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Saturday 15 May is International Day of the Family so we’ve decided to turn our Streaming Spotlight on films about families of all shapes and sizes. Not all of them are child friendly or even focused on children, but they remind us of what family means and how, for many people, it’s something that can be relied upon no matter what. These families face more challenges than most but they’re all worth fighting for.

Any Day Now

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Travis Fine's touching and heartfelt drama stars Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt as a newly established gay couple who try to give disadvantaged Down's syndrome teenager Marco (Isaac Leyva) the loving family that he has never had. In doing so, they face the institutionalised racism of Seventies America, a situation fraught with prejudice and injustice. Cumming has rarely been better than here,...

Celsius Entertainment is a London and Berlin based international sales agent that finances and represents slate of high quality, high profile feature films for distribution to the international territories. Celsius is a private company, wholly-owned and managed by Thierry Wase-Bailey, a 25 year veteran of the international film licensing business.Celsius has an interesting array of films at the Efm. Most already have U.S. distribution but rights in many territories are still up for grabs.

Genre : Drama

Synopsis : Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s and touching on legal and social issues that are as relevant today as they were 35 years ago, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he’s never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.

Us Distributor: Music Box Films

Cast: Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, X2), Garret Dillahunt (Looper, Winter’S Bone, The Last House On The Left), Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher (Titanic)

Efm Screening Schedule :

07/02/13 6.30 pm: CinemaxX 11 (Potsdamer Straße 5, 10785 Berlin) 10/02/13 5.55 pm: CinemaxX 12 (Potsdamer Straße 5, 10785 Berlin)

Winner of an unprecedented 8 Audience Awards:

Chicago International Film Festival 2012 Seattle International Film Festival 2012 Tribeca Film Festival 2012 Outfest 2012 Provincetown International Film Festival 2012 Woodstock Film Festival 2012 Napa Valley Film Festival 2012 Key West Film Festival 201

"Cumming is the linchpin, and the actor does an exceptional job of moving across the vast galaxy of universal emotions about partners and parenthood." - Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

"Cumming’s performance [is] a perfect balance of flamboyance, humanity, vulnerability, paternal love and righteous anger...it's the best work he's done to date." - David Fear, Time Out NY

"Dillahunt has chilling realistic moments that make you feel the actual discrimination in the air." - David D'Arcy, Screen International

“Powerful! Superb! Depictions of custody battles have become a cinematic staple, but few register with the heartfelt emotion of Any Day Now." - Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

“Alan Cumming delivers what is possibly his best performance to date.” - Boyd Van Hoeij, Variety

"3 1/2 Stars! One of the season's hidden treasures." - Marshall Fine, The Huffington Post

“...an outraged, unblinking depiction of institutionalized homophobia...” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times Critics' Pick

“Cumming and Dillahunt create characters that are as memorable as they are moving.” - Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

“It would take a heart of stone to resist Any Day Now..." - Ella Taylor, NPR

"Powerful" - John Hartl, 3 1/2 stars, Seattle Times

“Packs a powerful, timely and ultimately heartbreaking message.” - Dan Heching, Next

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Come Out And Play (El Juego De Los NIÑOS)

Genre : Horror

Synopsis : While on vacation, Beth (Vinessa Shaw The Hills Have Eyes) and Francis (Ebon Moss-Bachrach The Lake House) visit a remote island that turns out to be almost solely inhabited by children. Unfortunately for them, these kids are far from well behaved.

Us Distributor: Cinedigm

Also Sold to Metrodome [UK] following its world premiere at Midnight Madness in Toronto. Also sold to Nikkatsu in Japan, to Germany, to Cis/Russia, etc...

Festivals : Was also in official competition at Fantastic Fest, Sitges, Rio, AFI 'Midnight’, & Torino. Next up at Gérardmer and Fribourg.

20th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer:

Screening Schedule:

02/02/13 2.00 pm Espace Lac (Official Screening) 02/02/13 7.30 pm McL (Screening) 03/02/13 9.30 pm Casino (Screening)

“I loved Come Out And Play. I really really dug it.” Harry Knowles Click for full article [Ain’t it cool news]

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The First Time

Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Romance

From Castle Rock Entertainment

Us Distributor Sony Pictures [out on DVD Mar 2013]

Synopsis: A high school romance that follows two teenagers over the course of one weekend.

