Arts & Entertainment

Dondero Grad Directs Film Selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' coming-of-age film 'Toy's House' is selected for top honors.

Former Royal Oaker and Dondero grad Jordan Vogt-Roberts' film Toy's House has been selected for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Toy's House depicts three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny, according to Sundance.org.

The film stars Nick Offerman of NBC's Parks and Recreation, Megan Mullally also of Parks and Recreation, Alison Brie of AMC's Mad Men and former Trentonite and actress Mary Lynn Rajskub who starred in Fox's hit television show 24.

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CBS Films announced today it has acquired domestic rights to the coming-of-age comedy, according to www.comingsoon.net.

Vogt-Roberts has also directed several episodes of the TV series Funny or Die Presents and Single Dads.

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