Fine systems 'Any Day Now' shoot

Indie filmmaker Travis Fine has wrapped production around the period drama "Every Day Now," which stars Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher and newcomer Isaac Leyva.Fine authored, directed and created the pic, which is dependant on a script compiled by George Arthur Blossom a lot more than 3 decades ago.Occur 1979 and inspired with a true story, the film follows a gay couple taking inside a teen with Lower Syndrome that has been abandoned by his drug-addicted mother. Because the teen finds out the strong bonds of family the very first time, disapproving government bodies part of to tear the boy in the only stable atmosphere he's seen, compelling the gay couple to battle from the system for that child.Cumming and Dillahunt star because the gay couple, using the latter thesp playing a closeted deputy da who risks his career to battle for equality. Fisher plays a stern family court judge managing the unconventional adoption situation, while Leyva, an actress with Lower Syndrome, plays the boy at the middle of the legal fight.Fine ("The Area Between") created the pic together with his wife Kristine Hostetter Fine and Nick Hourihan ("Frozen River") with the Fines' PFM Pictures banner. Anne O'Shea ("The Children Are Right") and Maxine Makover professional created alongside Wayne Cruz and Serta Skahan, a gay couple who've fostered a lot more than 30 children and spent ten years fighting the Florida prohibit on gay adoption.Every Day Now" lately completed principal photography in La and it is presently in publish-production.I am a huge fan from the gritty, character-driven dramas which were made throughout the seventies," stated Fine. "'Any Day Now' offers me an chance like a filmmaker to revisit that point period cinematically, address social problems that are just like relevant today because they were 35 years back and explore unique figures who uncover love within the strangest of places." Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com