Kenton Duty (Shake It Up!), Kat McNamara (Madison High) and Dan Flaherty all are part of an upcoming film, The Contest a new feature, which Percolate Productions has begun filming in New York.
While bullying continues to draw attention in the news, Ajay Giunta, who wrote the screenplay, is making his directorial debut with the project in the footsteps of Lee Hirsch‘s unblinking documentary Bully.
Contest is set in a small-town high school, where two students—one a bully, the other one of his victims—who are forced to find common ground when they are teamed up to compete in a cooking contest.
Giunta has cast a series of up-and-coming stars with more experienced thesps such as Kyle Dean Massey (Hart of Dixie), Mary Beth Peil (The Good Wife), Chris Riggi (Gossip Girl), Owen Teague (Malibu Country), Raviv Ullman (Phil of the Future), Robert Wuhl (Arli$$) and Kelley Missal (One Life to Live) as well as Jan ‘Johnny’ Uczkowksi, known for his YouTube parody of Justin Bieber.
Check out the trailer for Bully, a documentary about the gay teen bullying problem.
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