RECENT AUDIO, FILM, & TV
MADAM RAM
QCODE Media
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Toni Collette is starring in and executive-producing podcast series Madam Ram, about the colorful former NFL owner Georgia Frontiere, who oversaw the LA and St Louis Rams. The series is directed by Tyne Rafaeli and Michelle Rosenfarb, and marks a first podcast for LuckyChap.
Madam Ram will follow the impressive rise of Georgia Frontiere, from aspiring opera singer and showgirl to a trailblazing NFL owner. Eccentric and fearless, she expertly navigated a male-dominated world during a time when people didn’t believe women had a place in football. Loved, hated, and endlessly controversial, her story is one of ambition, power, scandal, and a relentless quest for respect and legacy.
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THE BEAST IN ME (Season 1)
Netflix
Netflix has given the green light to The Beast In Me, a limited series headlined and executive produced by Claire Danes. In addition to Danes, the mystery thriller project, created, written and executive produced by Gabe Rotter, is executive produced by Jodie Foster, Conan O’Brien via Conaco and Homeland co-creator/executive producer Howard Gordon who will serve as showrunner, reuniting with the acclaimed series’ star/executive producer Danes. 20th Television is the studio...
In The Beast In Me, since the tragic death of her young son, acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs (Danes) has receded from public life, unable to write, a ghost of her former self. But she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Sheldon, a famed and formidable real estate mogul who was once the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance.
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TELL ME LIES (Season 2)
Hulu
ELSBETH (Season 1)
CBS
EVIL (Season 4)
Paramount +
SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE (Season 2)
Freeform | Hulu
by Jen Silverman, staring Rachel Brosnahan
THE MIRANDA OBSESION
Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan brings to life a thrilling tale of intimacy and self-invention inspired by one of Hollywood’s most alluring stories of the 1980s. Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, Harry Lloyd, Morgan Spector, and Milo Ventimiglia also star, playing some of the most powerful and famous men of the decade, who fall under Miranda’s enigmatic and captivating spell.
A new scripted Audible Original, The Miranda Obsession, will recount the true story adapted from Burrough’s piece by writer Jen Silverman (Tales of the City) and directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
Set in the glitzy world of 1980s Hollywood The Miranda Obsession, stars Brosnahan
as Miranda, along with an A-list cast. By turns enticing and voyeuristic, gripping and empathetic, this complex and nuanced character-driven drama examines the lengths to which we go to achieve intimacy and connection with each other, and the lengths some of us will go to feel something real.
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THE GOOD FIGHT (Season 5 - 6)
Paramount+
SELF CENTER
by Matthew Chauncey, starring Judy Greer and Kim Cattrall
On Meg Everman’s (Judy Greer) 40th birthday, she decides to treat herself to a weekend retreat hosted by SLF-CNTR, a health and beauty lifestyle brand led by celebrated model-turned-wellness-thought-leader, Enid Hargrove (Kim Cattrall). But when the weekend’s itinerary of “spa treatments” begin to seem more like a torture sequence from a Saw movie, Meg suspects that Enid’s apparently eternal youth might have sinister and supernatural origins.
Featuring a stellar cast that includes, Judy Greer, Kim Cattrall, Jane Lynch, Aparna Nancherla, Andy Richter, Hari Nef, Joel Kim Booster, Laci Mosley, Jackie Hoffman, Annaleigh Ashford, Ashley Park, Matt Oberg, Josh Ruben, Jessica Chaffin, Misty Monroe, Richie Moriarty, Marieve Herington, and Katie Hartman.
Produced by Audible Originals and Team Coco, Self Center was written by Chauncey, Julie Greiner, Keerthi Harishankar and Agathe Panaretos, and directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
Created by Matthew Chauncey (What If…), Self Center tells the story of Meg Everman (Greer), who decides to treat herself to a weekend retreat hosted by model-turned-wellness-thought-leader Enid Hargrove (Cattrall) on her 40th birthday. But what’s supposed to be a luxurious, spa-filled getaway quickly turns into one Saw-like torture after another, with Meg suspecting that there may be sinister (and even supernatural) motives behind Enid’s “eternal youth.”
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KEEP THIS FAR APART
We The Women
Directed by Whitney White & Tyne Rafaeli
Written by Ming Peiffer, Jihan Crowther, Joanna Castle Miller,
Gina Young, Anna Ziegler & Tyler English-Beckwith
FESTIVAL ACCOLADES
London New Wave Film Festival - WINNER (Best Web Series/Pilot)
New Filmmakers NY - FINALIST
Stockholm City Film Festival - FINALIST
Independent Shorts Awards - FINALIST
Birmingham Film & Television Festival - FINALIST
Saint Petersburg Film & Television Festival - SEMI FINALIST
New York City Film & Television Festival - QUARTER FINALIST
NICE International Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION, Nominations for: Best Visual Effects, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy)
Hot Springs International Women's Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Women Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
SoCal Film Awards - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Frostbite International Indie Fest - OFFICIAL SELECTION
New Haven International Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Unrestricted View Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Seoul Webfest - OFFICIAL SELECTION
SoCal Intn'l Filmmakers Festival - HONORABLE MENTION
Imagine This Women's Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Miami Indie Film Awards - OFFICIAL SELECTION
When the pandemic shut down Los Angeles’ theaters, Samantha Ressler and Nathalie Love were faced with a problem. Ressler and Love, actors who have worked in all facets of the theater world, pride themselves on their resourcefulness—they’ve been producing grassroots theater events in New York and Los Angeles and
donating substantial proceeds to local organizations since they started We The Women, a nonprofit theater company, in 2016. But the pandemic threatened the core of the duo’s mission—to build community for women in the performing arts through intimate live performances. Rather than hunker down until conditions improved, Ressler and Love launched a project that they hoped could both transcend and encapsulate the eerie isolation of the moment. The result is Keep This Far Apart, a digital anthology of short plays painstakingly directed and filmed via Zoom by a selection of the theater’s rising stars. The six-episode production (directed by Whitney White & Tyne Rafaeli, and written by Ming Peiffer, Jihan Crowther, Joanna Castle Miller, Gina Young, Anna Ziegler, and Tyler English-Beckwith) has been making the rounds on the film festival circuit, and premieres today on Interview.
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