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First Trailer and Poster for HOLLER, Starring Jessica Barden

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First look at Nicole Riegel's indie drama.

British actress Jessica Barden makes a play for Stateside stardom in writer/director Nicole Riegel's Holler. Barden plays a young woman who joins a scrap metal crew to raise the funds for the college she's been accepted to, but is forced to bend the law to meet her financial target. Gus Halper, Pamela Adlon and Becky Ann Baker also star.

Speaking about her film, Riegel says "My film is a semi-autobiographical story about how challenging it was to transcend where I came from as a young woman, both practically and emotionally. Like Ruth, the teenage girl at the center of my story, and many young girls across America, I was vulnerable to a fractured system that felt rigged against me, particularly when it came to access to education for young people living in the margins. That lack of access made me feel like my voice didn’t matter, and that is a horrible feeling for any young girl to carry with her. In order to pursue the life that I wanted, I had to leave behind the family and community that created me which felt like a betrayal. Holler is not only a glimpse into that part of my life, but also a window into the lives of thousands of girls who, like Ruth, live in towns that are currently in a state of atrophy from fewer opportunities and a shrinking population. They are faced with the choice of forced reinvention or abandoning their hometowns completely."

Holler is in US cinemas and VOD from June 11th.

Check out the trailer and poster below.




The official synopsis reads:

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

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