Boys On Film 9: Youth In Trouble is out today, and over the last week we’ve been catching up with some of the actors and directors whose LGBT themed short film are included in the collection, such as Prora’s Tom Gramenz and The Wilding’s Grant Scicluna.
Today we have Benjamin Parent, the French director of It’s Not A Cowboy Movie, a short about straight teenagers and their reaction to watching Brokeback Mountain. It’s a smart film, looking at ideas of masculinity and how actually being faced with homosexuality can change a young person’s ideas about it, especially if they’ve only previously thought about it as an abstract idea.
Here’s what he had to say: [Read more…]