Boys On Film's twelfth collection of gay short films exposes private lives, uncovers secrets and presents a choice — to conceal or to confess? Volume 12: Confession features nine new stories, including: Robert Hawk's "Home From The Gym" starring Jake Robbins; Samuel Leighton-Dore's "Showboy" starring Lucas Pittaway and Malcolm Kennard; Bobby de Groot and Arjan van Meerten's animated "Cruise Patrol"; Denis Theriault's "I Am Syd Stone" starring Gharrett Patrick Paon and Michael Gaty; Dustin Shroff's "Deflated" starring Carson Trinity Haverda and Greg Baglia; Filippo Demarchi's "Age 17" starring Fabio Foiada and Ignazio Oliva; Christophe Prédari's "Human Warmth" starring Thomas Coumans and Adrien Desbons; Dominic Haxton's "Tonight It's Me" starring Jake Robbins, Caleb James, and Christian Patrick; and Peter Knegt and Stephen Dunn's "Good Morning" starring Peter Knegt and Oliver Skinner.
Bobby de Groot, Filippo Demarchi, Samuel Leighton-Dore, Arjan van Meerten, Stephen Dunn, Robert Hawk, Denis Theriault, Dustin Shroff, Peter Knegt, Christophe Prédari, Thomas Purcaro, Dominic Haxton
Director
Jake Robbins
Guy (segment "Home From The Gym")/CJ (segment "Tonight It's Me")
Lucas Pittaway
Julian Maxwell (segment "Showboy")
Malcolm Kennard
Rob Maxwell (segment "Showboy")
Richie Finger
Madame Clitora (segment "Showboy")
Stephanie King
Poppy (segment "Showboy")
Matt Levett
Asher (segment "Showboy")
Airlie Dodds
Girl (segment "Showboy")
Gharrett Patrick Paon
Syd Stone (segment "I Am Syd Stone")
Michael Gaty
Brent (segment "I Am Syd Stone")
Alyse Hand
Reporter (segment "I Am Syd Stone")
Sean Skerry
Paul (segment "I Am Syd Stone")
CODA' is about a child of deaf adults torn between staying with her parents and her dreams of pursuing music. This film is a step forward for deaf representation and disability in movies despite negative messages about the burden of actors deaf deafness.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
In Stowaway, director Joe Penna narrates the story of a starship crew (Anna Kendrick as Zoe Levenson; Toni Collette as Marina Barnett; and Daniel Dae Kim as David Kim) struggling with serious technical problems on a two-year mission to Mars. During the trip, they discover aboard the presence of Michael (Shamier Anderson), a stowaway who jeopardizes everyone’s life on board.
Horse racing is a very difficult sport and challenge, especially for a young woman like Michelle Payne.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
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