GAY BRIT FLICK SHANK WINS MIAMI AWARD
International, Music, News, Theatre by HOMOVISION on May 13, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Uncompromising, gritty gay Brit flick SHANK has won the Roger Walker-Dack Award for Emerging Talents in Queer Cinema at the Miami Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
Directed by 21-year-old newcomer Simon Pearce and written and produced by gay creative team Christian Martin and Darren Flaxstone, the film follows the life of teenage gang member, Cal (Wayne Virgo) who hustles for sex and deals drugs to get by. Hiding his secret sex life from fellow gang members, Cal rescues a university student mid queer-bashing and falls in love as their lives and worlds collide.
“It was a risk working with a young, inexperienced cast and first-time director but this award, along with the international audience support for the film validates the courage of our conviction to push the gay genre in a new direction,” said writer and producer Christian Martin. “May it be the first of many – we’re delighted and now hungry to get it out to a British audience.”
Unique in its treatment of gang culture, the unrelenting drama fuses sex and violence with fast paced action which refreshingly turns the coming-out genre on its head. The film takes no prisoners and the brutal and emotionally draining denouement to this sexy, violent and multi-layered story has electrified gay festival audiences worldwide.
SHANK will get a theatrical release in September ‘09 before coming to DVD in the autumn courtesy of TLA Releasing.
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