ROLE: Harold
DIRECTED BY: Lisa France
WRITTEN BY: Lisa France
CAST: Steve Harris (Heist, The Practice), Michelle Clunie (Queer as Folk, House), Philip Bloch (Victoriana), Catherine Dent (The Shield, 21 Grams)
SITE: Official Site (No Longer Active) || IMDB
STATUS: On DVD
PURCHASE: Amazon
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When Roy Clemens returns to his rural hometown of Haralson, Georgia (population 83) for his father’s funeral, he inherits the family store and a mess of skeletons in the closet. Delivering a package, he discovers Sammy, an old acquaintance who has been locked-up at home by his older brother Harold for twenty years. Imminently trusting and yet naive of even the difference between baked beans and mashed potatoes (due to Harold’s cruel sense of humor), Sammy spends most of his time alone, listening to soap operas, vocally destroying ‘Goody Gum Drops’ and stuffing envelopes in the dark at Harold’s behest. Meanwhile, Harold has cornered the market for homebrew with his girlfriend Kathleen and his redneck friend Earl, who remain loyal to him in spite of their distaste for his treatment of Sammy. Sammy and Roy form a bond around a desire to leave Harralson for the city lights of Atlanta and the elusive comfort they hope it holds, but to get there they must both come to terms with Harold and the secret he shares.

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Trivia

- Philip Bloch (Sammy) is a well known fashion critic.
- The Unseen was only released to various film festivals. The Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival on September 24, 2005, Chicago International Film Festival on October 14, 2005, Starz Denver International Film Festival on November 12, 2005, Deep Ellum Film Festival on November 19, 2005 and Pan African Film Festival on February 15, 2006

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- INTERVIEW WITH LISA FRANCE
- PRODUCTION REPORT
- Gale Harold, one of the stars of Showtime’s “Queer as Folk,” has landed two indie features for his summer hiatus. In “Life on the Ledge,” for director Lewis Helfer, Harold plays a suicidal man who falls in love with a stripper. He will then segue to “The Unseen” opposite Steve Harris for writer-director Lisa France. Harold and Harris play former childhood friends who have to face issues being on opposite sides of the racial hotbed in rural Georgia. Harold has consistently used his hiatus to book indie films. His credits include “Rhino Eyes,” opposite Michael Pitt, and “Wake,” with Martin Landau. Harold is repped by the Gersh Agency and manager Suzanne Dewalt. – The Hollywood Report

Production Quotes

QP (Queer Planet): They claim he’s kinda shy?
PB (Phillip Bloch): On the set we had to have a certain distance to us. Gale stays very in character and I stayed very in character, so we were very…whenever Gale would see me he would sort of be mean to me … GALE wouldn’t be mean to me, HAROLD would be mean to me when he would see me on set, you know what I mean? There was …
QP: Because he was in character.
PB: Yeah, because he stayed in character, and I stayed in character and Gale stayed very removed from everybody on set, whereas others of us hung around more together. Judah and Michelle were very close and they were together all the time. Katherine and I spent a lot of time together. Michelle and Judah and I spent time together. Steve and I spent a bit of time together. But, Gale didn’t spend much time with anybody. Gale kind of kept in character in essence as he was in the movie; he was kind of off to himself. – Phillip Bloch on working with Gale on The Unseen

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