Exclusive: Meko Winbush, the Season 1 winner of Project Greenlight: A New Generation, has signed with Magnolia Entertainment for management.
A Max revival of HBO’s 2000s reality series that had up-and-coming filmmakers compete for the chance to helm their first feature, A New Generation specifically focused at launch on diverse, female filmmakers, having been shepherded by Miramax and Issa Rae’s production company Hoorae, with Kumail Nanjiani and Gina Prince-Bythewood joining Rae as mentors.
Winbush’s victory on the series led to her directing Gray Matter, a supernatural thriller scripted by Phil Gelatt, which debuted on Max in July. Pic centers on Aurora (Mia Isaac), who all her life has been told that she and her mother possess dangerous superhuman abilities. Shen then discovers, one fateful and fatal night, whether her mother has been speaking the truth.
An award-winning trailer editor and short film director, Winbush...
A Max revival of HBO’s 2000s reality series that had up-and-coming filmmakers compete for the chance to helm their first feature, A New Generation specifically focused at launch on diverse, female filmmakers, having been shepherded by Miramax and Issa Rae’s production company Hoorae, with Kumail Nanjiani and Gina Prince-Bythewood joining Rae as mentors.
Winbush’s victory on the series led to her directing Gray Matter, a supernatural thriller scripted by Phil Gelatt, which debuted on Max in July. Pic centers on Aurora (Mia Isaac), who all her life has been told that she and her mother possess dangerous superhuman abilities. Shen then discovers, one fateful and fatal night, whether her mother has been speaking the truth.
An award-winning trailer editor and short film director, Winbush...
- 8/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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