BOY
Year: 2004
USA: Picture This! Entertainment
Cast: Jesse Lee, Bryan Bevege, Tammy Warwick, Francie Gray, Miriam Bleakley, Mathew Risbridge, Paul Probine, Bill Taua, Rebecca Hogan, Emily Horgan, Fredd Marshall, Daniel Hodson, Robert Jenkinson, Darion Ings, Melvin Te Wani, Trisha Waugh, John ten Velde, Amanda Macek, Luke Thompson, Michael Easther, Hannah Hurst, Stephanie Jefferson.
Director: Welby Ings
Country: New Zealand
USA: 15 mins
USA Release Date: 18 August 2006 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 21 July 2006 (Limited Release - New York)
US Distributor
Synopsis
BOY is the strangely told, silent story of a young male prostitute Sam (Jesse Lee) in a small New Zealand town who discovers the truth behind a fatal hit and run accident.
As news of the death spreads through the district, the family of the responsible driver (Bryan Bevege) realizes that the boy must be kept quiet. Using gossip and brutality they set out to frighten him into submission.
The pressure becomes increasingly aggressive and through it the boy, from his strange world of broken, angel-like dolls, develops the courage, to expose the truth.