SOLD OUT: HALF NELSON, Q&A w Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Jamie Patricof, & Lynette Howell February 22, 2007

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AFI Awards Screenings Series

2006 104 MIN 35MM
DIR Ryan Fleck SCR Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CAST Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie

Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling), an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher, inspires his 13 and 14-year-olds to examine everything. Rejecting the standard Civil Rights curriculum in favor of an edgier approach, Dan teaches his students how change works?on both a historical and personal scale.

Though Dan can get it together in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness. Dealing with a serious drug habit, Dan juggles his hangovers and his homework, keeping his lives precariously separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey (Shareeka Epps), catches him getting high after school.

From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens either to undo them or to provide the vital change they both need to move forward in their lives.

Q&A to follow screening with director/co-writer Ryan Fleck, co-writer Anna Boden and producers Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell.

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