Producers: Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer [Friends With Benefits, Bernie, Did You Hear About The Morgans?, Music & Lyrics, etc…]

Cast : Dylan O’Brien (star of MTV's Teen Wolf), Britt Robertson (star of The Secret Circle), Victoria Justice (Fun Size), Craig Roberts (Submarine, Red Lights), James Frecheville ( Animal Kingdom) & Lamarcus Tinker (Glee).

" ' The First Time' is a polished gem of a teen romantic comedy, with a maturity and emotional intelligence not usually associated with the genre.” -Marshall Fine, Huffington Post

“sweet, low-key comedy… has a freshness” Neil Genzlinger , NY Times

“Quite simply put, ‘The First Time’ is phenomenal stuff. This is one of my favorite films of 2012 so far” Joey Magidson Awards Circuit Click Here for full review

“this witty, sweet and charming little gem may be the year's most romantic movie. Prepare to swoon. 3 1/2 Stars (out of 4)” -Dan Jewel Life & Style Review

“Objectively, what the world needs now is another teen-romance-slash-virginity-loss dramedy like we need a hole in our collective movie heads. But Jonathan Kasdan's The First Time, against all odds, is something of a wonder” Michael Atkinson, Phoenix New Times Click Here for full review

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Also available for your territory:

Turn Me On, Goddammit!

coming of age comedy sold to over 20 distributors. Winner Best Film & Best Cinematography at the Norwegian Oscars [The Amandas] & Best Screenplay Tribeca Film Festival, amongst numerous other awards.

Us Distributor: New Yorker

“You’ll be gladder to have seen this beguiling little film” Wall Street Journal

View the International & Us trailers: Click Here

Angels Crest

Dramatic thriller starring Thomas Dekker [A Nightmare on Elm St], Jeremy Piven [Entourage], Mira Sorvino [ Oscar winner] and Lynn Collins [female lead in John Carter]

Us Distributor: Magnolia

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Freakonomics

Based on the international best-seller

Us Distributor: Magnolia

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and from the genre division of Celsius:

Amphibious 3D

Creature/horror shot entirely in 3D starring Michael Pare [Lincoln Lawyer]& directed by Brian Yuzna [Re-Animator]

Us Distributor: Freestyle

View 3D Anaglyph Trailer [you’ll need Red/Cyan glasses ]: Click Here

“this film has an absolutely killer ending” Ambush Bug (Ain’t It Cool News)

Library Titles also available for your territory:

From Within

Teen supernatural horror starring Thomas Dekker [A Nightmare on Elm St, Terminator TV series], Adam Goldberg [upcomingInferno: A Linda Lovelace Story], Jared Harris [Mad Men] & Rumer Willis [ 90210]

Us Distributor : Lionsgate

Crusade: A March Through Time

$14m teen fantasy adventure starring Emily Watson

Us Distributor : Phase 4

Manda Bala: Send A Bullet

When the rich steal from the poor... the Poor steal the rich.

Sundance Winner Best Documentary & Best Cinematography...

The Great Beauty | About Time | Riddick | Ain't Them Bodies Saints | Museum Hours | Pieta | The Stuart Hall Project | The Great Hip Hop Hoax | No One Lives | More Than Honey | Jadoo | Any Day Now

The Great Beauty (15)

(Paolo Sorrentino, 2013, Ita/Fra) Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, 141 mins

Sorrentino proves himself a worthy successor to Fellini here, tracking modern Roman decadence with staggering exuberance and an eye for the stylishly surreal. Filling the Marcello Mastroianni role is Servillo's world-weary writer and socialite, who stalks the city's elite demi-monde of hedonistic parties, pretentious art, cynical grotesques and faded glories – but finds reveries and regrets around every corner.

