Exclusive: It’s all about connection in Season 2 of Disney+’s Launchpad.
The collection of live-action shorts is set to debut on September 29, and Deadline has an exclusive look at the posters for all six — Project Cc, The Ghost, The Roof, Beautiful, Fl, Black Belts and Maxine.
Three of the posters are above, and the remainder are below.
Launchpad Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of Disney’s first season of Launchpad, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the second installment focuses on the theme of “connection.”
‘Beautiful, Fl,’ ‘ Black Belts’ & ‘Maxine’
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The collection of live-action shorts is set to debut on September 29, and Deadline has an exclusive look at the posters for all six — Project Cc, The Ghost, The Roof, Beautiful, Fl, Black Belts and Maxine.
Three of the posters are above, and the remainder are below.
Launchpad Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of Disney’s first season of Launchpad, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the second installment focuses on the theme of “connection.”
‘Beautiful, Fl,’ ‘ Black Belts’ & ‘Maxine’
Here are more details about...
- 9/21/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
All drugs and alcohol are illegal except on the day of the Binge. Several years after their first Binge, best friends Hags, Andrew, Sarah, and Kimi face the realities of young adulthood as the annual Binge Day is moved to Christmas Eve. Amidst the chaos, Hags plans a proposal to Sarah while Andrew deals with his rocky relationships with his family and his girlfriend Kimmi. Will they survive this holiday season? Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas. The new holiday adventure will feature magical storybooks, catchy songs, stop-motion animation… and drugs! Lots of them! Merry Bingemas! Cast: Eduardo Franco, Dexter Darden, Zainne Saleh, Marta Piekarz, Danny Trejo, Tony Cavalero, Nick Swardson, Kaitlin Olson, Tim Meadows, Paul Scheer,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
The new holiday comedy feature "It's A Wonderful Binge" is written and directed by Jordan VanDina, starring Eduardo Franco, Dexter Darden, Zainne Saleh, Marta Piekarz, Danny Trejo, Tony Cavalero, Nick Swardson, Kaitlin Olson, Tim Meadows, Paul Scheer, Patty Guggenheim, Esteban Benito, Eileen Galindo and Karen Maruyama, streaming December 9, 2022 on Hulu:
"...all drugs and alcohol are illegal except on the day of the 'Binge'. Several years after their first Binge, best friends 'Hags', 'Andrew', 'Sarah' and 'Kimi' face the realities of young adulthood as the annual 'Binge Day' is moved to 'Christmas Eve'.
"Now amidst the chaos, Hags plans a proposal to Sarah while Andrew deals with rocky relationships with his family and girlfriend. Will they survive this holiday season...?"
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"...all drugs and alcohol are illegal except on the day of the 'Binge'. Several years after their first Binge, best friends 'Hags', 'Andrew', 'Sarah' and 'Kimi' face the realities of young adulthood as the annual 'Binge Day' is moved to 'Christmas Eve'.
"Now amidst the chaos, Hags plans a proposal to Sarah while Andrew deals with rocky relationships with his family and girlfriend. Will they survive this holiday season...?"
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- 11/18/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Elvira Lind on The Letter Room and Bobbi Jene and her children with Oscar Isaac: “It’s different kinds of babies. The human babies and the film babies. They tend to come at the same time somehow.”
In her Oscar-nominated Live Action Short The Letter Room, starring Oscar Isaac with John Douglas Thompson, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, Tony Gillan, and Eileen Galindo, Elvira Lind explores loneliness in a variety of facets. Oscar Isaac’s poignant performance as corrections officer Richard pulls us in from the get-go. In the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, Elvira’s Bobbi Jene on performer Bobbi Jene Smith won all three Documentary Awards.
Corrections officer Richard (Oscar Isaac) in The Letter Room
The finely perceived details give The Letter Room wings. There is Cris (Petsos), a man on death row who receives the most poetic love notes from a woman named Rosita (Shawkat) and there is Jackson...
In her Oscar-nominated Live Action Short The Letter Room, starring Oscar Isaac with John Douglas Thompson, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, Tony Gillan, and Eileen Galindo, Elvira Lind explores loneliness in a variety of facets. Oscar Isaac’s poignant performance as corrections officer Richard pulls us in from the get-go. In the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, Elvira’s Bobbi Jene on performer Bobbi Jene Smith won all three Documentary Awards.
Corrections officer Richard (Oscar Isaac) in The Letter Room
The finely perceived details give The Letter Room wings. There is Cris (Petsos), a man on death row who receives the most poetic love notes from a woman named Rosita (Shawkat) and there is Jackson...
- 4/18/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In the Oscar-nominated Live Action Short The Letter Room, Elvira Lind (her Bobbi Jene in 2017 swept the Tribeca Film Festival documentary awards) explores loneliness in a variety of facets. Corrections officer Richard (Oscar Isaac) has long wanted a transfer to the communications department of the prison where he works. There is Cris (Brian Petsos), a man on death row who receives the most poetic love notes from a woman named Rosita (Alia Shawkat) and there is Jackson (John Douglas Thompson) who longs to hear from his estranged daughter.
