Join us on Friday March 19th at 2pm PT for a round table discussion about maintaining your Creative Spark while releasing a film during a pandemic with Film Fatales members Anna Kerrigan (Cowboys), Christina Faith (Love You Right), Daniela De Carlo (The Blackout), and Jessie Barr (Sophie Jones).
Filmmakers discuss their individual journeys from project development through distribution. Where do you find inspiration? How do you keep your creative voice alive throughout? What strategies help you push through to the finish line? How does the creative process vary from the writing stage to production and post? What are techniques for building audiences in Virtual Cinemas? Hear from four accomplished Writers and Directors who have recently released their feature films about the trials and tribulations it took to get where they are today.
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Anna Kerrigan is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Cowboys, a Montana-set feature she wrote and directed starring Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell and Ann Dowd, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay for Kerrigan and Best Actor for Zahn. The film was released in virtual cinemas and streaming by Samuel Goldwyn in January and February of 2021. Hot Seat, which she wrote and directed, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She also directed The Chances, a digital series written by and starring two deaf actors, which also premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her Gotham-nominated digital series The Impossibilities (2015), a comedy that she wrote and directed, follows the interwoven storylines of a magician and a daffy lesbian yogi, was licensed by Studio Plus (Canal) for international distribution. She was selected for the 2020 Warner Brothers Directing Workshop for Television, the 2016 Fox Global Directors Initiative for episodic directing, is a Film Independent and Sundance Fellow (2016 New Voices, 2017 Episodic) and was named one of twenty Female Filmmakers to watch by Indiewire in 2020. She has developed projects and made shorts for Refinery 29, Funny or Die and Amazon. Kerrigan grew up in Los Angeles and is an alum of Stanford University.
Christina Faith was born to a casino executive & drug-dealing hustler, her life journey is the school of hard knocks. Faith is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a Master of Divinity (Eastern University). "I'm self-taught and got my MFA from YouTube and Google University," Faith states. In 2008 she formed Creative Thought Media, a full-service production company focusing on original content that influences culture and educational mentorship. Faith has spent over a decade of developing her craft through digital series, Single and Anxious (Amazon), documentaries The Contenders (PBS), and short films Plan B and Carlos. Faith is currently slated to release her first feature film Love You Right: An R&B Type Musical drama in February 2021.
Originally from Argentina, Daniela De Carlo worked her way up from P.A. to writer/director/producer, collaborating along the way with a myriad of industry heavyweights such as Alexander Payne, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, David E. Kelley, and Tony Scott.
In 2010, she helmed the romcom Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata for Buena Vista International, which opened wide in Brazil to unprecedented box office success. Daniela was one of six Hispanic directors on the feature drama Blue Lips, highlighted by Cannes' Cinefondation head Georges Goldenstern at Ventana Sur – Latin America's biggest film market in 2012. The following year, Daniela was awarded with the NBC/Universal Directing Fellowship and appointed to the USA Network show Royal Pains.
As a recipient of the inaugural NBC Female Forward program, Daniela recently helmed an episode of the primetime show Chicago Med, and her latest feature, The Blackout, will be released next month by Gravitas Ventures.
Under her banner MOON LODGE PICTURES, Daniela has created a coveted biopic series about Xuxa, the most famous Brazilian pop-star of all time. Daniela will exec produce, write and direct, in partnership with Xuxa and the prestigious production company Gullane Filmes.
Daniela lives in Los Angeles and is repped by Paradigm Agency.
Jessie Barr is a director, writer, actor, and producer with a background in independent film, digital storytelling, and theater. She makes her feature debut with SOPHIE JONES which she directed, co-wrote, and produced. Sophie Jones is executive produced by Nicole Holofcener and had its World Premiere in competition at the Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville 2020. The film also screened in competition at Mar del Plata, Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, and played numerous festivals in the U.S. before it was acquired by Oscilloscope Laboratories. SOPHIE JONES was released by Oscilloscope on March 2nd, 2021 in theaters and VOD.
"We are very excited to be bringing Sophie Jones to audiences. Jessie has crafted a heartfelt and honest coming-of-age portrait that reignited a range of teenage emotions I thought I had long since escaped. The film's naturalism and relatability provided an 80-minute escape to normalcy in what has undoubtedly been a hell of a year." - O-Scope's Aaron Katz. The Playlist hails SOPHIE JONES as "Coming-Of-Age At Its Best. A quiet, brilliant film," and "a refreshing, deeply human meditation on girlhood, sex, and grief." "A poignant exploration of this arduous age, rooted in staggering authenticity," says Variety. "Jessie Barr's naturalistic approach to the film envelopes you in this world, placing you back in the headspace of being a teenager, regardless of your gender." - Award Radar. "Jessie Barr's debut feature announces the writer/director as a talent to watch." - The Spool.
Jessie is a two-time 2020 Sundance Fellow, participating in the Episodic Lab and Episodic Makers Lab developing her original series with Lena Hudson inspired by their short film TOO LONG AT THE FAIR. Her award-winning short film, Too Long at the Fair, which Jessie co-wrote, co-directed, produced, and stars in with Chris Messina and Lena Hudson premiered at the 2018 L.A. Shorts International Film Festival and screened at festivals around the world before premiering online via Short of the Week. Jessie also stars in the critically acclaimed, award-winning original series OM CITY, which she created, wrote, and produced with her husband, filmmaker Tom O'Brien. Om City won Best Web Series at the 2018 New Media Film Festival, is a Tribeca Film Festival Selection, a New York Times TV Critic's Pick, a Vimeo Staff Pick, voted Best Web Series by Decider.com, and a Top Pick for "Web to Watch" by USA Today.
In addition to her work in film and television, as an actor, Jessie has also worked Off-Broadway in theater and musical theater and brings an interdisciplinary approach to her films as a writer/director. She is a proud member of Film Fatales and Free The Work. She can be seen next in the feature film The Beta Test by Sundance and SXSW award-winning filmmaker Jim Cummings, which will world premiere at Berlinale 2021.