Jessica Manafort To Direct 'Beautiful Ordinary'

The Beautiful Ordinary
Jessica Manafort is directing the teen comedy drama The Beautiful Ordinary, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, which Manafort also wrote, revolves around the relationship dynamics of a group of suburban teens on the last day of school in 1999.

Casting is under way, with an eye for a shoot this month in Wilmington, N.C. Manafort is a 23-year-old graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where she won numerous awards for her short film "Liminality."