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Mon. March. 15 Nine Female Filmmakers Chosen For Future Directors of Studio Features Initiative
Nine female filmmakers have been selected to participate in the inaugural Future Directors of Studio Features Initiative.
Blackmagic Design announced the initiative, which is designed to elevate and polish undiscovered and underrepresented female-identifying storytellers who are poised to make the transition to feature directing. The fellows – each with a strong body of work, distinctive style and clear voice – were professionally recommended and vetted.
As the anticipated new faces of feature film directing, fellows will meet with industry mentors, advisors and studio partners to prepare their portfolios, amplify their creative brand and learn how to navigate studio-level feature production.
Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight”), who is a mentor for the program, shared “It’s so fun to be an Fdsf advisor this year – not only to meet more and more women storytellers, but also to watch them thrive!”
“The women...
Nine female filmmakers have been selected to participate in the inaugural Future Directors of Studio Features Initiative.
Blackmagic Design announced the initiative, which is designed to elevate and polish undiscovered and underrepresented female-identifying storytellers who are poised to make the transition to feature directing. The fellows – each with a strong body of work, distinctive style and clear voice – were professionally recommended and vetted.
As the anticipated new faces of feature film directing, fellows will meet with industry mentors, advisors and studio partners to prepare their portfolios, amplify their creative brand and learn how to navigate studio-level feature production.
Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight”), who is a mentor for the program, shared “It’s so fun to be an Fdsf advisor this year – not only to meet more and more women storytellers, but also to watch them thrive!”
“The women...
- 3/16/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Project Name: Room Actors: Where Are They Now?
Asking For: $12,500 via Kickstarter, with stretch goals up to $42,000
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $3,082
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 22
Description: The legendary so-bad-its-good movie The Room inspired two notable pieces of media in 2017: One, The Disaster Artist, was a biopic adapted from a book about the film's production and its eccentric creator, Tommy Wiseau. The other, The Room Actors: Where Are They Now?, was a mockumentary that followed the film's cast members to the present day as they try to come to terms with the roles that made them (in)famous.
Now, the latter of those projects is looking to complete its run. Robyn Paris, who appeared in The Room, has turned to Kickstarter to fund more episodes of Where Are They Now. If she raises $12,500, she'll make two new episodes, each about an individual room caster member.
Asking For: $12,500 via Kickstarter, with stretch goals up to $42,000
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $3,082
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 22
Description: The legendary so-bad-its-good movie The Room inspired two notable pieces of media in 2017: One, The Disaster Artist, was a biopic adapted from a book about the film's production and its eccentric creator, Tommy Wiseau. The other, The Room Actors: Where Are They Now?, was a mockumentary that followed the film's cast members to the present day as they try to come to terms with the roles that made them (in)famous.
Now, the latter of those projects is looking to complete its run. Robyn Paris, who appeared in The Room, has turned to Kickstarter to fund more episodes of Where Are They Now. If she raises $12,500, she'll make two new episodes, each about an individual room caster member.
- 6/7/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Pretty soon there may be more films about cult movie The Room than people who actually saw the hilariously awful movie when it was originally released in 2003. We exaggerate—but not by much. James and Dave Franco are set to star in a big-screen adaptation of Room star Greg Sestero's book The Disaster Artist while Sestero's fellow cast member Robyn Paris recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a mockumentary called The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? And that's not all! Grab your cutlery, folks, because a trailer for a real documentary about writer-director-star Tommy Wiseau's passion...
- 11/6/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Stars from Tommy Wiseau's infamous 2003 film The Room have launched plans to make a new mockumentary.
The Room has become a cult hit over the past decade, becoming known as the 'Citizen Kane of bad movies'.
Robyn Paris - who played the character Michelle in the original film - has created a Kickstarter campaign for a film about their lives since making the 'so bad it's good' film.
She wrote: "12 years ago, a group of struggling actors (us!) accepted roles a film called The Room. We knew it wouldn't win any awards. But we had no idea that it would... become a cult hit (and a complete joke).
"But when the world is laughing at you, what do you do?...You laugh right along with them. And that's why we're coming to You, the fans."
