Prolific producer Stephanie Allain has inked a first-look film producing deal with Endeavor Content.
One of Hollywood’s most prolific African American producers, Allain’s filmography includes producing “Dear White People” (the film and series for Netflix), “Hustle & Flow,” Robert Rodriguez’s “El Mariachi & Desperado” and John Singleton’s “Poetic Justice,” “Higher Learning” and the late filmmaker’s directorial debut “Boyz ‘N the Hood.”
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, co-presidents, Endeavor Content, said in a statement.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris, and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain added.
An Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and Image Awards winner,...
One of Hollywood’s most prolific African American producers, Allain’s filmography includes producing “Dear White People” (the film and series for Netflix), “Hustle & Flow,” Robert Rodriguez’s “El Mariachi & Desperado” and John Singleton’s “Poetic Justice,” “Higher Learning” and the late filmmaker’s directorial debut “Boyz ‘N the Hood.”
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, co-presidents, Endeavor Content, said in a statement.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris, and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain added.
An Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and Image Awards winner,...
- 1/7/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Stephanie Allain, the veteran producer who championed John Singleton’s “Boyz N the Hood” and produced “Hustle & Flow,” has signed a first look producing deal with Endeavor Content.
Allain produced last year’s Oscars ceremony and recently served as an executive producer on the TV adaptation of “Dear White People.” She’s won multiple Independent Spirit Awards and NAACP and Image Awards, and is also Emmy-nominated for her work on the Oscars.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain said in a statement.
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” said Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, co-presidents of Endeavor Content.
Allain produced last year’s Oscars ceremony and recently served as an executive producer on the TV adaptation of “Dear White People.” She’s won multiple Independent Spirit Awards and NAACP and Image Awards, and is also Emmy-nominated for her work on the Oscars.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain said in a statement.
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” said Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, co-presidents of Endeavor Content.
- 1/7/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Endeavor Content has set a first-look producing deal with Stephanie Allain for feature films.
Allain is the producer who has won Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and Image Awards, and who became the first woman of color to produce the Academy Awards when she teamed with Lynette Howell Taylor. They were Emmy nominated for their work producing last year’s 92nd Academy Awards. Her TV deal remains at Warner Bros.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain said.
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” said Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, Co-Presidents of Endeavor Content.
The movie deal that started Allain...
Allain is the producer who has won Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and Image Awards, and who became the first woman of color to produce the Academy Awards when she teamed with Lynette Howell Taylor. They were Emmy nominated for their work producing last year’s 92nd Academy Awards. Her TV deal remains at Warner Bros.
“I am beyond excited to work with Graham, Chris and everyone at Endeavor Content to produce movies that entertain and impact audiences around the world,” Allain said.
“Stephanie’s fierce advocacy for diverse filmmakers is matched only by her exceptional eye and discerning taste, and we are honored to be working with her to produce content that best reflects the world we live in,” said Graham Taylor and Chris Rice, Co-Presidents of Endeavor Content.
The movie deal that started Allain...
- 1/7/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has put in development Modern Austen, a contemporary reimagining of Jane Austen’s novels, from writer Eleanor Burgess (Perry Mason), Stephanie Allain’s Homegrown Pictures and Warner Bros TV, where Allain is under a deal.
Written by Burgess, Modern Austen is a one-hour anthology series that reimagines Austen’s beloved novels as six modern stories, offering a kaleidoscopic look at love and family in our time of inequality and disconnection. Each season is a different novel, beginning with Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary San Francisco.
Burgess executive produces with Homegrown Pictures’ Allain. Gabrielle Ebron, creative executive at Homegrown, serves as a producer. Warner Bros TV is the studio.
Burgess is a writer on HBO’s Perry Mason reboot, which has been renewed for a second season. She is eith Management 360 and attorney Rob Szymanski.
Allain produced the 2020 Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor and made history...
Written by Burgess, Modern Austen is a one-hour anthology series that reimagines Austen’s beloved novels as six modern stories, offering a kaleidoscopic look at love and family in our time of inequality and disconnection. Each season is a different novel, beginning with Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary San Francisco.
Burgess executive produces with Homegrown Pictures’ Allain. Gabrielle Ebron, creative executive at Homegrown, serves as a producer. Warner Bros TV is the studio.
Burgess is a writer on HBO’s Perry Mason reboot, which has been renewed for a second season. She is eith Management 360 and attorney Rob Szymanski.
Allain produced the 2020 Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor and made history...
- 11/13/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephanie Allain, who most recently co-produced the 2020 Academy Awards, has closed a multi-year first-look deal at Warner Horizon Scripted Television, marking her first TV studio deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the pact, Allain will develop new scripted programming for cable and on-demand/streaming services, as well as broadcast networks through the divisions of the Warner Bros. Television Group.
Allain produced the 2020 Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor and made history as the first African American woman in the Academy’s 92-year history to do so.
