Be one of the first to screen the dramatic new independent film, "LUV", that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year!  One of eight films selected from Sundance, "LUV" was also featured at the inaugural Sundance London Film Festival in April and is due to be distributed in theaters later this fall.  The commercial premier will be held in in NYC in late September 2012.

Fresh out of the University of Southern California as a graduate of the Cinema-TV Production Program, Michael Jenson and his partner Jason Berman started their own company called Film Forward.  Their first project was a script written by fellow USC students Sheldon Candis and Justin Wilson.  Director Sheldon Candis and producer Michael Jenson will join 12 film lovers for dinner on the terrace of a lovely Atherton home.  Following dinner and the private screening of "LUV", Sheldon and Michael will hold a Q&A over dessert. 

OVERVIEW OF "LUV":

Woody, an adorable 11-year-old boy awaiting the return of his missing mother, lives with his grandmother and Uncle Vincent, who is fresh off an eight-year prison stint.  For Woody, the confident, charismatic Vincent is a titan among men.  When Vincent notices that Woody could learn a thing or two about becoming a man, he brings him along as he ventures forth to open his own business.  But when legit life fails to support Vincent's vision and his old Baltimore crime boss, Mr. Fish, haunts Vincent, the pace of little Woody's manhood lesson accelerates.

Beautiful, bold, and confident, Sheldon Candis's auspicious debut feature transforms the standard gangster film into a warm and radiant coming-of-age story that humanizes complex situations through characters motivated by love, rather than pride.  Brought to life by a brilliant cast, including Danny Glover, Charles Dutton, the rapper Common, and Meagan Good, LUV is a lion-hearted tale about virtue as it shines through a complicated slice of black male life in Baltimore.

Go online to see a clip from the movie:

http://24wired.tv/27572/common-in-luv-movie-clip/