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EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked Oscar winning writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producing partner Jaime Ray Newman. In 2019, the duo won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Skin, which they then developed into a full-length feature starring Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald. That movie won…

EXCLUSIVE: Live-action short film Skin, which won an Oscar earlier this year is set to air on ShortsTV along with a slew of other Oscar-nominated shorts. The film, which is directed by Guy Nattiv, tells the story of a young boy who has an innocent encounter with a black man at a supermarket and his parents react to…

Actors love to boast about their range, but in a pair of movies releasing in 2019, Jamie Bell will get to demonstrate his. Premiering at Cannes is Rocketman, directed by Dexter Fletcher. In the musical biopic of the life of Elton John, Bell plays John's longtime songwriter Bernie Taupin. And in a complete 180, Guy…

Only three months ago, Guy Nattiv won his first Oscar for a short film entitled Skin, offering the best possible lead-up for his feature of the name same, out this July. Rooted in a jaw-dropping performance by Jamie Bell, the feature centers on Bryon Widner, a tattoo-covered skinhead, who decides to turn his back on…

“Guys like this only have three options: Die young, life in prison or they start talkin’.” The subjects of that quote are white supremacists, and Guy Nattiv’s Skin studies one such conflicted soul. Watch the first trailer above. The logline: After a difficult childhood drives him into the grasps of a white supremacist…

With their first Oscars in hand tonight for Skin, their live-action short, director Guy Nattiv and producer Jaime Ray Newman are already looking forward to the release of the feature version, which hits theaters on July 26. “We have a baby Skin, and now a feature Skin,” Nattiv said with a smile, standing in the press…

Guy Nattiv’s Oscar-nominated short film Skin has been acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The acquisition was announced today by Fox Searchlight Pictures' Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula and EVP, Global Acquisition & Co-Prod, TCF Acquisitions Ray Strache. "We're thrilled to work with Guy Nattiv on his…