What’s Wrong With Virginia, the new film written/directed by Dustin Lance Black and with titles and Special FX by Bent Image Lab, was highlighted in an article in The New York Times about the tradition of personal and emotional films premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Dustin Black’s “…Virginia” stars Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. It’s opening titles and Special FX/Composting was done right here at BENT Image Lab. Dustin Lance Black previously won an oscar for his writing on Gus Van Sant’s, “Milk.”The New York Times said of the new film from Dustin Lance Black, ” While figuring out how to build on the good fortune of “Milk,” Mr. Black said in an interview this week, he was drawn back to a script he had done years before on a dare: a friend had challenged him to write something he would never show to anyone.

“This is the one I held onto for dear life,” Mr. Black said. He eventually showed the script to producers, but always considered it his own to direct.

“What’s Wrong With Virginia,” though fiction, is based on Mr. Black’s relationship with his mother at a time when they were coming to terms with each other and, among other things, their Mormon faith. Jennifer Connelly plays a mentally unstable Virginia (Mr. Black said that his mother had a different disability), while Ed Harris is the local sheriff and her devoutly Mormon, already married lover. They live in a seaside Virginia town that more than slightly bewilders young Harrison Gilbertson, who plays her son.

Mr. Black wound up directing his story for Killer Films and TicTock Studios, with some incentive money from the State of Michigan. And so another slightly eccentric little film with potentially universal lessons has found a screen in Toronto.”

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