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"This just isn't who I was supposed to be... I think there's a part of me that's always going to believe that." Dark Star Pictures uploaded an official trailer for Riley, an indie drama from filmmaker Benjamin Howard. This originally premiered at numerous film festivals last year including at the Calgary Film Festival, BFI Flare in London, and at Frameline. Dakota is a star on the high school football team, hiding his sexuality, battling between the girlfriend he has and where his desires take him. But when exposed, he is forced to confront his denial and come to terms with himself so that he stops hating himself. The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his true queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be. Starring Jake Holley as Dakota Riley, with Connor Storrie, Riley Quinn Scott, Colin McCalla, Rib Hillis.

Exclusive: Ethan Cutkosky (Shameless) and Nikki Roumel (Ginny & Georgia) are among cast joining coming-out feature film, Our Family Pride, from filmmakers Glen Evelyn and Dominic Giannetti.

Based on Evelyn’s real-life events, Our Family Pride tells the personal journey of a family that comes together through conflict and difficult times, amid finding out their father, Jaimie (Evelyn), is gay later in life.

Cutkosky will play Tim, a high-school bad boy who flirts with Jaimie’s daughter, and Roumel emerges as her popular best friend, Bri.

As we previously announced Garrett Clayton, Chad Ridgely, William Mark McCullough, Rachel Alig, and Evelyn star in the pic currently shooting in Florida.

YouTuber Lev Cameron (Blue Ridge), Jake Holley (Riley), Sofia Lauren Giannetti (God Will Listen), Gianna Angela (Pickleball Pandemonium), and Michael Nardelli (Revenge) have also newly joined the cast.

Evelyn and Giannetti will be co-directing and producing the project under their GunnerMAX Productions and Giannetti Films respectively,...

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...

Stars: Tom Sizemore, Emily Killian, Ramiro Leal, Torrey Richardson, Jake Holley, Tania Fox, Xander Bailey, Christina Licciardi, Christopher William Johnson, Audrey Latt | Written by Ryan Ebert | Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt

As if we needed any more disaster this year, along comes Apocalypse of Ice from mockbuster kings The Asylum!

This time round, as if The Asylum haven’t already made a boat-load of these apocalyptic nature films before – including when Hollywood went crazy on the same subject – a massive polar vortex threatens to cover nearly all of Earth in ice. Oh and did I mention the world is also in the middle of a global pandemic..? Yes as if a pandemic wasn’t enough, in this film we get a global apocalypse too!

But hey this is The Asylum, so you know what that means don’t you? Stock footage aplenty, from empty streets thanks to a real-world pandemic, to...