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We’ve updated our ABOUT page. Please see what’s new for news-makers - and all of our supporters!

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[ Announcement ] 📢

So excited to share that our first #podcast episode is almost here! 🗣🎙🔜

We’ll be talking with #Oakland-based #Writer / #Director, Benjamin MulHolland. 📽🎬

Ben is currently completing an @sffilm Artist in Residency with his green-lit feature, “The Lake Merritt Monster,” a #horrorfilm based, and being filmed in, Oakland, California.

For now, please BOOKMARK our podcast on #AnchorFm and be sure to connect with our #Patreon page as we develop content with our amazing community:

[ LINK IN BIO: https://anchor.fm/natasha-younge ]

Thank you for your continued support of this space! - admin

#YHBNEWSPOD #YHBNEWS #interview #radio #premiere #comingsoon #independentnews #independentmedia #entertainmentnews #indienews #independent #independentfilm #thelakemerrittmonstermovie #podcasting #womeninhollywood #womeninmedia #contentcreators #blackfilmmakers (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3D-3U4AhJT/?igshid=13eod68gomq2z

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Help us to build and sustain this newsmaker community for leading-edge creators:

Our History -

The Younge Hollywood Blast began in October 2011 as a digital publication created by Natasha Younge on Paper.li.

This independent media publication provides a platform for those who are most often overlooked: new and under-represented talent in all fields of entertainment. It champions the work of emerging Hollywood, all while staying at the leading-edge of trends in digital entertainment, highlighting indie film, web series, and much more.

Placing two years in a row and then winning in the category of #digitalmedia at the Shorty Awards in 2014 was a community effort. Paper.li subsequently offered the Blast a brand ambassadorship, which has allowed us to continue publishing your news for free! This unique act of generosity in turn inspired Natasha deeply to continue finding wider visibility for the growing community of news-makers.

Through community development, the Blast became a space where new voices from all genres of entertainment can be heard discussing their films, web series, acting projects and even crowdfunding.

Here is a sample of what we've accomplished here over the last five years:

Your daily news shared globally throughout our entire social network of now 20K+

Collaborative interview series,

Featured interview mini-series,

Free Crowdfunding Support with one of the most popular hashtags for six years. At it's high point, it was delivered to 1.6 million timelines weekly.

Our Future -

Now on a brand new website, and stretching into social media platforms, like Instagram, the Blast’s steady audience is growing. And so is my passion for helping our loyal news-making  community...

Next on the agenda is always raising your visibility.

In order to have the freedom to innovate, share your news in your own words, maintain the new website, and personally manage and facilitate our community group online, your support would contribute much.

Do you believe in the importance of keeping new and under-represented voices to the forefront in media about entertainment?

Then, I urge you to help the on-going development by either choosing a monthly show of support today (starting at $1), or by sharing our Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/youngehollywoodblast

Thank you!

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Announcing Episode 100 of Dispatches from Fort Awesome  

Since 2016, Dispatches from Fort Awesome (WNYXNewsRadio.com) has discussed the classic sitcom NewsRadio. 

Hosts Allen Rueckert, Jason Klamm and Jen have spoken with the writers, producers, cast and crew of the show, including Vicki Lewis, Khandi Alexander, creator Paul Simms and James Burrows. 

To mark their 100th episode, they pulled together cast for a staged reading of a partially-produced episode of the show, written by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil.  With special guest, producer Spider Chambers.

Learn more and tune into this episode here.

