Exclusive: Director Ashley Eakin has been announced as the winner of Best New Filmmaker, the top honor at the 13th Annual Best of Nfmla Awards.
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, the nonprofit arts and culture organization behind the awards, announced winners in 16 categories today, chosen by juries from among 130 nominees. Eakin’s award comes with a $2,500 Nfmla Anthony Rhulen cash grant provided by Nfmla, a full-frame Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, and a three-ton, two-week G&e truck package from Cinelease.
Eakin, a disabled writer and director, has directed fiction and nonfiction films, including a 2018 short starring Henry Golding and Awkwafina and a 2022 episode of the Disney+ series Growing Up, starring Brie Larson. In 2017, Eakin appeared in a SoulPancake video discussing her rare bone condition, Olliers disease and Maffucci Syndrome, a video that tallied over 50 million views.
Filmmaker Ashley Eakin AshleyEakin.com
“Having over 14 years of experience in the TV and Film industry, Ashley...
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, the nonprofit arts and culture organization behind the awards, announced winners in 16 categories today, chosen by juries from among 130 nominees. Eakin’s award comes with a $2,500 Nfmla Anthony Rhulen cash grant provided by Nfmla, a full-frame Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, and a three-ton, two-week G&e truck package from Cinelease.
Eakin, a disabled writer and director, has directed fiction and nonfiction films, including a 2018 short starring Henry Golding and Awkwafina and a 2022 episode of the Disney+ series Growing Up, starring Brie Larson. In 2017, Eakin appeared in a SoulPancake video discussing her rare bone condition, Olliers disease and Maffucci Syndrome, a video that tallied over 50 million views.
Filmmaker Ashley Eakin AshleyEakin.com
“Having over 14 years of experience in the TV and Film industry, Ashley...
- 6/26/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: London-based sales outfit Rapt Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Benjamin Howard’s debut US film Riley and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.
The pic charts the life of a talented teenage athlete who begins to unravel when his burgeoning queer identity competes against his idea of what it means to be a man. The film stars Jake Holley (Wake) as the titular Dakota Riley. Supporting roles are filled by Colin McCalla), Riley Quinn Scott, Connor Storrie, and Rib Hillis.
Based on writer-director Howard’s real-life experiences as a high-school American football player struggling to come out, Riley is a feature expansion of Howard’s UCLA graduate short film Rendezvous. Howard’s other short film Deviant won a Student Emmy Award in 2019.
Riley originally world premiered at September’s Calgary International Film Festival. Additional festival selections have seen...
The pic charts the life of a talented teenage athlete who begins to unravel when his burgeoning queer identity competes against his idea of what it means to be a man. The film stars Jake Holley (Wake) as the titular Dakota Riley. Supporting roles are filled by Colin McCalla), Riley Quinn Scott, Connor Storrie, and Rib Hillis.
Based on writer-director Howard’s real-life experiences as a high-school American football player struggling to come out, Riley is a feature expansion of Howard’s UCLA graduate short film Rendezvous. Howard’s other short film Deviant won a Student Emmy Award in 2019.
Riley originally world premiered at September’s Calgary International Film Festival. Additional festival selections have seen...
- 5/10/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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