First, Provocative Poster: Summer Must-See, Felt

From the director of the spellbinding, raw Toad Road comes this summer’s must-see Felt, a confrontational, naked film about surviving.

Felt an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish following sexual assault, the ensuing distress and lays bare the regularly hostile attitude the world has toward women.

Felt is a really special, challenging film that Amplify is releasing on June 26^th in theaters and July 21^st on digital and VOD. I hope you see it, and I hope you check out Toad Road, if you haven’t yet. Shock should have some news on how you can see it early, soon!

The full synopsis follows: Felt stars Amy Everson in a breakout performance as a young woman trying, and almost succeeding, to overcome both a past trauma and the subtle aggressions she experiences daily from the men in her world by immersing herself in her art. By re-appropriating the male form into an unpredictable alter ego, she may be pushing away her friends, but the power and domination she feels is the only thing that finally may allow her to heal. When she meets Kenny (actor/filmmaker Kentucker Audley), she slowly opens herself up to him, hoping to have her faith in men restored.

Birth.Movies.Death premiered this.. evocative new poster.