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Exclusive: Here’s a first look at Thena, the gritty debut from filmmaker Peter Gold ahead of its world premiere at the Taormina Film Festival on June 14.

The film stars Izabel Pakzad, Dakota Lotus, Chris Bauer and Virginia Gardner, and is based around a young musician from Palo Alto who spirals into drug addiction in San Francisco.

Her devoted younger brother risks everything to find her, and the film follows him as he ventures into San Francisco’s darkest corners, discovering that some people don’t want to be saved and that love isn’t always enough to bring them home.

Pakzad (Find Your Friends) is the titular Thena. She stars alongside Dakota Lotus (Coop & Cami Ask the World), who plays her brother Ovid, Chris Bauer (The Wire, True Blood), Virginia Gardner, Will Peltz (Euphoria), Malia Baker (Descendants: The Rise of Red), Duke Nicholson (Us), Brian Marc (White...

Skeet Ulrich (Scream), Ashley Moore (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”), and Thomas Jane (The Mist) star in the new southern gothic thriller Salvation.

Deadline reports that ITN Distribution (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey) has acquired the North American rights to the film.

Theo Rossi (“Sons of Anarchy”), Devon Bostick (Saw VI), and Claire Forlani (Mallrats) round out the key cast.

The film follows a troubled foster child who is given a final chance to make good when she is sent to live with a kind couple in rural Tennessee. But she soon learns that her foster family is not quite what they seem as she is drawn into their world of snake-handling worship, where even holy people can do evil things.

Produced by filmmaker Kari Skogland, Mackenzie Munro (Boot Camp) directs from a script by Alex Runnels.

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Exclusive: ITN Distribution has acquired North American rights to Salvation, a new feature described as a “southern gothic thriller” starring Thomas Jane and Skeet Ulrich alongside Ashley Moore.

The film follows a troubled foster child who is given a final chance to make good when she is sent to live with a kind couple in rural Tennessee. But she soon learns that her foster family is not quite what they seem as she is drawn into their world of snake-handling worship, where even holy people can do evil things.

Theo Rossi, Devon Bostick, and Claire Forlani round out the key cast. Mackenzie Munro directed the film from Alex Runnels’ screenplay. The film was produced by Walk Like A Duck’s Rob Goodrich and Jason Armstrong alongside Kari Skogland. Munro and Amelia Baker served as executive producers for Blonde Mamba.

The North American rights deal was negotiated by ITN’s Stuart Alson...

Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Claire Forlani, Thomas Jane, Theo Rossi, Devon Bostick, Ashley Moore, Rebecca Gibel, Samantha Gordon, Thomas Kee | Written by Alex Runnels | Directed by Mackenzie Munro

Salvation – which comes from director Mackenzie Munro (Boot Camp) and stars Skeet Ulrich, Claire Forlani and Thomas Jane – delves into a world of faith, deception, and redemption with a gripping narrative that is both unsettling and thought-provoking. The story follows a troubled foster child sent to live with a seemingly kind couple in rural Tennessee. However, as she integrates into their lives, she uncovers dark secrets tied to a snake-handling worship community, which sets the stage for a tense and unpredictable journey.

Skeet Ulrich delivers a standout performance, bringing remarkable depth and complexity to his role. Clare Forlani and Thomas Jane also excel, contributing significantly to the film’s taut and uneasy atmosphere. Munro’s direction is highly effective, masterfully building suspense and maintaining a steady,...

Julia Fox, the it-girl who rose to fame in the Safdie Brothers’ anxiety-ridden thriller “Uncut Gems,” has joined the cast of the upcoming romantic drama “Perfect.”

She will star alongside Ashley Moore (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”) and newcomer Micaela Wittman. Millicent Hailes, who has directed music videos for artists such as Adam Lambert, Lil Yachty and Young Thug, is helming the film in her feature debut. Production is due to begin next month.

“Perfect” is set at a scenic-but-rundown lakeside resort in the California mountains in a time where climate change has contaminated the water supply. Fox will play a wealthy pregnant woman who is living out an escapist fantasy as she falls in love with a younger woman (Moore). Their sudden relationship is complicated by an upcoming birth, turbulent social events and clashing values about the world’s uncertain future.