About Time (12A)

(Richard Curtis, 2013, UK) Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams. 123 mins

A sci-fi element reinvigorates Curtis's trademarked romcom formula, but there's still a feeling of deja vu to this middle-class love story, in which Gleeson uses his inherited time-travelling powers to woo McAdams – albeit at a cost.

Since he departed our shores 10 years ago, Alan Cumming has become a starlet of the American theatre scene, as well as building a healthy following form hit-us show, The Good Wife. Now Cumming is back on the big screen, alongside Garret Dillahunt in Travis Fine’s emotionally engaging, and oh so glorious kitsch period- drama, Any Day Now.

We open in Los Angeles in 1979, with Cumming playing Rudy, a flamboyant drag queen that bursts dashing and tight-buttoned lawyer Paul (Dillahunt) out of the closet one night in a gay bar. Returning home after a night of saucy shenanigans, Rudy discovers Marco, a young boy with Downs Syndrome, who is chronically neglected by his drug-addled mother. After taking the young fledgling in, Rudy and Paul decide to adopt the child as their own. What ensues is an impassioned custody battle, where Rudy and Paul battle with the draconian legal system to give the boy a home.

Alan Cumming plays a drag artist in 1970s Los Angeles hoping to adopt a neglected child

It sounds like something from Channel 5's afternoon schedule – gay couple in 1970s La battle for custody of a neglectful neighbour's son who has Down's syndrome – but Travis Fine's drama digs far deeper into its every scene and character. Alan Cumming is Rudy, a drag artist railing against the insistence that good dads don't wear blusher; Garret Dillahunt is his boyfriend Paul, a lawyer who has an in with the system, if uncomfortable ties to the macho world of the bar. Fine never rushes his plot points, instead painting a picture of this generally unfabulous moment in muted-brown production design, and allowing his actors to unpick this case's nuances. He has fostered a credibly guarded turn from Dillahunt, and Cumming's most modulated and affecting screen performance yet. The film fights its small fight honestly and with commendable integrity.

Garret Dillahunt as Paul, Isaac Leyva as Marco and Alan Cumming as Rudy in Travis Fine's Any Day Now Travis Fine's touching and heartfelt drama Any Day Now reaches UK cinemas on September 6. The film, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last year, stars Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt as a newly established gay couple who try to give disadvantaged Down's syndrome teenager Marco (Isaac Leyva) the loving family that he has never had. In doing so, they face a situation fraught with prejudice and injustice. The film is by turns funny and poignant, giving a satisfying emotional pay-off without being manipulative, and is fully deserving of the fistful of festival awards it has won. We caught up with Fine ahead of the UK release to talk about the stories behind the film and the reception it has received.

I gather the screenplay for the film was originally from the Seventies?...

★★★★☆ Travis Fine's poignant second feature about a gay couple's attempts to adopt a Down's syndrome child is a well-crafted drama with a powerful message and stellar performances from Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt. Based on true events, scripted by George Arthur Bloom and then reworked by Fine, Any Day Now (2012) deals with weighty and emotive issues reminiscent of 2009 biopic Milk; both films interweave the political and personal to great effect, and use humour to leaven the shade. Set in 1970s La, Rudy (Cumming) is a big-voiced drag queen who struggles to make ends meet from his cabaret act.

When he meets the closeted Paul (Dillahunt), who works in the district attorney's office, their connection is immediate. Meanwhile, Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with special needs, lives with his drug-addicted mother in the same rundown apartment block as Rudy. When she winds up in jail, Rudy decides to take Marco under his wing.

Debuting at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and taking home the first of almost a dozen awards on the festival circuit, Travis Fine’s Any Day Now is finally on the cusp of its release here in the UK.

Led by Alan Cumming and Garrett Dillahunt, with a release on our shores just a few weeks away, we’ve got the new UK quad poster to share with you exclusively.

Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals and starring Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) take him in and become the loving family he’s never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the...

Chicago – Evoking the civil rights melodramas of the ’60s, such as Guy Green’s wrenching “A Patch of Blue,” with a dash of Robert Benton’s 1979 masterpiece, “Kramer vs. Kramer,” Travis Fine’s “Any Day Now” shamelessly aims to tug at the heartstrings. And tug at them he does with considerable success, thanks in large part to the riveting, career-best performance delivered by Alan Cumming. It’s the sort of work that could’ve easily been honored with an Oscar nod, had Fox Searchlight or Harvey Weinstein picked it up.

