Light
Blinded by the Light / United Kingdom (Director: Gurinder Chadha, Screenwriters: Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Producers: Gurinder Chadha, Jane Barclay, Jamal Daniel) — In 1987 during the austere days of Thatcher's Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen. Cast: Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir, Nell Williams, Aaron Phagura. World Premiere
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile / U.S.A. (Director: Joe Berlinger, Screenwriter: Michael Werwie, Producers: Michael Costigan, Nicolas Chartier, Ara Keshishian, Michael Simkin) — A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years. Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons. World Premiere
I Am Mother / Australia (Director: Grant Sputore, Screenwriter: Michael Lloyd Green, Producers: Timothy White, Kelvin Munro) — In the wake of humanity’s extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news. Cast: Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank. World Premiere
Late Night
Late Night / U.S.A. (Director: Nisha Ganatra, Screenwriter: Mindy Kaling, Producers: Ben Browning, Howard Klein, Jillian Apfelbaum, Mindy Kaling) — Legendary late-night talk show host’s world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline. Cast: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Paul Walter Hauser, Reid Scott, Amy Ryan. World Premiere
Official Secrets / United States, United Kingdom (Director: Gavin Hood, Screenwriters: Sara Bernstein, Gregory Bernstein, Gavin Hood, Producers: Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, Melissa Shiyu Zuo) — The true story of British Intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war. Cast: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Feinnes, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans. World Premiere
Photograph / India (Director and screenwriter: Ritesh Batra, Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani) — Two lives intersect in Mumbai and go along together. A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect. Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqi, Sanya Malhotra. World Premiere
Relive
Relive / U.S.A. (Director: Jacob Estes, Screenwriters: Jacob Estes, Drew Daywalt, Producers: Jason Blum, Bobby Cohen) —After a man’s family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He’s not sure if she’s a ghost or if he’s going mad — but as it turns out, he’s not. Instead, her calls help him rewrite history. Cast: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina, Bryan Tyree Henry. World Premiere
Sonja - The White Swan / Norway (Director: Anne Sewitsky, Screenwriters: Mette Marit Bølstad, Andreas Markusson, Producers: Cornelia Boysen, Synnøve Hørsdal) — The true story of one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who took Hollywood by storm in the 1930s, sacrificing everything to stay in the spotlight. Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Valene Kane, Eldar Skar, Anders Mordal, Pål Sverre Hagen, Aiden McArdle. International Premiere
The Mustang / U.S.A. (Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Screenwriters: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Mona Fastvold, Brock Norman Brock, Producer: Alain Goldman) — While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse. Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Connie Britton, Bruce Dern, Jason Mitchell, Gideon Adlon, Josh Stewart. World Premiere
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Producers: Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan) — Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the true story of William Kamkwamba. Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Lily Banda, Noma Dumezweni, Aissa Maiga, Joseph Marcell. World Premiere
The Report
The Report / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Scott Z. Burns, Producers: Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Fox, Scott Z. Burns, Danny Gabai, Eddy Moretti ) — The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden. Cast: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Maura Tierney, Michael C. Hall. World Premiere
The Sunlit Night / Germany, Norway (Director: David Wnendt, Screenwriter: Rebecca Dinerstein, Producers: Michael Clark, Alex Turtletaub, Gabrielle Nadig, Fabian Gasmia, Ruben Thorkildsen, Jenny Slate) — Between New York City and the far north of Norway, an American painter and a Russian émigré find each other in the Arctic circle. Together under a sun that never sets, they discover a future and family that they didn't know they had. Cast: Jenny Slate, Zach Galifianakis, Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, Fridjov Sáheim, David Paymer. World Premiere
The Tomorrow Man / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Noble Jones, Producers: Luke Rivett, Nicolaas Bertelsen, James Schamus, Tony Lipp) — Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff. Cast: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil, Katie Aselton, Sophie Thatcher, Eve Harlow. World Premiere
Top End Wedding / Australia (Director: Wayne Blair, Screenwriters: Joshua Tyler, Miranda Tapsell, Producers: Rosemary Blight, Kylie du Fresne, Kate Croser) — Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding. Cast: Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee, Kerry Fox, Huw Higginson, Ursula Yovich, Shari Sebbens. World Premiere
Troupe Zero
Troupe Zero / U.S.A. (Director: Bert & Bertie, Screenwriter: Lucy Alibar, Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Alex Siskin, Viola Davis) — In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond. Cast: Viola Davis, Mckenna Grace, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Epps, Charlie Shotwell, Allison Janney. World Premiere
Velvet Buzzsaw / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Dan Gilroy, Producer: Jennifer Fox) — A thriller set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer. World Premiere
Ask Dr. Ruth
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES Renowned filmmakers and films about far-reaching subjects comprise this section highlighting our ongoing commitment to documentaries. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, RBG, An Inconvenient Sequel, The Hunting Groundand Going Clear.
