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Riegel was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature 2021 for her debut film, Holler. She won a National Board of Review Award for Top 10 Independent Films 2021. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of their 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2014. [3] [9] In 2020, Variety named her one of 10 Directors to Watch.
Jun 11, 2021 · Don’t Leave A Stranger: Nicole Riegel and Jessica Barden on Holler. Isaac Feldberg. June 11, 2021. 12 min read. In coming-of-age drama “Holler,” a young woman named Ruth (Jessica Barden) struggles to escape her economically ravaged hometown of Jackson, Ohio, where dead ends are piling up. With older brother Blaze (Gus Halper) preoccupied ...
Jul 12, 2024 · Wherever she goes she takes a 16mm film camera with her – a gift from her husband who bought it for her in Sweden – and carries it on a strap made from her old guitar strap. “They’re my ...
Jun 6, 2021 · NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Nicole Riegel, writer and director of Holler, inspired by her own story growing up in Appalachia.
Feb 19, 2020 · Nicole Riegel: My film is a semi-autobiographical story about how difficult it was to transcend where I came from as a young woman, both practically and emotionally. I believe the personal is political, and today there is a national spotlight on those who feel left behind in places like my hometown in Southeast Ohio.
52 Photos. Drama Romance. It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. Director. Nicole Riegel.
In her hometown of Jackson, Ohio, “if you were a girl, you entered beauty pageants,” says screenwriter Nicole Riegel. “That’s what was expected of you.”. When she was 15, Riegel entered one of those pageants, won, but soon became the first local queen to be “dethroned, kicked out.”.
