Musical Chairs to Screen at The International Film Festival of Manhattan
on November 15th
"Susan Seidelman still knows how to capture the chaotic magic of New York."
- THE VILLAGE VOICE
NEW YORK, NY, October 31, 2012 - The transgender actress and activist, Laverne Cox, is featured today by San Diego Gay & Lesbian News (SDGLN) for her supporting role in MUSICAL CHAIRS, the latest film by renowned director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan). As
one of the most widely respected transgender actresses in Hollywood,
Cox was selected to play the role of Chantelle, a character that SDGLN
calls "a vivacious transgender woman who is paraplegic by refuses to let life keep her down." Read the full interview with Laverne Cox, here: http://bit.ly/Q6TplC.
MUSICAL CHAIRS was released in March and is set to screen at The International Film Festival of Manhattan on Thursday, November 15th at Quad Cinemas.
A unique blend of dance, drama, and romance, the film stars newcomers
Leah Pipes and E.J. Bonilla as a pair of unlikely lovers in contemporary
New York who must face a number of challenges, both separately and
together, before finding one another--and themselves. Also starring
Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli, Laverne Cox, Morgan Spector,
Auti Angel, Jerome Preston Bates, Nelson R. Landrieu, and Angelic
Zambrana, MUSICAL CHAIRS was produced by Janet Carrus and Joey Dedio.
Set
against the exciting backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, MUSICAL
CHAIRS is about Armando (Bonilla) a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a
dancer but whose only way in is as a handyman at a Manhattan dance
studio, and Mia (Pipes), an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's
star performer. Though worlds apart, their shared passion for dance
promises to bring them together until a tragic accident changes Mia's
life forever, and she finds herself wheelchair-bound at a rehab
facility, with her dreams of a dance career shattered. Fortunately,
Armando has enough dreams for both of them and, when he hears about a
wheelchair ballroom dance competition that will soon be held in NY, he
sees a way to return something to Mia that she thinks is lost forever.
At first she is reluctant--wheelchair dancing, though highly popular
overseas, is something she never even knew existed. But, with the help
of several other residents at the rehab center, Armando organizes an
intense training program that will bring them all center stage and in
the spotlight. The prize is irrelevant; what they really stand to win
back is their zest for life.
It
was producer Janet Carrus, long active in charities benefitting the
disabled, and herself an ardent ballroom dance enthusiast, who first had
the idea of building a film around the phenomenon of wheelchair
ballroom dancing, an activity long popular in Europe and Asia, but which
is only now developing a wider following in the United States.
About the film, which features both disabled and able-bodied performers in its rousing dance scenes, Carrus says, "Susan
has succeeded in conveying the struggles we all face, both able-bodied
and disabled, making our way, whether through life or on the dance
floor. She has a real talent for embracing people in all their diversity
and making them real, believable, and acceptable."
For more on the film visit:
Official: http://www.musicalchairsthefilm.com/
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