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Meet Rosario Dawson, Director Talia Lugacy and Actor Marcus Patrick immediately following the 9pm show of Descent on Sunday, August 12, at the Village East Cinema.

Rosario Dawson (Kids, Sin City) produced and stars in this striking new film from director Talia Lugacy about Maya, a college student whose existence spirals downward and ultimately toward revenge after she suffers a brutal rape. The film also stars Chad Faust (Saved, Tamara) and Marcus Patrick. The New York Times says of the film: “Astonishingly, though, the film’s brutality never plays like a stunt, thanks to Ms. Dawson’s revelatory performance and Ms. Lugacy’s adventurous direction (which includes lots of long takes and metaphorically apt compositions). Hard to watch but essential to see, ‘Descent’ is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place.”

Village East Cinema
181 Second Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Get Advance Tickets at www.movietickets.com

There ya have it, folks — Hopefully a few of you in the area can still make it out there tonight.