Boy

Director's Notes - Welby Ings Boy deals with a subject filmmakers tend to avoid. While young, heterosexual men’s emerging sexuality is commonly explored in film and television, their gay equivalent is generally...

New Zealand Production

Short 2004 Drama 15.00 minutes

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Boy is an unusual, story of a young male prostitute in a New Zealand village who struggles to expose the truth behind a fatal accident.

2005 Cinequest Film Festival

Winner - Best Short Narrative Film

2005 Planet Out Awards

Winner - Audience Award - Best Experimental Short Film

2005 USA

Winner - Best Short Film

2005 Drifting Clouds Film Festival [New Zealand]

Winner - Best Film

Best Director

Best Art Direction

Best Editing

2005 Berlin Short Film Festival [Interfilm]

Winner Best Film

2004 Honorary Mention - Jury Prize - Mezipatra International Film Festival

Out Takes Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [New Zealand]

Directors

Welby Ings

Producers

Nic Finlayson

Screenplay Writers

Welby Ings

Cast

Jesse Lee
Sam

Bryan Bevege
Driver

Tammy Warwick
Delwyn

Francie Gray
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Crew

Welby Ings | Production Designer

Nic Finlayson | DOP

Don McGlashan | Music

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