Wittman will portray a town local...

Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to the survival thriller Lost On A Mountain In Maine produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and is kicking off EFM sales this week.

Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger directed the true story from a screenplay by Luke Paradise about a 12-year-old boy separated from his family during a storm while hiking on Mount Katahdin who must fight to stay alive over the course of nine days.

Caitlin FitzGerald, Paul Sparks (House Of Cards), Ethan Slater (Universal’s upcoming Wicked), and Luke David Blumm (The Watcher) star.

Blue Fox will preview first footage for buyers in EFM.

Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international rights to the YA rom-com Boot Camp and will introduce the film to EFM buyers in Berlin next week.

The feature is based on the Wattpad webnovel of the same name by Gina Mush and was directed by Mackenzie Munro from Gemma Holdway’s adapted screenplay.

Blue Fox plans to show first footage on the story starring Rachel Boudwin (Dhar Mann), Drew Ray Tanner (Riverdale), and Emmanuelle Chriqui (Superman And Lois) about a young woman who signs up for summer boot camp and falls for her off-limits personal trainer.

Lindsay Macadam serves as producer.

In his first leading feature role, Drew Ray Tanner (“Riverdale”) will star in “Boot Camp,” a film adaptation of the hugely popular Wattpad story by Gina Musa of the same name.

The romantic comedy tells the body-empowerment story of notoriously unathletic Whitney Carmichael, played by Rachel Boudwin, who begins to fall for her off-limits personal trainer, Axel (Tanner), after signing up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself. A deepening connection inspires her to let go of the others’ expectations and, instead, find the strength to embrace her true self.

Wattpad Webtoon Studios announced that production has wrapped on “Boot Camp” after filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, earlier this month. The movie does not yet have distribution deals. “Boot Camp,” which currently has over 26 million reads on Wattpad, was developed with Great Pacific Media, December Films, Junction Hammer Productions and Channel Zero Studios.

In addition to Tanner and Boudwin,...

Exclusive: Skeet Ulrich is set as a lead opposite Giancarlo Esposito in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+.

The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.

Ulrich will play Colin, an old acquaintance of Vince (Esposito). It’s a version of the character played by Ian Hart in the original series.

Paula Malcomson and Bonnie Mbuli also star.

Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, David Morrissey, who played Vince in the original, and Travers executive produce alongside Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman from Thruline and A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson.

Exclusive: Skeet Ulrich has joined the cast of Salvation, a dramatic thriller from director Mackenzie Munro and Walk Like A Duck Entertainment.

He’ll star alongside Ashley Moore (Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy), Devon Bostick (Okja), Claire Forlani (Black Beauty) and Thomas Jane (The Vanished).

In Salvation, a troubled foster child is given a final chance to make good when she is sent to live with a kind couple in rural Tennessee. She soon learns however that her foster family is not quite what they seem as she is drawn into their world of snake-handling worship where even holy people can do evil things.

Alex Runnels wrote the script for the film, which is currently in production in Boston. Walk Like A Duck’s Rob Goodrich and Jason Armstrong are producing with Kari Skogland, Mad Rabbit and Blonde Mamba,...

Blonde Mamba, the next-gen production house led by Amelia Baker and Mackenzie Munro, is partnering with Kari Skogland’s Mad Rabbit banner to develop “An Innocent Fashion,” an adaptation of R.J. Hernández’s debut novel.

Skogland, who was Emmy nominated and won a BAFTA for directing “The Handmaid’s Tale” and is now directing Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” for Disney Plus, optioned the novel, and is attached as showrunner and executive producer on the project. Baker and Munro are producing.

Billed as a younger, lighter and more intersectional “The Devil Wears Prada” meets Brett Easton Ellis’ “Glamorama,” “An Innocent Fashion” follows the coming of age of Elián San Jamar – a sexually fluid Cuban-American from a working-class background in Corpus Christi, Texas. Changing his name to Ethan St. James, Elián graduates Yale and heads to New York City – where he confronts the reality of the millennial fairytale...