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Cast:

Chris Marcil as Narrator: https://twitter.com/ChrisMarcil

(he's also the co-author of the original 1996 episode)

Haley Sims as Beth: https://twitter.com/thehaleysims 

Alex Salem as Jimmy James: https://twitter.com/thealexsalem 

Eric Feltes as Matthew: https://twitter.com/ericfeltes 

Milan Carter as Joe: https://twitter.com/MilanKCarter

Natasha Younge as Catherine: https://twitter.com/natashayounge 

Allen Rueckert as Dave:  https://twitter.com/AllenRueckert 

Jen as Lisa

Jason Klamm as Bill McNeal: https://twitter.com/jklamm

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🔔 New post alert: . . Check out my entertainment industry blog @theyoungehollywoodblast. . . [ SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW: LILI BORDÁN ] . . 🔗 LINK IN BIO . . #blogger #blog #interview #YHBnews #YHBnewsmakers #director #directHERboost #directHER #actresslife #actresses #womeninfilm #womenfilmmakers #womeninentertainment #Hungary #USA #UK #LA #LosAngeles #indiefilms #webseries #independentfilm #television #awardwinning #Curtiz #LAReinita #TheNun #Westworld . Photo credit: @nikemartens. . . 🙌 Please comment on the article, repost, and subscribe to my blog. . . Want to be interviewed? Information at the end of the article. Thank you! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx–l5CAunF/?igshid=t59uy30up7br

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YHBNEWSMAKERS MEET-AND-GREET FEATURE:

From @NatashaYounge : “My contribution… is #awardwinning #shortfilm @knowmovie (dir. @alexgasaway) for #pridemonth. Created by a group of dynamic and talented new #womeninfilm. I had the opportunity to portray Andrea, a woman who returns home after many years away. Watch the film now for free at bit.ly/KnowMovie. Image courtesy Know movie and UnBecoming Films.” . . #YHBnewsmakers #meetandgreet #actorlife #actresslife #actress #blackactress #drama #dramatic #indiefilms #indiefilm #independentfilmmaker #lgbtfilms #lgbtqfilm #womenfilmmakers #InclusionMatters #timesup . . 👋 See our Friday, June 21 post and our IG story to participate in the community meet-and-greet this week! (at Pomona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzA_qsPBRK3/?igshid=1qkfc0h47vsqn

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When Orlando (Francisco Reyes) enters a rooftop supper-club in Santiago at the beginning of the film, he can’t take his eyes off Marina (Daniela Vega), a striking young vocalist who’s crooning lyrics about throwing her boyfriend out with the garbage because, she sings, his love “is like yesterday’s newspaper.”

She sings that line straight to Orlando, with a little smile. She’s definitely not throwing him away … she’s moving into his apartment as soon as they celebrate her 27th birthday.

But that night, things take a terrible turn. Orlando wakes up feeling ill. Marina rushes him to the hospital, where less than half an hour later, he dies due to an aneurysm.

At that point, Marina’s ordeal is only beginning. The doctors who couldn’t save Orlando look at Marina in the harsh hospital lighting and begin to treat her as a suspect. A policeman demands to see identification and frowns at the fact that the name on her ID card is “Daniel.”

A Fantastic Woman is Chile’s submission to this year’s Academy Awards, and it’ll be one of the five films up for best foreign language film on Oscar night. Director Sebastian Lelio often makes films with strong, complicated women at their centers — his 2013 awards-circuit hit, Gloria for instance. In Marina, he’s got a uniquely striking heroine, whom he is forever surrounding with mirrors and reflective surfaces, as if determined that we should see her from every possible angle.

‘A Fantastic Woman’ Is As Strong And Complicated As Its Star

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics

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Best of the best Bollywood female actresses according to filmfare history. Focus closely on Madhuri Dixit’s column and there’s no need to explain further.

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The Lunchbox (2013, Ritesh Batra)

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We recently met up with our stunt coordinator, Noel Vega (The Deadliest Warrior, Call of Duty) and are very excited to get into rehearsals and choreography with him. 

Speaking of which, in case you missed it during our campaign, check out this behind-the-scenes vignette of lead actress Julia Morizawa training at the National Wushu Training Center with Coach Matthew Osborne, and sharing about her past experiences as a competitive gymnasts and stunt-doubling for Lucy Liu.

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Commodore User Magazine | November, 1989

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"... it’s not as simple as #representationmatters in the #film industry... representation matters in #storytelling."

Read Maria A. Judice's interview with @WFILM Institute.