Faggot (film)
Appearance
Faggot | |
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French | Tapette |
Directed by | Olivier Perrier |
Written by | Olivier Perrier |
Produced by | Olivier Perrier Guillaume Bibeau-Laviolette |
Starring | Robin L'Houmeau Eliot Nault |
Cinematography | Émile Massie-Vanasse |
Edited by | Véronique Clément |
Production company | Avec Panache |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Faggot (French: Tapette) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Olivier Perrier and released in 2016.[1]
The film centres on Alex Girard (Robin L'Houmeau), a young junior hockey player in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec who is struggling with whether to come out as gay to his teammates.[1]
Perrier, a film student at Concordia University at the time of making the film, won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2017 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[2]
References
- ^ a b Samuel Larochelle, "Un court métrage sur l’homophobie dans le sport" Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine. Fugues, April 20, 2016.
- ^ Regan Reid, "Rebels on Pointe takes best Canadian feature at Inside Out". Playback, June 6, 2017.
External links
Categories:
- 2016 films
- Canadian ice hockey films
- Canadian LGBT-related short films
- LGBT-related sports drama films
- 2016 LGBT-related films
- Canadian sports drama films
- French-language Canadian films
- Canadian drama short films
- 2010s Canadian films
- Canadian teen LGBT-related films
- 2010s French-language films
- 2010s Canadian film stubs