If you grew up in the era of Britney Spears fever and thought a schoolgirl uniform was the height of sexiness and cool then Hilary Eden’s evocative debut short Bellybutton will bring you right back to those supposedly young carefree Y2K years. Eden took a core memory from her youth, wrote it into a short story and then after a gentle nudge, launched into the making of her film with a relentless fervour. Bellybutton recounts a foundational moment in time with throbbing nostalgia thanks to meticulous research into those glory days and its use of poignant 16mm cinematography. Alongside her timeless and dreamy visuals, there’s a deeper relatability to Bellybutton which also invites us to look inwards and examine the powerful and all-consuming commercial and cultural forces which have such a formative claim on coming-of-age experiences, both positive and negative. As her film premieres online on Dn...
- 7/25/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Exclusive: Rebecca Eskreis has signed on to direct ClearMind, a thriller about the dark side of Virtual Reality therapy and the slippery slope of using simulated life to avenge the real.
The film scheduled to enter production in Northern California next spring is the second from Eskreis, whose feature directorial debut, What Breaks the Ice, was recently released in theaters, on demand and on digital platforms via Cinedigm. 30 Miles from Nowhere’s Seana Kofoed penned the screenplay and will produce with River Place Production’s Kristin Tegtmeier Higgins (The Boy’s Gone). Miriam Hoffman is handling casting.
Eskreis is represented by Sara Alexander of Alexander Creatives and Stuart Rosenthal at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American VOD rights to The Xrossing, an Australian coming-of-age thriller from director Steven J. Mihaljevich. The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios...
The film scheduled to enter production in Northern California next spring is the second from Eskreis, whose feature directorial debut, What Breaks the Ice, was recently released in theaters, on demand and on digital platforms via Cinedigm. 30 Miles from Nowhere’s Seana Kofoed penned the screenplay and will produce with River Place Production’s Kristin Tegtmeier Higgins (The Boy’s Gone). Miriam Hoffman is handling casting.
Eskreis is represented by Sara Alexander of Alexander Creatives and Stuart Rosenthal at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American VOD rights to The Xrossing, an Australian coming-of-age thriller from director Steven J. Mihaljevich. The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios...
- 12/17/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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