Wishes oftentimes come true in unexpected ways and ideas of what communication work entails vary. Richard’s suggestions about improving inmates’ lives through animal-assisted therapy technique, fall on the deaf ears of the Warden (Eileen Galindo). Still he quickly embraces the challenges he is presented with as master of the letter room, where he scans correspondence for...
Wishes oftentimes come true in unexpected ways and ideas of what communication work entails vary. Richard’s suggestions about improving inmates’ lives through animal-assisted therapy technique, fall on the deaf ears of the Warden (Eileen Galindo). Still he quickly embraces the challenges he is presented with as master of the letter room, where he scans correspondence for...
- 3/15/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Elvira Lind on Richard (Oscar Isaac) in her Oscar-shortlisted The Letter Room: “He has aspirations and that incredible need to become someone who can change things and do something that is good.”
Corrections officer Richard (Oscar Isaac) has long wanted a transfer to the communications department of the prison where he works. Be careful what you wish for. His suggestions about improving inmates' lives through animal-assisted therapy technique, fall on the deaf ears of the Warden (Eileen Galindo). Still he quickly embraces the challenges he is presented with as master of the letter room. Ordered to wear gloves at all times, his gestures make it clear that Richard has never used a letter opener in his life before. A new world opens up. There is Cris (Brian Petsos), a man on death row who receives the most poetic love notes from a woman named Rosita (Alia Shawkat) and there is...
Corrections officer Richard (Oscar Isaac) has long wanted a transfer to the communications department of the prison where he works. Be careful what you wish for. His suggestions about improving inmates' lives through animal-assisted therapy technique, fall on the deaf ears of the Warden (Eileen Galindo). Still he quickly embraces the challenges he is presented with as master of the letter room. Ordered to wear gloves at all times, his gestures make it clear that Richard has never used a letter opener in his life before. A new world opens up. There is Cris (Brian Petsos), a man on death row who receives the most poetic love notes from a woman named Rosita (Alia Shawkat) and there is...
- 3/13/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
CBS All Access has made a number of new casting additions for the upcoming second season of the Why Women Kill series. Deadline reports that Virginia Williams, Jessica Phillips, and Eileen Galindo will recur on the drama. They join Allison Tolman, Nick Frost, Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario, and Veronica Falcón, who have been previously announced as regulars for the series.
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- 11/9/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Exclusive: Virginia Williams (Teenage Bounty Hunters), Jessica Phillips (Dear Evan Hansen) and Eileen Galindo (The Binge) are set for recurring roles in season 2 of CBS All Access’ original anthology series Why Women Kill. They join previously announced series regulars Allison Tolman, Nick Frost, Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario and Veronica Falcón in the series that hails from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS Studios.
This season of the dark comedy features a new ensemble cast and storylines set in 1949 that will explore what it means to be beautiful, the hidden truth behind the facades people present to the world, the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society, and finally, the lengths one woman will go in order to finally belong.
Williams will play Grace, one of the beautiful, wealthy, upscale women who are Rita’s (Parilla) friends and members of the exclusive garden society.
This season of the dark comedy features a new ensemble cast and storylines set in 1949 that will explore what it means to be beautiful, the hidden truth behind the facades people present to the world, the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society, and finally, the lengths one woman will go in order to finally belong.
Williams will play Grace, one of the beautiful, wealthy, upscale women who are Rita’s (Parilla) friends and members of the exclusive garden society.
- 11/6/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When it comes to building a voiceover career in New York, it's important to find what you do well and stick with it.Eileen Galindo has been a professional voiceover performer for 27 years, working in commercials, narration, Adr (dubbing or looping), and animation. She plays Dora's mom on the long-running Nickelodeon animated series "Dora the Explorer" and also voices Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro on the Disney Channel's "Phineas and Ferb." "In New York, it's important to garner all kinds of voiceover experience and try all styles, then find your niche and market yourself in that area," says Galindo. "No one does everything. You make a more consistent living if you know what you do well and perfect it."Fellow veteran performer Olga Merediz just finished almost three years on Broadway as Abuela Claudia in "In the Heights," for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. But for 29 years, she has...
- 2/9/2011
- backstage.com
Shakespeare's "King Lear," featuring alternating star turns by Dakin Matthews and Harry Groener; Rogue Machine's searing family drama "Four Places"; and Fountain Theatre's powerful "The Ballad of Emmett Till" are among the most-honored productions in the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's 42nd annual awards nominations, announced today. The annual citations salute excellence in L.A.-area theater productions during 2010. Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Burbank's Colony Theatre on March 14. Joining the aforementioned shows in contention for the coveted production award are the Fountain's "Opus," the Actors' Co-op's "Wit," and two world premiere offerings: Del Shores' "Yellow" (Coast Playhouse) and Tom Jacobson's "The Twentieth-Century Way" (Theatre @ Boston Court). Shores' "Yellow" has also been named as the recipient of the Ted Schmitt Award for outstanding world premiere script, accompanied by a $1,000 award from Samuel French, which also extends an offer to publish it.Among other special recipients...
