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Episode 9: The Orchard Girl by Nicholas Dunlevy

32m · F IS FOR FILM · 13 Nov 23:00

A fashion photography crew heads to a remote ranch house to shoot, only to get terrorized by a pair of ghoulish strangers.

Nicholas grew up in Southern California and attended California State University Northridge. There he completed his senior thesis, "Minor Cuts & Major Abrasions" and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production and a Minor in Business Management.

Throughout high school and college Nicholas often worked on-set production assistant jobs on various commercials and independent features, as well as for United Talent Agency (UTA) in their agent trainee program. After college Nicholas worked for several years as an executive assistant to Peter Rice the former president of Fox Searchlight Pictures and was closely involved in such productions as "Napoleon Dynamite", "Last King of Scotland", "Sideways", "Notes On A Scandal", "Little Miss Sunshine", and "Juno".

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