NATURAL SELECTION is an indie comedy currently making the rounds on the film festival circuit. Linda White (Rachael Harris) is a barren Christian housewife that discovers her dying husband (John Diehl) had been secretly donating to a sperm bank. She leaves her sheltered life and starts off on a journey to find his eldest biological child, Raymond (Matt O’Leary), and bring him to see her husband before he passes. Linda soon develops an odd relationship with Raymond that teaches her about herself and forces her to come to terms with the past.
Matt plays Raymond, a foul-mouthed ex-con. His performance has been receiving praise from everyone who has seen the film. It is no doubt this will be Matt’s greatest role to date, especially since it earned him the Breakthrough Performance Award at 2011’s SXSW Film Festival. Hopefully NATURAL SELECTION will be going to a wide theatrical release soon.
Matt Screen Time
Currently unknown by Robin Dearest, but he is one of the leads, so probably most of the film.
Awards
- Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film -- Robbie Pickering
- 2011 Athens International Film Festival
- Winner of the American Spectrum Prize for Best Narrative Feature -- Robbie Pickering
- Winner of the Grand Jury for Best Feature -- Robbie Pickering
- 2011 Indianapolis International Film Festival
- Winner of the Independent Vision Award -- Robbie Pickering
- 2011 Kansas International Film Festival
- Winner of the Audience Award for a Narrative Feature -- Robbie Pickering
- Winner of Best Editing -- Michelle Tesoro
- Winner of Best Score/Music -- iZLER & Curt Schneider
- Winner of Best Screenplay -- Robbie Pickering
- Winner of Breakthrough Performance -- Rachael Harris
- Winner of Breakthrough Performance -- Matt O’Leary
- Winner of the Grand Jury for Best Narrative Feature -- Robbie Pickering
- 2011 SXSW Film Festival
- Winner of Discovery of the Year -- iZLER
- 2011 World Soundtrack Awards
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