Rayceen Pendarvis was invited to host Reel Affirmations XTRA Presents: Daddy's Boy. The film focused on four young men, each somewhere near the crossroads where boyhood and adulthood meet. Ultimately, their lives intertwine in the strange world of a low-budget porn and male burlesque photo shoot in New York City.
Max (Al Miro) is a suave, handsome Italian living in Canada who has become somewhat of a regular in the adult film scene. Elsewhere in the city, he meets and exchanges phone numbers with Fabian (Joe Lopez), a Puerto Rican from Queens with latent homosexual tendencies, who is grappling with the challenges of becoming a father for the first.
Manuel (Jonathan Iglesias), is a quiet but confident midnight cowboy from Arizona. He makes his way to New York to shoot a porn scene with Max. While in town, he reaches out to his estranged older brother Jorge (James Koroni), a somber dancer in a loveless relationship with an overly critical photographer.
In front of the hot lights of a porn set and behind the closed doors of a burlesque studio, the young men leave boyhood behind and end up shedding more than just their clothes and inhibitions.
The event also featured a catered cocktail reception. Randy Shulman, publisher for Metro Weekly, was also on hand to moderate a Q&A session with Daniel Armando, the film's director.
Reel Affirmations - Washington DC’s International LGBT Film Festival - is one of the largest LGBT film festivals (in terms of attendance) in the United States. Each month the organization consistently offers new and exciting international, documentary, short, and feature films, as well as panel discussions, filmmaker Q&As, and various celebrations.
The theatrical screening was held at the Human Rights Campaign Equality Center in Washington, DC.
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Click below to view the Official Film Trailer.
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