DocuClub Film OFF AND RUNNING Opening in Theaters, January 29, New York City

Please join DocuClub in celebrating Nicole Opper's Off and Running (DocuClub November 2008) on its theatrical release on January 29 at the IFC Center in New York City.

Please join us on opening night this Friday, January 29th at 8:05 p.m.! Screening is co-hosted by co-hosted by DocuClub, P.O.V., Tribeca All Access, and NYWIFT. There will be a Q&A moderated by Terry Lawler of NYWIFT and an after party at Su Casa (404 Avenue of the Americas/8th Street).

With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers -- one mixed-race and one Korean -- Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. When her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, Avery decides to contact her birth mother, which thrusts her into a complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. But when it seems like her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results.

Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director/producer Nicole Opper also produced the five-part television documentary series LSS for Here! Networks, Macky Alston's Emmy-nominated The Killer Within, and Peter Miller's Sacco and Vanzetti. Opper's documentary short, Song of Hannah, is distributed by The National Center for Jewish Film. She has a degree in Film Production from NYU.

Off and Running will open theatrically in New York in January and air nationally on the PBS series P.O.V. later in 2010.