Fifth Season Boards Indie TV Drama ‘Recap’ Starring Corey Stoll & Julia Stiles

 

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season is headed into the LA Screenings on board Recap, the indie television series starring Corey Stoll and Julia Stiles.

 

International distribution rights to the series from Kimberly Steward’s K Period Media have gone to Fifth Season, which has shared a first-look image with Deadline that you can see above. We revealed news of the series in November 2025, as the independently-financed revolution in scripted TV making kept up apace.

POC Content Accelerator Rideback Rise Sets 2026 Fellows

 

EXCLUSIVE: Rideback Rise, the non-profit content accelerator that supports mid-career POC writers and filmmakers in developing commercial entertainment to propel narrative change, on Friday announced the members of its 2026 Fellowship who will be financially and creatively supported as they develop market-ready television and film projects, including fully spec’d screenplays and pilots. 

Corey Stoll & Julia Stiles To Star In Indie Series ‘Recap’ From K Period Media

 

EXCLUSIVE: The independent television resurgence continues with Corey Stoll and Julia Stiles starring in the latest fully-financed indie series. 

THE 2019 YOUNG & HUNGRY LIST IS HERE!

 

For the ninth year in a row, The Tracking Board has worked with our industry voters to compile a list of the top 100 up-and-coming writers across the entertainment arena.  

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HOW DO YOU FIND THE NEXT GENERATION OF DIRECTING TALENT?

 

Behind the Viacom development program that creates opportunity for industry outsiders. 

On and All the Way Up: Our 2019 Film Independent Episodic Lab Fellows

 

Film Independent’s Episodic Lab today announces its 2019 Lab Fellows as well as the recipient of our $10,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Independent Episodic Lab grant.

Imagine Impact 2 Sets Roster Of Creators And Mentors

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Imagine Entertainment has set its roster of participants of Impact 2, the inventive program where the company empowers outside voices, “creators,” paying the newcomers accepted to the program to develop TV series and movies under the watchful eye of “shapers,” a group of established industry writers and showrunners.

 

Academy Announces 2015 Student Academy Award Finalists

 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its 2015 Student Academy Awards finalists Friday. The awards were established in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past winners include John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Robert Zemeckis.