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’We saw an opportunity to bring something new to the short form genre.’

Samuel Goldwyn Films has ventured into short-form content, acquiring rights to the short-form comedy TV series Becoming Jiff from Forrest Silvers and Tyler Silvers.

The content will debut on Amazon Prime Video on October 3 and follows the eponymous young man in New York City (Tyler Silvers), a recently single 20-something in a dead-end job.

Jiff’s mundane life is shaken up when is mistakenly assigned a new phone number that belonged to New York City’s Greatest Ladies Man, Alejandro Alejandro, leading Jiff on a journey of self-discovery.

Exclusive: Luma Pictures, a visual effects company, has picked up Salt of Joy, a romantic drama written by The Beauty Inside’s Rich Greenberg, to develop and produce as part of its original film slate. The pic, which is in early development, is a love story set in the afterlife where themes of selfless love and redemption are explored.

Greenberg’s recent film Zoe, starring Ewan McGregor and produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and is available on Amazon Prime. His other writing credits include Desert Saints, which also served as his directorial debut feature, and the drama One Fall.

Vincent Cirelli and Luma founder Payam Shohadai will serve as executive producers on Salt of Joy.

“Rich excels at storytelling with a captivating narrative that beautifully bridges characters and plot and a certain complexity that makes audiences think, said Jill Gilbert,...

Watch the trailer for One Fall, a powerful story about a man (Marcus Dean Fuller) who is both blessed and cursed with an unusual power, all set in the rustic Mid-Western town of One Fall.

Synopsis:

One Fall tells the story of a man who miraculously survived a terrible fall from a spectacular 200 foot- high precipice that is the area.s major attraction. After recovering, he abruptly abandoned friends and family and disappeared without explanation. The secret he couldn’t share with them was that, while recovering, he had suddenly developed the power to heal others. Tired of running away, he returns home after a long absence and decides to use his gift – but not altruistically. If people pay him, he will cure them. Though he appears to be doing the right thing, he is doing it for for all the wrong reasons, and risks driving away anyone who ever loved or trusted him.

Paladin, the distributor that was recently behind Tom Shadyac’s I Am, has acquired the upcoming drama One Fall, and we have your first exclusive look at the film. Produced by Dean Silvers and Marlen Hecht (Flirting With Disaster, Spanking the Monkey), it is the directorial debut from Marcus Dean Fuller. Check out the photo above which features Fuller, next to Mark Margolis (Pi, The Fountain, and the upcoming Immortals) and click for high-resolution.

Fuller is joined by a cast that includes Zoe McLellan (Dirty Sexy Money), James McCaffrey (Rescue Me), Phyllis Somerville (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Mark La Mura (Something Borrowed), Dominic Fumusa (Nurse Jackie), and newcomer Seamus Mulcahy.

Paladin will release the film this August and you can see the press release below, which includes a synopsis.

New York, NY (June 21, 2011) — One Fall, a powerful story about a man who is both blessed and cursed with an unusual power,...