Man and Boy
The Tribeca Film Festival ended on Sunday after screening a number of gay-themed films (including the documentary Gone, which I liked a lot). Several gay-themed short films were represented as well:
Man and Boy, which won the festival's best narrative short award, was "inspired" by a 2008 incident in the UK in which a man accused of sexually molesting a teenage boy and subsequently fleeing an angry mob, jumped to his death from an apartment building.
In the film, written and directed by David Leon (with co-director Marcus McSweeney), a teenage boy strongly implies to his father that something nefarious happened in the apartment of the man who has recently moved in upstairs. The outraged father takes a baseball bat to the door of that apartment with the man cowering inside. But what really happened between the man and the boy?
The Tribeca judging committee liked the film...
The Tribeca Film Festival ended on Sunday after screening a number of gay-themed films (including the documentary Gone, which I liked a lot). Several gay-themed short films were represented as well:
Man and Boy, which won the festival's best narrative short award, was "inspired" by a 2008 incident in the UK in which a man accused of sexually molesting a teenage boy and subsequently fleeing an angry mob, jumped to his death from an apartment building.
In the film, written and directed by David Leon (with co-director Marcus McSweeney), a teenage boy strongly implies to his father that something nefarious happened in the apartment of the man who has recently moved in upstairs. The outraged father takes a baseball bat to the door of that apartment with the man cowering inside. But what really happened between the man and the boy?
The Tribeca judging committee liked the film...
- 5/4/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
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