Tru Loved

(USA, 2008, 99 mins)

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NYC Premiere

Directed By: Stewart Wade

Writer/Director Stewart Wade delighted NewFest audiences in 2006 with his feature comedy debut, Coffee Date. It’s a great pleasure to open our 20th Anniversary festival with his charming second feature, Tru Loved, a thoroughly modern high school romantic comedy. Sixteen-year-old Gertrude aka Tru is a typical high school teenager from an atypical home - she is raised by her two moms, interracial couple Leslie and Lisa, who have just moved to a new town in suburban southern California, while her two dads remain in San Francisco. At school, Tru catches the eye of Lo, the closeted star quarterback who soon makes a deal with Tru to pretend they are an item. It’s seems like a perfect solution – it keeps his friends and family from asking too many questions, and it allows Tru to instantly find a place to belong in her new school. But when Tru befriends picked-upon openly gay student Walter and decides to join him in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance, she falls for GSA member Trevor, a handsome metrosexual who has been raised by his gay uncle. Her new love affair threatens to expose Lo's true desires and standing as big man on campus. Funny, fresh, and endearing, and featuring breakout performances from its young cast, especially the wonderful Najarra Townsend in the lead, plus appearances by Alexandra Paul, Cynda Williams, Jasmine Guy, Bruce Vilanch, Marcia Wallace, Alec Mapa, Jane Lynch, and Nichelle Nichols, Tru Loved is certain to appeal to gay, straight, and lesbian audiences, and is the perfect way to launch this year’s festival!

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