Title:  DRIFTING ELEGANT

Directed by:  Amy Glazer
Written by:  Stephen Belber

  Logline:

Drifting Elegantis an exploration of race and intimacy in post 911
America that follows a journalist, his wife and best friend, as they
grapple with the blurred boundaries between their personal and
professional lives and with their growing sense of isolation from one
another.

  Synopsis:

Nate Jameson is a 35-year-old journalist who, after a year as African
correspondent for the Washington Post, returns to the Bay Area to live
with his wife and resume his career as a freelance journalist.  He
decides to write a story about Victor Saad, an Arab-American convicted
of rape, who is suddenly freed when his alleged victim, Elizabeth, an
African American photojournalist recants on her deathbed. The story
complicates when Nate confesses to his best friend that he had an
affair with Elizabeth while on assignment in Africa, but ended the
affair the night she was allegedly raped by Victor. Nate tries to
conceal the affair from his wife, but when Victor shows up to his house
asking for shelter, Nate's life and relationship unravel. After a tense
confrontation, Nate is left alone, drifting, but with the understanding
that his life and relationships were built on illusions and ideals
that, only on the surface, seemed elegant.

  Principal Cast

Nate . . . . . . . . .Josh Stamberg
Jen . . . . . . . . . .Jennifer Mudge
Renny . . . . . . . . Coby Bell
Victor . . . . . . . . Donnie Keshawarz.

  Producers :  South Bay Film Studios, Barnaby Dallas and Nick Martinez

  Producer:  Mitch Glazer

  Producer:  Rick Hubert

  Co-producer:  Coby Bell

  Bios   

Amy Glazer has directed many world, American and west coast premieres for the Magic Theater, Eureka Theater, Marin Theater Company, TheatreWorks, and others in the Bay Area, and been awarded the Drama-logue and several Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle awards.  This is her first feature length film, which is based on the play by Stephen Belber she directed in 2003 for the Magic Theater. 

Stephen Belber's credits include THE LARAMIE PROJECT for HBO, TAPE , the play and the film, which starred Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, and Robert Sean Leonard and was directed by Richard Linklater.   He recently sold a spec script to Universal, called THE POWER OF DUFF, and has been hired to write THE FALL OF THE WARRIOR KING, with Tom Cruise attached as producer.

DRIFTING ELEGANT was produced by San Jose State University's South Bay Film Studios,  established in August 2004 to build opportunity for students to develop production skills by collaborating with seasoned professionals on commercial-level productions on campus.  DRIFTING ELEGANT was shot on location in San Francisco and in the South Bay Film Studios.  Production heads are Barnaby Dallas, Nick Martinez.