Friction

Running time: 88 mins

What if you were scripted?to behave badly?

Taking unconventional storytelling to another level, filmmaker Cullen Hoback (Monster Camp, Cinequest 2007) travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them. However, the scripted love triangle soon tangles with reality. In the face of teenage confusion and hormones, façades fall to true feelings, hidden truths are revealed and the thin line between fiction and reality starts to blur.

Weaving the original ?intended? film with rehearsals and documentary elements, Friction breaks the wall that separates fiction from reality, challenging the very real lives of everyone involved. What remains is a one-of-a-kind story that will leave you guessing long after its shattering conclusion.

? Pearl Wong

New Visions Program made possible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences