EXCLUSIVE: The Athena Film Festival said Time’s Up co-founder Nina Shaw, The Miseducation of Cameron Post writer-director Desiree Akhavan and Toronto Film Festival co-chief Cameron Bailey have been selected as this year’s honorary award winners, bestowed to celebrate women leaders in the entertainment industry and…

"Bisexuality is a myth, it was created by ad executives to sell flavoured vodka". That's one take in Desiree Akhavan's forthcoming comedy The Bisexual for UK's Channel 4 and Hulu. The broadcasters have unveiled the first trailer for the comedy, which is produced by Sister Pictures label Hootenanny. The show, which…

FilmRise has acquired the North American rights to Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize-winning drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which will get a summer release this year. Directed by Desiree Akhavan, the coming-of-age film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, and Jennifer…

When writer-director Desiree Akhavan was first introduced to The Miseducation Of Cameron Post book, she instantly connected with the “coming-of-age novel that was queer” and reflective of her own upbringing. Speaking at Deadline’s Sundance Studio in Park City, the Akhavan shared her filmmaking approach is “to make…

EXCLUSIVE: Appropriate Behavior director Desiree Akhavan has been tapped to helm Adam, the film based on the novel by Ariel Schrag, who also adapted the screenplay. Howard Gertler will produce with Symbolic Exchange's James Schamus and Joe Pirro serves as executive producer. Production is expected to begin in late…

Chloë Grace Moretz has been set as the lead of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, an indie based on Emily Danforth’s hot-button 2012 coming-of-age novel about a young girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy center. Desiree Akhavan, who wrote, directed and starred in the Sundance pic Appropriate Behavior, has…

EXCLUSIVE: Production has officially started on Creep 2, with actor-director Desiree Akhavan signing on to star in the Blumhouse and Duplass Brothers production opposite Mark Duplass. A sequel to Creep, the cult horror film that debuted at SXSW 2014 and was a critical hit in 2015, Creep 2 will see the return of the…

The UK’s Channel 4 has ordered three new projects including contemporary comedy The Bisexual from Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan; Irish period comedy Derry Girls, written by Indian Summers‘ Lisa McGee; and survival challenge, Mutiny. The series were unveiled at the Edinburgh TV Festival today. Akhavan’s The…

Gumroad, which provides behind-the-scenes technology that allows filmmakers and distributors to directly sell their movies and other videos online to consumers, has added Rentals, a function that will allow people to stream the shows for a lesser price instead of having to buy and download a large video file. The site…