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A\u00a0resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.<\/p>\n

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This inventive neo-noir\u00a0mindbender\u00a0film integrates visual poetry with traditional narrative filmmaking. Our feature\u00a0was shot in black-and-white in large part on the new Red Epic monochrome camera and toured ten international film festivals, winning four awards, including the <\/span>Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature\/Drama<\/em> at the Woods Hole Film Festival, the <\/span>Creativity in Drama<\/em>\u00a0award at Breckenridge Film Festival, <\/span>Best of Fest<\/em> at the South Texas Underground Film Festival and Best LGBT Project at <\/span>Action on Film<\/em>. We ran for a week-long theatrical engagement at Arena Cinelounge, prompting a review from <\/span>The Los Angeles Blade<\/em> describing the film as, “essential viewing.” You can order and watch the film now via iTunes<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Vudu<\/a>, Google Play<\/a>, Vimeo<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> or Blu-Ray.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of the project’s inspiration, director Hunter Lee Hughes says, \u201cMy grandmother not only read a lot of poetry, she marked up the poems, underlined certain passages and wrote notes in the margin comparing cherished phrases to figures in her life. The poetry she left behind served as psychological puzzle pieces to fill in gaps in my knowledge of my grandmother as a woman. It was a powerful experience and eventually I decided to make a mindbender film that employs individual poems as psychological clues to the journey of a protagonist. My grandmother loved poetry. I\u2019ve always loved mindbender films like Mulholland Drive<\/em> and Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>. So, I designed Guys Reading Poems<\/em> as a unique and compelling marriage of those forms of creative expression.”<\/p>\n

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About the poetry noir feature film Guys Reading Poems starring Patricia Velasquez, Alexander Dreymon and Lydia Hearst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":705,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

In Guys Reading Poems<\/em>, a resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.<\/p>

This inventive neo-noir\u00a0mindbender\u00a0film integrates visual poetry with traditional narrative filmmaking. Our feature\u00a0was shot in black-and-white in large part on the new Red Epic monochrome camera and world premiered at the Palm Beach International Film Festival<\/a> on April 10, 2016, followed by screenings at Dances With Films and a Centerpiece Selection screening at qFLIX Philadelphia. The film won the Audience Award for Best Feature (Drama)\u00a0at the 25th annual Woods Hole Film Festival, the jury award for \"Creativity in Drama\" at the 36th annual Breckenridge Film Festival and \"Best of Fest\" at the South Texas Underground Film Festival. The film opens theatrically in Los Angeles at Arena Cinelounge on Friday, April 28th.<\/p>

Of the project's inspiration, director Hunter Lee Hughes says, \u201cMy grandmother not only read a lot of poetry, she marked up the poems, underlined certain passages and wrote notes in the margin comparing cherished phrases to figures in her life. The poetry she left behind served as psychological puzzle pieces to fill in gaps in my knowledge of my grandmother as a woman. It was a powerful experience and eventually I decided to make a mindbender film that employs individual poems as psychological clues to the journey of a protagonist. My grandmother loved poetry. I\u2019ve always loved mindbender films like Mulholland Drive<\/em> and Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>. So, I designed Guys Reading Poems<\/em> as a unique and compelling marriage of those forms of creative expression. I\u2019m so pumped that we\u2019re premiering during National Poetry Month \u2013 it\u2019s perfect for us.\"<\/p>

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