American Boychoir is set to appear in a movie starring Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman.
The Princeton-based group will be featured Boychoir, directed by François Girard of the Academy Award-winning film The Red Violin. One of American Boychoir’s choristers, Dante Soriano of Hillsborough, plays a lead role in the film.
Boychoir also stars Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates and Glee actor Kevin McHale. Lawrenceville native Ben Ripley is the film’s screenwriter.
Boychoir tells the story of Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old boy from a small Texas town, who enrolls in the American Boychoir School following the death of his single mother. Finding himself lost in the boychoir tradition, the music and the structure of the school, Stet embarks on a battle of wills with a demanding choirmaster who recognizes his unique talent and pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.
Hoffman plays the role of the choir’s Music Director and Bates plays the headmistress of the school.
Hoffman, Girard and McHale have visited the American Boychoir campus to meet and work with the choristers and staff in preparation of the film.
The school’s Litton-Lodal music director Fernando Malvar-Ruíz is serving as the film’s music director.
Shooting is set to begin in March in Connecticut and New York. Boychoir is scheduled to be released in late fall 2014.
More information is online at americanboychoir.org.
