Los Angeles Film Festival 2015 Preview: A Girl Like GracePosted by Wilson Morales
May 13, 2015
Playing at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival will be Ty Hodges’ coming-of-age film, A Girl Like Grace, which stars Ryan Destiny, Meagan Good, Garcelle Beauvais, Raven-Symone, Romeo Miller, Blair Redford, Marcus Lyle Brown, Leticia Jimenez and Paige Hurd.
Written by Hodges and Jacquin Deleon, the film will premiere on Friday, June 12th as part of the Zeitgeist Competition
Among the producers include Matt Keith, Datari Turner, Ty Hodges, Jacquin Deleon, Meagan Good, and Carnetta Jones.
A Girl Like Grace, follows seventeen-year-old “Grace” (Ryan Destiny), who grows up in a dysfunctional home raised by her single mother “Lisa” (Garcelle Beauvais). Entering her senior year of high school, Grace fights for acceptance in the world while being bullied at school by “Mary” (Raven Symone). Grace looks for guidance from her best friend “Andrea” (Paige Hurd) and becomes heavily influenced by Andrea’s older sister “Share” (Meagan Good). Grace spirals into a dark world of sex, rebellion and her idea of womanhood. Faced with life’s cruelty, Grace must find a way to make peace with herself and claim her own beauty in this gritty yet relatable coming-of-age story.
