CAST KIM ...........................................…NINA LISANDRELLO (Beauty And The Beast, Devil Wears Prada, We Own The Night) LOLA.............................................…ELLEN BURSTYN (Requiem For A Dream, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More) IDELLA.................................…SISSY SPACEK (Loretta, The Help, The Bedroom) LOUIS ..........................…LAWRENCE FISHBURNE (Matrix, Contagion) MAVIS...................................................…Pursuing MELISSA LEO (The Fighter, Frozen River, The Red State) BOBBY ......................................................... Pursuing TAYLOR KITSCH (Battle Ship, Savage, John Carter)

FILM-MAKERS DIRECTOR ........................................................................................................................…DAVID BOYD PRODUCER.......................................................................................................................…JOHN SHEPARD AND TIM MOORE MARK MATHIS & HELENA HAMILTON PRODUCTION DESIGNER.............................................................................................…..GILES MASTERS MUSIC...............................................................................................................................…LAURENT EYQUEM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER..................................................................................................…CHRIS DENT

The Gap Year is a story about a young woman’s rite of passage. But this story is really about love, and how it helps a family come together, to just find the

courage to heal. The Gap Year is a literary property registered with the WGA. The original story was written by Nina

Lisandrello. The screenplay by Nina Lisandrello, and Helena Hamilton

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NINA LISANDRELLO

LAWRENCE FISHBURNE

In The CWʼs new hit drama, Beauty and The Beast, Nina Lisandrello plays Tess Vargas, a

police detective partnered with "

Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk). The two women make a good team, and have become

close friends while working on countless homicide cases. Born in New York, Lisandrello has appeared on numerous television shows

including Nurse Jackie, Law and Order, Mercy and Conviction. She also recently starred in the

films like The Bleeding House, and The Best "and The Brightest, alongside Neil Patrick Harris."

Fishburne's most-popular role to date is Morpheus in sci-fi classic The Matrix (1999) and its sequels The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003). He has also had noteworthy roles in movies like(2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Bobby (2006), 21 (2008), Predators (2010) and Contagion (2011). Fishburne also tried his hand at writing and directing with Once in the Life (2000), which was based on his critically-acclaimed play "Riff Raff" from five years earlier. In 2008, Fishburne replaced William Peterson as the male lead on popular CBS drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000), though he left the show in 2011.

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Ellen Burstyn is an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series. Burstyn's performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, after which she moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles. And won the Academy Award for Best Actress the following year for her work in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Burstyn has worked consistently in film, television and theatre since, receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way, including seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, five Emmy Award nominations (one win), and two more Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection (1980) and Requiem for a Dream (2000)."

ELLEN BURSTYN

SISSY SPACEK

Sissy Spacek is an Academy Award winning American "actress and singer. She came to international prominence "for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie (based on the first novel by Stephen King) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She also received Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing, The River, Crimes of the Heart and In the Bedroom. Spacek is mainly a dramatic actress, but also "has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $1 billion worldwide."

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