NFL star Simeon Rice to make film debut

Simeon Rice is used to seeing his work on the big screen. In his former career as an NFL linebacker, it was his fearsome play on the stadium jumbotron. Today, it is his work as a motion picture director.

At the American Film Market, which runs Nov. 5-12 in Santa Monica, Rice will be promoting his first feature-length motion picture, an action thriller titled, Unsullied. A market screening is scheduled for 11 a.m. PT on Sat., Nov. 8 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica. For more information on the film and to see the trailer, visit www.unsulliedthefilm.com.

Unsullied, a Dreamline Pictures production, was written and directed by Rice and produced by Dreamline’s Michelle Gracie, Ghana Cooper and John Nodilo (who penned the screenplay from Rice’s story). Unsulllied stars newcomer and UCLA film school alum Murray Gray as the story’s heroine, together with CAA actor Rusty Joiner (Dodgeball, Resident Evil) and James Gaudioso (Duke, The Ghost and The Whale).