Ask Dr. Ruth / U.S.A. (Director: Ryan White, Producers: Rafael Marmor, Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Christopher Leggett) — A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution. World Premiere
Halston / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Frédéric Tcheng, Producers: Roland Ballester, Frédéric Tcheng, Stephanie Levy, Paul Dallas) — From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America's first superstar designer uncovers the cautionary tale of an artist who sold his name to Wall Street. World Premiere
Love, Antosha
Love, Antosha / U.S.A. (Director: Garret Price, Producers: Adam Gibbs, Drake Doremus) — A portrait of the extraordinary life and career of actor Anton Yelchin. World Premiere
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love / U.S.A. (Director: Nick Broomfield, Producers: Marc Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton, Kyle Gibbon) — A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their relationship from the early days in Greece, a time of ‘free love’ and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician. World Premiere
MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen / New Zealand (Director and screenwriter: Heperi MIta, Producer: Chelsea Winstanley) — An intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita, told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares with the world the mother he lost. International Premiere
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Stanley Nelson, Producers: Nicole London, Stanley Nelson) — A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool: a foray into the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis. World Premiere
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins / U.S.A. (Director: Janice Engel, Screenwriters: Janice Engel, Monique Zavistovski, Producers: James Egan, Janice Engel, Carlisle Vandervoort) — Molly Ivins was six feet of flame-haired Texas trouble, a prescient political journalist, best-selling author and Bill of Rights warrior. She took no prisoners, leaving both sides of the aisle laughing and craving more of her razor-sharp wit. It's time to Raise Hell like Molly! World Premiere
The Great Hack / U.S.A. (Directors: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Screenwriters: Karim Amer, Erin Barnett, Pedro Kos, Producers: Karim Amer, Geralyn Dreyfous, Judy Korin) — Data, arguably the world’s most valuable asset, is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story. World Premiere
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / U.S.A. (Director: Alex Gibney, Producers: Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken, Alex Gibney) — With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud. World Premiere
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am / U.S.A. (Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Producers: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Johanna Giebelhaus, Chad Thompson, Tommy Walker) — This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition. World Premiere
Untouchable / U.S.A. (Director: Ursula Macfarlane, Producers: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Poppy Dixon) — The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquires and protects his power even as scandal threatens to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and to inspire change. World Premiere
Words from a Bear / U.S.A. (Director: Jeffrey Palmer, Producer: Jeffrey Palmer) — A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history. World Premiere
Greener Grass
MIDNIGHT From horror and comedy to works that defy genre classification, these films will keep you wide awake, even at the most arduous hour. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Hereditary, Assassination Nation, The Little Hours and The Babadook.
Greener Grass / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Producer: Natalie Metzger) — A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance. Cast: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden. World Premiere
Little Monsters / Australia (Director and screenwriter: Abe Forsythe, Producers: Jodi Matterson, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, Keith Calder, Jessica Calder) — A film dedicated to all the kindergarten teachers who motivate children to learn, instill them with confidence and stop them from being devoured by zombies. Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Josh Gad. World Premiere
MEMORY - The Origins of Alien / U.S.A. (Director: Alexandre O. Philippe, Screenwriter: Alexandre O. Philippe, Producer: Kerry Deignan Roy) — The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O’Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of moviemaking, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious. World Premiere
Mope / U.S.A. (Director: Lucas Heyne, Screenwriters: Lucas Heyne, Zack Newkirk, Producers: Kelly Hayes, Brian Cooper, Kern Saxton, Danny Roth) — Two 'mopes' – the lowest-level male performers in the porn industry – set their sights on an impossible dream: stardom. Cast: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kelly Sry, Brian Huskey, Max Adler, David Arquette, Tonya Cornelisse. World Premiere
Sweetheart
Sweetheart / U.S.A. (Director: JD Dillard, Screenwriters: JD Dillard, Alex Theurer, Alex Hyner, Producers: Jason Blum, JD Dillard, Alex Theurer, Alex Hyner, Bill Karesh) — Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night. Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford. World Premiere
The Hole in the Ground / Ireland (Director: Lee Cronin, Screenwriters: Lee Cronin, Stephen Shields, Producers: John Keville, Conor Barry) — One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing. Soon, Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all... Cast: Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, James Quinn Markey. World Premiere
The Lodge / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Directors: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Screenwriters: Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Producers: Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder) — In this psychologically chilling slow burn, a young woman and her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the mysteries of her dark past and the losses that seem to haunt them all. Cast: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Armitage. World Premiere
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
SPOTLIGHT The Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love from throughout the past year. Films that have played in this category in recent years include The Death of Stalin, The Rider, Ida and The Lobster.
