Losing Control to be Screened at Philadelphia Film Festival
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“Losing Control” at Philadelphia Film Festival
What if you could use science to find true love?
PHILADELPHIA, October 12, 2011 – Jenna Communications announced today that a local writer and director is bringing her future romantic comedy to town on October 22 for the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Join us as Valerie Weiss, a Philadelphia native who currently resides in Los Angeles, shares with us her film LOSING CONTROL. She recently won the Top Female Filmmaker of 2011 Award from the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. The showing coincides with Weiss’s 20-year reunion from George Washington High School in Northeast Philadelphia. Her entire class will be invited to the screening.
Weiss crafted the movie from the notes she kept reflecting her own experiences in graduate school. While earning a Ph-D in X-ray Crystallography at Harvard Medical School, she learned not only about science, but also about love. This is what inspired her to create the film and bring it here to the City of Brotherly Love.
“While I was in grad school I wondered what would happen if a woman in her 20’s could understand science and use it to her advantage in gaining control of her love life,” Weiss explains. “It made me wonder what if you could use your brain to make sure you have an everlasting romance.”
LOSING CONTROL reflects just that. It tells the story of a young scientific genius who not only is striving to produce results from her long-term experiment, but also from her long-term boyfriend. By performing the scientific method on more than just her research, she does everything she can to prove that her boyfriend is “the one.” The cast members (including Miranda Kent and Reid Scott) are witty and talented and deliver Weiss’s dialogue exquisitely.
Weiss has said the film will be distributed in theaters in the first quarter of next year. It is slated to be released in 6-12 cities including Philadelphia around Valentine’s Day.
The film will be playing at the International House on Saturday, October 22 at 7:00 pm as well as Monday, October 24 at 7:45 pm. Valerie Weiss will be available for interviews Friday, October 21 through Monday, October 24.
If interested in receiving a press pass for the film, please RSVP to Jennifer Sherlock at jsherlock@jennacommunications.com with the subject line “Press Pass.”
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Writer and director of LOSING CONTROL, Valerie Weiss, a Philadelphia native.