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Brianna Middleton and Stella Everett to Lead ‘Ride or Die’ Feature Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)


Brianna Middleton and Stella Everett have been cast in the feature adaptation of "Ride or Die," the short film by filmmaker Josalynn Smith.

Brianna Middleton and Stella Everett have been cast in leading roles for the feature adaptation of “ Ride or Die,” the short film by filmmaker Josalynn Smith. She made her feature film debut in Amazon Studios’ George Clooney-directed adaptation of “The Tender Bar,” based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer J.R. Moehringer’s memoir. They were honored with the Sundance Uprise Grant in 2021, awarded a residency at SFFILM as Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellow for their feature screenplay “Something in the Water,” and most recently, they were part of the 2022 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab for their pilot script “L’Amazone.” A graduate of Columbia University’s Film MFA program, their thesis short, “Something in the Water,” received the Sloan Foundation’s Production Grant.

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