Amazon Video Direct an**unces first Stars program winner
 

Amazon Video Direct an**unces first Stars program winner
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LOS ANGELES — Baltimore-based filmmaker Justin Doescher has been tapped as Amazon Video Direct's first Stars program winner.

The program, which was an**unced at the same time as Amazon Video Direct's launch in May, gives show creators the opportunity to*earn royalties based on minutes streamed. Selected creators are given a monthly bonus from a $1*million*fund based on the top 100 AVD titles offered on*Prime Video.

Doescher's roughly hour-long horror film The Break-In follows an engaged couple that has a baby on the way after *a string of robberies take place in their neighborhood.*

"I was **t expecting this at all," Doescher told Mashable in a phone interview. The 35-year-old was on the set of House of Cards — he has a small role as one of President Frank Underwood's bodyguards — when he heard the news. Read more...

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