“GARDENS OF THE NIGHT” Film Screening | USC, Los Angeles, CA |December 2 | (FREE)

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The USC School of Cinematic Arts and City Lights Pictures invite you to attend a special preview screening of GARDENS OF THE NIGHT

7:00PM on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Followed by a Q&A with director Damian Harris

George Lucas Building (LUC), Room 108
850 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Free admission. Open to all.

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ABOUT GARDENS OF THE NIGHT (2008), Rated R, 110min.

Leslie (Gillian Jacobs), struggles with a hand to mouth existence on the streets of San Diego with only her childhood friend Donnie (Evan Ross) to look after her, both of them trying to cope with the trauma of having been abducted and held captive by two men nine years earlier. As an eight-year-old girl, Leslie (Ryan Simpkins) was abducted through trickery by an older man Alex (Tom Arnold), and his young accomplice Frank (Kevin Zegers). Leslie was held captive in their house along with an eight-year-old boy named Donnie, who believed his mentally unstable mother, sold him to Alex. The children create a bond with each other managing to escape into a fantasy world they create in their bedroom. Years later Leslie and Donnie, now seventeen years old, are living as street-kids and struggling to cope with what they suffered through, having been affected by the experience differently. Donnie’s feelings for Leslie are those of any teenager in love, however Leslie’s perception of love has been severely mutated through her relationship with Alex and her instinct is to run from Donnie. Can she not only survive this horrific experience, but be set free from it’s terrible shackles?

Also starring John Malkovich, Harold Perrineau and Jeremy Sisto.

Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.

To learn more and to view the trailer, visit www.gardensofthenight.com

ABOUT DAMIAN HARRIS (Writer/Director)

Born in London, England, Damian studied at the London International Film School, his first short Killing Time played at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won First Prize at the Avoriaz Film Festival for Horror and Science Fiction and his next short film: Greasy Lake, from a short story by TC Boyle, with James Spader and Eric Stoltz, won first prize at the Houston Film Festival. Producer Andrew S. Karsch at United Artist’s optioned the rights to the Martin Amis novel The Rachel Papers which Damian adapted and directed, joining up with Eric Fellner’s Initial Pictures, the film was made in London with James Spader, Ione Skye and Dexter Fletcher. The Rachel Papers attracted the attention of Disney Films and he made his next two films with Touchstone Pictures: Deceived starring Goldie Hawn and Bad Company written by Ross Thomas and starring Laurence Fishburn, Ellen Barkin and Frank Langella. He has already written his next two films: Pop and An Available Man. [via]