Throughout March, The Roxy will be celebrating the work of The New Faces of Hollywood. These are the earliest films by some of the most ambitious and successful contemporary filmmakers. the work on which the directors of today's biggest blockbusters cut their teeth.
Before she was trusted with Madeleine L'Engle's vision--and a $103 million dollar budget--with A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay gave us the piercing indie drama Middle of Nowhere.
Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Middle of Nowhere follows Ruby, a bright medical student who sets aside her dreams and suspends her career when her husband is incarcerated. As the committed couple stares into the hollow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation. But through a chance encounter and a stunning betrayal that shakes her to her core, this steadfast wife is soon propelled in new and often shocking directions of self-discovery - caught between two worlds and two men in the search for herself.