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  • Sisterhood
  • Y
  • Tell Me That You Love Me
  • Last Exit Gran Canaria
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • 3000 km by Bike
  • Aurora
  • Saving Etting Street
  • Good Child (A)
  • Pawesome!
  • My Brother
  • Girls Like Us
  • Summer School, 2001
  • Wolf Among the Swans (A)
  • Secret of Me (The)
  • Camp
  • Explode São Paulo, Gil
  • French Italian (The)
  • Fuck My Son!
  • La 42
  • Wild Foxes
  • We're So Dead
  • Fraternity
  • Pillion
  • Strike (The)
  • Four Stars
  • Children of Silver Street (The)
  • Spying Stars
  • Weightless
  • Foreign Lands
  • Dinner with Friends
  • Other 300: Army of Lovers (The)
  • All There Is
  • Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
  • Until the Silence
  • Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
  • Revelations of Divine Love
  • Red Mask (The)
  • Queer as Punk
  • Skiff

Act (The)

Country: United Kingdom, Language: English, 18 mins

  • Director: Thomas Hescott
  • Writer: Thomas Hescott; Matthew Baldwin; Pete Lawson
  • Producer: Anna Elettra Pizzi De Gaetano

CGiii Comment

Make this into a feature!!!

A faultless short film...it's only fault, too short.

Invert...there's a word you don't hear every day and it's not Polari!

The atmosphere is intense. The breadth of emotion is immense...we cried!


Trailer...

The Act Trailer from Elettra Pizzi on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.

Cast & Characters

Annette Badland
Samuel Barnett as Matthews
Ian Hallard as Emmeline
Cyril Nri
Simon Lennon
Jim Conway as Detective
Matthew Baldwin as Christabelle
Tracy Anne Green as Deardrie
David Alexander as Police Officer
Bradley Alan
Simon Donohue as Police Officer
Simon Robins as Police Officer
Zara Cooke as Prostitute