(2011-2012, 93 min)
Country: U.S., United Kingdom
Director: Various Directors
Studio: Guest House Films
SYNOPSIS: Following on the heels of Black Briefs, their first successful short film compilation, Guest House Films continues their new series with Blue Briefs. This brilliant, engrossing and emotional new collection features stellar gay shorts that focus on relationships and the unfortunate pain that often accompanies true love (something that gay men know all too well).
REVIEW:
Requited Directed by Sal Bardo (20 minutes)
"How do you get over something you never had?" Thats the question facing Nicolas (newcomer Christopher Schram) as he tries to decide if he should go to the wedding of his best friend from high school - with whom he's always been quietly in love.
Winner Best First Time Filmmaker, Reel Affirmations: Washington DC's International LGBT Film Festival; Official Selection NewFest, Seattle International Film Festival
Boys Like You Directed by Daniel Armando (12 minutes)
A young man struggles with the boundaries of friendship when he finds himself in an intimate situation with his roommate.
Winner Best Male Short, North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Official Selection Spokane Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
We Once Were Tide Directed by Jason Bradbury (18 minutes)
On an island off the South Coast of England, Anthony (Alexander Scott) and Kyle (Tristan Bernays) spend their last night together before Kyle moves away - leaving Anthony to look after his terminally ill mother.
Winner Best Screenplay, MiMi LGBT Film Festival, Barcelona; Official Selection NewFest, BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Torino Film Festival
Revolution Directed by Abdi Nazemian (16 minutes)
Jack (Logan Aria), a 16-year-old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles, learns how to stage his own revolution within the confines of his traditional family.
Official Selection Outfest, ImageOut: Rochester LGBT Film and Video Festival, Frameline
The In-Between Directed by Alain Hain (10 minutes)
Jared (Danny Bernardy) has found his first live-in boyfriend, but begins to suspect that the man he is in love with isn't as faithful as he would hope. Has his paranoia got the better of him, or are his instincts dead on? From the director of the award-winning Curious Thing.
Official Selection Frameline, Outfest, NewFest
Frozen Roads Directed by Mark Pariselli (17 minutes)
As a trio of friends comes of age in a rural, conservative Canadian town, they must confront escalating desires for one another that threaten to destroy their delicate bond.
Official Selection NewFest, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival, BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
-- Review courtesy of Guest House Films (http://www.guesthousefilms.com)