Set in California circa 1979, the film centers on a gay couple struggling to care for a young boy who is in desperate need of a family. Though the couple desires to be considered as his parents, they find themselves in the same predicament as the distraught father figure in Patrick Wang’s 2011 masterpiece, “In the Family.” Yet whereas Wang’s...

Sterling performances by Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt help elevate Any Day Now above a premise that may sound quite familiar: a non-traditional couple runs into trouble when they try to adopt a special-needs child. Set in West Hollywood, California, in 1979, the original screenplay by Travis Fine and George Arthur Bloom, inspired by a true story, sets up one stereotype after another, only to topple them gently. Rudy (Cumming) is performing in a nightclub when he locks eyes with Paul (Dillahunt). They adjourn to Paul's car for a quick tryst and the promise of a future meeting. When Rudy returns home, he discovers that next-door neighbor Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenage boy with Down's syndrome, has been left abandoned by the arrest of his...

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Chicago – Travis Fine’s “Any Day Now” is an old-fashioned social problem film painted in the broadest of strokes. Fairly early on, the audience is faced with two choices: either resist the film’s assuredly tear-jerking formula or submit to it. Though some critics will always opt for the first choice, regardless of a film’s merits, I’m willing to praise a formula as long as it’s well-executed.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

At its best, Fine’s film appropriately evokes civil rights melodramas of the ’60s, such as Guy Green’s wrenching “A Patch of Blue,” with a dash of Robert Benton’s 1979 masterpiece, “Kramer vs. Kramer.” Fueling the fractured heart of “Any Day Now” is the love that two would-be parents feel for a young boy in desperate need of a family. The fact that the two “parents” are a gay couple unable to marry in America circa 1979 places a...

If you missed Alan Cumming as the Master of Ceremonies in Broadway.s Cabaret, you.ll have several chances to hear him sing in the gay indie soap opera Any Day Now. He sings a lot – complete songs – but it.s not a musical. The drama stops cold several times to let his ballads flesh out the half-baked script about the debate over gay adoption, the subject at the center of this well-meaning, if heavy-handed film. Set in the less-tolerant era of the late 1970.s, Any Day Now is about a custody battle involving Rudy (Cumming), a hapless drag queen, and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), a closeted city attorney, who haven.t been together long before they adopt 14-year old Marco (Isaac Leyva), a boy with Downs syndrome who’s been abandoned by his drug addicted mother (Jamie Anne Allman). The three form a happy little family but since this is the anti-gay .70s,...

Title: Any Day Now Director: Travis Fine Starring: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Chris Mulkey, Frances Fisher, Kelli Williams, Mindy Sterling, Alan Rachins, Jamie Anne Allman A warmly captured, wonderfully sketched, 1970s period piece social-issue drama, “Any Day Now” tells the story of a gay Los Angeles couple fighting to at first legalize and then establish the permanence of their adoption of a neglected teenager with Down Syndrome. Engaging performances and a beguiling, unfussy technique anchor this big-hearted tearjerker, which cycles through some familiar territory but also deftly and movingly sidesteps conventional wisdom about where this tale may end up. Drag queen performer and would-be singer Rudy (Alan Cumming) [ Read More ]

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Los Angeles — "Any Day Now" follows the struggle of a gay couple in late-1970s Los Angeles to adopt an abandoned teenage boy with Down syndrome.

It's not exactly your traditional, old-fashioned family unit. So who better than the film's star, Alan Cumming, to ponder the most memorably unusual families in film history?

The Scottish actor plays a flamboyant female impersonator who falls in love with a closeted prosecutor (Garret Dillahunt) and tries to build a stable home for the boy, played by Isaac Leyva. It's clearly a story – and a genre – he feels passionately about. Here's Cumming, in his own words, discussing his five favorite films about unconventional families:

_ "Flirting With Disaster" (1996): This is a hilarious sort of weird family road trip with Ben Stiller going on a journey to find his birth parents and meeting a lot of insane people along the way. It's one of David...

