my Dreams poem, From Nightmare to DreamLife, for last night's Aim4TheHeArt Heart Sessions poetry/hiphop workshop, where we had a full house of powerful performances on the topic of Dreams, & we decided to have next week's topic be Reality.                   D R E A M S From                                                         To Nightmare of Negativity                            Dance of Delight Isolated & Insecure                                    Redemptively Ruined Gui

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

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the 2nd season finale of High Potential, as really captures the willful blindness that can so easily become a fatal flaw in anyone, since, as Anais Nin reminds us "We see the world as we are, not as it is", which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice.

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

W A V E S From                                                          To Despondent Defender                       Appreciative Ambassador &                                                                   Merciful Mender Exiled Esquire                                 Noble Navigator &                                                                   Inspiring Instigator                                              Suicidally Silent                               Orchestrat

hanging out with my fellow adoptee/artiste Kevin at Fat Sal's, after he got a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice there just now

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

YAY! The hardcover of my debut memoir Killing Justice is now available in the County of Los Angeles Public Library system, and is physically available (or will be next Tuesday, when they reopen, lol) in the Culver City branch, (NESTLED BETWEEN ALLEN GINSBERG & Elizabeth Gilbert), thanks to the efforts of the head librarian there (another Kelly!)...so hopefully the LA Public Library and the Trinity Western University , (my undergrad), library will be the next libraries to carr

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 Jerii the principled rebel bartender at NoBar in NoHo, after she got a copy of Killing Justice while I was there enjoying the afterparty for Strange Creatures Wednesday night

M E D I U M From                                                         To Homeless Heart Afraid of Abandonment                     Melted by Mercy Punished for Passion                          Embracing Ecstatically Painfully Powerless                             Dancing Delightedly Yielding Youthfully                             Inspirer of Interdependence Minimized by Mom                             Unleasher of Underdogs Entitled, yet Emasculated                  Masculi

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