Destiny joined Deadline in September 2022 from Netflix’s pop-culture news site Tudum and a freelance writing career that includes bylines at Oscars.org, Marvel, IGN, TV Guide, Script Magazine, Backstage, Filmmaker Magazine and MovieMaker Magazine to name a few. When not stuck behind her laptop, she can be found haunting her local cinema, listening to Coldplay (unironically) or looking for pictures of Spider-Man. She is based in Los Angeles.
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains major details for Sorry, Baby.
Despite the film’s heartbreaking subject matter, Eva Victor is all smiles during our interview. Sorry, Baby, written and directed by Victor, who also stars, is a dark dramedy that centers around Agnes (Victor), a college…
After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of documenting and crafting her family's Japanese and Japanese American legacy has come full-circle at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Whitney tells Deadline. In her first…
The tough conversation surrounding the safety and citizenship of those fleeing poverty, famine or war is at the forefront of Naomi Sheridan’s Kiki. The 14-minute short film focuses on a young girl named Adamma (Saoirse Azwihangwisi O’Connor) and her father, Jide (Derek Ugochukwu), both Nigerian…
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based production company Misia Films has released a new full-length trailer for Two People Exchanging Saliva, a 36-minute short film starring Zar Amir (Holy Spider), Luàna Bajrami (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), who also serves as the…
SPOILER ALERT:This interview contains major details of Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yōtei.EXCLUSIVE: When the snow melts, buried secrets are sometimes unearthed. Sucker Punch's latest critically acclaimed video game, Ghost of Yōtei, is a Hokkaido-based revenge tale that follows Atsu (Erika Ishii)…
SPOILER ALERT:This interview contains major details of Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Yōtei.
What happens when the flames of rage consume your soul well past your breaking point? Sucker Punch's latest video game, Ghost of Yōtei, aims to answer that question and then some in a well-crafted tale of…
It's time to trade in the yellow raincoat and paper bags for arrows and wrenches. The popular Bandai Namco childlike-horror franchise Little Nightmares is back and with more disturbances in tow. Partnering with Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games, after the former developers Tarsier Studios were…
When words are not enough, music emerges to heal broken family bonds in the melodic drama Dust to Dreams. Written and directed by Idris Elba, the Nigerian-based short film, also produced by EbonyLife media mogul Mo Abudu, follows Millicent (Nse Ikpe-Etim), a beneficiary of her late father's…
As cliché as it sounds, with great power comes great responsibility. Aiming to fill a void in the female nerd and nerds of color space on screen, filmmaker Cheyenne Ewulu followed the bat signal. Created by Ewulu, The Comic Shop is a workplace mockumentary YouTube web series that follows the shop…
Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody can agree on the solution to eat the rich. In Joey J. Haley's political tête-à-tête Spies in Corsets, two secret agents argue about how to properly dismantle a system of oppression. Following three months of meticulous preparation, Marcy (Chloe Baldwin)…
As a child, you usually don't have the option to possess your own agency. However, in the case of a young Dominican American boy, he must choose between telling the truth or lying to protect the livelihood of those he loves. Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz's When Big People Lie, co-written by Pablo Cervera…
Nothing is better than being able to live freely as you are and in your own skin without persecution. In the stop-motion animated short, Two Black Boys in Paradise, directed and co-written by Baz Sells, based on the poem by award-winning writer Dean Atta, enduring love is the endgame. The film, which…