Jen Welter, who made history as the first woman to serve as a coach in the National Football League, is partnering with Amelia Baker and Mackenzie Munro’s Blonde Mamba and independent producer Casey Russell Hanley on the original series “FanGirl,” a half-hour single-camera comedy about best friends who become the first-ever female assistant coaches for their local team.

Billed as “Broad City” meets “Friday Night Lights,” the series will be executive produced by Welter, and will draw on her experiences as a trailblazer in the sport. Ellie Monahan, Will Ropp (“The Way Back”) and Jacqueline Toboni are attached as writers.

“FanGirl” follows two football superfans and best friends, Ashley and Jamie, who through an absurd series of events become the first female assistant coaches for the University of Michigan Wolverines. Exploring issues such as feminism, equality, and fandom, the series follows two young women in positions of power in a male-dominated industry,...

Peter Gold’s Gold Films is partnering with Blonde Mamba, the next-gen production house led by Amelia Baker and Mackenzie Munro, alongside Tom Franco and Iris Torres under their Firehouse Productions banner on The Art of Love, based on Betsy Franco’s young adult novel.

The film — among the projects being shopped at Sundance — is being adapted by Betsy Franco, Munro and Esteban Gast, with Gold set to direct. Kari Skogland, the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning director whose work has included The Handmaid's Tale and Loudest Voice, will exec produce, with Nic Sheff, writer of 13 Reasons Why, co-producing alongside the award-winning cinematographer ...

Peter Gold’s Gold Films is partnering with Blonde Mamba, the next-gen production house led by Amelia Baker and Mackenzie Munro, alongside Tom Franco and Iris Torres under their Firehouse Productions banner on The Art of Love, based on Betsy Franco’s young adult novel.

The film — among the projects being shopped at Sundance — is being adapted by Betsy Franco, Munro and Esteban Gast, with Gold set to direct. Kari Skogland, the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning director whose work has included The Handmaid's Tale and Loudest Voice, will exec produce, with Nic Sheff, writer of 13 Reasons Why, co-producing alongside the award-winning cinematographer ...

★★☆☆☆The premise of Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson's I Declare War (2012) is great: it's a children's game of capture the flag, but played out with real weapons. There will, presumably, be a lot of nostalgic goodwill towards this premise - this is the classic game of capture the flag many will have dreamt of. Our merry band of pint-sized soldiers includes rules-obsessed General P.K. (Gage Munroe), loyal lieutenant Kwon (Siam Yu), and their opposite numbers Quinn (Aidan Gouveia), his insubordinate deputy Skinner (Michael Friend) and budding love interest Jess (Mackenzie Munro). It's a large cast of similar-looking kids, and the ensemble has a Thin Red Line feel of ambiguity and unfamiliarity.

Stars: Siam Yu, Gage Munroe, Michael Friend, Aidan Gouveia, Mackenzie Munro, Alex Cardillo, Kolton Stewart, Eric Hanson, Alex Wall | Written by Jason Lapeyre | Directed by Robert Wilson, Jason Lapeyre

I Declare War is a war film which documents the horrors of war including torture, battles, violence and balloons filled with paint. Of course, War in this case is a summer game played in a forest between two teams of children. But this year is different. Will P.K Sullivan (Gage Munroe) be able to keep his title of reigning champion? Or will betrayal and jealousy on both sides lead to a much more serious and deadly game than anyone was expecting? Who will win War?

This film opens with action straight away and doesn’t let up the the entirety. I Declare War follows the two teams of children in the forest playing war but allows their imaginations to take...

I Declare War will be available for digital download and on DVD from 30 June 2014 and to celebrate, we have 3 DVDs to give away!

Directed by Jason Laypeyre and Robert Wilson, the film features rising stars Gage Munroe (Immortals), Simon Yu (A Beginner’s Guide to Endings) and Mackenzie Munro (The Stone Angel).

