Watch Trailer To “The Fits” Starring Royalty HightowerPosted by Wilson Morales
April 27, 2016
Oscilloscope Laboratories has released the trailer and official poster to the dance drama “The Fits,” directed by Anna Rose Holmer and starring newcomer Royalty Hightower and Q-Kidz Dance Team..
Following its World premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the film had its North American premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT program and was screened at New Directors/New Films 2016. Oscilloscope will release THE FITS theatrically at the new Metrograph theater in New York on June 3rd before expanding nationwide over the following weeks.
Tomboy boxer Toni (newcomer Royalty Hightower) lands a spot on an after school dance team in the West End community of Cincinnati. Enamored by the power and confidence of the team, Toni eagerly absorbs routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears to fit in. As she discovers the joys of dance and of female camaraderie, she grapples with her individual identity amid her newly defined social sphere.
Shortly after Toni joins the team, the captain faints during practice. By the end of the week, most of the girls on the team suffer from episodes of fainting, swooning, moaning, and shaking in a seemingly uncontrollable catharsis. Triggered by her own insecurities, Toni questions the cause of “the fits.” Soon, however, the girls on the team embrace these mystical spasms, transforming them into a rite of passage. Toni fears experiencing the fits, but also fears losing her new friendships as a result of remaining left out of the transcendental experience. She has to decide how far she needs to go to maintain her niche on the team.
