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Moonlight Leads Independent Spirit Award Noms, With Plenty More Gay-Themed Films In The Mix Too

November 23, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

moonlight-slideIt’s certainly been a good year for gay-themed films amongst the nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards, the pre-eminent indie awards ceremony (films are only eligible if they have a budget of less and $20 million), which takes place ahead of the Oscars each year. Leading the way is the acclaimed Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ film about a young, gay African-American, which picked up six noms, equal with the Shia LaBeouf starrer, American Honey.

It’s up for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and is the sole nominee for the Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble.

Also gettin multiple nods was Other People, starring Jesse Plemons as a gay guy who heads home to take care of his dying mother. It picked up four nominations for Plemons, co-star Molly Shannon, Chris Kelly for his screenplay and director Chris Kelly for Best First Feature.

However, Moonlight and Other People weren’t only the gay-themed films up for awards, with Spa Night (about a closeted Korean-American teenager) director Andrew Ahn up for the John Cassavettes Award (for Best Feature Made For Under $5,000) and Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award. Lesbian crime drama Women Who Kill, was also nominated for the Kiehl’s Award, for director Ingrid Jungermann, while Certain Women was nominated for Best Director for Kelly Reichardt, while Lily Gladstone, whose character falls for Kristen Stewart in the movie, is up for Best Supporting Female.

There were also a couple of gay-themed documentaries in the mix, with ball-culture doc Kiki up for the Truer Than Fiction Award, while I Am Not Your Negro, about gay, African-American writer James Baldwin’s unfinished novel, Remember This House, is included in the Best Docuemntary category.

It’s certainly an impressive validation for LGBT-themed movies this year, with the hope that at least some of them will go on to be winners when the gongs are handed out early next year. Take a look at the full list of nominees below. [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Lily Gladstone  DIRECTORS: Kelly Reichardt, Andrew Ahn, Chris Kelly, Barry Jenkins  FILMS: Moonlight, Other People, Certain Woman, Spa Night  

Other People Trailer – Jesse Plemons plays a young gay man looking after a sick Molly Shannon

July 9, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

other-people-slideOther People got a lot of buzz when it debuted at Sundance, but also sparked a little controversy after reports that people walked out during a gay sex scene featuring Jesse Plemons’ character. Plemons reacted by saying, “I’d love to talk to them and figure out what it was about that scene that made them leave.”

However, despite that, the movie got huge amounts of attention, and now we can all get a taste, as the trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis from Yahoo!: ‘Based on true events in the life of director Chris Kelly (a writer for SNL and Broad City),Other People follows the story of a struggling, gay comedy writer (Jesse Plemons) who moves to his childhood home to care for his sick mother (Molly Shannon).’  The film will be closing OUTFEST in Los Angeles on July 17th.

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon  DIRECTORS: Chris Kelly  FILMS: Other People  

Jesse Plemons To Gay A Gay Saturday Night Live Writer In The Film Other People

October 20, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jesse-plemons-slideBattleship and Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons has booked himself a new role (which will hopefully take the sting off the fact that for months he was rumoured to be the lead in the new Star Wars film, but ultimately won’t be in the movie at all). TheWrap reports he’s set to take the lead role in Other People, from writer/director Chris Kelly.

Plemons will play ‘a gay Saturday Night Live writer who returns home to Sacramento to be with his mother (Sissy Spacek), who is in the final stages of terminal cancer. While home, he struggles to deal with a painful recent breakup and reconcile with his conservative father’s disapproving attitude regarding his sexuality.’

It sounds like it’ll be a fairly personal project from Kelly, who is gay and an SNL writer himself, with three Emmy nominations to his name. Other People will mark his feature directorial debut.

To add a little extra cachet the talented Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation) will produce along with his wife Naomi. They’re currently putting all the pieces together in terms of financing with the hope of shooting the movie next year.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Jesse Plemons, Sissy Spacek  DIRECTORS: Chris Kelly  FILMS: Other People  

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