EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> M88 has signed Nicaraguan-American writer, director, and actor Henry Alexander Kelly for management.<\/p>\n Currently, Kelly\u2019s video game-inspired short comedy Chuck and Fern is on the festival circuit after winning Best Film at the 2024 ESI: Film Festival Lisbon and the Lola Award at the 2025 Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival. A member of Dan Lin\u2019s Rideback Rise Cohort (2023-25), he is currently developing the half-hour adult-animated mockumentary NOW-WHAT?! with Casa Duhamel, the Spanglish production company founded by Magdiela Hermida Duhamel (Inside Out 2) and Davin B. Duhamel (La Canci\u00f3n Del Lago).<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelly\u2019s other credits include serving as Artist Development Consultant for the Sundance Institute\u2019s Uprise Grant Program, where he was also a grant recipient, and participating in the Sundance BIPOC Mentorship Program. He is an alum of the National Hispanic Media Coalition\u2019s Series Script Writers Program.<\/p>\n As an actor, Kelly appears in the film Murder Bury Win (Prime Video) and voices a role in Sonoro\u2019s 2025 Ambie-nominated horror podcast Nocturno: Tales from the Shadows.<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed Nicaraguan-American writer, director, and actor Henry Alexander Kelly for management. Currently, Kelly\u2019s video game-inspired short comedy Chuck and Fern is on the festival circuit after winning Best Film at the 2024 ESI: Film Festival Lisbon and the Lola Award at the 2025 Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival. A member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[348469,348470,317163,348471,348466,348467,348468],"class_list":["post-1967229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-casa-duhamel","tag-davin-b-duhamel","tag-film-festival","tag-grant-program","tag-henry-alexander-kelly","tag-magdiela-hermida-duhamel","tag-philadelphia-latino-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Filmmaker-Henry-Alexander-Kelly-Signs-With-M88.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}