Exclusive: The pandemic thriller Yesteryear has wrapped production and confirm they rounded out the cast with Jesse Garcia (Flamin Hot), Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner), Timothy V. Murphy (The Lone Ranger), Tiffany Chu (Ms. Purple), Yusuke Ogasawara (In Full Bloom), Crystal Echohawk (Founder of IllumiNative) and Chester Gregory (Hairspray).
Garcia and Gregory will portray truth seekers running a podcast called Revolutionary Radio next door to Alma as they dive into a world of conspiracy. Cassidy will portray Alma’s insightful colorful therapist. Murphy will play a strange man with whom Alma has a violent yet playful encounter. Chu will portray the sultry Olivia, who influences Alma to partake in Only Fans. Echo Hawk will portray Alma’s angelic mother through flashbacks in memory.
From writers and producers, Adam VillaSeñor and star Q’orianka Kilcher, Yesteryear follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native American actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic,...
Garcia and Gregory will portray truth seekers running a podcast called Revolutionary Radio next door to Alma as they dive into a world of conspiracy. Cassidy will portray Alma’s insightful colorful therapist. Murphy will play a strange man with whom Alma has a violent yet playful encounter. Chu will portray the sultry Olivia, who influences Alma to partake in Only Fans. Echo Hawk will portray Alma’s angelic mother through flashbacks in memory.
From writers and producers, Adam VillaSeñor and star Q’orianka Kilcher, Yesteryear follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native American actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Facinelli, Angela Sarafyan, Idara Victor, Tanaya Beatty and Grant Roberts have joined the cast of Adam VillaSeñor’s “Yesteryear.” They round out an ensemble that also includes the previously announced Q’orianka Kicher, Wes Studi and Nick Cassavetes.
The film follows Alma Deswood, a young Indigineous woman (Kilcher) who psychologically unravels in quarantine. With the world feeling as though it’s caving in around her, Alma fights for her mental and physical health amidst Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and other life-altering events.
Facinelli will play Reid, Alma’s smooth talking boss with whom she had a one night stand that she regrets. Sarafyan portrays Sienna, a young mother and one of Alma’s best friends. Victor will play Lily, an outspoken aspiring writer and poet who is never afraid to speak her mind. Beatty plays Alma’s bohemian stoner sister, Anaya, who is trying to reconnect their...
The film follows Alma Deswood, a young Indigineous woman (Kilcher) who psychologically unravels in quarantine. With the world feeling as though it’s caving in around her, Alma fights for her mental and physical health amidst Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and other life-altering events.
Facinelli will play Reid, Alma’s smooth talking boss with whom she had a one night stand that she regrets. Sarafyan portrays Sienna, a young mother and one of Alma’s best friends. Victor will play Lily, an outspoken aspiring writer and poet who is never afraid to speak her mind. Beatty plays Alma’s bohemian stoner sister, Anaya, who is trying to reconnect their...
- 3/10/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Q’orianka Kilcher will star in and produce “Yesteryear” alongside a cast that includes Scott Haze, Wes Studi and Nick Cassavetes. “Yesteryear” is written and directed by Adam VillaSeñor (“In Full Bloom”) and definitely seems to connect thematically with some of the challenges facing America and the world.
The film follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. As Alma’s mind is deconstructed, she is forced to navigate complex relationships, hallucinatory nightmares and painful memories taking her on a journey of introspection that twists the fabric of reality.
Haze plays Alma’s musician ex-boyfriend, Studi portrays Alma’s quirky father and Cassavetes appears as an apartment building manager where Alma resides.
The film is produced by VillaSeñor and Kilcher. Reza Ghassemi and Jacob Stein serve as executive producers. Christopher Pollock co-produces alongside co-executive producers Grant Roberts and Justin Rubin.
The film follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. As Alma’s mind is deconstructed, she is forced to navigate complex relationships, hallucinatory nightmares and painful memories taking her on a journey of introspection that twists the fabric of reality.
Haze plays Alma’s musician ex-boyfriend, Studi portrays Alma’s quirky father and Cassavetes appears as an apartment building manager where Alma resides.
The film is produced by VillaSeñor and Kilcher. Reza Ghassemi and Jacob Stein serve as executive producers. Christopher Pollock co-produces alongside co-executive producers Grant Roberts and Justin Rubin.
- 2/9/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Kumail Nanjiani‘s high-profile physical transformation for Marvel’s forthcoming The Eternals has been the talk of pretty much every town except one: Silicon Valley. And now we (sorta) know why.
In a live Instagram Q&a with his trainer Grant Roberts (aka the architect of his new physique) on Monday, Nanjiani revealed that he gave producers of the HBO comedy a heads-up about his new swole body before production began on the show’s sixth and final season last year. Oddly enough, The Powers That Be chose not to incorporate his extreme makeover into Dinesh’s storyline, even as...
In a live Instagram Q&a with his trainer Grant Roberts (aka the architect of his new physique) on Monday, Nanjiani revealed that he gave producers of the HBO comedy a heads-up about his new swole body before production began on the show’s sixth and final season last year. Oddly enough, The Powers That Be chose not to incorporate his extreme makeover into Dinesh’s storyline, even as...
- 4/13/2020
- TVLine.com
'Sully' movie with Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley Sullenberger: Clint Eastwood homage to 'the durable, honorable American male.' 'Sully' movie review: 'Taut, straightforward' drama features Clint Eastwood's latest all-American hero When considering Sully, Clint Eastwood's taut, straightforward account of heroism on trial, it helps to remember that the title character's name works as both noun and verb. And one can see how Eastwood was drawn to both meanings. The noun, of course, is the nickname of airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who saved the lives of 155 passengers and crew on January 15, 2009, by pulling off a daring water landing after a flock of birds took out both engines of his Us Airways flight minutes after it took off from New York's Laguardia airport. The Sully depicted here is, like many Eastwood heroes, made of uniquely American clay; a sturdy, rigorous material that the director,...
- 9/9/2016
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
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