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LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE PARIAH – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE
SOUNDTRACK
Album Accompanying Award-Winning Film Features Underground Rock, Rap
and Hip-Hop Tracks by Tamar-kali, Kandi Cole, Sparlha Swa, Honeychild
Coleman, and more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (December 8, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore
Records will release Pariah – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
digitally on December 20th and in stores in January 31, 2012, in
tandem with the theatrical release of the award-winning Focus Features
movie. The soundtrack features some of the movie’s memorably utilized
songs from such artists as Tamar-kali and Sparlha Swa.
A rousing success at the 2011 Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, the
contemporary drama Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/
director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film of the same name. At
Sundance, cinematographer Bradford Young was honored with the [U.S.
Dramatic Competition] Excellence in Cinematography Award. Ms. Rees
recently won the Breakthrough Director prize at the Gotham Independent
Film Awards. Pariah is newly nominated for 2 Spirit Awards, including
Best Female Lead.
Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays
Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman
who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles
Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s
Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good
student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly
embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous
support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike
is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’
marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household
whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by
her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter,
Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to
socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family,
Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and
tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving
forward.
Track listing:
01. My Neck, My Back - Khia
02. Shut Up - emoniFela
03. Doin My Thing - Sparlha Swa
04. Pearl - Tamar-kali
05. Echelon - Honeychild Coleman
06. Song of the Morning - Sparlha Swa
07. Do You - Kandi Cole
08. Top Blow - Daisha
09. Gimmie Room - Kandi Cole
10. Parallel - Audio Dyslexia
11. Fire with Fire - Tamar-kali
Pariah opens in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on December
28th; and in additional cities in January.
###
For more information contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
SOUNDTRACK
Album Accompanying Award-Winning Film Features Underground Rock, Rap
and Hip-Hop Tracks by Tamar-kali, Kandi Cole, Sparlha Swa, Honeychild
Coleman, and more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (December 8, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore
Records will release Pariah – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
digitally on December 20th and in stores in January 31, 2012, in
tandem with the theatrical release of the award-winning Focus Features
movie. The soundtrack features some of the movie’s memorably utilized
songs from such artists as Tamar-kali and Sparlha Swa.
A rousing success at the 2011 Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, the
contemporary drama Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/
director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film of the same name. At
Sundance, cinematographer Bradford Young was honored with the [U.S.
Dramatic Competition] Excellence in Cinematography Award. Ms. Rees
recently won the Breakthrough Director prize at the Gotham Independent
Film Awards. Pariah is newly nominated for 2 Spirit Awards, including
Best Female Lead.
Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays
Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman
who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles
Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s
Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good
student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly
embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous
support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike
is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’
marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household
whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by
her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter,
Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to
socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family,
Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and
tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving
forward.
Track listing:
01. My Neck, My Back - Khia
02. Shut Up - emoniFela
03. Doin My Thing - Sparlha Swa
04. Pearl - Tamar-kali
05. Echelon - Honeychild Coleman
06. Song of the Morning - Sparlha Swa
07. Do You - Kandi Cole
08. Top Blow - Daisha
09. Gimmie Room - Kandi Cole
10. Parallel - Audio Dyslexia
11. Fire with Fire - Tamar-kali
Pariah opens in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on December
28th; and in additional cities in January.
###
For more information contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
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