The cast of "Rivers Wash Over Me."

“Rivers Wash Over Me,” Atlanta film producer Dexter Davis‘ little indie film that could has secured a prime spot on this fall’s Out on Film festival, spokesman Jim Farmer confirmed to Buzz Wednesday.

Earlier this summer the film made a splashy debut at the New Fest, the annual gay and lesbian film festival in New York City.

The film directed by John G. Young unflinchingly tackles the topics of race, homosexuality, death, class and sexual abuse against the backdrop of rural Alabama.  It centers on Sequan, a James Baldwin-reading, Brooklyn-based, African-American teen who moves in with Southern relatives after the death of his mother. At the film’s heart, however, is the unique friendship that develops between Sequan and Lori, a white girl from a well-to-do family who’s dating the high school’s drug dealer.

Buzz got a sneak peek of the film in June. Our take? It could serve as an ideal tonic this fall for film-goers weary of watching CGI-generated robots and comic book soldiers blow up/save the earth all summer.

Out on Film, featuring about 25 films and various shorts, will run at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema from Oct. 2 – 8. In addition ”Rivers Wash Over Me,” Farmer says the festival will also debut “The Butch Factor” by former Atlanta filmmaker Faith Trimel and will screen the film adaptation of Atlanta writer Jim Grimsley’s “Dream Boy.”