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At its 2017 NewFront presentation in New York, Condé Nast Entertainment announced it will continue its partnership with Indigenous Media’s film incubator, The Big Script. CNE revealed there will soon be a second round of short films focusing on young adults on its online media platform, The Scene.

Back in February, Josh Hutcherson’s directorial debut Ape premiered on the Scene alongside four other shorts. Plans are in the works to turn Ape, which stars Hutcherson as a young man with mental illness, into a feature film as early as this year.

(Photo credit: Josh Hutcherson on Instagram.)

Hutcherson served as producer on all five short films in the first incubator. There is no word on whether Hutcherson will be directly involved in the new round of shorts.

Josh Hutcherson as Travis in Ape

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APE

DIRECTED BY JOSH HUTCHERSON

Josh Hutcherson’s directorial debut Ape and the rest of “The Big Script” film incubator are headed for release in February, according to two writers on the project.

Condé Nast’s The Scene will be the online home for Ape, as well as Djochoua Belovarski’s LYRA, Brad Martocello’s Boy in a Backpack, Jamie Mayer’s Crowbar Smile, and Scott Simonsen’s Honor Council.

The news emerged after Ape writer Jon Johnstone and writer-director Mayer both confirmed the information online. Mayer, whose first young adult novel is also scheduled for release next month, made the announcement on her new website:

Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia’s Indigenous Media and Hutcherson’s Turkeyfoot Productions co-produced the films from features submitted to Hollywood’s script database The Black List.