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Universal’s Global Talent Development and Inclusion have unveiled the participants for the 2019 Directors Initiative. The initiative has also expanded their partnerships to include the American Black Film Festival and the New York Latino Film Festival. In addition, NBCUniversal Filmmasters will join veteran partners AFI Directing Workshop for Women as well as the Sundance Institute’s FilmTwo Fellowship.

This year, the Initiative has doubled in size with 17 directors from diverse backgrounds selected to participate. This year, the Initiative has the strongest international reach with directors from China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Iran and Singapore.

Sundance Institute FilmTwo filmmakers participating in this year’s Initiative include Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (The Mustang), Rhys Ernst (Adam), Atsuko Hirayanagi (Oh Lucy!) and Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye). From the AFI Directing Workshop for Women are directors Amber Sealey (How Does it Start), Jessica Kaye (Inheritance), Carly Usdin (Suicide Kale), Parisa Barani (Ablution (Wuzu)), Marielle Woods...

Universal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion group has selected filmmakers for its 2019 Directors Initiative, which introduces directors to the studio filmmaking process as well as executives across the company.

The Sundance Institute FilmTwo filmmakers participating in the Directors Initiative include Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (“The Mustang”), Rhys Ernst (“Adam”), Atsuko Hirayanagi (“Oh Lucy!”), and Kirsten Tan (“Pop Aye”). From the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, directors participating include Amber Sealey (“How Does it Start”), Jessica Kaye (“Inheritance”), Carly Usdin (“Suicide Kale”), Parisa Barani (“Ablution (Wuzu)”), Marielle Woods (“Do No Harm”), Shilpi Roy (“Hipsterhood”), Siyou Tan (“Hello Ahma”) and Talia Zucker (“Child”).

Additionally, Lukas von Berg (“L’aria Del Moscerino”) is joining from NBCUniversal’s Global Distribution & International Filmmasters program, while Numa Perrier (“Jezebel”) is participating from American Black Film Festival, and Gabriela Calvache (“The Longest Night”) is joining from New York Latino Film Festival. Dinh Thai (“Monday”) is joining from last...

Stunt performer Zoë Bell — Uma Thurman’s double in the “Kill Bill” films and a Quentin Tarantino veteran — is getting into the directing game herself. The New Zealander got her start at 17 as Lucy Lawless’ double on “Xena: Warrior Princess,” and is now among the eight participants in this year’s AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Since 1974, the program has provided tuition-free training to more than 300 women seeking film and television careers behind the camera.

Bell will join Parisa Barani, Jessica Kaye, Shilpi Roy, Amber Sealey, Siyou Tan, Carly Usdin, and Talia Zucker for months of immersive education as they ready short films to debut next year at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles. So far, two alumni from the 2017-2018 class have had their Dww projects accepted to prestigious film festivals: Katrelle Kindred premiered “War Paint” at Sundance in January, and Milena Govich will screen “Unspeakable...

The AFI Directing Workshop for Women has revealed its 2018-2019 participants, who will partake in several months of tuition-free film education program, leading to the production of short films, which will be screened at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles next year. The new trainees are Parisa Barani, Zoe Bell, Jessica Kaye, Shilpi Roy, Amber Sealey, Siyou Tan, Carly Usdin and Talia Zucker. You can check out their bios <a…...

Finding meaningful closure in intimate relationships, as well as the path towards healing, is a universal need for everyone in their personal lives. That’s certainly true for the protagonists in the new drama, ‘Inheritance,’ which is opening in theaters today, and will also be released on DVD and VOD on November 7, courtesy of Breaking […]

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Americans in Belize get up to some highly dysfunctional family dynamics while mourning a father’s sudden death in the ambitious but over-the-top melodrama Inheritance. This writing-and-directing collaboration between Laura E. Davis (Thin Air) and actor Jessica Kaye features an impressively charismatic Kaye as the story’s leading hot mess. Character actor Mark Webber (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and Daniel Ahearn lend support as her onscreen brother and boyfriend, respectively. After premiering at SXSW this isn’t likely to set the world on fire, but it should catch some attention as a calling card for several of the key talents.

