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2024 Laurels for When Last Seen

When Last Seen travels North…

Nubile in post-production

Nubile, a proof-of-concept short film, is nearing completion. Shot in New London, Connecticut, we are waiting on the film’s score and plan to release the short in 2025. Nubile, based on my mother’s kidnapping, focuses on a teenage immigrant who takes refuge in a church in the middle of the night to escape her pursuer only to discover another teenage immigrant already hiding out–The Madonna. With Fina Strazza and Sara James seen below. Co-directed by Kevin Newbury and Donna Di Novelli. Screenplay by Donna Di Novelli. Stay tuned for updates.

 

When Last Seen screens at NY International Short Film Festival at Cinema Village

On October 14th, When Last Seen screened at New York’s Cinema Village to a crowd of film enthusiasts and supporters.

“WHEN LAST SEEN” wins award from the NYC Women’s fund/NYFA/MOME

Our team is so chuffed by this award which will give us finishing funds to complete our short movie, “When Last Seen,” an adaptation of the Persephone and Demeter Greek myth using found text to carry the search for the missing daughter into the present. 

Ashnah Strongheart as Persephone

#NYCWomensFund #MOME

BAM asked me about my artistic process

The Relevance of “Nubile”–my latest screenplay

“Ms. Maxwell would refer to the girls she was looking for as “nubiles,” Ms. Farmer said. “They had a driver, and he would be driving along, and Ghislaine would say, ‘Get that girl,’” she said. “And they’d stop, and she’d run out and get the girl and talk to her.”

Lawyers for Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein did not respond to requests for comment for this article.” New York Times

The New Yorker’s Oscar picks

The Dismaying 2019 Oscar Nominations—an…ld Have Made the List | The New Yorker

Rehearsals for BAM’s Next Wave

Kevin Newbury in action with The Good Swimmer lifeguards.

Madeline’s Madeline is now available digitally

iTunes, Vimeo, Amazon, etc.  Here’s the link from Oscilloscope:

http://madelinesmadeline.oscilloscope.net/

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