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / Canada (Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, Screenwriter: Jennifer Baichwal, Producer: Nicholas de Pencier) — From concrete seawalls in China that cover 60% of the mainland coast to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to conservation sanctuaries in Kenya, the filmmakers have traversed the globe to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination. International Premiere
Birds of Passage / Colombia (Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, Screenwriters: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde, Producers: Katrin Pors, Cristina Gallego) — In 1970s Colombia, Rapayet is a man torn between the desire to be powerful and his duty to uphold his culture’s values. His indigenous tribe, the Wayúu, ignores ancient omens and enters the drug trafficking business -- where honor is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood. Cast: Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Natalia Reyes. Utah Premiere
Maiden / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Alex Holmes, Producers: Victoria Gregory, Alex Holmes) — The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. U.S. Premiere
The Biggest Little Farm / U.S.A. (Director: John Chester, Screenwriters: Mark Monroe, John Chester, Producers: Sandra Keats, John Chester) — Two dreamers and a dog embark on an odyssey to bring harmony to their lives and the land. As their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns, they will have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of nature, and life itself. Utah Premiere
The Mountain / U.S.A. (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Colm O'Leary, Dustin Defa, Producers: Ryan Zacarias, Sara Murphy, Eddy Moretti, Alison Carter) — 1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Tye Sheridan, Udo Kier, Denis Lavant, Hannah Gross. U.S. Premiere
The Nightingale / Australia (Director and screenwriter: Jennifer Kent, Producers: Kristina Ceyton, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutenski, Jennifer Kent) — 1825. Clare, a young Irish convictwoman, chases a British officer through the Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy, who is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie. North American Premiere
Abe
KIDS This section of the Festival is especially for our youngest independent film fans. Programmed in cooperation with Utah Film Center, which presents the annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival, Utah’s premiere film festival for children and youth. Films that have played in this category in recent years include Science Fair, My Life as a Zucchini, The Eagle Huntress and Shaun the Sheep.
Abe / Brazil (Director: Fernando Grostein Andrade, Screenwriters: Lameece Issaq, Jacob Kader, Producers: Carlos Eduardo Ciampolini, Noberto Pinheiro Jr., Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane) — The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. Just Abe. Cast: Noah Schnapp, Seu Jorge Mário da Silva, Mark Margolis, Dagmara Dominczyk, Arian Moayed, Tom Mardirosian. World Premiere
The Elephant Queen / United Kingdom, Kenya (Directors: Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble, Screenwriter: Mark Deeble, Producers: Victoria Stone, Lucinda Englehart) — Athena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole and embark on an epic journey across the African savannah in a tale of love, loss and coming home. U.S. Premiere
THE WITCH HUNTERS / Serbia, Macedonia (Director: Rasko Miljkovic, Screenwriters: Marko Manojlovic, Milos Kreckovic, Producer: Jovana Karaulic) — 10-year-old Jovan is often escaping reality to immerse himself into a fantasy world. It all changes when he befriends his new classmate Milica and the adventure to hunt her 'witch' stepmother starts. Cast: Mihajlo Milavic, Silma Mahmuti. U.S. Premiere
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Release Year: 2017
Critic's Score: /100
Director: Andrew Jay Cohen
Stars: Will Ferrell, Jeremy Renner, Nick Kroll
Storyline
A dad convinces his friends to start an illegal casino in his basement after he and his wife spend their daughter's college fund.
Writers: Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O'Brien, Will Ferrell, Jeremy Renner, Nick Kroll, Will Ferrell, Jeremy Renner, Nick Kroll, Allison Tolman, Amy Poehler, Andrea Savage, Jason Mantzoukas, Ryan Simpkins, Michaela Watkins, Rob Huebel, Jessie Ennis, Sam Richardson, Andy Buckley, Kathy Corpus, Lennon Parham, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Taglines:
If you can't beat the house, be… The House
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 3 Jan 2017
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $40,000,000
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Runtime:
88 min
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Before Mariah Carey filmed her cameo, co-star Rob Huebel recalled Carey showed up four hours late, required her trailer to be filled with white flowers and stuffed animals of lambs, and refused to sing the song that she was contacted to perform. Carey's scene ultimately did not make the final cut. See more »
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