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Coming out of the Closet: Exclusive Clip for Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks is Dead

Published on August 15, 2014

Just prior to its theatrical release (this atmospherically unclenched young adult ensemble piece drops August 29th), the Gravitas Ventures folks have given us an exclusive clip to Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks is Dead. In a high-school yard backdrop, the sequence below features Morgan Saylor and Cameron Monaghan (among our Sundance 2014′s Top 10 New Faces list) wrestling with the gymnastics of firstly, confronting problems head on and, in this case, managing the situation of the not so dearly departed.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).