Apply! Apply! Apply! (Disney/ABC Directing Program)
((Sigh)) Another blow to the NYC filmmaking industry.
Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke on her struggle to find more work.
Monkey wrench. Perhaps “Hillary 2016” will be better to watch?
A Garfunkel & Oates (not the men) comedy has landed IFC.
Congratulations to CNN’s Geraldine Moriba on her new post.
Listen to this! NYWIFT Member Mimi Spillane voiced a new audiobook.
-KELLY GLOVER
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