HBO and Bright House Networks to Co-Host Florida Premiere of HBO Family Documentary 'Blindsided,' on Thursday, September 25, at Lake Highland Preparatory School

HBO and Bright House Networks to Co-Host Florida Premiere of HBO Family Documentary 'Blindsided,' on Thursday, September 25, at Lake Highland Preparatory School

Film's Director Talia Osteen, an Orlando Native, Makes Her Directorial Debut in This Documentary of a Local Family Thrown Into Turmoil by a Child's Genetic

Disease

Jared Hara, The Subject of The Film, and Director Talia Osteen are Scheduled

to Attend The Invitation-Only Premiere

WHAT: HBO and Bright House Networks are co-hosting the Florida premiere of BLINDSIDED, the HBO Family Documentary by director and Orlando native Talia Osteen, at an invitation-only screening. The film tells the story of a devoted Orlando-area family thrown into turmoil by their son Jared Hara's eye disease that robbed him of his sight, revealing how the condition threatened to tear them apart, and how his indomitable spirit ultimately brought them closer together. Osteen and Hara are confirmed to attend, along with HBO Family VP, Dolores Morris.

WHERE: Lake Highland Preparatory School.
Harriett Coleman Center for the Arts
901 N. Highland Avenue
Orlando, Florida

WHEN: Thursday, September 25, 2008
7:30 p.m. Screening

WHO: Director Talia Osteen, Jared Hara and Dolores Morris, HBO Family VP, are available for interviews prior to the screening, upon request.

Media credentials are required and Beta clip reels from the film will be available on site and upon request from Carmen Argamasilla.

Contact: Carmen Argamasilla, HBO
305-446-6695; 305-491-3051
carmen@redfoxpr.com

Sara Brady, Bright House Networks
Vice President, Public Affairs
407-215-5915
Sara.Brady@mybrighthouse.comhttp://www.homeboxoffice.com/

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Source: HBO

Web site: http://www.homeboxoffice.com/

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