Ballast At L.A. Film Fest June 25-26th!

BALLAST to screen at LA Film Fest
Oxford actor Johnny McPhail will be at both screenings, so if you are in the L.A. area, give him a shout!

Ballast
(USA, 2007, 96 mins)
Summer Previews

Wednesday, June 25th 9:30pm
The Landmark

$12.00

Thursday, June 26th 7:00pm
The Regent

$12.00

Lance Hammer creates one of the year’s most exciting debuts with a precise, moving, delicately modulated look at lives teetering on the brink, as a family struggles to come to terms with a death in their midst. More…

Ballast

Summer Previews

(USA, 2007, 96 mins)

35mm

Directed By: Lance Hammer

Writer: Lance Hammer
Producers: Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh
Executive Producers: Andrew Adamson, John J. Hammer, Mark Johnson, Aimee Shieh
Cinematographer: Lol Crawley
Editor: Lance Hammer
Cast: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail

It is rare that a debut feature comes around quite like this. Lance Hammer writes and directs this precise, moving, delicately modulated look at lives teetering on the brink. A boy in the Mississippi delta struggles to come to terms with the death of his father, while his mother and uncle squabble over what to make of what’s left of their tentative family bonds. Infused with a style that seems drawn more from European cinema than contemporary American independent films, Ballast will knock you off your feet.
Source: http://www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/title.php/detail/?AlphaRange=BB&ShowShorts=Y&ShowPast=N&