With author Scott Heim.

About the film:
Based on the novel by Scott Heim, director Gregg Araki’s critically acclaimed MYSTERIOUS SKIN follows the divergent paths of two Kansas teenagers who were molested by their baseball coach years earlier. Brian (Brady Corbett) represses his memories, creating an alien abduction fantasy as a way of dealing with the trauma, while Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) externalizes his experience, turning tricks as a male prostitute. This film is rated NC-17 by the MPAA for strong sexual content, profanity, and drug abuse.

About Scott Heim:
Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1995, and Heim followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997.Heim has won fellowships to the London Arts Board as their International Writer-in-Residence, and to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his adaptation of Mysterious Skin. He is also the author of a book of poems, Saved From Drowning (1993).After living eleven years in New York, Heim relocated to Boston in 2002. Mysterious Skin was adapted for the stage, premiering in San Francisco; it was subsequently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki and Antidote Films. Scott’s third novel, We Disappear (HarperCollins), was published in February 2008.

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