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`Holler` gets Jennifer Aniston`s attention

Screen Gems and Jennifer Aniston are teaming up to tell a tale of lingering racial tensions in the Deep South.

Los Angeles: Screen Gems and Jennifer Aniston are teaming up to tell a tale of lingering racial tensions in the Deep South.
The company has acquired "Holler" (aka "Mutt"), written by Dana Adam Shapiro, co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Murderball." Inspired by true events, the script centers on a biracial high school student who returns with his white mother to her hometown in Mississippi, where he falls for a white girl. When prom season arrives at the high school, he is shocked to discover that she cannot be his date at the segregated prom. He soon finds himself a catalyst for change, not only for the prom but for the school and entire town. HBO on Monday aired a documentary on the same subject, "Prom Night in Mississippi." The film will be produced by Aniston`s partner at Echo Films, Kristin Hahn, along with Tracey Durning. Aniston will executive produce with Jeff Mandel. Bureau Report