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Blindspotting
''Blindspotting'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and produced by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. The film is directed by Carlos López Estrada (in his feature directorial debut), and Diggs and Casal star alongside Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Wayne Knight. The plot follows a parolee with three days left on his sentence, only to have him witness a police shooting that threatens to ruin a lifelong friendship. Diggs and Casal, childhood friends in real life, wrote the screenplay in the mid-2000s, initially to speak for the city of Oakland, which they felt was often misrepresented in film. After years of delays, the pair's schedules finally allowed them to make the film, with principal photography beginning in June 2017. ''Blindspotting'' had its world premiere on January 18, 2018 in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film had a limited theatrical release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blindspotting (TV Series)
''Blindspotting'' is an American comedy-drama television series and a spin-off sequel of the 2018 film of the same name. Set six months after the events of the film, the series follows Ashley, who is forced to move in with the mother of Miles, her boyfriend and father of her son, after he is suddenly incarcerated. The series co-stars Jaylen Barron, Candace Nicholas-Lippman, Benjamin Earl Turner, and Atticus Woodward. The series was created and executive produced by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, writers, producers and lead stars of the original film, with Casal also acting as showrunner. Keith Calder, a producer on the original film, is also an executive producer, as well as actress Jasmine Cephas Jones. It premiered on June 13, 2021 on Starz. In October 2021, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 14, 2023. In September 2023, the series was canceled after two seasons. Plot Six months after the events in the film of the same name, Miles, Ashley' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daveed Diggs
Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping, and in 2015, he originated the dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical ''Hamilton'', for which he won a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Along with the main cast of ''Hamilton'', he was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year. Since leaving ''Hamilton'', he played a recurring role in the television series '' Black-ish'' (2016–2018) and co-starred in the films ''Wonder'' (2017), '' Velvet Buzzsaw'' (2019) and ''The Little Mermaid'' (2023). Diggs also wrote, produced, and starred in the 2018 film '' Blindspotting'', which earned him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead; he acted as creator, writer, and executive producer on the 2021 spin-off sequel television series ''Blindspotting'', in which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Cephas Jones
Jasmine Cephas Jones (; born July 21, 1989) is an American-British actress and singer who is best known for originating the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Broadway stage musical ''Hamilton''. Her work on ''Hamilton'''s accompanying cast album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. In 2020, Cephas Jones won a Creative Arts Emmy for portraying Tyisha in '' #freerayshawn''. Early life and education Jasmine Cephas Jones was born on July 21, 1989 in London, England but grew up in Midwood, Brooklyn. She is the daughter of actor Ron Cephas Jones (1957-2023), who was of African American heritage, and British-born jazz singer Kim Lesley, who is white. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and Berklee College of Music, and graduated from Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in 2011. Career Jones has made small appearances in multiple independent films, including ''Titus'' (2013) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Casal
Rafael Santiago Casal (born August 8, 1985) is an American writer, rapper, producer, director, actor, musician, and showrunner originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Early life Casal grew up in Berkeley and Oakland, California. He was expelled from Berkeley High School after two years but earned his diploma through an alternative independent study program. Casal later designed and served as creative director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’First WaveSpoken Word and Hip Hop Arts Program while earning a sociology degree at night. Casal has Irish ancestry on his mother's side, and Spanish and Cuban on his father's side. Career Poetry At 18, Casal appeared on 3 seasons of HBO's ''Def Poetry Jam'' while touring, performing, and teaching nationwide with YouthSpeaks. He is a two-time Brave New Voice Poetry Slam Festival champion. Music Casal has released several mixtapes online, including ''As Good As Your Word'' (2008), ''Monster'' (2009), and ''Mean Ones'' (2012). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos López Estrada
Carlos López Estrada (born September 12, 1988) is a Mexican-American filmmaker, music video director, commercial director, theatre director, and actor. Born in Mexico, he moved to the United States when he was 12 and later enrolled at Chapman University. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2018 with '' Blindspotting,'' which premiered opening night at Sundance 2018 and was subsequently released by Lionsgate Entertainment. His second film, '' Summertime,'' premiered opening night of Sundance 2020 and was released in July 2021. Carlos' third film, '' Raya and the Last Dragon,'' was released by Disney in March 2021 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards. Estrada and actress Kelly Marie Tran announced that they were establishing a new production company called Antigravity Academy in November 2022, intending to help produce entertainment from and about people from historically excluded communities. Film López Estrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski is an Australian composer known for his scores for feature films such as '' The Waiting City'', '' The Black Balloon'' (for which he won an APRA Award and a Screen Music Award), ''Newcastle'', and ''Thursday's Fictions'', as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir (such as an adaptation of Shaun Tan's book '' The Red Tree''), the National Museum of Canberra, Synergy Percussion and The Physical TV Company. In an interview with Headliner Magazine', Yezerski discussed composing the score for 2019 horror film, The Vigil: "Why have there been so many horror films that have explored the various denominations of Christianity and demons and devils and everything associated with Christianity, but there has hardly ever been a film that explores the dark side of Jewish mysticism? I'm Jewish myself, so this is exactly the question that I've been asking. What I love about horror films, and dark, edgy films, in ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utkarsh Ambudkar
