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

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 (pictured here). The tentative working title for the film adaptation is "Orphan Rising." For more information on the film project and my collaborators, please go to https://www.kellygiles.com/film-project

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 (pictured here) and Nina Monica Scalabrin. The tentative working title for the film adaptation is "Orphan Rising." For more information on the film project and my collaborators, please go to https://www.kellygiles.com/film-project

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 (pictured here) and multi-talented Italian producers Claudia Moretto and Nina Monica Scalabrin. The tentative working title for the film adaptation is "Orphan Rising." For more information on the film project and my collaborators, please go to https://www.kellygiles.com/film-project

hanging out with Emily Qiu at last weekend's NewFilmMakers Los Angeles film festival, after a screening of her powerful, deeply moving short film Eternal Mother, which included a beautiful homage to Interstellar, & whose theme of a deeply loving parent-child relationship paralleled my father-son relationship in my debut memoir Killing Justice

hanging out with David Borenstein, OSCAR-WINNER as co-director of the powerful, deeply moving documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin)/LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this powerful, deeply moving OSCAR-WINNING documentary, as it documents, in darkly comic, absurdist fashion, how authoritarianism, abuse of power, and propanganda seek to try to poison the minds of the students who had become "found family" for Pavel (Pasha) Talankin, just as my debut memoir Killing Justice, documents, in darkly

hanging out with OSCAR-WINNER Natalie Musteata, cowriter & co-director of the absurdist darkly comic sci-fi short film Two People Exchanging Saliva, which shared the Oscar for best live action feature short film with The Singers, after a recent Wrap Pro screening of the Oscar Shorts Showcase at the Culver Theater. In her film, violence is not just accepted but normalized, whereas expressions of affection are not just discouraged but punished, and it's leaning into absurdist d

hanging out with Natalie Musteata, cowriter & codirector of the absurdist darkly comic sci-fi short film Two People Exchanging Saliva, which is nominated for the Cesars & The Oscars, for best live action feature short film after last night's Wrap Pro screening of the Oscar Shorts Showcase at the Culver Theater. In her film, violence is not just accepted but normalized, whereas expressions of affection are not just discouraged but punished, and it's leaning into absurdist dark

hanging out with music maker, sound explorer & fellow storyteller Owen Nathanael at The Night Temple event in Los Feliz last night, after he bought a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice

hanging out with Usman Ally , writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving short film Emigre Americana, after it screened at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles monthly film festival this past weekend...the film wrestles with the complicated nature of intergenerational immigrant trauma, especially in trying to distinguish "white saviors" from "white allies", in much the same way as my debut memoir Killing Justice wrestles with the complicated nature of intergenerational & adoptiv

hanging out with KPop Demon Hunters poster signed by the film's co-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans; LOVED this wildly entertaining, deeply moving film, with its central thematic tension between hiding your true self in order to belong versus being yourself mirroring that central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice, & even featuring a complicated adoptive relationship echoing the one at the heart of Killing Justice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JTVQTk36R8

Congratulations to Eva Victor and Naomi Ackie on their Film Independent Spirit Awards wins for Sorry, Baby...as it's a truly transcendent masterpiece written, directed by & starring Eva Victor, a tragicomic tale of healing from major trauma , as is my debut memoir Killing Justice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0jgWoZo9w

CONGRATS TO this powerful, darkly comic miniseries, Pee-Wee as Himself, which WON the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, as Paul Reubens' craving for control and fear of being himself are also central themes of my debut memoir Killing Justice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVx74C-RGDw&t=1s

hanging out with Shruti Parekh, after a NewFilmMakers Los Angeles screening of her wonderful, award-winning short film Zari, about "finding your people", which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfEcir7CjD4

Hanging out with my new friend Ava Marinos, after she bought a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice at AMC The Grove last night

hanging out with David Borenstein, co-director of the powerful, deeply moving documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, which is one of the 5 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary, & deservedly so!)/LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this powerful, deeply moving Oscar-nominated documentary, as it documents, in darkly comic, absurdist fashion, how authoritarianism, abuse of power, and propanganda seek to try to poison the minds of the students who had become "found family" for Pavel (Pasha) Talankin,