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Eliza Dushku’s ‘Dear Albania’ Documentary Airing on WGBH Thursday

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If you have not caught Eliza Dushku’s documentary film about the trip to her ancestral homeland of Albania, WGBH will air it Thursday night. 

The hour-long film, Dear Albania, will air at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 on Channel 2 in Boston. The Watertown-native made the film with her brother Nate. Dushku spoke with Watertown News about her film, other project and her work to help those fighting addiction in early January when Dear Albania debuted on PBS. Read the piece by clicking here.

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Eliza Dushku Talks About Her Film ‘Dear Albania,’ Fighting the Addiction Epidemic

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Eliza Dushku’s latest project is not a Hollywood blockbuster, but a documentary film. During the making of “Dear Albania” she found out more about the land of her ancestors and how it helped explained the passionate and compassionate sides of her personality. The film is five years in the making and debuted Monday night on WGBH’s World station. On Monday, she was at the Town Diner in Coolidge Square to talk to a few media outlets about her new project. She knew little about Albania and growing up in Watertown, she was often confused for being from one of the town’s other major immigrant groups. “In grade school teachers would ask, what’s your background, and we’d say Albanian,” Dushku recalled.

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Distributor Purchases Rights to Movie Featuring Watertown’s Eliza Dushku

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One of Watertown’s Eliza Dushku’s most recent projects got a big boost when the distribution rights for the move were purchased. FilmBuff purchased the rights to “Jane Wants a Boyfriend,” a dramedy about a young woman on the autism spectrum and her older sister – played by Dushku – who tries to find her a beau, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film debuted over the summer at film festivals in Connecticut and New York City. Louisa Krause stars as Jane, William Sullivan directed the movie, which was written by Jarret Kerr. (See the trailer below). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jane Wants a Boyfriend will open in select theaters and all major On Demand platforms, including Amazon Instant Video, Google Play and iTunes, in March 2016.

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See the Trailer for Eliza Dushku’s Latest Film Which Raises Awareness of Autism

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In her latest film, Eliza Dushku plays the sister of an autistic woman looking for love. “Jane Wants a Boyfriend” has already been shown at a couple film festivals last month. The movie debuted at the Greenwich International Film Festival in Connecticut and also was a selection at the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York City. Both took place in June. Inspired by a true story, the film stars Louisa Krause as Jane and Watertown’s own Dushku as her sister Bianca. It is directed by William C. Sullivan and was written by Jarret Kerr. The description on the film’s website says: “Despite dealing with the everyday challenges of being on the autism spectrum, Jane looks to her older sister Bianca, to help her find her very first boyfriend.

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See Which Cable Series You Will Be Able to Catch Watertown’s Eliza Dushku

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Watertown’s Eliza Dushku may have gone back to college, but she continues to stay active in Hollywood. 

Word recently came out that Dushku will be joining the cast of Cinemax’s Banshee for the series’ fourth season. She will play Agent Veronica Dawson in a recurring role in the series about an ex-con who becomes the sheriff of a small Pennsylvania town, according to Deadline.com. No word when the series will air, but IMDB indicates season four will be coming in 2016. Fans can catch Dushku in 2015 in the upcoming movie Eloise, a horror, thriller about four friends who break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance.

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You May be Seeing More of Eliza Dushku Around Watertown

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Watertown’s very own Hollywood star will be moving back to the area, so look for Eliza Dushku around her hometown! Dushku told the Boston Globe that she is heading back to Watertown after breaking up with her longtime beau and former NBA player Rick Fox. (See the Globe story here)

She has purchased a condo in the area and may be going back to school, Dushku told the Globe. Know for her roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Dollhouse,” Dushku is filming a movie at a former psychiatric hospital in Michigan this summer (find out more here). She graduated from Watertown High School and has family in the area still, including her mother, a former Suffolk University professor, and brother Aaron, who is on the Watertown Town Council.

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Attention Fans of Batman and Eliza Dushku!

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While you won’t see Eliza Dushku’s face in the latest Batman movie, she did lend her voice to the newest animated movie about the Dark Knight. “Batman: Assault on Arkham” will be released on video in August, but you can pre-order your disc now, according to Blu-ray.com. Kevin Conroy provides the voice of Batman, while Watertown-native Eliza Dushku is the voice of Killer Frost. In the original animated movie, the government makes group of super villains break into Arkham Asylum to retrieve top secret information that the Riddler had stolen, but when they get inside they free Joker. Batman must foil their plot to blow up the asylum and Gotham City, according to Blu-ray.com (read the entire story here). The movie is based on the Arkham video game series by Rocksteady Studios. See the trailer above.

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Find Out About Eliza Dushku’s Latest Project

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 Watertown-native Eliza Dushku will be headed to the Motor City to work on her latest big screen project. Dushku and co-star Chase Crawford will be filming “Eloise” in a former psychiatric hospital – the Wayne County Poor House – in the Detroit suburb of Westland, according to a story on Michigan-based MLive.com. (Click here to read the full story). In the movie, four friends break into the abandoned institution to find proof that they are in line for a big inheritance. While in the former insane asylum, “the group not only finds that the institution houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts,” according to a report on Deadline.com.