FYI for those of you in the Los Angeles area... When I saw the press release headline, I hoped that "first look" meant that the entire film would be screened at the festival; but it won't be unfortunately. Instead, 30 minutes of footage from the film will be showed. Both Urbanworld (September) and BronzeLens (October) both also showed a few minutes of footage from the film. I actually expected that it would first screen at a festival or 2, generating some pre-release buzz. But with AFI FEST being really the last major film festival of the year, that's obviously not going to happen. Given when shooting actually began, it simply wouldn't have been ready for Telluride, Venice or...
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