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Women in Film has found its class of 2024.

From nearly 900 applications, the organization has confirmed 60 members for its Wif Fellowship Program for this year, bringing together cohorts of directors, writers, cinematographers, producers, line producers, executives, representatives, artisans and below-the-line crewmembers for a year of mentoring, guest speakers, master classes, networking and individualized support.

The program, launched last year to mark Wif’s 50th anniversary, is open to women, nonbinary and trans people. This year’s roster also includes the participants of the Wif x Black List Episodic Lab, a month-long program for new TV writers supported by the Golden Globes Foundation and ShivHans Pictures. Designed for mid-career professionals, the program offers each fellow at least six mentoring sessions with their cohort and a complimentary mentor team, made up of professionals across business and craft sectors of the industry. The fellows will also meet with Melissa Verdugo, senior manager of career programs.

Following the success of “Purple Hearts,” Embankment will launch global pre-sales of new romantic movie, “The Upside of Falling Down,” at the Cannes film market.

The film is directed by Oran Zegman (“Honor Society”) and stars Antonia Gentry from worldwide hit “Ginny & Georgia” alongside Calam Lynch.

The film is written by Rebekah Crane, based on her own acclaimed novel of the same name, and Kelly Walker.

The official synopsis of the film reads thus: “Clementine (Gentry) has lost her memory in an accident and runs away from the hospital with the help of a stranger, Kieran (Lynch) to discover who she is now, before she can reconnect with who she used to be. As she allows herself to free dive into new beginnings, new joys, new loves, and finds the courage to grow into a new version of herself, she begins to fall for this super-cute, charismatic, warm and enigmatic stranger.

For Kendrick Lamar’s “We Cry Together” short film, it was crucial that the visuals captured the vulnerability and toxicity of a relationship in an intimate space.

“It challenged me to actually live in what I was writing, and really be there and be present with Taylour [Paige],” Lamar said. “And I remember us going back and forth and feeling like, damn, I understand this character even more because I’m evoking the energy from it and the passion from it because it’s alive, and it’s direct.”

Directed by Free, Lamar and Jake Schreier, “We Cry Together” follows Lamar in a heated argument with his partner, played by “Zola” star Taylour Paige. The video features the theatrical song from his fifth album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” The immersive experience was shot in one single take with live vocal tracks.

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"Do everything you can to make it right." Freestyle Digital Media has debuted the official US trailer for an indie drama titled My Fiona, marking the feature directorial debut of Australian actress Kelly Walker. This premiered at the 2021 Mardi Gras Film Festival in Australia earlier this year, and also played at the Florida Film Festival. Devastated by the unexpected suicide of her best friend Fiona, Jane helps her widow Gemma care for their son. The relationship develops from a tentative friendship to a deeper affair that's potentially catastrophic to the healing of all involved. Can Jane really keep living her life vicariously through Fiona's family? Jeanette Maus stars in My Fiona as Jane, with Corbin Reid co-starring as Gemma, and a cast including Elohim Nycalove, Sara Amini, Ryan W. Garcia, April Lang, and Camille Guaty. It looks like an emotional story about the challenges that come with grief and loss,...

Following selection in BFI Flare in 2020, Australian filmmaker Kelly Walker is set to debut her first feature film, My Fiona, at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 23.

Starring Jeanette Maus and Corbin Reid (How to Get Away With Murder), My Fiona is a film about loss, love and everything in between.

Following the suicide of her best friend, Jane (Maus) finds purpose in helping her friend’s wife (Reid) with their seven year old son. In doing so, she becomes inadvertently drawn into an intimate relationship bound by grief that’s potentially catastrophic to the healing for all those involved.

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In the year 2025, mankind has created the first computerized human, and he is a bad ass. With hyper-intelligent computers comes the threat of machine self-awareness, however. Dun dun dunnnn! Sync Behind-the-Scenes Videos Sync is directed by Sam Gorski & Niko Pueringer and written by Ira Parker. The web series stars: Tanner Thomason, Jai Koutrae, Carlos Ciurlizza, Cooper Harris, Jude Lanston, Dead Lee, Harley Morenstein, Ethan Newberry, Lauren Plaxco, Kelly Walker, and Krista Marie Yu.