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One night, when Diane Warren was 15 years old, someone actually paid her to stop singing at a restaurant. "They had said, ‘Bring your guitar and play a couple of songs. Maybe you'll get discovered.' I got paid after one song to stop. $15. They said I was interfering with people's dinners." But this teenage horror…

There's a chase scene in My Octopus Teacher as suspenseful as anything in a Hollywood thriller. The film's heroine, a tentacled cephalopod, is being pursued by a pajama shark through a kelp forest off the tip of South Africa. She jets, weaves, inks the waters like Bond expelling smoke from his Aston Martin, dives for…

For their Oscar-nominated animated feature Onward, director Dan Scanlon and producer Kori Rae wanted to tell a story of personal loss and an appreciation for what you still have. Onward follows two brothers, Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) Lightfoot, as they find a magical spell that allows them to bring…

On her Oscar-nominated animated short Burrow, writer and director Madeline Sharafian wanted to create a film based on overcoming the fear of showing ignorance in new environments. With the help of producer Michael Capbarat, Sharafian was able to make her dream into a Pixar SparkShort. Burrow follows a rabbit as she…

With If Anything Happens I Love You, directors Michael Govier and Will McCormack, and producer Maryann Garger set out to examine the grief and suffering caused by school shootings. The Netflix short tells the story of two parents grieving over the loss of their daughter in a school shooting. "We kept reading and…

For his Oscar-nominated animated short film, Opera, director Erick Oh wanted to create an animation that captured the essence of human history. The looping cycle style of animation was ideal for the story he wanted to tell, which Oh attributes to the cyclical nature of history. Comprised of many small scenes…

In Peter Nicks' documentary Homeroom, premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival, Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf speaks with a small group of students of color from Oakland High School. A white woman addressing Black and Latino young people, she earnestly tells them, "I want you all to see yourselves as I see you…

In Minari, writer/director Lee Isaac Chung and Steven Yeun tell the story of a Korean immigrant family risking everything in pursuit of the American dream. Jacob (Yeun) uproots his family from 1980s Los Angeles, determined to start a farm in Arkansas, while his wife Monica (Yeri Han) grows weary of his optimism in the…

In the year of the coronavirus pandemic, many TV producers have had to get creative, to figure out how to keep their shows on the air, even as production across the world was shut down. During the last seven months of lockdown, the visionaries behind two-live action sitcoms—ABC/ABC Signature's Black-ish and Pop/Sony…

Since early March, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and businesses across the United States started to shutter, live comedy — like all kinds of live performance — has been virtually nonexistent. In trying times marked by a deadly pandemic, extreme political division and general unease, the <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/coronavirus/" id="auto-tag_coronavirus"…

It’s the jarring thought many face each year on Emmy nominations day as shows receive their just plaudits in the noms: what happened to that great show I was just watching? The one everyone’s talking about right now. Why isn’t it nominated? It’s easy to forget that Emmy’s eligibility window comes to a close on May 31…

Wayne Garvie could see the tsunami coming as early as January, but he was still not prepared for the speed with which coronavirus ripped through the TV industry. Sony Pictures Television’s president of international production watched as his colleagues in China were forced into self-isolation. Korea came next and…