Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about HANNAH GROSS!
Filmmaker Nathan Silver is both a friend of mine and a perfect example of someone who, in making demanding, uncompromising work, must find support in word of mouth and not the various opportunities that accompany a big festival premiere. His latest, Uncertain Terms, which is set at a group home for pregnant teens, and stars Gina Piersanti, Hannah Gross and Tallie Medel, has yet to see the light of day on the circuit. Of course, Silver is hardly twiddling his thumbs: he is now in pre-production on his fifth feature, Stinking Heaven, which will star Keith Poulson, and reunite Gross with her I Used to Be Darker co-star, Deragh Campbell. Set in 1990, Stinking Heaven unfolds at a commune for recovering addicts, where harmony is tenuous at best — if you’re already sensing a trend in Silver’s work (a cacophonous confluence of unholy souls), that’s because he knows his wheelhouse.
Soft in the Head
As epitomized in Soft in the Head, which opens this Friday at New York’s Cinema Village, Silver thrives on the chaos that arises from his improvised, ensemble pressure cookers. As he says of his process on Stinking Heaven’s Kickstarter page,
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Hannah Gross (born September 25, 1990) is a Canadian actress . best known for her role as Debbie Mitford in the Netflix drama Mindhunter . she performed in Williams’ 1953 one-act play Talk to Me Like the Rain Gross played the lead female character in Charles Poekel’s film Christmas, Again . she also performed in Nathan Silver’s 2014 film Uncertain Terms . Gross starred in the Netflix drama Mindhunter in 2017 .