We’ve featured this film many times Here on this site, and now Tina Mabry’s award winning feature debut, Mississippi Damned, is finally travelling overseas and making its UK premiere at the 24th BFI London & Gay Film Festival, which runs from 17-31 March this year.
If you’re not already familiar with the film, the blurb on the BFI website reads:
Stark and confrontational, the award-winning Mississippi Damned is an ensemble drama that follows the dreams and disappointments of three African American children in poor rural Mississippi. Struggling to overcome the cyclical violence and poverty of their family, each dreams of a brighter future: butch dyke Leigh with her flirtatious high school girlfriend; Sammy with a college basketball scholarship; and Kari, the youngest, with a career as a pianist. However, as each discovers, they will have to confront their family’s past if they are to overcome that which binds them,...
If you’re not already familiar with the film, the blurb on the BFI website reads:
Stark and confrontational, the award-winning Mississippi Damned is an ensemble drama that follows the dreams and disappointments of three African American children in poor rural Mississippi. Struggling to overcome the cyclical violence and poverty of their family, each dreams of a brighter future: butch dyke Leigh with her flirtatious high school girlfriend; Sammy with a college basketball scholarship; and Kari, the youngest, with a career as a pianist. However, as each discovers, they will have to confront their family’s past if they are to overcome that which binds them,...
- 2/16/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
Now that the film critic intelligentsia has fully weighed in on the last decade, Mexican-American actress Laura Harring should (and does) feel proud to have played an intoxicating part in David Lynch's Möbius strip of a Hollyweird noir "Mulholland Dr.," pegged by the biggest polls as the Best Film of the '00s. As the mysterious amnesiac who stumbles into the life and arms of an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) before nightmare logic fractures the narrative altogether, Harring received career-launching acclaim, which is not to dismiss her previous screen credits or having been the first Hispanic woman to be crowned Miss USA some years before. Anyone should be so lucky.
Harring can next be seen in writer-director Nancy Kissam's feature debut "Drool," a transgressive comedy (in the vein of John Waters) which screened at Slamdance and Outfest. Harring plays Anora, a Southern housewife and mother of two whose abusive,...
Harring can next be seen in writer-director Nancy Kissam's feature debut "Drool," a transgressive comedy (in the vein of John Waters) which screened at Slamdance and Outfest. Harring plays Anora, a Southern housewife and mother of two whose abusive,...
- 1/20/2010
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
Nancy Kissam succeeded in making an interesting, heart-warming yet dark film with the twisted ‘Drool’. Laura Harring plays Anora, a shy, beaten down wife who lives unhappily with her husband Cheb (Oded Fehr), and their two children, Tabby and Little Pete (Ashley Duggan Smith and Christopher Newhouse). Tabby acts out both verbally and sexually, while Little Pete struggles with his own sexual identity. The two kids are brats acting out for attention based on their environment.
Anora survives her day to day by living inside of her own little fantasy world until the new neighbor moves in. Imogene Cochran (Jill Marie Jones) is a bright, loud mouthed cosmetics saleswoman who is new to town. She takes Anora as a friend, and soon a spark is lit between the two. Cheb comes home to the two of them sharing a moment, and goes for his gun. Now the new girlfriends, the bratty kids,...
Anora survives her day to day by living inside of her own little fantasy world until the new neighbor moves in. Imogene Cochran (Jill Marie Jones) is a bright, loud mouthed cosmetics saleswoman who is new to town. She takes Anora as a friend, and soon a spark is lit between the two. Cheb comes home to the two of them sharing a moment, and goes for his gun. Now the new girlfriends, the bratty kids,...
- 11/16/2009
- by Melissa
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Editor’S Note: This is part of a collection of interviews with the filmmakers from Outfest 2009’s “Four In Focus” selection, which features work from four first time directors Drool, directed by Nancy Kissam As described by the festival: “‘Drool’ is part ‘Thelma & Louise’ and part ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ an irreverent dark comedy with delightful performances from bombshells Laura Harring and Jill Marie Jones. With an abusive husband, ungrateful kids and …...
- 7/13/2009
- indieWIRE - People
Editor’S Note: This is part of a collection of interviews with the filmmakers from Outfest 2009’s “Four In Focus” selection, which features work from four first time directors Drool, directed by Nancy Kissam As described by the festival: “‘Drool’ is part ‘Thelma & Louise’ and part ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ an irreverent dark comedy with delightful performances from bombshells Laura Harring and Jill Marie Jones. With an abusive husband, ungrateful kids and …...
- 7/13/2009
- indieWIRE - People
Outfest 2009 kicked off this weekend, beginning ten days of celebrating Lgbt cinema in Los Angeles. The 27th edition of the festival brings 181 films from 25 countries - four of which were selected as Outfest’s “Four In Focus,” a special designation for the festival’s most promising directorial debuts. Nancy Kissam’s “Drool”, H.P. Mendoza’s “Fruit Fly”, Jason Bushman’s “Hollywood, je t’aime” and E.E. Cassidy’s “We Are The Mods,” are the chosen …...
