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  • Song Silenced: Coming Out in Christian Music
  • Interior
  • I have Two Dads
  • Bucks Harbor
  • I Am Going to Miss You
  • Silver Star
  • Caracas Avenue
  • Our Body Is an Expanding Star
  • Family (A)
  • Given Names
  • Serpent’s Skin (The)
  • Christophers (The)
  • Marc by Sofia
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
  • Accused
  • Touch Me
  • Champion
  • Este cuerpo mío
  • Narciso
  • Another Man
  • River Dreams
  • Animol
  • Surfacing
  • Sunny Dancer
  • Black Burns Fast
  • Warla
  • Beyond the Fire: The Life of Japan’s First Pride Parade Pioneer
  • To Dance is to Resist
  • Ugly Stepsister (The)
  • West of Greatness: The Story of the Westwego Muscle Boys
  • Washed Up
  • These Sacred Vows
  • Deepest Space in Us (The)
  • ìfé: (The Sequel)
  • Mickey & Richard
  • On the Sea
  • Madfabulous
  • Outlasting - Living Archives of Older Queers
  • Beast in Me (The)
  • God Will Not Help

Stray

Country: USA, Language: English, 24 mins

  • Director: Tyler Glodt
  • Writer: Dustin Brooks; Lewaa Nasserdeen
  • Producer: Matthew Albrecht; B.E.

CGiii Comment

What a curious film...

One minute...it's a comedy. The next...very serious.

This has aspirations to become a fully fledged feature...now, if that's the case...re-think, re-write and, perhaps, looking at the casting - there is a weak link. Do stereotypes need to scream STEREOTYPE?

There is potential...technically, it's proficient...a little more imaginative direction. Think: Detail. And, get rid of the drag scene.

If it's going to be a satire...the dialogue has to bite...with rabid teeth. Make it scathing, make it memorable.

But...it's a good beginning...


Watch...

STRAY from dustin.brooks on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Set in a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a struggling heterosexual, admits himself into a straight conversion camp. What begins as a cure to his deviant lifestyle, becomes a journey of self acceptance.

Cast & Characters

Matthew Albrecht as Doug Swallows;
B.E. as Aubrey's Dad;
Kate Bombin as Bar Patron;
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman as Alex;
Dustin Brooks as Eric;
Hoss Calderon as Camp Goer;
Luciana Carro as Abby;
Robert Catrini as Doc;
Mike Cionni as Camp Goer;
Michael Cornacchia as Daniel;
Gavin Fonseca as Camp Goer;
Mark Leslie Ford as Arnold Bishop;
Laura Gardner as Eric's Mom;
Catherine Gontran as Bikini Stacey;
Elijah Hawk as Camp Goer