In this collection of dark boys shorts, first-crushes prove unbearably heart-wrenching,
difficult and downright scary.
Bugcrush, Dir. Carter Smith, US, 2006, video?? 36 min. SOUTH FLORIDA
PREMIERE. Strand Releasing. Passed down from childhood fairy-tales, woods
have been mythologized as dangerous places. Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding
Hood and Peter and the Wolf all share the same message. In Bugcrush, the woods
prove to be much more sinister than Ben, a high school loner, with a crush on a
dangerously seductive new boy, could ever have anticipated, in this creepy
mesmerizing award winning film.
Davy and Stu, Dir. Soman Chainani, video,14 min.SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE.
Strand Releasing. Based on Anton Dudley’s acclaimed stage play, two teenage
boys struggle with the intensity of adolescent romance and forbidden love in the
picturesque setting of a swampy Scottish bog at dusk.
Doorman, Dir. Etienne Kallos, US, 2006, video, 17 min. EAST COAST PREMIERE. A
Latino doorman of a New York apartment building begins to unravel emotionally
when he is seduced and then dumped by a privileged college kid who lives in the
building (Sundance Film Festival 2007).
Bugcrush and Davy and Stu are part of Strand Releasing’s new DVD collection Boy’s Life 6 which will be available for purchasing later in the year.
Total Running time: 67 min. |
