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"Do everything you can to make it right." Freestyle Digital Media has debuted the official US trailer for an indie drama titled My Fiona, marking the feature directorial debut of Australian actress Kelly Walker. This premiered at the 2021 Mardi Gras Film Festival in Australia earlier this year, and also played at the Florida Film Festival. Devastated by the unexpected suicide of her best friend Fiona, Jane helps her widow Gemma care for their son. The relationship develops from a tentative friendship to a deeper affair that's potentially catastrophic to the healing of all involved. Can Jane really keep living her life vicariously through Fiona's family? Jeanette Maus stars in My Fiona as Jane, with Corbin Reid co-starring as Gemma, and a cast including Elohim Nycalove, Sara Amini, Ryan W. Garcia, April Lang, and Camille Guaty. It looks like an emotional story about the challenges that come with grief and loss,...

Following selection in BFI Flare in 2020, Australian filmmaker Kelly Walker is set to debut her first feature film, My Fiona, at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 23.

Starring Jeanette Maus and Corbin Reid (How to Get Away With Murder), My Fiona is a film about loss, love and everything in between.

Following the suicide of her best friend, Jane (Maus) finds purpose in helping her friend’s wife (Reid) with their seven year old son. In doing so, she becomes inadvertently drawn into an intimate relationship bound by grief that’s potentially catastrophic to the healing for all those involved.

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Jeanette Maus, an acting teacher and actress who appeared in the Lynn Shelton films My Effortless Brilliance and Your Sister’s Sister, has died after an eight-month battle with colon cancer. She was 39.

Maus died Sunday night, the West Hollywood drama school John Rosenfeld Studios said in an Instagram post. She also had Crohn’s disease and contracted Covid-19, according to a GoFundMe campaign that had been set up to help her with medical expenses.

Maus taught at John Rosenfeld Studios for nearly a decade and mentored such young actors as Kerri Medders, Charlie Bushnell, Cameron Gellman, Quinn Lozar, Maggie Budzyna and Lisette Alexis....

Jeanette Maus, an acting teacher and actress who appeared in the Lynn Shelton films My Effortless Brilliance and Your Sister’s Sister, has died after an eight-month battle with colon cancer. She was 39.

Maus died Sunday night, the West Hollywood drama school John Rosenfeld Studios said in an Instagram post. She also had Crohn’s disease and contracted Covid-19, according to a GoFundMe campaign that had been set up to help her with medical expenses.

Maus taught at John Rosenfeld Studios for nearly a decade and mentored such young actors as Kerri Medders, Charlie Bushnell, Cameron Gellman, Quinn Lozar, Maggie Budzyna and Lisette Alexis....

Jeanette Maus, an actress and acting teacher/coach whose credits include Charm City Kings and Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance, died Sunday night of colon cancer. She was 39.

The news was confirmed on social media by her fiancé, Dusty Warren.

“It is with a shattered-yet grateful-heart that I inform you that Jeanette Maus passed away late last night due to complications of cancer,” Warren wrote on Facebook. “I’m really sad, but I’m super proud of her. She fought so hard, with tremendous grace and optimism, inspiring myself and I’m sure many of you.”

Maus appeared in 2020’s Charm City Kings and such other features as My Fiona and Dismissed, along with along with the late Shelton‘s Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance, the latter of which Maus also co-wrote. She also appeared in numerous short films and wrote and...

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“Your Sister’s Sister,” which opens in limited U.S. theatres on June 15, 2012 from IFC Films, also stars Mark Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mike Birbiglia, Mel Eslyn, Jeanette Maus, Jeremy Mackie, Dori Hana Scherer, Jennifer Maas, Kate Bayley, Norman Tumolva, Steve Snoey, Evan Mosher, Kate Jarvis and Nathan M. Miller from writer and director Lynn Shelton.

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IFC Films has released the first trailer for Your Sister's Sister, which is set to hit theaters nationwide June 15. Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass star in this dramatic comedy about a man who complicates his life by sleeping with his friend's sister.

Your Sister's Sister - Trailer

A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack (Duplass) is an emotionally unstable slacker. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom's ex-girlfriend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah, a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship who finds solace in the affable Tom's unexpected presence, and the two bond over a long night of drinking. The blurry evening concludes with an awkward sexual incident made worse by Iris' sudden presence at...