Adam Somner, an assistant director and producer who worked with Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, died Wednesday at 57.

"Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic," says RaMell Ross.

First-time director Jordan Weiss and partner Dan Brier wanted to write a coming-of-age comedy based on their own male-female friendship.