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TIP-OFF Dec. 3, 2004 JUNEBUG, A FILM WRITTEN BY NCSA DRAMA ALUMNUS ANGUS MACLACHLAN, CHOSEN FOR SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Was Filmed With Help of School of Filmmaking Alumni and Students
WINSTON-SALEM – JUNEBUG, a film written by North Carolina School of the Arts School of Drama alumnus and Winston-Salem resident Angus MacLachlan, has been selected for the Dramatic Competition at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. JUNEBUG will be competing against 15 other films in the Dramatic category. The festival will take place Jan. 20-30, 2005, in Park City, Utah. It is the premier showcase for American independent film. Directed by Winston-Salem native Phil Morrison, JUNEBUG stars NCSA School of Drama and Salem College alumna Celia Weston, recently seen in M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VILLAGE; veteran actor Scott Wilson (IN COLD BLOOD); and rising young stars Ben McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz and Amy Adams. The cast also includes NCSA School of Drama alumna Beth Bostic of Winston-Salem. More than a dozen NCSA School of Filmmaking students and alumni worked on JUNEBUG, which was shot in Winston-Salem in May and June 2004. Their duties ranged from extras casting coordinator to camera intern to sound production assistant. Kate Miller, an assistant to School of Filmmaking Dean Dale Pollock, was the film’s production coordinator. Perhaps best-known as a playwright, MacLachlan won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize for his play “The Dead Eye Boy” which premiered at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and was performed in London and at the Manhattan Class Company Theatre in New York. His play “The Radiant Abyss” was produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington last season. This is not the first time MacLachlan and Morrison have collaborated. Morrison directed MacLachlan’s TATER TOMATER, which screened at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. ###
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TIP-OFF Dec. 3, 2004

JUNEBUG, A FILM WRITTEN BY NCSA DRAMA ALUMNUS ANGUS MACLACHLAN, CHOSEN FOR SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Was Filmed With Help of School of Filmmaking Alumni and Students

WINSTON-SALEM – JUNEBUG, a film written by North Carolina School of the Arts School of Drama alumnus and Winston-Salem resident Angus MacLachlan, has been selected for the Dramatic Competition at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

JUNEBUG will be competing against 15 other films in the Dramatic category. The festival will take place Jan. 20-30, 2005, in Park City, Utah. It is the premier showcase for American independent film.

Directed by Winston-Salem native Phil Morrison, JUNEBUG stars NCSA School of Drama and Salem College alumna Celia Weston, recently seen in M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VILLAGE; veteran actor Scott Wilson (IN COLD BLOOD); and rising young stars Ben McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz and Amy Adams. The cast also includes NCSA School of Drama alumna Beth Bostic of Winston-Salem.

More than a dozen NCSA School of Filmmaking students and alumni worked on JUNEBUG, which was shot in Winston-Salem in May and June 2004. Their duties ranged from extras casting coordinator to camera intern to sound production assistant. Kate Miller, an assistant to School of Filmmaking Dean Dale Pollock, was the film’s production coordinator.

Perhaps best-known as a playwright, MacLachlan won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize for his play “The Dead Eye Boy” which premiered at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and was performed in London and at the Manhattan Class Company Theatre in New York. His play “The Radiant Abyss” was produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington last season.

This is not the first time MacLachlan and Morrison have collaborated. Morrison directed MacLachlan’s TATER TOMATER, which screened at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival.

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