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It takes a lot to render Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant speechless, but one encounter with Dennis Rodman did just that.

"He is just so tall, and I was just looking up at him and I couldn't say anything," Bryant tells People of the former basketball pro who was at SNL for a 2013 appearance on "Weekend Update."

"So I kind of just forced him to hug me but without saying hello or anything like that. I just forced a hug on Dennis Rodman," she recalls.

For more on Aidy Bryant and her latest project Darby Forever, pick up the latest issue of People,...

It takes a lot to render Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant speechless, but one encounter with Dennis Rodman did just that. "He is just so tall, and I was just looking up at him and I couldn't say anything," Bryant tells People of the former basketball pro who was at SNL for a 2013 appearance on "Weekend Update." "So I kind of just forced him to hug me but without saying hello or anything like that. I just forced a hug on Dennis Rodman," she recalls. For more on Aidy Bryant and her latest project Darby Forever, pick up the latest issue of People,...

Ugh, Mondays, right? It doesn’t matter if you actually love your job — the start of the work week can be rough. Here you are, coming off of two glorious days of fun and relaxation and freedom, and now it’s time to put all that out of your head and get back to the grind. It’s so […]

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Aidy Bryant is best known as one of the not-ready-for-prime-time-players on Saturday Night Live, but she has some behind-the-camera skills, too, and she’s showing them off on Vimeo. Bryant is the writer and star of Darby Forever, a 20-minute short film now available for purchase on Vimeo On Demand.

In Darby Forever, Bryant portrays a fabric store employee with a daydreaming habit. As she drifts off in the middle of her boring job, she imagines elaborate scenarios for herself, which often involve the other people in her life. Retta (Parks and Recreation) and Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black) co-star.

“It’s funny but a little bit different than what we usually get to do on the show,” said Darby Forever director Oz Rodriguez, who works alongside Bryant on SNL, in an interview with Splitsider, “it has some heart and some emotion — so it was just a little...

Read More: Vimeo Pushes Further into Original Programming It's never easy for "Saturday Night Live" stars to make the jump off the small screen, but Oz Rodriguez (one half of the venerable sketch comedy show's very popular directing duo Matt & Oz) seems to have the right idea. The filmmaker is now behind the camera on the charming short film "Darby Forever," written by fellow "SNL" talents Chris Kelly and Aidy Bryant (who also stars in the film), a canny move that marries his short-form sensibilities with the freedom of going long as part of Vimeo's new original programming initiative. The short centers on Bryant's eponymous Darby, a clerk at a mostly boring fabric store, who wiles away her time dreaming about a brighter kind of life. That's not to say that Darby's actual existence is awful, after all, her boss is played by the incomparable Retta and her customers include a literally rocking Natasha Lyonne.

Plus: Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja wins at Cinema Tropical; Dell, Adrien Grenier launch short film contest; and more…

Daisy Ridley From Star Wars: The Force Awakens has joined Morgan Spurlock on the executive producer roster for Sundance selection The Eagle Huntress.

Otto Bell directed the Sundance Kids Premiere selection about Aisholpan, a 13-year old Mongolian girl who strives to become the first female eagle hunter in 2,000 years of male dominated history. Aisholpan plans to attend the festival.

“I was deeply moved by Aisholpan’s story and wanted to be a part of this beautiful film,” said Ridley. “I feel audiences and young girls around the world will be as inspired by her story as I was, and I am so proud to share her journey with the world.”

Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honours for best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards...

Plus: At Sundance, Dell, Adrien Grenier launch short film contest and Vimeo announces female filmmaker support.

Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honoursfor best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards in New York on Thursday night.

Panamanian film Invasion by Abner Benaim was named Best Latin American documentary, while Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul was honoured with prize Best First Film.

Chile’s Pablo Larraín was named best director for The Club and Mexico’s Betzabé García best director of a documentary for Kings Of Nowhere. For the full list of awards click here.

Vimeo announced in Sundance an initiative to close the gender-equality gap called Share The Screen. The platform will invest in five projects from women this year and provide marketing support and global distribution via Vimeo On Demand. Saturday Night Live cast member Aidy Bryant’s Darby Forever is the first original short from...

Vimeo is vowing to help female video creators and filmmakers in 2016. The video hosting and Svod platform has launched a program dubbed “Share the Screen,” which highlights female-led projects through three different initiatives.

The first part of Vimeo’s “Share the Screen” program kicks off February 18, 2016 with the release of the short Darby Forever, written by and starring Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant. Bryant plays the titular character Darby, a woman who works at a fabric store in a quirky small town and daydreams about her customers and finding love with deliveryman Nick (played by Luka Jones). Darby Forever also stars Retta (Parks and Recreation) and Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black) and is available for pre-order by visiting vimeo.com/darbyforever.

Vimeo will also financially support the development and production of at least five female-led projects throughout 2016 as part of its “Share the Screen” program (which is...