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SECRETS OF THE SOUTH

How many queer lives have been snuffed out too soon? How many love stories have sunk to the bottom of lakes, long forgotten? Those are just two of the questions writer and director Alan Ball exhumes with his new film, Uncle Frank.

“It’s about the challenges of being an authentic person in an increasingly inauthentic world,” the out writer and director tells The Advocate. Picked up by Amazon Studios,

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