A Bronx lesbian teenager juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from friends and family.

Dee Rees - Award-winning writer/director Dee Rees is a recent alumna of NYU’s graduate film program and a 2007 Sundance screenwriting fellow. She has written and directed several short films, all of which have screened at festivals, including her film Orange Bow, which played at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and on BET Jazz. Her most recent film, Pariah, won NYU’s highest honor—the first-prize King Award for Excellence in Filmmaking and earned her the Future Filmmaker Award at the 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. Internationally, Pariah won the inaugural IRIS Prize and numerous other awards.

Screenings:

Fri. January 18, 9:15am, Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Fri. January 18, 11:45pm, Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Sat. January 19, 8:30pm, Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sun. January 20, 9:45pm, Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Sat. January 26, 2:30pm, Library Center Theatre, Park City

Nekisa Cooper
Northstar Pictures, Inc.
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Long Beach, CA 90802

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