Burden and Bathtubs Over Broadway took the narrative and documentary audience prizes, respectively, at the 23^rd annual Nantucket Film Festival.

The six-day festival does not have juried awards, instead putting more emphasis on the audience experience.

Written and directed by Andrew Heckler, Burden edged out Juliet, Nak…

“This story is so deep and so meaningful that you just couldn’t resist telling it” said Burden writer/director Andrew Heckler on why he chose this project as his feature directorial debut. “It’s a story of hope and it’s a universal story that I felt really needed to be told.”

Accompanying Heckler at Deadline’s Sundance…

Here is an exclusive first look at Burden, the Andrew Heckler-directed fact based drama that stars Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Usher Raymond and Tom Wilkinson. The film premieres in competition tomorrow 6:15 at the PC Library, and is based on a true story about a taciturn repo man (Hedlund)…

Jane The Virgin‘s Andrea Navedo has been cast in Netflix’s Bright, the fantastical cop thriller feature written by Max Landis, for which the streaming giant acquired for $90M. David Ayer is attached to direct with Will Smith, Joel Egerton, and Noomi Rapace starring.  Navedo will play Captain Perez in the film, which…

EXCLUSIVE: English stage and film actress Andrea Riseborough (Nocturnal Animals, Birdman) has been set to star opposite Garrett Hedlund  in Andrew Heckler’s indie feature Burden.

She will play the love interest and lead role of Judy opposite Hedlund’s Mike Burden in the story about an orphan raised within the Ku Klux K…

EXCLUSIVE: As the film prepares to go into production, principal cast has been set for The Firm’s drama Burden, with Garrett Hedlund in the title role joined by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Oscar nominees Tom Wilkinson and Tess Harper and Hands of Stone‘s Usher Raymond IV.

Written and directed by Andrew Heckler and in…