HollyShorts Film Festival is betting big on international expansion, with plans to launch in Dubai this December as the Oscar ...

A bible study leader will spend time in prison for indecently assaulting a young girl at a church. Michael Hess, 50, pled ...

Movies of video games. They’re not new. For decades, Hollywood has tried — and mostly failed — to adapt video games into movies that fans actually want to watch. Clunky scripts, wild deviations from ...

There’s Elsie and Nyla Hess; Jared and Adeline Kraft; Maisee and Amelia LaPlante; Emma and Declan Leavitt; Amelie and Lennox Miller; Benjamin and Asher Milonas; and, last but not least, Andrea, Drew ...

The Preston 125th Birthday Celebration kicked off with a Q&A session with Jared Hess before a free showing of his new film “A ...

The Preston 125th Birthday Celebration kicked off with a Q&A session with Jared Hess before a free showing of his new film “A Minecraft Movie” with free popcorn and candy ...

Jared Hess, David Oyelowo and Katherine McNamara to receive awards at 21st HollyShorts Film Festival.

The 21st HollyShorts Film Festival will recognize several prominent industry figures when it takes place in Hollywood from Aug. 7-17, including director Jared Hess, actor-director David Oyelowo and ...

Jared Lawrence Hess (born July 18, 1979) is an American filmmaker known for his work Napoleon Dynamite (2004), A Minecraft Movie (2025) and Nacho Libre (2006), which he co-wrote and directed with ...