Interviews

When The Laugh Factory named her their ‘Fresh Face’ and People magazine declared Sherry Cola as ‘One to Watch,’ this Shanghai-born, LA-raised standup comedienne-turned-actress knew she was onto something. Cola (30) reprises her role as Alice Kwan, first-generation Asian-American in the third season of Good Trouble, a critically acclaimed series that addresses such subjects as the Black Lives Matter movement, LGBTQ rights, and gender bias in the workplace.

Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated writer-producer-director, Ken Mok makes his feature film directorial debut in the upcoming rom-com, The Right One.   Under his company’s banner, 10x10 Entertainment, Mok produced Invincible (2006) starring Mark Wahlberg, as well as the Golden Globe-nominated film Joy (2015) starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.

If you have never had the pleasure to escape to France, Ma Belle, My Beauty, introduces us first to Bertie and Fred (Lucien Guignard and Idella Johnson) who live in an exquisite farmhouse in the south of France. Recently married musicians, the couple are about to depart on a tour; that is if Fred can transition his wife out of her depressed state.

In Knocking, a psychological thriller by Swedish director Frida Kempff, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) has been discharged from a mental institution, and her life is set to begin when she moves into a new apartment. But just as a heatwave sets in, her habitat turns menacing.

Zendaya goes through an emotional roller coaster, psychological games, twists and turns in her movie Malcolm & Marie. The situation is triggered when her boyfriend, a film director (John David Washington) forgets to thank her during his speech at a premiere.

Mary Mouser, 24, reprises her role as Samantha LaRusso in Season Three of the acclaimed hit series, Cobra Kai, the spinoff from the popular Karate Kid movies. Mouser has been working since she was eight years old when she made her debut appearance in an episode of Without a Trace in 2004, and she hasn’t stopped working since.

Marisa Abela, who plays a trainee banker, Yasmin Hanani, is one of the breakout performers from the acclaimed series, Industry, a London-set drama about the world of high finance. Executive produced by Lena Dunham, Industry follows a group of 20-something graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank.

When Cajun American screenwriter and director Seth Savoy, 28, took his script to the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and won an independent pitch competition, it put him on a trajectory that would kick-start his career. Five years later, that pitch became the first building block in his debut feature film, Echo Boomers, the story of a group of broke and disillusioned college graduates who break into Chicago’s wealthiest homes.

Paul Greengrass has a penchant for putting his lead actor Tom Hanks in harm’s way. In their 2013 collaboration Captain Phillips, the British director made his two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor face off against Somali pirates.

The Russian thriller series To the Lake follows an unlikely group of people dealing with loss and unresolved interpersonal conflicts, all the while struggling to survive amidst a deadly epidemic. Uncannily prescient, the show debuted in 2019 and its depiction of violence and grief shocked viewers, but they were even more shocked when a mere two months later Russia’s first cases of the novel Coronavirus appeared, and the era of lockdown began.