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Writer-director Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, Stranger Inside) has signed with Echo Lake Management and Apa. Dunye, who is currently directing episodes of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar for Own, emerged as part of the “New Queer Cinema” wave of young filmmakers in the 1990s. Dunye has made over 15 films including Mommy Is Coming, The Owls, My Baby's Daddy, and HBO's Stranger Inside, which garnered her an Independent Spirit award nomination for Best Director. Her debut…...

‘Kinky (sex) film festival’ looking for entries: CineKink 2014 (image: ‘Strange Live Acts’) CineKink, which bills itself as "the kinky film festival," is looking for "films and videos, of any length and genre, that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality." In the last decade, CineKink has screened an eclectic mix of documentaries and narrative movies, camp comedies, and experimental efforts, ranging from the "mildly spicy" to no-holds-barred sexually explicit fare. According to its press release, CineKink is "dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television." Possible topics include "Bdsm, leather and fetish, swinging, non-monogamy and polyamory, roleplay and gender bending, sex work, and sex geekery." At CineKink 2013, entries included Cheryl Dunye’s romantic sex comedy Mommy Is Coming; Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All; Hunter Stone’s short Getting Off, in which a dying man "struggles valiantly to go out...

Some casting notes today. Here they are in brief: Logan Marshall Green (Devil) will play Tennessee Williams in the upcoming pic, Lonely Hunter, the feature film based on the life story of Southern gothic writer, Carson McCullers. Gina Gershon (Face/Off) and Peter Stormare (Fargo) will join the indie, Mall, replacing Chelsea Handler and Eric Bogosian due to scheduling difficulties. Hit the jump for more. First up is the announcement that Marshall Green will play the famed playwright, Tennessee Williams, opposite Jena Malone's (Contact) McCullers, the novelist behind "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Williams was McCuller’s best friend and longtime confidant and described Carson’s major theme in her writing as “the huge importance and nearly insoluble problems of human love.” Written by Deborah Kampmeier (Hounddog) and Sarah Schulman (Mommy Is Coming), Lonely Hunter is slated to shoot later this year as additional casting is underway. Director...