Audio short story FuGaZi available on Audible .
Produced by Safe Haven. Written and directed by Janina Gavankar & Russo Schelling. With performances by Sam Witwer, Ahmed Best, Louis Herthum, and Bernard White.
‘True Blood’: HBO Max To Launch Podcast With Kristin Bauer & Deborah Ann Woll, Produced By Janina Gavankar’s Safe Haven
EXCLUSIVE: True Blood is the latest high-end drama series to get its own rewatch podcast series.
Kristin Bauer, who played vampire Pam De Beaufort, and Deborah Ann Woll, who played vampire Jessica Hamby, will host Truest Blood, which is produced by Safe Haven Productions, the company run by True Blood co-star Janina Gavankar.
The audio series will launch on HBO Max, which recently moved into podcasts, as well as on other podcast platforms…
Janina Gavankar & Russo Schelling Writing Femme Monster Movie For 108
EXCLUSIVE: The Way Back and The Morning Show actress Janina Gavankar is writing and starring in a female-driven monster movie based on the ancient Hindu myth of the Rakshasa. 108 Media will finance and produce the pic.
Gavankar co-wrote the feature with her creative partner Russo Schelling. The myth of Rakshasa is a bloodthirsty demon that makes mankind its prey, after being banished from the realm of the gods and forced to live among men. The project follows Gavankar and Schelling’s co-directed short film Stucco, which won the Special Jury Recognition for Creature Design prize at SXSW 2020…
Gavankar Shares Ben Affleck’s Memorable Reaction to Her Short Film
“I told Ben the whole entire thing. I pitched him the whole story. I pitched him the tongue sequence, which is a pretty intense moment,” she explained. “We love magical realism, my creative partner and I, but that means we have to really pitch ideas to as many people as we can to make sure that what we’re trying to do is not lost behind the gag.”
“So, I pitched the tongue sequence to Ben and he just twisted up his little face and I was like, ‘I really got something.'”…
SXSW Film Festival Unveils 2020 Winners After Cancellation
Special Jury Recognition for Creature Design: Stucco
Director: Janina Gavankar, Russo Schelling
“We wish to highlight the beautifully grotesque and deeply unsettling creature design of Stucco. Clive Barker would be proud, which is why we award the short the Special Jury Recognition for Creature Design!”…
HORROR SHORT 'STUCCO' DIRECTORS EXPLAIN HOW TO MAKE OUT WITH A WALL — AND LAND A-LIST CAMEOS
If your house is spewing forth hair, slime, loose teeth, or some combination of all three, you may want to call an exorcist... or the writing/directing duo Janina Gavankar and Russo Schelling. Yesterday, SYFY WIRE exclusively debuted the pair's new short horror film, Stucco, a uniquely cinematic parable about the monstrous nature of depression and anxiety.
The idea for the project was derived from real-life experiences with mental illness, but the decision to express that via the horror route came about half a decade ago….