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Stars: Jemma Dallender, Matt Carriker, Alex Rogers, Greg Kinman, Tori Nonaka, Robert Forte Shannon III, Alexis Boozer Sterling, Julie Kline, Jennifer Jelsema, Erika Hoveland | Written by Hassan Hussein, Todd Klick | Directed by Hassan Hussein

Director Hassan Hussein opens his feature debut with a montage of society going downhill, as a new pandemic leads to a zombie uprising. This life-changing news becomes known to Jesse (Jemma Dallender) when her couple’s camping trip is cut short due to a zombie attack. After her escape leads to a car crash, Jesse tries to survive the horrific circumstances and make her way home.

A key scene occurs early on when Jesse is trapped in an overturned car. There’s little hope found for escape, as her recently deceased friend in the next seat turns into a zombie, while another zombie attacks the windscreen. This seems like the perfect circumstance for a heartbreaking and claustrophobic sequence,...

The drama America’s Family had a strong showing at the 25th annual Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles, claiming the Grand Jury Award for Features as well as the Audience Award for Competition Features when the fest wrapped on Sunday.

The film from writer-director Anike L. Tourse watches as the Diaz family home is raided by Ice on Thanksgiving, with mother Marisol (Tourse) being put in detention, son Koke (Ricardo Cisneros) being deported and father Jorge (Mauricio Mendoza) fleeing for protective sanctuary. Marisol and Jorge’s two American-born children—young attorney Emiliano (Emmanuel López Alonso) and his disabled teen sister Valentina (Jailene Arias)—then scramble to reunite the family as their parents and brother fight to get home.

Dwf is a festival celebrating the best of the best in independent film, which is based at the Tcl Chinese Theatre. It ran this year from June 9-19. Closing out...

Title: Being Awesome Director: Allen C. Gardner Starring: Allen C. Gardner, Drew Smith, Hayden Wyatt, Alexis Boozer, Matthew Stiller, Sean McBride A recent presentation at the Julien International Film Festival and a West Coast premiere and competition title at the Dances With Films Fest in Los Angeles, well-meaning indie effort “Being Awesome” cycles through well-worn clichés of stuck-in-a-rut, cusp-of-thirtysomething frustration, but adds nothing much new or of interest to the emotionally-adrift-guys subgenre. Written and directed by Allen C. Gardner, it’s a haphazardly staged, genially plotted tale of navel-gazing masculine woe that shouldn’t see much of a life outside the festival circuit. “Being Awesome” centers on Teddy Adams (Gardner again) and Lloyd Gibbard (Drew [ Read More ]

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Tune in alert for "Leap Year," as the episode will air on Hulu Monday morning. Craig Bierko, Steven Weber will guest star on the Leap Year season 2 finale this August 20 on Hulu and Hulu Plus. "How to Bite" The C3D team bands together to finally show the world what their 'Skype with holograms' technology is capable of, but not before showing Andy Corvell (guest star Craig Bierko, 'Elementary,' 'Necessary Roughness') who's boss, on the Season 2 Finale of "Leap Year" Monday, August 20 on Hulu and Hulu Plus (http://www.hulu.com/leap-year). "Leap Year" stars Yuri Baranovsky as Aaron Morrison, Alexis Boozer as Bryn Arbor, Emma Caulfield as .Smiley,. Wilson Cleveland as Derek Morrison, Daniela Diiorio as Olivia Reddox,...

It’s important for proprietors of small business to have small business insurance. Especially if that small business is a startup in possession of $500,000 in seed capital, the technological knowhow to make the kinds of holographic images that brought Tupac back to life as commonplace in internet savvy households as webcams, and a handful of cutthroat entrepreneurial enemies that thrive in the seedy underbelly of Silicon Valley. At least that’s the sentiment - and the premise - of the sophomore season of the the original branded entertainment web series Leap Year. Presented and funded by Hiscox (“the first insurer in the Us to offer small business insurance direct, online, and in real time” that sponsored the program for a second season because the first season worked”), produced by Cjp Digital Media in association with Happy Little Guillotine Films (the outfit behind Streamys nom Break A Leg), and written by Vlad and & Yuri Baranovsky,...

The clever award-winning dramedy webseries "Leap Year" features special guest star Eliza Dushku on today's premiere of season two of the series. The highly-anticipated premiere of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, scripted original dramedy series about the founders of Silicon Valley.s hottest new tech startup continues the fast-paced entrepreneurial chaos of a group of go-getters, rich in situational comedy. The episodes are stretched to 20 minutes in length. New Season Premise Six months have passed since friends and former co-workers Aaron (Yuri Baranovsky), Bryn (Alexis Boozer), Derek (Wilson Cleveland), Olivia (Daniela Diiorio) and Jack (Drew Lanning) won half a million dollars to fund their "Skype with holograms" startup, C3D. While adapting to startup life in a new city and...

One of the hottest web-series just got even more caliente, as Eliza Dushku is booked to guest star on dramedy Leap Year. Actress/Producer Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will guest star on three episodes of the upcoming second season of Leap Year, the award-winning online original series about the founders of Silicon Valley.s hottest startup, C3D. According to the producers, Dushku is set to recur throughout the season as 'June Pepper,' an eccentric computer hacker turned startup executive who has a history with C3D lead engineer Bryn (Alexis Boozer) and tangles with recruiter Derek (Wilson Cleveland) and ladykiller CEO Jack (Drew Lanning). Dushku joins previously-announced guest stars Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber...

Hiscox, the first insurer in the U.S. to offer small business insurance direct, online and in real time, today announced it has renewed Leap Year (http://www.hulu.com/leap-year), its award-winning original comedy about five friends founding a tech startup, for a second season. Press release: Filming of Leap Year's ten 22-minute-episode second season begins March 5th in San Francisco and will premiere this summer on Hulu, Hulu Plus, Mashable and a variety of online and mobile platforms. Created and produced for Hiscox in collaboration with Cjp Digital Media and Happy Little Guillotine Films, Leap Year co-stars series co-writer/director Yuri Baranovsky, Alexis Boozer, creator/executive producer Wilson Cleveland, Daniela Diiorio and Drew Lanning as downsized co-workers turned co-founders of a...

Leap Year is a branded entertainment web series with a sizable budget funded by Hiscox, a London Stock Exchange-listed insurance provider that specializes in niche areas of the insurance market (including art collections and kidnapping/ransoms) that last year extended its offerings to provide small business insurance to companies in the Us. The show was created and executive produced by Wilson Cleveland and Cjp Digital (the individual and company behind other online branded programs including The Temp LIfe, The Webventures of Justin and Alden, Suite 7, and Bestsellers) and written and directed by the Baranovsky brothers under the banner of Happy Little Guillotine Films (the digital production shop behind titles like 7-Eleven’s Road Trip Rally and Break a Leg). It's comprised of a cast that fans of Cjp Digital and Happy Little Guillotine productions will find very familiar (including Yuri Baranovsky, Alexis Boozer, Cleveland, Daniela Diiorio, Drew Lanning, Rachel Risen,...