GAYLETTER

We got a very interesting email from a very gifted Master’s alumni from the NYU graduate film program about his short feature titled San Cristóbal. The 29 minute film tells a poignant love story about a character named Lucas visiting his sister on a remote island in southern Chile and while there falls for a hot hot hot young local fisherman Antonio who clearly must live in the closet. What this young Chilean filmmaker named Omar Zuniga Hidalgo accomplishes with a flawless emotional arc in the brief half hour of screen time is remarkable, haven’t been moved by a love story, gay or straight, so profoundly in a long time. May have something to do with the fact that my last lover was from a remote village north of Buenos Aires in neighboring Argentina and our relationship shared a fate similar to the protagonists in this short.

Fortunately we have a rare opportunity to see this film in combination with a few others screening this Thursday at 7:00PM at the First Run Festival that showcases work made by NYU Grad Film-Tisch School of the Arts students and recent alumni. From what I can tell looking at the festival schedule San Cristobal, which won the coveted Teddy award at the Berlin Film Festival is up first, so technically you can watch it and bail if you have elsewhere to go on a busy social Thursday night.

7:00PM, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center at NYU, 36 E. 8th St. NY, NY.