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Monday, May 2, 2011
Area singer to appear in Francis Ford Coppola vampire horror flick
A face familiar to local blues and folk music fans will hit the big screen in a film by one of the nation’s most well-known directors.
Oxford-based Lisa Biales will makes her film debut in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt Now And Sunrise.”
Biales talked about the film while preforming with violinist Doug Hamilton Saturday at the “Wine, Women and Song” gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of Dayton’s Human Race Theatre.
She is the cousin of Kevin Moore, the theatre’s producing artistic director.
A Fairfield High School grad, Biales has made six solo albums, including her latest “Closet Hippie.”
The former administration worker at Ohio University has a speaking role and sings in the film staring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning and Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci). She called it a vampire movie.
Biales said he met Coppola at Duke University. He hugged her and contacted her more than nine months later about the movie. She said they did a little role play over the phone.
Coppola told the New York Times the film with “gothic romance/horror subject matter” grew out of a nightmare he had.
“But as I was having it I realized perhaps it was a gift, as I could make it as a story, perhaps a scary film, I thought even as I was dreaming.,” Coppola said of the flim set to hit theaters in October.
Coppola’s other films include “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now” and “The Outsiders.”
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