The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? A Mockumentary will be a "tongue-in-cheek,...
The Room has become a cult hit over the past decade, becoming known as the 'Citizen Kane of bad movies'.
Robyn Paris - who played the character Michelle in the original film - has created a Kickstarter campaign for a film about their lives since making the 'so bad it's good' film.
She wrote: "12 years ago, a group of struggling actors (us!) accepted roles a film called The Room. We knew it wouldn't win any awards. But we had no idea that it would... become a cult hit (and a complete joke).
"But when the world is laughing at you, what do you do?...You laugh right along with them. And that's why we're coming to You, the fans."
The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? A Mockumentary will be a "tongue-in-cheek,...
- 10/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Where do you go after you star in The Room? If you're Greg Sestero, you parlay the experience into a years-long gig as the custodian of the film's legend. If you're anyone else in the cast, though, you're out of luck — Tommy Wiseau only has room for one Boswell. That's why six of the film's former cast members, including Juliette Danielle (Lisa) and Phillip Haldiman (Denny), have come together to create a new project based on their post-Room lives, and now they want you to donate to it. The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? won't be a reality show; instead, creator Robyn Paris (Michelle) describes the idea as a Christopher Guest–style mockumentary. A web series about struggling actors in Los Angeles? Ha, what a story, Mark!
- 10/22/2014
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
What do you do if you wind up being in one of the most hilariously terrible films of all time? You make a comedy about it. That's the exact approach being actress-turned-filmmaker Robyn Paris is taking. More than a decade after she appeared in writer-director-star Tommy Wiseau's infamously awful cult film The Room, Paris has now launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary about what happened to the cast after shooting concluded. On the project's Kickstarter page, you can check out the fundraising video for The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? which, in addition to Paris,...
- 10/21/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Austin Formato of UCLA took first place in the 53rd annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his screenplay "Self Help."
Winners were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. during a ceremony at UCLA. The awards were founded in 1955 to encourage young writers. First place includes a $15,000 prize.
The other winners, also students at UCLA, were Robyn Paris for "Odd Man Out" ($7,500); Jj Nelson for "Out of Road" and Richard Rapoza for "The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage" ($4,000 apiece); and Suzie Bohannon for "Spin Cycle" ($1,000).
Judges were Geoff Gilmore of the Sundance Film Festival, Debbie Liebling of Fox Atomic and actress-producer Marlee Matlin.
Winners were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. during a ceremony at UCLA. The awards were founded in 1955 to encourage young writers. First place includes a $15,000 prize.
The other winners, also students at UCLA, were Robyn Paris for "Odd Man Out" ($7,500); Jj Nelson for "Out of Road" and Richard Rapoza for "The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage" ($4,000 apiece); and Suzie Bohannon for "Spin Cycle" ($1,000).
Judges were Geoff Gilmore of the Sundance Film Festival, Debbie Liebling of Fox Atomic and actress-producer Marlee Matlin.
- 11/3/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Five UCLA students have been chosen as finalists in the 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards Competition.
The nominees are Suzie Bohannon for "Spin Cycle"; Austin Formato, "Self Help"; J.J. Nelson, "Out of Road"; Robyn Paris, "Odd Man Out"; and Richard Rapoza, "The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage."
The finalists were chosen from among 120 submissions of feature-length screenplays submitted by students from eight University of California campuses.
The awards -- selected by a jury comprised of Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore, Fox Atomic president Debbie Liebling and actress-producer Marlee Matlin -- will be handed out Nov. 3 at UCLA.
The nominees are Suzie Bohannon for "Spin Cycle"; Austin Formato, "Self Help"; J.J. Nelson, "Out of Road"; Robyn Paris, "Odd Man Out"; and Richard Rapoza, "The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage."
The finalists were chosen from among 120 submissions of feature-length screenplays submitted by students from eight University of California campuses.
The awards -- selected by a jury comprised of Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore, Fox Atomic president Debbie Liebling and actress-producer Marlee Matlin -- will be handed out Nov. 3 at UCLA.
- 9/22/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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