Trailer Premiere: Mark Jackson’s Laff-Winning This Teacher

Mark Jackson’s This Teacher — a Slamdance Closing Night film as well as the final U.S.

Fiction winner at the now-shuttered Los Angeles Film Festival — is being released on DVD and digital formats June 9 by Breaking Glass, and the trailer has just dropped.

Jackson is a 2011 Filmmaker 25 New Face who won the 2012 Audi Independent Spirit Award.

Starring Cesar-winner Hafsia Herzi, the film’s a kind of existential cabin-in-the-woods thriller dealing with Islamophobia and American madness.

The synopsis: This Teacher follows a French Muslim woman (Hafsia Herzi) as she travels to New York City […]

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