The Sky is Everywhere: Love & Grief

By Kelli Gillespie | February 11, 2022

Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated…

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MASS: Jason Isaacs & Fran Kranz

By Kelli Gillespie | October 7, 2021

Interviewed for Risen Magazine Risen Magazine: Fran, let’s start with you. You wrote it, you directed it. I understand the idea. Talk me kind of how informed in the fact of your kind of history with school shootings and then becoming a parent and the thesis project you wrote, it was kind of the perfect…

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