Actress ROSARIO DAWSON has kept a promise to an old drama school friend - by starring in her first film about a date rape victim.
Dawson also signed on to produce TALIA LUGACY's hard-hitting movie, DESCENT, which has become one of the year's must-see independent films.
The SIN CITY star first started working on the project a decade ago when she and Lugacy were pals at acting school the Lee Strasberg Institute, where HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN and SCARLETT JOHANNSSON were also students.
She says, "Talia was always gonna write and direct this film and I was gonna act and produce. It's taken us all that time but this is the first feature that we've done together.
"It explores sexual violence and revenge. A date rape starts it off and the woman collapses into herself and has her identity stripped from her.
"I think it's a really interesting exploration of what happens when you get that tunnel vision of getting revenge when something wrong has happened to you.
Where does your perspective go?" Dawson and Lugacy will show the film at the upcoming TribecaFilm Festival in New York and the actress has big plans for her little film.
She adds, "I hope to show it to the WEINSTEINS (movie moguls HARVEY and BOB) and say, `Dude, help us out so we can get some really great theatres.'"