Bella Thorne Stars as a Normal Girl Who Becomes a Heroin Addict In a Timely New Movie Depicting Teen Drug Abuse in the Age of Social Media “PERFECT HIGH” Airing Saturday, June 27 at 8/7C on Lifetime
 BELLA THORNE STARS AS A NORMAL GIRL WHO BECOMES A HEROIN ADDICT IN A TIMELY NEW MOVIE DEPICTING TEEN DRUG ABUSE IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA“PERFECT HIGH”AIRING SATURDAY, JUNE 27 AT 8/7C ON LIFETIME
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Los Angeles, CA, June 8, 2015 – Los Angeles-based Just Singer Entertainmentand Vancouver-based Sepia Films have announced the airdate for the powerful new television movie PERFECT HIGH set in the world of teenage drug use. The film is scheduled to air Saturday, June 27 at 8/7C on Lifetime in the US and Sunday, July 5 at 8ET/5PT on SuperChannel in Canada. The film stars Bella Thorne in a bold departure from her earlier work and an outstanding ensemble cast including Israel Broussard, Daniela Bobadilla, Ross Butler, Jasmine Sky Sarin and Matreya Fedor.
Inspired by the shocking rise in heroin addiction among suburban teenagers,PERFECT HIGH stars Bella Thorne (The DUFF; Blended; Shake it Up!) as Amanda, a star high school dancer who starts using prescription painkillers after being sidelined by a knee injury. Feeling neglected and isolated, Amanda is adopted by an ultra cool group of friends, including Carson (Israel Broussard, The Bling Ring), Riley (Daniela Bobadilla, Anger Management) and Nate (Ross Butler, Teen Beach Movie 2). She quickly becomes part of their inner circle, which means sharing her pills, having regular “pharm” parties, and falling in love for the first time. At the same time, her new habits affect her dance team performance and raises concerns among her family, and old friends and teammates. As their drug use inevitably spirals into addiction, Amanda and her friends resort to lying, stealing and worse to fund their habit. Their lives are forever altered when a classmate begins selling them heroin disguised as a cheaper painkiller from Mexico.
Directed by Vanessa Parise (Jack and Jill vs. the World; Kiss the Bride) and written by Anne-Marie Hess, PERFECT HIGH was executive produced by Sheri Singer of Just Singer Entertainment (Girl vs. Monster; Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot; the Halloweentown franchise) and produced by Sepia Films’ Tina Pehmeand Kim C. Roberts (The Games Maker, Sundance 2015; In Their Skin, Tribeca 2012; A Shine of Rainbows, TIFF 2010).
Singer became passionate about making Perfect High after realizing, “heroin was no longer a street drug that was bought in back alleys but in fact was being sold at schools, Starbucks, parking lots. Normal, good kids were getting involved in doing it and often the gateway drug is painkillers from the medicine cabinets of their parents and relatives.” Producer Tina Pehme explains, “One thing you’ll see in our film is the realistic progression, how just an ordinary girl goes from getting a prescription for an injury into a full-blown drug addict. It’s one little step at a time. And it can happen to anyone. It could be you. It could be your child.”
PERFECT HIGH’s premiere evening June 27 will feature stars Bella Thorne, Daniela Bobadilla, Ross Butler, Israel Broussard and co-stars Jasmine Sky Sarin and Matreya Fedor live-tweeting the broadcast from a premiere party and event hosted by Chelsea Briggs of Hollywire TV.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
CAST
Bella Thorne as Amanda
Twitter: @bellathorne Instagram: @bellathorne
Daniela Bobadilla as Riley
Twitter: @DanieBobadilla Instagram: @danielabobadilla_
Israel Broussard as Carson
Twitter: @israelbroussard Instagram: @israelbroussard
Ross Butler as Nate
Twitter: @RossButler Instagram: @RossButler
Jasmine Sky Sarin as Alexis
Twitter: @jasminesky_ Instagram: @jasminesky
Matreya Fedor as Brooke
Twitter: @matreyafedor Instagram: @matreyafedor
MOVIE
Twitter: @perfecthigh
Instagram: @perfecthigh_ Official hashtag: #PerfectHigh
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Sepia Films
Twitter: @sepiafilms Instagram: @sepia_films
NETWORK
Lifetime
Twitter: @lifetimetv Instagram: @lifetimetv 
LIVE EVENT
Chelsea Briggs
Twitter: @Chelsea_Briggs Instagram: chelsea_briggs
Hollywire
Twitter: @Hollywire Instagram: hollywire |
ABOUT THE TEAM
Emmy Award-winning executive producer Sheri Singer launched Just Singer Entertainment in 2000. The company’s primary focus is developing and producing movies and series for broadcast and cable networks. Singer has produced 28 movies, miniseries, and microseries in addition to PERFECT HIGH, She has produced 15 movies for the Disney Channel, including Girl Vs. Monster starring Olivia Holt and Kerris Dorsey, the four- movie Halloweentown franchise andLuck of the Irish. The latter two films are part of the permanent collection at the Paley Center for Media.
With PERFECT HIGH Singer returns to her roots of telling socially relevant true stories both in television movie platform and as a producer of the ground breaking talk show Donahue.
As former Vice President of Original Movies at Lifetime, she is credited with developing their original movie franchise in the mid 1990’s.
Founded in 2003 by producer Tina Pehme, entertainment attorney Kim Robertsand director Vic Sarin, Sepia Films is a multi award winning feature film & television production company specializing in telling diverse and compelling stories for the global marketplace. Recent theatrical feature films include The Games Maker (Joseph Fiennes, David Mazouz and Ed Asner) Sundance 2015, In Their Skin (Selma Blair, and James D'Arcy) Tribeca 2012, A Shine Of Rainbows(Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn) TIFF 2010, and 2007’s Partition, starring Jimi Mistry, Neve Campbell, Kristen Kreuk, and Irrfan Khan. Sepia also specializes in producing theatrical documentaries that focus on bringing awareness to relevant social issues such as 2014’s The Boy from Geita and 2013’s Hue: A Matter of Color. On the Television side, Sepia produces the popular "Nightmare" franchise of television movies airing on Lifetime & A&E.
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