This weekly column is intended to provide reviews of nearly every release, including films on VOD (and occasionally certain studio films). Specifics release dates and locations follow each review. Reviews This Week "Any Day Now" "Let Fury Have the Hour" "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" "Save the Date" "Trashed" *** "Any Day Now" "Any Day Now" is built on two certainties: Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) and Paul Fleiger (Garret Dillahunt) never question their ability to care for Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with Down syndrome, setting the stage for director/co-writer Travis Fine's point that gay couples make for excellent adoptive parents. Aspiring singer Rudy is performing in a low-rent Los Angeles drag show in 1979 when he meets Paul, an uptight and closeted assistant district attorney. That same night, Rudy encounters Marco, left alone...

The recently announced list of the 75 original songs eligible for an Oscar nomination for the 85th edition of the awards show reads more like a Grammy scorecard with artists like Arcade Fire, Fiona Apple, Florence and the Machine, Dolly Parton, Rick Ross, Paul Williams, Owl City, John Legend, Katy Perry and Karen O., among the chosen crop. Also on the list is Rufus Wainwright for his song "Metaphorical Blanket," which he penned for the Alan Cumming-starring indie "Any Day Now" (in select theaters December 14. Based on a true story and directed with restraint by Travis Fine (he helmed the similarly affecting drama "The Space Between" starring Melissa Leo), "Any Day Now" centers on Rudy (Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), a mismatched gay couple in the '70s who take in a boy with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) after he's abandoned by his junkie mother living next door. When their...

Alan Cumming, the Scottish stage and screen star best known to audiences as a scene-stealing supporting player (he's appeared in everything from the "Spy Kids" franchise to Cher's latest vehicle "Burlesque" and the hit CBS TV series "The Good Wife"), takes center stage in "Any Day Now," a powerful indie that's won 10 audience awards on the festival circuit, including in Seattle and Chicago. Based on a true story and directed with restraint by Travis Fine (he helmed the similarly affecting drama "The Space Between" starring Melissa Leo), "Any Day Now" centers on Rudy (Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), a mismatched gay couple in the '70s who take in a boy with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) after he's abandoned by his junkie mother living next door. When their living arrangement comes to the attention of authorities, the two find themselves at the center of a nasty custody battle mired in.

Title: Any Day Now Music Box Films Director: Travis Fine Screenwriter: Travis Fine, George Arthur Bloom Cast: Alan Cumming, Garrett Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Jamie Anne Allman and Alan Rachins Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 12/10/12 Opens: December 14, 2012 Nowadays Same-Sex couples residing in Utah or Mississippi cannot legally adopt children at all. Sixteen other states in the U.S. allow joint-gay adoptions, among which is the state of California. This was not always the case in The Sunshine State. If you were a homosexual/lesbian person wanting to adopt a child you faced a tough court system and stood a miniscule chance of winning. Such a case is described  [ Read More ]

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Actor Alan Cumming has played a lot of memorable roles on stage, television and movies, but few of them really give him a chance to shine as does his role in Travis Fine.s Any Day Now . Taking place in California of the late '70s, Cumming plays Rudy Donatello, a flamboyant drag queen who meets and becomes involved with Paul (Garret Dillahunt), a lawyer still in the closet about his sexuality. When Rudy discovers his neighbor.s Downs Syndrome-stricken son Marco (Isaac Leyva) is being neglected by his junkie mother, he takes responsibility for the boy and the two of them move in with Paul as he tries to make it possible that they can adopt him. It turns out that two gay men adopting a young boy, let alone one with special needs, is far more difficult in 1979 than it is now--and it.s...

They made him a promise. He made them a family. This trailer is one of those that by the end of watching it, it might be hard to hold back your tears because it's so touching and looks extremely good. Any Day Now stars Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming along with "Raising Hope" star Garret Dillahunt as a gay couple who come to shelter an abandoned teenage boy with Down syndrome named Marco, played by Isaac Leyva. It looks like Alan Cumming delivers one of his best performances to date, and I hope it gets him some awards, which is I'm sure what they're hoping for, too. Give this a look - it's worth watching. Watch the official trailer for Travis Fine's Any Day Now, in high def originally from Apple: In the 1970s in Los Angeles, a gay couple (Alan Cumming & Garret Dillahunt) fights a biased legal...

