Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 388 –October 10, 2018
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
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.S. NARRATIVE FEATURES<br />
While searching for his missing brother in a remote<br />
gay cruising park, Noah (Stephen Twardokus) sets<br />
his sights on a handsome stranger (JD Scalzo). When<br />
Noah is viciously attacked, he and his new companion escape through the woods with two<br />
menacing thugs in hot pursuit. Lost and frightened, they begin to turn on each other and<br />
slowly unravel the truth of what's really going on around them. This moody, picturesque<br />
psychological thriller from first-time director Matthew Montgomery features unexpected<br />
twists and turns, and seamlessly blends sharp, opposing perspectives about sex and love with<br />
suspenseful set pieces filled with existential dread.<br />
WRITERS: Matthew Montgomery, Stephen Twardokus<br />
CAST: Stephen Twardokus, JD Scalzo, Steve Callahan, Brandy Elliott, Jon Gale<br />
Q&A with filmmakers to follow<br />
DEVIL'S PATH<br />
Saturday, October 27, 7:00pm; Cinépolis Chelsea 8<br />
Sunday, October 28, 4:30pm; Cinépolis Chelsea 8<br />
New York Premiere<br />
Best First Narrative Feature, Film<strong>Out</strong> San Diego<br />
Dir. Matthew Montgomery, USA, <strong>2018</strong>, 88 mins<br />
A warm, heartfelt film about blending families,<br />
featuring powerhouse performances from its all-<br />
Asian cast. Beloved late actress Elizabeth Sung<br />
plays Anna, a successful business-woman and<br />
single mother struggling with a strained relationship with her 20-something queer daughter<br />
Dede (Michelle Ang). Her widower neighbor Peter (Jim Lau) is the caretaker of his millennial<br />
daughter Laura (Jennifer Soo) who is on the Autism spectrum. When Laura and Dede form an<br />
unlikely friendship they each bond with the other's parent, ultimately bringing Peter and Anna<br />
together to find an unexpected later-in-life romance.<br />
WRITER: Alex Chu<br />
CAST: Michelle Ang, Jennifer Soo, Elizabeth Sung, Jim Lau<br />
Q&A with filmmakers and select cast to follow<br />
FOR IZZY<br />
Saturday, October 27, 9:45pm; Cinépolis Chelsea 8<br />
Audience Award; Frameline<br />
Grand Jury Prize, L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival<br />
Dir. Alex Chu, USA, <strong>2018</strong>, 84 mins<br />
U.S. NARRATIVE FEATURES<br />
FISH BONES<br />
Saturday, October 27, 8:00pm; SVA Theatre 2<br />
New York City Premiere<br />
Dir. Joanne Mony Park, USA, 2017, 82 mins<br />
JULES OF LIGHT & DARK<br />
Monday, October 29, 6:45pm; Cinépolis Chelsea 7<br />
New York Premiere<br />
Dir. Daniel Laabs, USA, <strong>2018</strong>, 85 mins<br />
In her debut feature, director Joanne Mony Park<br />
delivers a sensitively-drawn portrait of Hana (Joony<br />
Kim) a young woman caught between two worlds;<br />
the expectations of her Korean family, and her own<br />
needs and desires as a university student and model<br />
discovering her queer identity. The film’s quiet attention to detail captures charming moments<br />
of self reflection and attraction, as Hana falls for Nico (Cris Gris), a charismatic Latina who lives<br />
without the self-consciousness that holds Hana back. The chemistry between these two leads<br />
captivates the viewer and heralds the discovery of a bold and exciting new directorial voice<br />
to watch.<br />
WRITER: Joanne Mony Park<br />
CAST: Joony Kim, Cris Gris<br />
Q&A with filmmakers and select cast to follow<br />
Preceded by short:<br />
FRAN THIS SUMMER<br />
Dir. Mary Evangelista, USA, <strong>2018</strong>, 11 mins<br />
Teenage lovebirds Francis and Angie spend the summer shacked up at home while Fran begins<br />
their transition.<br />
In present-day Texas, teenage Maya and her onagain,<br />
off-again girlfriend Jules total their car after<br />
a night of backwoods raving and mischief. They are<br />
rescued from the wreckage by Freddy, a divorced oil<br />
worker whose stoic facade crumbles as he comes to<br />
see himself, and his repressed desires, in Maya. As Jules recovers, Maya and Freddy develop a<br />
rapport that eases their small-town lives. Together, they subtly encourage one another to chase<br />
after what they want the most (or at least figure out what that might be). JULES OF LIGHT<br />
AND DARK is an iridescent coming-of-age story boasting the rural isolation of Deb Shoval’s<br />
AWOL and the wanderlust of Andrea Arnold’s AMERICAN HONEY. Defined by earnest, full<br />
performances and composed in a blue palette, Daniel Laabs’ first feature solidly articulates the<br />
universality of queer loneliness and uncertainty across genders and generations.<br />
WRITER: Daniel Laabs<br />
CAST: Betsy Holt, Tallie Medel, Robert Longstreet, Liz Cardenas<br />
Q&A with filmmakers and select cast to follow<br />
20 • NEWFEST <strong>2018</strong> LOSE YOURSELF. FIND YOURSELF. • 21
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