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You’d never known it back in the day when he was running around forests looking for "Blair Witches" and all that nonsense, but Joshua Leonard is a very smart guy. His directorial debut in scripted narrative The Lie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival under NEXT is a study both of our contemporary culture and a sociological situation that has existed for a long time and won’t go away anytime soon.

Written by Leonard with the participation of Jess Weixler, Mark Webber and Jeff Feuerzeig (director of The Devil and Daniel Johnston and an upcoming Untitled Chuck Wepner Project), I see this as a modern telling of Elia Kazan's The Arrangement, but do not take that to mean Leonard is conjuring Kirk Douglas in any way.

First-Rate Fib: Leonard's Debut Is A Strong, Unexpected and Original Gem

Padilha starting out in documentaries, with his classic Bus 174, he found another story he wanted to tell. After trying to document the inner workings of BOPE, the police force at the center of both Elite Squad films, he decided that there as a rule of filmmaking they left out in film school. A prerequisite of making a film is that the director much not die.

Krause somehow combines middle-American blonde hair, blue eyes girl-next-door with a partly Asian background, giving her eyes you can’t, um, take your eyes off of. Thankfully she's been keeping it real on the indie track. Krause’s next two roles come in much anticipated films, Jason Reitman’s Young Adult and Liza Johnson’s Return.