Today we have a new trailer and poster for the upcoming drama movie Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming, and Garret Dillahunt.

Check them both out below

Any Day Now is directed by Travis Fine who also co-wrote the screenplay with George Arthur Bloom. The film also features Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, and Chris Mulkey.

Here’s the official synopsis for the film

Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, Any Day Now tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating your own family. In the late 1970s, when Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with down syndrome who’s been abandoned by his mother, is taken in by committed couple Rudy (Alan Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), he finds in them the family he’s never had. However, when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by the authorities,...

In its opening moments, the new trailer for Travis Fine's "Any Day Now," which has already won a slew of festival audience awards--including at Seattle, Tribeca, Chicago and Woodstock--looks to preview a lighthearted film about drag and disco culture in late 1970s Hollywood. But soon enough, a slow, mournful piano line and the exchange of heartfelt smiles between Rudy (Alan Cumming) and Marco (Isaac Leyva), a young teenager with Down Syndrome, let us know that Mr. Fine has a weightier agenda in mind. Inspired by actual events, "Any Day Now" is the story of a gay couple's (Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) fight against a bigoted legal system to keep the disabled child they've rescued from a troubled home. With a layered, charismatic performance from Cumming and the film's blend of salient social issues with warm depictions of unconventional family life, "Any Day Now" is sure to delight all this holiday season.

Any Day Now may have a story that seems fitting for a Movie of the Week but that doesn.t change the fact that it is a incredibly well crafted film full of surprisingly powerful performances. Paul (Garret Dillahunt) is a closeted District Attorney and Rudy (Alan Cumming) is an aspiring singer currently working as lead in a drag performance at a gay bar. When Rudy.s negligent junkie neighbor ends up in jail, he looks after her son Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with Down syndrome. Family Services places Marco in a foster home but Rudy soon finds him wandering the streets and takes him in once again. With temporary custody approved by Marco.s mother, Rudy and Paul begin raising him as their own. But when it is discovered Rudy and Paul are not cousins but a gay couple, they face a harsh legal battle to keep Marco...

"Any Day Now," a drama about gay adoption from director Travis Fine, has won the Tribeca Film Festival's Heineken Audience Award for the festival's favorite narrative feature. In a Saturday night festival wrap party in New York, the Detroit-set documentary "Burn" was named the favorite documentary.  "Any Day Now" (left) stars Alan Cumming as an aspiring singer who, together with his closeted district attorney partner (Garret Dillahunt), tries to adopt a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva). Director Fine was previously represented at Tribeca with his 2012 film "The Space Between." "Burn" (below)...

Inspired by an moving true story, Travis Fine‘s Any Day Now may be set in the ’70s, but the story’s elements feel like a story ripped from today’s headlines. The film stars Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt as Rudy and Paul, a happy (though closeted) couple who discover something truly unexpected in their neighbor’s apartment – teen Marco (Isaac Leyva), abandoned by his drug-addicted mother and left to his own devices. Even worse? Marco has Down syndrome, and no one else in his life is able or equipped to handle his needs. Except Rudy and Paul. The pair eventually take in Marco and begin to form a happy and stable family together. But when their arrangement is discovered, and Rudy and Paul’s relationship is outed, it kicks of a legal battle that will decide just who Marco really belongs with. With a compelling story and an extremely talented cast (that also includes Frances Fisher...

Poster for Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher and Isaac Leyva. The first poster is in for the official selection at this year's Tribeca Film Festival directed by Travis Fine, who scripts alongside George Arthur Bloom. Set in the last 1970s, the story tells of mentally handicapped teenager Marco (Isaac Leyva) who, after being abandoned, is taken in by a gay couple and becomes the family he's never had. However, once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. Also in the cast are Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins and Mindy Serling...