Why She's On Our Radar: As the daughter of Woody Allen muse Mariel Hemingway and great-granddaughter of legendary author Ernest Hemingway, 24-year-old model/actress Dree Hemingway had a lot riding on her back at SXSW earlier this year when she premiered "Starlet" -- a film that feature...
Read More »Why She's On Our Radar: Hani Furstenberg has already made great strides as an actress in the Israeli theater with occasional, and equally successful, forays into film. She has already worked with two giants of contemporary Israeli cinema: Eytan Fox, who cast her in the gay soldier drama "Yossi and J...
Read More »Why He's On Our Radar: Chances are if you're an avid MTV watcher, you already know who Dylan O'Brien is. And if you're not, then welcome to the club. This year marks the 21 year-old actor's second season on MTV's hit teen series "Teen Wolf," and his first time headlining a feature film, Jon Kasdan's...
Read More »Actor Devon Graye, best known for playing a teenage version of Michael C. Hall's titular character in "Dexter," is no newcomer to acting having starred in that hit series and many others including "CSI: Miami" and "Alphas." But this fall the 25-year-old is poised to break out bigger than ever before...
Read More »Ava DuVernay became the first African-American to win the Best Director award at Sundance this year for her indie drama, "Middle of Nowhere." Although "Middle of Nowhere" is only DuVernay's second full-length feature film, she's no newcomer to the industry. In fact, ...
Read More »Why He's On Our Radar: Adam Goldman has managed to do what few people before him have done: he has made a narrative web series that people are actually talking about.
Read More »Why She's On Our Radar: Best known in the U.K. for her breakout turn as a troubled teen in the controversial hit series "Skins" (that spurred an MTV knockoff stateside), 20-year-old Kaya Scodelario makes a transfixing transition to the big screen in Andrea Arnold's radical take on "Wuthering Heights...
Read More »Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet" centers on the members of a Manhattan-based string quartet who have been performing together for 25 years, and the resounding effects of the cellist's departure from the group. For his first feature film, Zilberman assembled an exceptional cast that includes Cather...
Read More »A Québec native who has lived and studied in the vicinity of the West Bank, director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is no stranger to the latent frictions of multiculturalism. Having cut her teeth on a slew of lauded documentaries, Barbeau-Lavalette makes her sophomore foray into the world of fiction featu...
Read More »As a woman who began her career as a journalist at 60 Minutes working for Diane Sawyer and Don Hewitt, it's safe to say that Janet Tobias is no stranger to a good story. You can imagine, then, how extra-ordinary a story must be for her to dub it "one of the best stories I had ever heard" - which she...
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