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It's a big SXSW for Mark Webber. Aside from world premiering his new directorial outing Flesh and Blood, he also stars in Jessica Kaye and Laura E. Davis's Inheritance. We're very excited for the flick and are happy to share an exclusive clip here. A few words from the filmmakers: Inheritance chronicles one woman's efforts to reconcile her past with her present. As she returns to her childhood home in Belize, Mara is faced with the death of her estranged father, the ire and instability of her brother, and her increasingly frayed relationship with her new lover. Here it is:...

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On Tuesday, Americans go to the voting booth to determine what kind of country they want theirs to be. Months of the most polarized, and polarizing, presidential campaign in recent memory have left many of us with battle fatigue and gnawing pangs of cynicism and nausea. To quote Thomas McGuane, in the opening line of his 1973 novel “92 in the Shade”: “Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble with our republic.”

Our filmmakers might have a clue. And a little distance brings perspective. The American Film Festival just celebrated its seventh annual survey of new (and mostly) independent cinema made in the U.S.A., as assembled for and viewed by eager European audiences in Wroclaw, Poland. Though not without some escapist and experimental tangents, the selections couldn’t help but offer a provocative composite of work that serves as a kind of state of the union address.

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The Screamfest Horror Film Festival is the longest running horror film festival in the United States, now in its 15th year. The festival has been responsible for premiering many now classic horror films such as Paranormal Activity and Feast, both of which are having anniversary screenings at this year's festival. Additionally, Screamfest will be screening the premiere of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.

The 2015 festival will run from October 13th through the 22nd in Hollywood, California at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres.

Screamfest has an amazing star-studded lineup this year, and if you live in Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to check out a movie or two, or three or four or all of them. Many of the screenings include discussions with filmmakers such as John and Clu Gulager, James Franco, and more. You can check out the programming and purchase tickets at the festival website Screamfest.

A low-budget exercise in depravity and broken lives, All God’S Creatures tells the story of an ordinary serial killer with the ordinary name of Jon Smith (played by Josh Folan who cowrote the ordinary screenplay). A barista at a corner Starbucksish shop by day, Jon spends his evenings trolling for hookers and other loose women to lure back to his apartment to murder and collect their body parts as sicko souvenirs. The story eventually settles in on Jon’s relationship with a distressed Craig’s List hooker named Delia (Jessica Kaye) who’s just left an abusive boyfriend and has plenty of nasty baggage of her own.

All God’S Creatures strikes an uneasy balance between sinister suspense and hipsterish irony. Co-directors Ryan Cummings and Frank Licata are gifted enough to combine elements of schlock and exploitation fare with an arthouse sensibility, but All God’S Creatures suffers from...

All God's Creatures Directed by Ryan Cummings and Frank Licata Written by Josh Folan and Billy Fox (additional material) Starring Josh Folan, Jessica Kaye and Ginger Kroll The new indie film release All God’s Creatures tells the story of fresh-scrubbed boy next-door Jon (Josh Folan), a barista by day and unconscionable serial killer by night. Jon prowls the streets of New York searching for women to slay after he leaves the coffee shop at night, and has little trouble doing so thanks to his wholesome good looks and quiet demeanor. But any horror fan knows it’s always the quiet ones you need to worry about. Back at his apartment, Jon keeps a macabre collection of “trophies” acquired from his victims, preserved in jars and proudly displayed on shelves in his basement. Jon is indiscriminate in choosing his victims; it seems no one woman is safe from his primal urges.

Hawaii Five-o won't air a new episode until March 21. That's the bad news.

But here's the good news: viewers will meet Larisa Oleynik's Jessica Kaye that night, a new team member who will shed light on Wo Fat and his connections to McGarrett's father.

