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Colman Domingo and Directors of ‘Daddio,’ ‘Los Frikis’ and ‘The Bikeriders’ Discuss the Hustle and Flow of Filmmaking on Variety Southern Storytellers Panel
Variety Southern Storytellers panel invited the creators behind 'Daddio,' 'Sing Sing,' 'Fight Night,' 'Los Frikis,' 'The Bikeriders' and 'My Dead Friend Zoe' to share their process.
Visiting Little Rock from his nearby hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Brewer explained how he and screenwriter Shaye Ogbonna found the central idea for his new miniseries, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” the first installment of which screened at Filmland in advance of its Sept. 5 premiere on Peacock. Nichols, who dreams of adapting “The Yankee Comandante,” a story by “The Killers of the Flower Moon” author David Grann about an American who fought in the Cuban revolution, personally invited “Los Frikis” to play the festival. An Army veteran whose debut feature, SXSW audience prize winner “ My Dead Friend Zoe,” was informed by his military service and the epidemic of comrades he’d lost to suicide, writer-director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes drew from personal experience when crafting the project.
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