‘The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs, Samantha Isler Board H. Nelson Tracey’s Dramedy ’Breakup Season’
Exclusive: Chandler Riggs (The Walking Dead) and Samantha Isler (Molly’s Game) are set to lead the Christmas-themed dramedy Breakup Season, marking the feature debut of writer-director H. Nelson Tracey.
The indie going into production this month in La Grande, Oregon follows a young man (Riggs) as he brings his girlfriend (Isler) back to his rural Oregon hometown to meet his family for the first time, over the course of the holidays. The introduction doesn’t go as planned.
Pic also stars James Urbaniak (The Fabelmans), Jacob Wysocki (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising), Brook Hogan, Carly Stewart, and Kailey Rhodes. Stephen Mastrocola, Rafi Jacobs, and Liana Montemayor of the L.A.-based Static Films will produce alongside Tracey. Also producing is Christopher Jennings, co-founder of the Eastern Oregon Film Festival, whose residency program is where the script was developed.
“I first visited La Grande, Oregon in the fall of 2019 for the annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival,...
The indie going into production this month in La Grande, Oregon follows a young man (Riggs) as he brings his girlfriend (Isler) back to his rural Oregon hometown to meet his family for the first time, over the course of the holidays. The introduction doesn’t go as planned.
Pic also stars James Urbaniak (The Fabelmans), Jacob Wysocki (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising), Brook Hogan, Carly Stewart, and Kailey Rhodes. Stephen Mastrocola, Rafi Jacobs, and Liana Montemayor of the L.A.-based Static Films will produce alongside Tracey. Also producing is Christopher Jennings, co-founder of the Eastern Oregon Film Festival, whose residency program is where the script was developed.
“I first visited La Grande, Oregon in the fall of 2019 for the annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Production for the short films chosen for the AT&T Filmmaker Mentorship Program are underway and Rob Morgan, Dascha Polanco and Loretta Devine have joined two of the films.
With Emmy winner Lena Waithe as the lead mentor and with the support of Waithe’s producing partner Rishi Rajani, AT&T Hello Lab, and Fullscreen, the program discovers, incubates and empowers emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities to evolve their work, grow their audience and provide national distribution on platforms such as Directv and Directvnow.
Waithe hand-picked the five shorts from up and coming creators and storytellers. The films represent a range of diverse identities including Lgbtq+, women, communities of color and more. The chosen mentees had access to industry advisors, studio and production company executives, agents and casting directors. They received advice on pitching,...
With Emmy winner Lena Waithe as the lead mentor and with the support of Waithe’s producing partner Rishi Rajani, AT&T Hello Lab, and Fullscreen, the program discovers, incubates and empowers emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities to evolve their work, grow their audience and provide national distribution on platforms such as Directv and Directvnow.
Waithe hand-picked the five shorts from up and coming creators and storytellers. The films represent a range of diverse identities including Lgbtq+, women, communities of color and more. The chosen mentees had access to industry advisors, studio and production company executives, agents and casting directors. They received advice on pitching,...
- 9/10/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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