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

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