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In his final performance, Battlestar: Galactica star Richard Hatch plays has-been filmmaker and human shipwreck, Haskell Edwards. Once a renowned director, Haskell has wallowed in a haze of drug and alcohol abuse for nine years, since witnessing the suicide of his one true love, iconic actress Cello Shea. When a cutting edge tech-company approaches Haskell to direct a film about Cello’s life, he is stunned to meet the actress who will portray her... an incredibly lifelike robot called a LifeDoll. Number 8 mimics. She doesn’t think. She doesn’t reason. She doesn’t understand. Which doesn’t stop Haskell from becoming obsessed with this machine that is nothing more than a programmed doppelgänger… or is it? (Sarasota Film Festival)