YAY!...I finally found time to start my Canada Council for the Arts grant application!...& finally got my 30,000th LInkedIn connection...

hanging out with the luminous Havana Rose Liu, after watching her deeply moving performance in the wonderful crime thriller Tuner, courtesy of Film Independent, at the London West Hollywood earlier tonight, after offering her a role in our upcoming film, inspired by my debut memoir Killing Justice

hanging out with Jonathan Glatzer, creator of the darkly comic, deeply moving tech industry satire The Audacity, an Emmy-winning writer who previously worked on “Succession” and “Better Call Saul”, after I had a chance to see the series premiere episode at The London West Hollywood yesterday, followed by a Q&A with Jonathan Glatzer, as well as two of its lead actors, Billy Magnussen and Simon Helberg...I especially loved the 3 children who are featured in the show, as each of

doing an artist exchange with my Lebanese Australian foster kid singersongwriter friend Yagki after her kickass headlining set at the Viper Room Thursday...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1cCwtMdUM

hanging out with my new friend, the film composer Gabriele Deliperi, after he bought a copy of Killing Justice at the most recent Night Temple event in Hollywood on April 18th

hanging out with Gregory Jbara, director of the wonderful new film "Original Sound" which features a father/son relationship not unlike the mother/son relationship at the heart of Killing Justice, & which opens this Friday, 4/24

poster for the new Michael movie, which I got to see an advance screening of just now at UCLA's James Bridges Theater, & LOVED it, as what especially resonated for me was his decades long journey to break free from his domineering father, which mirrored my own decades long journey to break free from my domineering adoptive mom, which is at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, now being adapted for the screen as Orphan Rising)/...it opens NEXT FRIDAY, 3/24, SO GO SEE

hanging out with actor Robert Aramayo, who stars in the wildly entertaining, deeply moving new film I Swear, which does for those with Tourettes what I wanna keep doing in both my life (volunteering with) & art (poetry, memoir Killing Justice & upcoming film Orphan Rising) for Foster Kids & Adoptees: helps them feel SEEN!...it opens NEXT FRIDAY, 4/24, so GO SEE IT!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwC2GKi3iA

hanging out with Yihui Hu, writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving short film He, which parallels fosterchild and immigrant trauma, as does my debut memoir Killing Justice, after it screened as part of the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles film festival this past weekend

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this darkly comic psychological thriller, which opens THIS FRIDAY! (SO GO SEE IT)...as with Ian McKellen in superbly crotchety form and Michaela Coel exuding chilly cunning, it’s further proof that Soderbergh remains one of American cinema’s most inimitable, and adventurous, auteurs...I especially love how the film explores the healing power of art, as does Killing Justice.

hanging out with Sammy Jaye , podcast host & now director of the film-in-progress ‘ENDO’, which is a feature-length documentary that aims to ignite a cultural conversation around endometriosis– a silent, painful and ravaging disease that affects more than 265 million women globally. Featuring Brittany Brown , Julianne Hough and Amy Schumer, it will be released on June 1st, 2026, the 100th anniversary of my cousin Marilyn Monroe's birthday, as she was probably the most famous

hanging out with Jaeden Martell, after watching his mesmerizing performance in Our Hero, Balthazar, a black-comic acid bath, a complex, whip-smart, empathetic work that is uncommonly perceptive on topics such as wealth inequality, growing isolation, and obsession with violence in the United States, a scathing, audacious look at our wayward and social media indoctrinated youth, their selfish and manipulative parents and America’s lunatic gun culture. Although this film's centr

hanging out with Asa Butterfield, after watching his mesmerizing performance in Our Hero, Balthazar, a black-comic acid bath, a complex, whip-smart, empathetic work that is uncommonly perceptive on topics such as wealth inequality, growing isolation, and obsession with violence in the United States, a scathing, audacious look at our wayward and social media indoctrinated youth, their selfish and manipulative parents and America’s lunatic gun culture. Although this film's cent

hanging out with my Killing Justice Film Project team in our latest status update meeting just now, including award-winning filmmaker Bernard Gray in Toronto, & multi-talented producers Claudia Moretto & Nina Monica Scalabrin in Italy

hanging out with Remi & Tjandra, the cool couple who welcomed me into their home while I was up in the Vancouver area Thursday/Friday opening Canadian bank accounts so that we can begin applying for filmmaker grants to help us in adapting Killing Justice for the screen

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this raw, emotionally devastating film, which I watched flying back from Vancouver last night...as it has the resonance of a deeply personal work. It’s a testimony in textures of what it feels like to venture willingly into someone else’s trauma, resentment, grief, and shame, and to just be with them there, in that trouble...The return of Day-Lewis is worth the price of admission... It’s a typically spine-tingling performance from the Oscar-winner, who does i

hanging out with my dear friend & fellow artiste Betty Bishop at a screening of the wildly entertaining, darkly comic horror movie They Will Kill You at USC tonight, one of the central themes of which is "the cost of belonging", which is also a central theme of Killing Justice

poster for The Fall, which I just streamed on mubi, a cinematic masterpiece of visual storytelling, whose staggeringly beautiful and captivating visuals echo the brilliant and indelible visual grandeur of directors Akira Kurosawa and Alejandro Jodorowsky, as the 2 central characters transform their wounds into wonder, much as I did in Killing Justice, & as my team & I will be doing with its screen adaptation

We are currently in the initial stages of adapting Killing Justice for the screen. I will be adapting my memoir in partnership with award-winning Canadian filmmaker Bernard Gray and multi-talented Italian producers Claudia Moretto and Nina Monica Scalabrin (all pictured here). The tentative working title for the film adaptation is "Orphan Rising."...for more information about the project and my collaborators, go to ... https://www.kellygiles.com/film-project

Hanging out with my new actor friend Kayleigh Shikanai & another new friend at the American Film Convention back in 2024, where I pitched my book to producers, long before I met Bernard Gray & the dream of adapting my book for the screen finally began to move towards becoming a reality