- 7/13/2009
- indieWIRE - People
Outfest 2009 kicked off this weekend, beginning ten days of celebrating Lgbt cinema in Los Angeles. The 27th edition of the festival brings 181 films from 25 countries - four of which were selected as Outfest’s “Four In Focus,” a special designation for the festival’s most promising directorial debuts. Nancy Kissam’s “Drool”, H.P. Mendoza’s “Fruit Fly”, Jason Bushman’s “Hollywood, je t’aime” and E.E. Cassidy’s “We Are The Mods,” are the chosen …...
- 7/13/2009
- indieWIRE - People
The Slamdance competition is open only to under-$1 million budgeted films from first-time filmmakers and runs at the same time as Sundance (in Utah) to show a more truer "independent" film style. This year they've got some great looking films, including a sweet looking vampire flick which has the Karate Kid Ralph Macchio himself, Rosencantz and Guildenstern are Undead. I Sell the Dead which was well received at Tad will be opening the fest. Also playing will be The Broken Lizard's latest film The Slammin' Salmon, and Mum and Dad.
Checkout the full lineup after the break!
Narrative Feature Competition
The Ante
Max Perrier (Director), Danek S. Kaus, James Chancellor & Simon Perrier (Writers)
West Coast Premiere, Black Comedy/Thriller, 2006, Canada, 82 minutes
An innocent man becomes the killer everyone wants him to be when he gambles with his freedom in order to save it.
A Quiet Little Marriage
Mo Perkins (Director/Writer)
Utah Premiere,...
Checkout the full lineup after the break!
Narrative Feature Competition
The Ante
Max Perrier (Director), Danek S. Kaus, James Chancellor & Simon Perrier (Writers)
West Coast Premiere, Black Comedy/Thriller, 2006, Canada, 82 minutes
An innocent man becomes the killer everyone wants him to be when he gambles with his freedom in order to save it.
A Quiet Little Marriage
Mo Perkins (Director/Writer)
Utah Premiere,...
- 12/8/2008
- QuietEarth.us
"I Sell the Dead," Glenn McQuaid's darkly comic horror tale about bumbling grave robbers starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman, will serve as the opening-night film of the 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 15-23 in Park City.
The fest will screen 29 narrative and documentary features, 20 of which come from the U.S. and 31% of which were directed by women. The 100-film lineup also includes shorts and, for the first time, music videos.
"This year we look forward to increasing our audience through new online formats we believe have the ability, in the long run, to level the playing field for the independent filmmaker," Slamdance president and co-founder Peter Baxter said.
Bringing the fest to a worldwide audience for the first time, the films also will stream live at a new Web site, indieroad.net/slamdance, part of Slamdance's newly formed online venture with Indieroad.net.
The...
The fest will screen 29 narrative and documentary features, 20 of which come from the U.S. and 31% of which were directed by women. The 100-film lineup also includes shorts and, for the first time, music videos.
"This year we look forward to increasing our audience through new online formats we believe have the ability, in the long run, to level the playing field for the independent filmmaker," Slamdance president and co-founder Peter Baxter said.
Bringing the fest to a worldwide audience for the first time, the films also will stream live at a new Web site, indieroad.net/slamdance, part of Slamdance's newly formed online venture with Indieroad.net.
The...
- 12/8/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former Naomi Watts lesbian cuddle bunny Laura Harring and "Girlfriends" star Jill Marie Jones along with mummy and zombie hunter extraordinaire (as well as one-time man-whore) Oded Fehr have joined the cast of newbie writer-director Nancy Kissam's dark comedy Drool, which apparently won the 2006 Slamdance screenplay competition. In the film, Harring will play a woman whose plan to escape her abusive husband goes slightly awry when she happens to kill her husband. She and her best...
- 10/27/2008
- by Omar Aviles
- JoBlo.com
Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones and Oded Fehr are teaming for writer-director Nancy Kissam's dark comedy "Drool," winner of the 2006 Slamdance screenplay competition.
The Paradigm/Leverage Management-repped Harring plays an abused wife whose plan to escape with a friend (Innovative/Elements Entertainment-repped Jones) goes awry when she accidentally kills her husband (Ifa/Rmg-repped Fehr), leading the pair to drive the body cross-country.
Upload Films' Todd Williams, Nick Thurlow and John Portnoy are producing with Elements' Nils Larsen and Chad Marting exec producing.
The Paradigm/Leverage Management-repped Harring plays an abused wife whose plan to escape with a friend (Innovative/Elements Entertainment-repped Jones) goes awry when she accidentally kills her husband (Ifa/Rmg-repped Fehr), leading the pair to drive the body cross-country.
Upload Films' Todd Williams, Nick Thurlow and John Portnoy are producing with Elements' Nils Larsen and Chad Marting exec producing.
- 10/27/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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