Allain, a champion of diverse voices in cinema, founded female-led Homegrown Pictures in 2003, a company which produces content by and about women and people of color. She has since produced award-winning titles including Hustle & Flow, Something New, Peeples, Beyond The Lights, Dear White People, French Dirty, Burning Sands, Juanita and The Weekend. Collectively, Homegrown Pictures projects have been nominated for over 100 awards...
Allain produced the 2020 Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor and made history as the first African American woman in the Academy’s 92-year history to do so.
Allain, a champion of diverse voices in cinema, founded female-led Homegrown Pictures in 2003, a company which produces content by and about women and people of color. She has since produced award-winning titles including Hustle & Flow, Something New, Peeples, Beyond The Lights, Dear White People, French Dirty, Burning Sands, Juanita and The Weekend. Collectively, Homegrown Pictures projects have been nominated for over 100 awards...
- 2/11/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“American Fringe: A New Look at American Independent Cinema” will officially launch this November as part of the Festival d’Automne. This new film series, which will take place from November 25 to November 27, will screen eight recent American independent feature films that collectively and individually capture the irreverence and innovation that have always been at the heart of that movement.
Produced by The Arts Arena, a Parisian nonprofit initiative in the visual arts, performing arts, film and issues of culture and society, the organization has just announced the lineup.
Read More: Parisian Arts Initiative Launching ‘American Fringe’ Film Series in 2016
Organized and selected by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, and Alessia Palanti, the duo know that recently there has been an enormous growth in the number of indie films and documentaries created. With “American Fringe” they hope to celebrate a slew of works that still...
Produced by The Arts Arena, a Parisian nonprofit initiative in the visual arts, performing arts, film and issues of culture and society, the organization has just announced the lineup.
Read More: Parisian Arts Initiative Launching ‘American Fringe’ Film Series in 2016
Organized and selected by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, and Alessia Palanti, the duo know that recently there has been an enormous growth in the number of indie films and documentaries created. With “American Fringe” they hope to celebrate a slew of works that still...
- 9/27/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Top brass announced on Tuesday the 42 world premieres selected for the Us Fiction, Documentary, World Fiction, La Muse, and Nightfall Competitions to screen at the festival, set to run from June 1-9 in Los Angeles.
Derrick Borte’s London Town (UK), Maria Govan’s Play The Devil (pictured, Trinidad-Bahamas-usa) are among the World Fiction Competition entries, while Amber Tamblyn’s Paint It Black (USA) plays in the Us Fiction Competition.
The Documentary Competition includes Out Of Iraq (Canada-Iraq-Lebanon-usa) by Eva Orner and Chris McKim, and Darren Lynn Bousman’s Abattoir (USA) plays in genre section Nightfall, and Actors Of Sound (Argentina-Finland-Germany-India-Ireland-usa) screens in the La Muse programme.
Across the five feature competition categories, 43% of the films are directed by women and 38% by people of colour.
As previously announced, the opening night film is the world premiere of Ricardo De Montreuil’s Lowriders, while this year’s guest director is Ryan Coogler. Ava DuVernay and Array...
Derrick Borte’s London Town (UK), Maria Govan’s Play The Devil (pictured, Trinidad-Bahamas-usa) are among the World Fiction Competition entries, while Amber Tamblyn’s Paint It Black (USA) plays in the Us Fiction Competition.
The Documentary Competition includes Out Of Iraq (Canada-Iraq-Lebanon-usa) by Eva Orner and Chris McKim, and Darren Lynn Bousman’s Abattoir (USA) plays in genre section Nightfall, and Actors Of Sound (Argentina-Finland-Germany-India-Ireland-usa) screens in the La Muse programme.
Across the five feature competition categories, 43% of the films are directed by women and 38% by people of colour.
As previously announced, the opening night film is the world premiere of Ricardo De Montreuil’s Lowriders, while this year’s guest director is Ryan Coogler. Ava DuVernay and Array...
- 4/26/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The La Film Festival has unveiled the official U.S. Fiction, Documentary, World Fiction, Nightfall and La Muse sections. The festival runs June 1-9 at the ArcLight Cinemas. “Our Programming team, led by Roya Rastegar and Jennifer Cochis, killed it,” said festival director Stephanie Allain. “The competition lineup of 42 world premieres echoes Film Independent’s mission to celebrate diversity and showcases a multitude of innovative, fresh voices. We can’t wait to share these films with audiences and industry alike, and, following years which saw films like ‘Meet the Patels,’ ‘Code Black,’ ‘Nightingale,’ ‘The Drew,’ ‘Out of My Hand’ and...
