Actors Peter Macdissi and Summer Bishil screen their Alan Ball film – Towelhead – at The Landmark Theater hosted by Film Independent in Los Angeles. Towelhead hits New York and Los Angeles theaters on September 12, and is based on Alicia Erian’s novel of the same name.
Ball’s new HBO television series – True Blood – stars Oscar winner Anna Paquin and based on Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire book series, featuring vampires who imbibe a synthetic blood that allows them to commingle among mortals in a small Louisiana town. True Blood premieres September 7 on HBO television.
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Synopsis: When Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, is exiled by her mother to live with her strict Lebanese father in Houston, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father odd and exotic. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this unfamiliar environment, Jasira seeks to connect with those around her and finds both comfort and cruelty. Discovering that her ethnicity and newfound sexuality make her a target, Jasira must confront racism and hypocrisy both at home and at school. Jasira is drawn to her Army reservist neighbor, Mr. Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart), who captivates her attention with his stacks of men’s magazines and confusing sweet talk. As she struggles to make sense of her raging hormones, she finds friendship and physical intimacy with an older schoolmate, Thomas (Eugene Jones). But even that relationship causes problems when her father discovers that Thomas is black. Driven by a deep longing for affection and acceptance, Jasira becomes the embodiment of the racial, sexual and political agendas of these very different men in her life–her father with his old world ideas of women; her dangerously alluring neighbor, Mr. Vuoso, and Thomas, who offers the promise of some feeling of connection through sex. When Melina (Toni Collette), a concerned neighbor and expectant mother, tries to help her, Jasira’s explosive situation comes to a head.
Ball is repped by Andrew Cannava @ United Talent Agency.
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