Posted: Sun., Aug. 7, 2005, 9:00pm PT

Helmer playing the 'Blues'

Silverbush to direct drama, lensing starts in late fall

HOLLYWOOD -- Lori Silverbush ("On the Outs") has been tapped to helm coming-of-age drama "Bluesman," produced by Raygun Prods., Vincent Newman Entertainment and Julie Herlocker.

Michael Burkhardt adapted the novel by Andres Dubus III, who also wrote the novel "House of Sand and Fog." Shooting is expected to begin in Louisiana in late fall.

Story centers on a 17-year-old in the summer of his first love against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and a father isolated in personal grief. They find their only common language is the music of the blues.

Silverbush's directorial debut "On the Outs" took the grand jury prize and audience award at Slamdance this year for feature film.


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