9 hours Ago By Just Jared
Zane Phillips and Jelani Alladin are set to star in an upcoming short film together! The 31-year-old Fire Island actor and the 32-year-old Fellow Travelers actor will lead Strangers on a Beach , a queer erotic thriller set in the 1980s, according to Variety . Strangers on a Beach was written and directed by Michael Schwartz and is set to make it’s debut at the upcoming Big Apple Film Festival in NYC in June. Keep reading to find out more.
.. Here’s a synopsis: “It’s 1983 in San Francisco and a mysterious killer is targeting homosexual men.
But Calvin just wants to kiss that handsome stranger.” “Studio films of that era often reveled in queer subtext,” the director shared in a statement of the film’s inspiration from David Lynch and Brian DePalma ‘s 1980s noir films. “But even between the lines, queerness was frequently coded as danger.
That kind of projection carried difficult consequences, as did the concealment of identity. By centering authentically queer voices – all while keeping things scary, sexy and strange – we set out to challenge the biases of both the characters and the audience who watch them.” If you missed it, just last weekend Zane was seen enjoying a little getaway in Puerto Vallarta with boyfriend Froy Gutierrez for the grand opening of a new hotel!.
