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"In Your Eyes" by Trae Briers will have its World Premiere at Santa Barbara Film Festival Special Screening Sunday, February 01 2003

Pre-Show Live Entertainment featuring: "Terminal Madness" at 9:00pm
"In your Eyes" Film Special Screening at 9:30pm
After Show Live Entertainment featuring "Nevamind w/ live band" @ 11:00pm

Bringing the real urban love experience to the screen. The special screening of "In your Eyes" directed by Trae Briers is a World Premiere and part of the "Special Screening" section of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
"In Your Eyes"...starring Michael Del Lorenzo from "NY Undercover", Caleb Pinkett, Angie Ruiz, Breon Ansley, Randy Mesa, James Thomas, Goonster, Mary Jane Lopez, NevaMind, Terminal Madness, Dirt Farmers, Lost Soulz and Q1047's J-Scratch. With its one-of-a-kind ambiance and majestic architecture, the Victoria Theater is host for a fantastic experience of film and music. The night continues with live music - featuring some of the bands from the film soundtrack - immediately following the screening. General Admission tickets are $8.50ea Check out http://www.sbfilmfestival.org for more information. Or call the Arlington Theatre Box Office (805)963-4408.

Film Information:
A Romantic Urban Love Story based on the "Romeo and Juliet" theme between Blacks and Hispanics. Two innocent young adults having to cope with the interracial barriers brought on by the people closest to them.

Thomas and Nestor, insurance agents hired to determine if the mysterious fatal car crash of the Pacific Coast Highway was a suicide or accident. And through their investigation, they see the troubles the two victims had to endure just to be in love.

Yusef and CeCe are young and in love, trying to do what they can to finally leave their hometown and see what the world has to offer them. They've been friends since childhood, Yusef being a fixture in the home due to his close friendship with Juan, CeCe's brother and treated like a son by Sergio, CeCe's father. It's not until Sergio finds out they are dating that he becomes furious and forbids CeCe from seeing Yusef.

Cedric, the gangster cousin of Yusef, comes to stay with him when he is released from County Jail. His hatred for Hispanics is due to his treatment from them in county jail and his relationship with the mother of his newborn child from a Hispanic girl. While he is trying to get back into the swing of things, he meets Sonya, a friend of CeCe, and the girlfriend of Jose, a Hispanic gangster who dislikes Blacks and Hispanics mixing. This torrid affair leads to an intense fistfight that culminates to the deaths of Jose and another young black male, Shorty.

Through the film, we see how two people can totally be blind by the color of love, because it's not the color that their in love with, it's the way they see the person in their eyes.