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Interview: Olivia Newman – First Match | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab

Selected for SXSW Film Festival's Narrative Feature Competition, Olivia Newman's First Match (read review) picked up an audience award before quickly bowing over at Netflix....

First Match | Review

Newman Delivers a Nuanced Portrayal of a Troubled Wrestling Prodigy The physicality of wrestling lends itself to cinema, each movement part of a ballet. Matches...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #89. Olivia Newman’s First Match

First Match Based on the 2000 award-winning short (it played at the New York Film Fest), shot in Brooklyn, the feature film version was workshopped...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Olivia Newman’s First Match

Every edition of the Sundance Film Festival we find at least one of them. One of the festival's superpowers is short film programming, and...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Silas Howard’s A Kid Like Jake

A busy bee as of late directing notable television gigs such as Hudson Valley Ballers and Transparent, Silas Howard premiered his debut film at...

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