The Big Picture Every first feature is a massive challenge and monumental achievement, but a feature directorial debut doesn’t get much bigger than making a new The Omen movie with a company like 20th Century Studios at your back. After directing episodes of Channel Zero, Legion, Briarpatch and Brand New Cherry Flavor, that’s the opportunity first-time feature filmmaker Arkasha Stevenson scored.
“I think that I'm so grateful for going to film school because I think it really taught me how to collaborate. I think coming from the world of photojournalism, you're very much a lone wolf and you're doing everything yourself, and sometimes you won't ever work with another person, and so then all of a sudden you're a director and you're working with all these different department heads and you're collaborating with, sometimes, hundreds of people.
Channel Zero is a Syfy horror anthology series created by Nick Antosca. The show ran for four seasons with each season’s story based on a different creepypasta. Craig William Macneill directed all six episodes of Season 1, Candle Cove, then Steven Piet helmed Season 2, No-End House, and then in came Stevenson who directed the entirety of Season 3, Butcher’s Block.
Antosca’s trust was not misplaced. Not only did Stevenson deliver a stellar season of Channel Zero, but then she went on to direct an episode of yet another phenomenal Antosca-created show, Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor. Not only was it a promising reentrance into the franchise in general, but the storyline was especially well suited to Stevenson given the themes she was most eager to explore. She continued:
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