I Declare War focuses on a group of 12-year-old friends whilst they play an innocent game of ‘Capture the Flag’ in the neighbourhood woods, arming themselves with nothing more than sticks, their imagination and a simple set of rules.

One afternoon the game takes on a more serious tone and the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship, giving the would-be warriors a glimpse of the darker side of human nature. Will child’s play turn to something more real or will these boys battle it out and win the war?

The film was recently screened at...

The hectic I Declare War is out this weekend, brimming with bloody violence and memorable characters. One of the standouts is upcoming actress Mackenzie Munro, who’s previously starred in The Borgias and The Story of Luke, as ‘alpha female’ Jessica. As the sole female in male-dominated cast, Munro talks to HeyUGuys about life growing up in a family of filmmakers, and a bright future of exciting possibilities.

How difficult is it juggling your acting career with the more regular parts of your life, such as school?

Well, my mom is a film executive and my dad is an editor, so I’ve had a life of not being in one place and not having one kind of regular routine, I guess you could say. My school is actually really good with that sort of thing; all of our courses, everything is posted online. So you can take it away,...

Title: I Declare War Directors: Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson Starring: Siam Yu, Gage Munroe, Mackenzie Munro, Michael Friend, Alex Cardillo, Dyson Fyke If war is hell, then adolescence is too, in its own differentiated, downscale way. “I Declare War,” a brilliant, terrifically imaginative comedy of commingled nostalgia and allegory, gets this, on a gut level. Co-directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson, the film unfolds as a surreal, seriocomic riff on “Lord of the Flies,” exposing the hidden seams of psychological depth present in war-as-playtime, wherein kids (mostly boys) first start trying on some of the absolutes and certitude of adulthood. Unfolding entirely in a sprawling woods, “I Declare War” [ Read More ]

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When the 12-year-old boys in I Declare War get together for a game of capture the flag, there are stringent rules to adhere by. Drafthouse Films has released a red band clip (featuring R-rated language) of the first five minutes, where we meet fearless leader Pk (Gage Munroe) and learn these rules before this intense game starts. Directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson, I Declare War is currently available on VOD formats and in select theaters. clickHere to see if this critically-acclaimed film is playing in a theater near you.

Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of 12-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. Rocks = Grenades. Trees = Control towers. Sticks = Submachine guns. The youthful innocence of the game gradually takes on a different...

When the 12-year-old boys in I Declare War get together for a game of capture the flag, there are stringent rules to adhere by. Drafthouse Films has released a red band clip (featuring R-rated language) of the first five minutes, where we meet fearless leader Pk (Gage Munroe) and learn these rules before this intense game starts. Directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson, I Declare War is currently available on VOD formats and in select theaters. clickHere to see if this critically-acclaimed film is playing in a theater near you.

Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of 12-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. Rocks = Grenades. Trees = Control towers. Sticks = Submachine guns. The youthful innocence of the game gradually takes on a different...

Title: I Declare War Directed By: Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson Starring: Siam Yu, Gage Munroe, Michael Friend, Aidan Gouveia, Mackenzie Munro, Alex Cardillo, Dyson Fyke, Spencer Howes, Any Reid, Kolton Stewart, Eric Hanson With so much straightforward supernatural and/or dystopian teen violence, Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson’s “I Declare War” is a welcomed and highly effective experiment in juggling preadolescent imagination and some very real, adult life lessons. Pk (Gage Munroe) is the master of war – capture the flag, fake gun, water balloon grenade, kid-style war. At the start of “I Declare War,” Pk is in the midst of his most heated battle yet. He’s got no trouble [ Read More ]

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William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” was an allegorical tale about the savage decent into humanity’s heart of darkness seen through the eyes of a group of British kids on a desert island, and while Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson’s I Declare War isn’t much of an allegorical tale it is about the minor squabbles in every adolescent child’s life that seem like the biggest problems in the world and seen through the eyes of a group of Canadian kids playing fake wargames on a hot summer’s day in the woods. It ain’t literature, but it is definitely a whole lot of fun.

