Special Screening for "My Suicide" at Downtown Film Festival LA

Saturday, August 15
7:00pm

AT&T Center Theatre
1150 S. Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(corner of Olive St. and 12th St. – 2 blocks from Staples Center)

** Complimentary wine provided by Kim Crawford.

Gen Art invites members to a special screening for "My Suicide" as part of the Downtown Film Festival LA.

Limited space available and RSVP's will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis

All others may purchase tickets for $12 by visiting The Downtown LA Film Festival website.

Directed by: David Lee Miller

Cast: Brooke Nevin, David Carradine (in one of his last roles), Gabriel Sunday, Joe Mantegna, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Welch, Nora Dunn, Vanessa Lengie and Zachary Ray Sherman.

Winner of the Acura Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2009 Gen Art Film Festival in New York City, "My Suicide" follows Archie Williams (a showcase for the multi-talented Gabriel Sunday), a high school student who sends shockwaves through his school after announcing to his film class that he is going to commit suicide on screen. What begins as a polemic about our over-saturated media culture turns into a deeply personal exploration into the fragility of teenage emotions. Writer-director David Lee Miller, in a unique collaboration with his cast and crew, stuffs the film with an awe-inducing relentless hyper-assault of mixed media devices and disorienting frames of reference that quietly dissolve and become more coherent as the film focuses inwards. "My Suicide" is part "Four-Eyed Monsters," part "Natural Born Killers" with a peppering of "Donnie Darko."

"My Suicide" has won numerous awards at the many festivals it has played including the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Read more about the film and watch a trailer at www.mysuicide.net

ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN FILM FESTIVAL LA

August 12-22, 2009

Downtown L.A.'s largest entertainment event returns in 2009 with 11 fun-packed days of film screenings, gala parties, cocktail receptions, live music performances, filmmaker-audience Q&As, and celebrity talent appearances. Highlights include the first-ever music film fest at The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live, an all-day green event "green event" ("Sustainable L.A."), Spike Lee's latest film, an outdoor screening of "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" and the West Coast premiere of Michael Jackson's "lost film" ("The Jackson 5 In Africa"). Tickets only $12-$15; many events are free! More info: www.dffla.com


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