Utkarsh Ambudkar ( ; born December 8, 1983), also known by his stage name UTK the INC, is an American actor, rapper, and singer. He is known for his film roles including '' Pitch Perfect'' (2012), '' Game Over, Man!'' (2018), '' Blindspotting'' (2018), ''Brittany Runs a Marathon'' (2019), ''The Broken Hearts Gallery'' (2020), ''Free Guy'' (2021), '' Tick, Tick... Boom!'' (2021), and '' World's Best'' (2023). His television roles include ''The Mindy Project'', '' White Famous'', ''Never Have I Ever'', '' Mira, Royal Detective'', and ''Ghosts''. He also appeared in the Hulu limited series '' The Dropout'' (2022). He made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda's improvisational hip-hop show '' Freestyle Love Supreme'' in 2019. Early life Utkarsh Ambudkar was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 8, 1983, into an Indian family to a Marathi father and a Tamil mother. He grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where his parents, who had emigrated from India in the 1980s, were researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Calder
Keith G. Calder (born 14 December 1979) is a British-born independent film producer best known for his work on ''All the Boys Love Mandy Lane'' (2006) and ''The Wackness'' (2008) with Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter. Career After graduating from the University of Southern California (USC) Peter Stark Producing Program in 2004, Calder and fellow Stark graduates Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter set up a production company, Occupant Films, in 2005. According to Calder, he joined together with Marino and Neurauter because "If you're by yourself in the industry, it's easy to convince yourself you're doing well. Having partners allows you to get an objective view." Through USC's writing division, the three producers found their first script, ''All the Boys Love Mandy Lane'' by Jacob Forman, within a week of starting the company. After its completion, the film was screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was bought by The Weinstein Company, though it was re-so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978), credited early in his career as Ethan Randall, is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, starring roles in the films '' Dutch'' (1991), '' All I Want for Christmas'' (1991), and '' A Far Off Place'' (1993), and appearing in the series "Murder She Wrote" in the episode "The Trouble with Seth" (original air date March 20, 1994). Embry had his breakout with a supporting role in ''Empire Records'' (1995) and starring roles in '' Evolver'' (1995) and '' That Thing You Do!'' (1996). In the late 1990s, Embry had the lead role in the teen comedy film '' Can't Hardly Wait'' (1998), starred in '' Vegas Vacation'' (1997) and '' Dancer, Texas Pop. 81'' (1998), and a main role as Sebastian on the CBS sitcom '' Work with Me'' (1999). In the 2000s, Embry starred in the films ''They'' (2002) and '' Vacancy'' (2007) and had main roles as Derek and Adam Barnes on the Fox television series '' FreakyLinks'' (2000–2001), Frank Smith on the ABC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina Gavankar
Janina Zione Gavankar (; born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician. She is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist and majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her roles include Eva "Papi" Torres on Showtime's ''The L Word'', Shiva on ''The League'', Leigh Turner on ''The Gates'', Luna Garza on HBO's ''True Blood'', McKenna Hall on The CW's ''Arrow'', and Diana Thomas on FOX's '' Sleepy Hollow'' as well as Qetsiyah/Tessa in the The CW's The Vampire Diaries in the marketing world Janina is known to have played the role of " Ms. Dewey", a personified search engine and virtual assistant for Microsoft. Early life Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Ganesh "Peter" Gavankar, a Marathi engineer from Mumbai, who first travelled to the U.S. to pursue a master's degree, and Shan Demohra "Mohra" Gavankar, of half-Marathi and half-Dutch descent from Pune, who also emigrated there from India. Career Gavankar has acted in theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Michelle Campbell (born October 13, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1986 rock musical comedy film ''Little Shop of Horrors'', and later starred on the NBC musical comedy drama ''Rags to Riches'' (1987–1988). She has appeared in films including ''School Daze'' (1988), '' Rooftops'' (1989), ''Another 48 Hrs.'' (1990), ''Boomerang'' (1992), and '' Sprung'' (1997). She received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for playing Sidney in the comedy film ''House Party'' (1990). She reprises the role of Sidney in the sequels ''House Party 2'' (1991) and ''House Party 3'' (1994). Campbell starred as Gina Waters-Payne in the Fox comedy series ''Martin'' (1992–1997) and as Janet "Jay" Marie Johnson-Kyle in the ABC comedy series '' My Wife and Kids'' (2001–2005), winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter. Her other television roles include ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Knight
Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played recurring roles such as Newman on the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on the NBC sitcom ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996–2001). Knight also voiced Igor on '' Toonsylvania'' (1998–1999), Mr. Blik on '' Catscratch'' (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on ''Legend of the Three Caballeros'' (2018). In film, he played Dennis Nedry in ''Jurassic Park'' (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Knight additionally acted in the films '' Dead Again'' (1991), '' JFK'' (1991), '' Basic Instinct'' (1992), '' To Die For'' (1995), '' Space Jam'' (1996), '' For Richer or Poorer'' (1997), and '' Rat Race'' (2001). He provided the voices of Tantor in ''Tarzan'' (1999), Al McWhiggin in ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), and The Elf Elder in '' Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon'' (2014). Early life Wayne Elliot Knight was born on August 7, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
