Happy New Year!

To kick off the new year, Scene Creek and Alliance Films would like to send you to watch an advance screening of Pariah in Toronto. We have 10 double passes (admit two) to give away to our readers. Read below for details on how to enter!

Screening Date:
Monday, January 9, 2012
7:30 PM

TORONTO
AMC Yonge & Dundas 24
10 Dundas Street East

To enter is simple. Just send an e-mail to contests@scenecreek.com with the subject line ‘PARIAH’ and the following information:
1. First and Last Name
2. E-mail Address
3. Tell us why you want to see this movie!

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Winners will be chosen at random and will be notified via e-mail. Contest deadline is January 8th at 12:00pm. This contest is open to Canadian residents only. Good luck!

Synopsis:
A world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the contemporary drama Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film Pariah. Spike Lee is among the feature’s executive producers. At Sundance, cinematographer Bradford Young was honored with the [U.S. Dramatic Competition] Excellence in Cinematography Award.

Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school.

Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’ marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with.

Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.

In Theatres: January 13th
Distributed by: Alliance Films

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