"She brings some of that Wo Fat backstory to light and sheds new light on his character. She sort of reinvigorates McGarrett's interest," producer Paul Zbyszewski tells TV Guide.

Will Wo Fat's plot be wrapped up this year? Not likely, adds Zbyszewski: "We see him more in terms of a series-long character, much like the original Five-0."...

Will you buy Alex Mack as a CIA analyst? The producers of "Hawaii Five-0" hope so.

The CBS show has signed Larisa Oleynik, who played the title character in Nickelodeon's mid-'90s show "The Secret World of Alex Mack," to a recurring role. She'll appear in several episodes this season and has an option to become a regular in Season 2, TVLine reports.

Oleynik's character, Jessica Kaye, is a former CIA analyst who comes to Hawaii to help Five-0 track down Wo Fat (recurring guest Mark Dacascos), who's connected to the murder of McGarrett's (Alex O'Loughlin) parents and other nefarious doings on the islands. Jessica also has a personal score to settle, as she believes Wo Fat had her CIA-officer fiance killed.

In addition to "Alex Mack," Oleynik co-starred in the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" and had a recurring part on "3rd Rock From the Sun," playing love interests for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in both.

Larisa Oleynik, best known as Julia Stiles’ younger sister Bianca in 10 Things I Hate About You, has landed a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0. The network confirms that she’ll play Jessica Kaye, a Harvard graduate and ex-cia analyst who arrives from Langley to help Alex O’Loughlin’s Steve McGarrett pursue his nemesis, Wo Fat. Wo Fat murdered her fiancé, a CIA field agent, and it would seem, she’d like payback. TVLine first reported the news that Oleynik could become a regular in season 2.

In recent years, Oleynik has guested on Mad Men, Psych, and Without a Trace,...

Hawaii Five-o has found its new major player.

As first reported by TV Line, Larisa Oleynik will come on board the CBS hit this winter. The actress, who has appeared on Mad Men and Psych, will portray a former CIA analyst named Jessica Kaye. This character will be a Harvard graduate who arrives on the island straight from Langley, Virginia.

Look for Kaye to have a personal stake in the team's hint for Wo Fat. The reason? He killed her fiance.

Oleynik is signed for the rest of season one and has an option to become a regular on season two. What do you think of this casting choice?...

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'Veronica Mars' and 'Party Down' creator Rob Thomas could be back on TV with his new pilot order from Fox for a single-camera comedy called 'Little in Common.' Suddenly, everything feels right in the world.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the show follows three families who are united thanks to little league sports. Thomas also sold 'Temp,' a workplace comedy, to NBC.

Now the question we're all thinking: Which 'Veronica Mars' and 'Party Down' stars will get cast in these pilots?

Also at Fox, the network has ordered 'Touch' from Tim Kring, creator of 'Heroes.' The drama pilot follows a father and his autistic and mute son. The son can predict events before they happen.

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o. Larisa Oleynik has joined the cast of 'Hawaii Five-0.' Oleynik, fondly remembered from her days on Nickelodeon's 'The Secret World of Alex Mack,...

Larisa Oleynik is to join the cast of CBS drama Hawaii Five-0. TV Line reports that the actress will play ex-cia analyst Jessica Kaye in multiple episodes, with an option to become a series regular in a potential second season. Kaye will apparently team up with McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and his team to help track down the villainous Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) and bring him to justice for the murder (more)...

Former Secret World of Alex Mack star Larisa Oleynik is joining the cast of the freshman drama Hawaii Five-0, TVLine has learned exclusively.

On CBS’s reboot of the classic cop show, Oleynik will play Jessica Kaye, an ex-cia analyst and Harvard graduate with a degree in Political Science and a Masters in Global Security and Intelligence Studies who is fresh off the plane from Langley, Virginia.

Her purpose in Hawaii? To assist Five-0 in the pursuit of Steve McGarrett’s arch nemesis, Wo Fat (Iron Chef America‘s Mark Dacascos). Jessica has a personal stake in the manhunt since...