Sticks and branches stand in for guns, water balloons filled with red paint are grenades, you get paralyzed for ten seconds after getting “shot,” you’re “dead” and have to go home if you get hit by a grenade, and...

Damn Hollywood for making me think my childhood was ten times more badass than it really was, but at the same time, God bless its boundary-less ability to enhance even the most mundane activity. In the case of I Declare War, directors Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson turn a simple game of capture the flag into an all-out war with children toting sub-machine guns, throwing grenades, and shooting laser beams out of their eyes. Don’t worry, it all makes sense as the visuals are technically just the overactive imaginations of each character. The kids aren’t actually killing one another, but the presentation of true weaponry is necessary when conveying certain themes, throwing children into the dog days of war while proving their strategic game is far more than child’s play.

In the game of “War,” the rules are simple. If you get shot, you have to count...

What starts as an innocent game of Capture the Flag between 12-year-old turns into all-out warfare in the second trailer for I Declare War. Directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson, this action drama shows how engrossed these children become in the game, and how the line between reality and military fantasy is quickly blurred. We also have the Platoon-influenced poster for I Declare War, which debuts on VOD, iTunes and digital download July 26 before its theatrical debut on August 30.

Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of 12-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. Rocks = Grenades. Trees = Control towers. Sticks = Submachine guns. The youthful innocence of the game gradually takes on a different tone as the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship.

Title: The Story of Luke Director: Alonso Mayo Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Cary Elwes, Kristin Bauer, Seth Green, Tyler Stentiford, Mackenzie Munro, Kenneth Welsh, Sabryn Rock A winning little dramedy hung chiefly on the solid peg of Lou Taylor Pucci’s lead performance, “The Story of Luke” offers up an experiential snapshot of adult autism without descending into cloying sentimentality or didactic moralizing. Written and helmed by first-time feature director Alonso Mayo — and rooted in childhood experiences of watching his mother oversee an educational center for kids and adults with developmental delays — the movie is mostly a comedy, but one that largely eschews outlandishness and never drifts too far [ Read More ]

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This exclusive clip from The Story of Luke features the autistic Luke (Lou Taylor Pucci) getting distracted by a receptionists's "assets" during a job interview. Alonso Mayo directs this touching drama about a young man whose sheltered life is disrupted when grandparents die. Luke becomes determined to find his first job and live life on his own terms for the first time. Take a look at this scene from the upcoming indie, debuting in theaters and on VOD formats April 5.

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Luke, 25, is autistic and lives a sheltered life with his grandparents. But his world is suddenly turned upside down when his grandmother dies and he is forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives who have no patience for him or his senile grandfather, who they quickly force into a nursing home. Luke is left with his grandfather's final semi-coherent words: "Get a job. Find a girl.

We have the exclusive poster debut for the critically-acclaimed indie The Story of Luke, debuting in theaters and on VOD formats April 5 after a successful run on the film festival circuit. Lou Taylor Pucci stars as Luke, a young autistic man who is forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives after his grandmother passes away. Luke finally decides to take control of his own life in this heralded drama from director Alonso Mayo. Take a look at this brand new one-sheet, also featuring co-stars Seth Green, Cary Elwes, and Kristin Bauer van Straten.

Luke, 25, is autistic and lives a sheltered life with his grandparents. But his world is suddenly turned upside down when his grandmother dies and he is forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives who have no patience for him or his senile grandfather, who they quickly force into a nursing home. Luke is left with his grandfather's...

Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced their acquisition of Us rights to 2012 Toronto International Film Festival favorite and Fantastic Fest Audience Award winner I Declare War, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson.

Produced by Lewin Webb, Robert Wilson and Patrick Cameron from SamaritanEntertainment, the film centers on an epic game of capture-the-flag. In their quest for victory, a group of adolescents pushes beyond the game and the boundaries of friendship into an adventure where fantasy blurs with reality. A VOD and theatrical campaign is planned for the second half of 2013.

Directors Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson set out to construct an action film from the darker side of a 13-year-old's mindset, while also examining sincere conflicts of enduring friendship. Using the kids' overactive imaginations, a neighborhood forest setting becomes a full-fledged woodland battlefield: sticks transform into guns, water balloons into grenades and eyeballs can shoot lasers.