- 1/25/2011
- backstage.com
Rita is a hyperactive whirlwind of a mom. Trying to protect son Matt from the past horrors that mark them both, she's single and not good at keeping a job. Mighty funny at times but mostly a tight, engaging character study with vibrant lead performances by Callie Thorne (TV's "Homicide") and Rufus Read ("Happiness"), "Double Parked" is a promising debut from director/co-writer Stephen Kinsella.
Winner of the Moviemaker Breakthrough Award at this year's Slamdance Film Festival in Park City and a crowd-pleaser at the recent Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival, "Double Parked" screened Wednesday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood as part of the American Cinematheque's Best of Slamdance evening. Touching and occasionally harrowing, as well as off the beaten path, this low-budget indie will remind some of "Sling Blade" and deserves a shot at reaching discerning audiences in art houses and on cable and video.
In Kinsella and Paul Solberg's screenplay, Rita (Thorne) and young Matt are first seen barely surviving a horrible relationship with a violent man. Ten years later, she's barely keeping them off the streets, and Matt (Read), a cheerful but fragile lad, is suffering from cystic fibrosis and a shortage of friends.
The thrust of the plot follows their separate but related tracks as Rita gets a job as a meter maid and Matt starts hanging out with a troublemaking schoolmate (Noah Fleiss). From pranks and petty crime to smoking a cigar, Matt flirts with more dangers than he knows. Protective, paranoid, rude, but mostly lovable, Rita is her own worst enemy -- that is, until Matt's evil father and all-around basher Warren (P.J. Brown) returns to shakes things up.
Thorne and Read are a marvel together. Matt's morning routine, dictated by his condition, and Rita's almost feverish intensity doing just about anything are indicative of the unique chemistry the actors achieve as characters who are bound by the struggle to survive but often are seen apart going through misadventures in living, working and growing up.
With an agreeable supporting cast that includes William Sage, Michelle Hurd and Eileen Galindo, "Double Parked" is a little too predictable in its overarching story of Rita's campaign to be rid of Warren, but there are many admirable achievements in Kinsella's no-frills approach.
DOUBLE PARKED
Fierce Films
a 44th Street Films production
Director:Stephen Kinsella
Screenwriters:Stephen Kinsella, Paul Solberg
Producers:Stephen Kinsella, Matthew Myers
Executive producer:Mark Montgomery
Director of photography:Jim Denault
Production designer:Anthony Gasparro
Editor:Seth E. Anderson
Costume designer:Monica Willis
Music:Craig Hazen, David Wolfert
Casting:Adrienne Stern
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ronaldi:Callie Thorne
Matt Ronaldi:Rufus Read
Bret:Noah Fleiss
Warren:P.J. Brown
Lola:Michelle Hurd
Karl Severson:William Sage
Dolores Gonzalez:Eileen Galindo
DiDonna:Cassandra Morris
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Winner of the Moviemaker Breakthrough Award at this year's Slamdance Film Festival in Park City and a crowd-pleaser at the recent Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival, "Double Parked" screened Wednesday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood as part of the American Cinematheque's Best of Slamdance evening. Touching and occasionally harrowing, as well as off the beaten path, this low-budget indie will remind some of "Sling Blade" and deserves a shot at reaching discerning audiences in art houses and on cable and video.
In Kinsella and Paul Solberg's screenplay, Rita (Thorne) and young Matt are first seen barely surviving a horrible relationship with a violent man. Ten years later, she's barely keeping them off the streets, and Matt (Read), a cheerful but fragile lad, is suffering from cystic fibrosis and a shortage of friends.
The thrust of the plot follows their separate but related tracks as Rita gets a job as a meter maid and Matt starts hanging out with a troublemaking schoolmate (Noah Fleiss). From pranks and petty crime to smoking a cigar, Matt flirts with more dangers than he knows. Protective, paranoid, rude, but mostly lovable, Rita is her own worst enemy -- that is, until Matt's evil father and all-around basher Warren (P.J. Brown) returns to shakes things up.
Thorne and Read are a marvel together. Matt's morning routine, dictated by his condition, and Rita's almost feverish intensity doing just about anything are indicative of the unique chemistry the actors achieve as characters who are bound by the struggle to survive but often are seen apart going through misadventures in living, working and growing up.
With an agreeable supporting cast that includes William Sage, Michelle Hurd and Eileen Galindo, "Double Parked" is a little too predictable in its overarching story of Rita's campaign to be rid of Warren, but there are many admirable achievements in Kinsella's no-frills approach.
DOUBLE PARKED
Fierce Films
a 44th Street Films production
Director:Stephen Kinsella
Screenwriters:Stephen Kinsella, Paul Solberg
Producers:Stephen Kinsella, Matthew Myers
Executive producer:Mark Montgomery
Director of photography:Jim Denault
Production designer:Anthony Gasparro
Editor:Seth E. Anderson
Costume designer:Monica Willis
Music:Craig Hazen, David Wolfert
Casting:Adrienne Stern
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ronaldi:Callie Thorne
Matt Ronaldi:Rufus Read
Bret:Noah Fleiss
Warren:P.J. Brown
Lola:Michelle Hurd
Karl Severson:William Sage
Dolores Gonzalez:Eileen Galindo
DiDonna:Cassandra Morris
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/23/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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