Elena Undone

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From Nicole Conn, director of the lesbian classic Claire of the Moon. Elegant and refined Elena (Necar Zadegan, TV's 24, the Event) is a devoted wife to her pastor husband, mother to her teenage son, and daughter to her traditional Indian family. When she meets lesbian writer Peyton (ravishingly beautiful Traci Dinwiddie, TV's Supernatural) Elena is confronted with intense, unexpected feelings for a woman and their relationship evolves into a passionate romance. Charming, funny and poignant as well as smoldering and sensual! Unabashedly focused on hot romance. Variety Zadegan and Dinwiddie are electric together! The Philadelphia Inquirer Fantastic, nuanced performances. . . [Zadegan s and Dinwiddie s] scenes together sparkle and shine with chemistry and life . . . fantastic and enormously compelling! AfterEllen.com --Wolfe Necar Zadegan was born in Germany and currently resides in Los Angeles where she splits her time between television, film and stage work. Her latest film,"Unthinkable," sees her starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Micheal Sheen and will be released in 2010. Other film work includes Adam Sandler's "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" as well as award-winning indie festival film "The Touch". Necar is most recently working as a recurring role on the hit FOX television series 24 as first lady, Dalia Hassan. Other television work includes "Nip/Tuck," "The Unit," "NCIS," "How I Met Your Mother and "Lost" among others. Necar attended UCSB on a performance scholarship and graduated with degrees in literature and writing. She then toured through three continents with Workshop 79 in the Farsi language show "From Satellite With Love and was also part of the LA Weekly Award nominated cast of the Boston Court production of Gilgamesh. She recently closed her one-desertcart-woman show at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa Monica and will return to the stage this spring in the much celebrated LA premiere of the Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Mark Taper Forum directed by Moises Kaufman. Nicole Conn - Writer/Director Nicole Conn has been a die-hard romantic and black and white film fan from the age of ten. Conn has written five novels, a teleplay, eight screenplays, and has produced two soundtracks. Her last venture before Elena Undone, was little man, a documentary she wrote, directed and produced about her own premature son born 100 days early and only weighing one pound. The feature documentary went on to win 12 Best Documentary Awards, along with the prestigious Cedar Sinai's Courageous Beginnings Award and Family Pride's Family Tree Award. The film made three TOP TEN FILMS OF 2005. Showtime picked up little man and ran an Emmy campaign on this hard-hitting story about Nicholas' premature birth and subsequent 5-month hospital stay in a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit. Conn's passion for film carried her through her first feature where she single-handedly raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman's journey to her sexual identity. The film garnered rave reviews and paved the way for lesbian themed cinema in 1991. Conn also created an historic FIRST for lesbian cinema: ancillary in the form of a novelization (in its 15th reprint and 10 Year Anniversary Republish), a making-of documentary, MOMENTS (best-selling lesbian documentary ever made), soundtracks, posters, t-shirts, etc. She followed these projects with the award winning short film, Cynara...Poetry in Motion.