AZAZEL JACOBS (Director) Azazel Jacobs' award-winning film MOMMA'S MAN premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, and quickly became one of the most lauded films of the year, winding up on many "best of" lists. Released in numerous international territories, it was distributed domestically by Kino International. Jacobs' short film KIRK AND KERRY was named Best Dramatic Short at the 1997 Slamdance Film Festival and became part of the Permanent Collection of the New York Public Library. He later teamed up with fellow filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo to make the micro-budget feature THE GOODTIMESKID, which found a small but loyal following, and was released by Benten Films. In 2009, he received a commission from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to create the short film I SEE. The son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, Jacobs was born in 1972 and raised in lower Manhattan surrounded by important and innovative artists. He went to undergraduate school at the film department of SUNY Purchase and received his Masters from the American Film Institute in 2002. PATRICK DEWITT (Writer) Patrick Dewitt was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. His debut novel, Ablutions, was published in 2009 and became a New York Times Editors' Choice. His second novel, The Sisters Brothers, will be published in 2011. He lives in Portland, Oregon. © TEAM TERRI, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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" TERRI " Azazel Jacobs 2011 Categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, TERRI, directed by Azazel Jacobs (MOMMA'S MAN) and produced by the team behind BLUE VALENTINE and HALF NELSON, is a moving and often funny film about the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit and the loquacious but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who reaches out to him. Having been abandoned by his parents to an ailing uncle ("The Office's" Creed Bratton), Terri, is mercilessly teased by his peers and garners even more unwanted attention from school authorities by coming to school still wearing pajamas – when he decides to show up at all. Resigned to his outsider status, Terri is surprised when his tough-talking vice principal, Mr. Fitzgerald, takes an interest in him. Although his efforts are sometimes clumsy and occasionally dubiously professional, he genuinely wants to help him through this tough time. Under Fitzgerald's tutelage, Terri befriends a pair of fellow misfits, Chad (Bridger Zadina), an edgy loner whose rebellion masks his own insecurities, and Heather (Olivia Crocicchia), a sexually precocious girl whose beauty proves to be a trap of its own. The three teenagers, so different on the surface, but all outcasts in the unforgiving high school hierarchy, find an unexpected, imperfect bond that reflects the tenuousness, poignance and pathos of the adolescent experience. Deftly combining authentic and candid elements with wry humor and compassion, Jacobs tells Terri's story with delicacy and complex emotionality, as the young man learns to reach outside his insular world. A film about the courage it takes to build relationships and the rewards of taking that sometimes terrifying leap, TERRI is for anyone who ever felt alone or misunderstood in high school. In other words, all of us. TERRI stars John C. Reilly (CYRUS, CHICAGO), Jacob Wysocki ("Huge"), Creed Bratton ("The Office"), Olivia Crocicchia ("Rescue Me") and Bridger Zadina ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit"). The film is directed by Azazel Jacobs (MOMMA'S MAN) from a screenplay by Patrick de Witt. Producers are Alison Dickey (PIGGIE), Hunter Gray (HALF NELSON), Lynette Howell (BLUE VALENTINE) and Alex Orlovsky (BLUE VALENTINE). Director of photography is Tobias Datum (MOMMA'S MAN). Editor is Darrin Navarro (BUG). Production designer is Matthew Luem (SOLDIERS UNDER COMMAND). Costumer Designer is Diaz (THE GOODTIMESKID). Associate producers are Christine No (THE EYE), Phaedon A. Papadopolous (THE DINNER PARTY) and Crystal Powell (BLUE VALENTINE). Co-producer is Chris Stinson (DON MCKAY). Executive producers are Cameron Brodie, Tyler Brodie, Dawn Cullen Jonas, David Guy Levy, Jacob Pechenik, Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell and Sarah Lash.