I Declare War

Directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson

Canada, 2012

Philadelphia Film Festival

Inevitable comparisons to Lord of the Flies or Battle Royale aside, Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson’s ‘kids-in-war’ film is a moderately successful drama. Clunky as a commentary, I Declare War is rather strong as a meditation on social cliques.

Pk (Gage Munroe) has won the last several wars. He’s a legend and his men mostly know it. But when a new war rival Quinn (Aidan Gouveia) challenges him, Pk and his soldiers will be tested. There’s also an X-factor in their midst. Jess (Mackenzie Munro) has her own agenda.

The big draw of I Declare War is the imaginative play between reality and fantasy. Tied together sticks become guns with a well-placed edit. Water balloons filled with paint become grenades with an explosion sound effect.

Sure, it’s a testament and celebration of the childhood imagination,...

Jess (Mackenzie Munro) is the most intriguing character. As the lone girl, she exemplifies the cool, calm and collected approach to war. She is the master strategist of the group, keenly plotting a scheme that satisfies her own motives (to impress a boy); but that selfishness is really her only weakness (luckily for her the boys are too stupid to ever notice). Compared to Jess, the other thinker of the kids -- Pk (Gage Munroe) -- seems like a total hack who never clearly contemplates the pros and cons of each scenario; he never has an exit strategy. Jess is also able to use her feminine wiles to coerce most of the boys into doing her bidding; in other words, Jess is the one weapon that the boys are utterly defenseless against. I Declare War brilliantly captures the naïveté of adolescence, specifically the inability to separate reality from make-believe. The...

Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson's I Declare War is riddled with glaring, grating flaws.  The performances from the young actors are inconsistent.  The cinematography and effects look cheap.  Character arcs and plotlines lose their energy and focus.  And yet I Declare War is incredibly charming.  It's fun watching kids be kids in a game adults have become too self-conscious to play.  It has the vibe of a big, backyard movie that kids would make with their friends if they had a little more money and time.  The picture also makes the worthwhile argument that coming-of-age means betrayal and jealousy, and that the kids games are about to vanish. Pk (Gage Munroe) and his friends are in the middle of a game of capture the flag.  If you're hit with fake bullets, you're down for ten seconds; if you're hit with a blood balloon, you have to go home.  The objective...

Seth Green has joined the cast of the indie drama The Story of Luke for Fluid Film and DViant Film.

Lou Taylor Pucci stars as the title character, a young man with autism who leaves his sheltered world behind, determined to live life on his own terms as he searches for a job and a girlfriend. Seth Green will play Luke's friend Zach, who guides him on this journey. Kristin Bauer and Cary Elwes also co-star.

Alonso Mayo will write and make his directorial debut with The Story of Luke, which is based on his own experiences at his mother's rehabilitation school in Lima, Peru. Nina Leidersdorff, Fred Roos, and Julien Favre are producing.

Production is scheduled to begin later this month, in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

The Story of Luke comes to theaters in 2011 and stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Seth Green, Kristin Bauer, Cary Elwes, Kenneth Walsh, Tyler Stentiford,...

Alonso Mayo has started principal photography on his feature directorial debut, The Story of Luke, in Ontario, Canada. Lou Taylor Pucci stars as Luke, "a young man with autism who, after being sheltered his whole life, embarks on a quest for a job and a girl." Tonight it was revealed Seth Green will co-star alongside Cary Elwes, Kristin Bauer, Kenneth Welsh, Tyler Stentiford, and Mackenzie Munro. Producers Nina Leidersdorff, Julien Favre, and Fred Roos are doing their best to get the word out on the indie coming-of-age comedy. The official site and Facebook page are packed with material, including production stills, a lengthy synopsis, and even the first ten pages of the screenplay. Check it out after the jump. First, here are a few of the photos from the set. You can see a lot more on Facebook. [gallery link="file" order="Desc" columns="1"] And here is the lengthy official synopsis. If you want to know even more,...