- 4/26/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Screening tonight, Sunday, April 24, at New Voices in Black Cinema Festival at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NYC, is the debut feature film from brothers Wade Allain-Marcus and Jesse Allain-Marcus, titled "French Dirty" - the festival's closing night film, at 7pm. The quintessentially Los Angeles dramedy stars Wade Allain-Marcus as Vincent, a child of divorce, turning 30 years old, seemingly aimless, but in search of himself. The screening of this freewheeling, exuberantly inventive indie dramedy will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. It will be preceded by a screening of Pedro Bermudez’s short film "Hasta Mañana" - a...
- 4/24/2016
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
Screening at the upcoming New Voices in Black Cinema Festival, which runs April 21 to 24 at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NYC, is the debut feature film from brothers Wade Allain-Marcus and Jesse Allain-Marcus, titled "French Dirty," which will screen as the festival's closing night film, on April 24 at 7pm. The quintessentially Los Angeles dramedy stars Wade Allain-Marcus as Vincent, a child of divorce, turning 30 years old, seemingly aimless, but in search of himself. The screening of this freewheeling, exuberantly inventive indie dramedy will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. For tickets (which are now on sale) and other info about the film and...
- 4/15/2016
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
How is there no French name for the 30 crisis film? Possibly there will be in the future. The “quarter life” crisis that accompanies turning 30 has long been a staple of the cinema (isn’t "Rocky" ultimately a 30 crisis film?) but it seems to have taken on a new layer of importance in the last 20 years. As adulthood withers and people cling to their youth for longer and longer, 30 has become the new age for coming-of-age stories. The new film "French Dirty," directed by brothers Wade and Jesse Allain-Marcus, addresses that crisis and explores how it effects the generation after my own. The film is uneven, but such is the nature of debut films. In the end, what the...
- 6/18/2015
- by Brandon Wilson
- ShadowAndAct
At a Wednesday afternoon cocktail reception on the downtown La Live rooftop, the festival revealed its 2015 winners. Hosted by La Film Fest programmers Roya Rastegar and Jennifer Cochis, the event feted many of the festival's world and North American premieres, and twice toasted Mexico-set crime melodrama "Pocha (Manifest Destiny)," which nabbed both a special jury honor and an audience award. Special prizes went to runners-up that also included "The Babushkas of Chernobyl," "White Moss," "Ayana and the Mechanic," "Crumbs," "Dude Bro Party Massacre" and to "French Dirty" supporting actress Elsa Biedermann. Read More: Los Angeles Film Festival Picks a Closing Night, 8 Films to See Altogether the festival hosted juried awards for U.S. Fiction, World Fiction, Documentary, Zeitgeist, La Muse, and Nightfall, as well as Best Short Fiction and Best Short Documentary. Audience awards were presented to Best Fiction...
- 6/17/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Set to make its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival next month is the debut feature film from brothers Wade Allain-Marcus and Jesse Allain-Marcus, titled "French Dirty," which will screen as part of the fest's La Muse section - a competitive slate of indies that are "quintessentially Los Angeles." The dramedy stars Wade Allain-Marcus as Vincent, a child of divorce, seemingly aimless, but in search of himself. Further: "Untethered to a job or any real responsibilities, he hangs out with Steve, his childhood best friend, and Jess, his girlfriend. That is until the moment he meets Roma. The chemistry is undeniable, but Vincent is still involved...
- 5/21/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The world premiere of cult web series creators 5-Second Films’ first feature Dude Bro Party Massacre III will screen at the upcoming festival as top brass introduced the Zeitgeist and Nightfall sections.
The festival, set to run from June 10-18, announced programming in both strands as well as the second edition of La Muse strand.
Associate director of programming and curated content Roya Rastegar said Zeitgeist comprised films that speak to pivotal junctures in the lives of young people.
Zeitgeist programme encompasses six world premieres of Us films: Band Of Robbers by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee; A Girl Like Grace by Ty Hodges; In The Treetops by Matthew Brown; Manifest Destiny by Michael Dwyer and Kaitlin McLaughlin; Stealing Cars by Bradley Kaplan; and What Lola Wants by Rupert Glasson.
Describing Nightfall, senior programmer Jennifer Cochis said the films were designed to make audiences squirm.
Films premiering for the first time in the Us are nominated for the...
The festival, set to run from June 10-18, announced programming in both strands as well as the second edition of La Muse strand.
Associate director of programming and curated content Roya Rastegar said Zeitgeist comprised films that speak to pivotal junctures in the lives of young people.
Zeitgeist programme encompasses six world premieres of Us films: Band Of Robbers by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee; A Girl Like Grace by Ty Hodges; In The Treetops by Matthew Brown; Manifest Destiny by Michael Dwyer and Kaitlin McLaughlin; Stealing Cars by Bradley Kaplan; and What Lola Wants by Rupert Glasson.
Describing Nightfall, senior programmer Jennifer Cochis said the films were designed to make audiences squirm.
Films premiering for the first time in the Us are nominated for the...
- 4/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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