tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82648866343814607492024-03-19T06:05:27.215-07:00"Boy"by Auraeus Solito"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-34356403457335317022009-07-20T11:44:00.000-07:002009-07-20T13:08:31.550-07:00BoY Named One of the Best in Outfest 2009 by L.A. Weekly!<span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">L.A. Weekly calls BoY one of the best films in The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, also known as Outfest 2009! According to L.A. Weekly: </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">"Boy is a fascinatingly subtly tense slice of gay life in a country quite different from ours..."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">To read the complete article, visit <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-07-16/film-tv/in-like-outfest/">LAweekly.com.</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-64744702980143180512009-07-17T12:01:00.000-07:002009-07-20T12:22:14.403-07:00BoY Plays to Sold Out Crowd in Los Angeles!<a href="http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/2009/xslguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=2749"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 410px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.outfest.org/images/6.09/key_art09.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.outfest.org/images/6.09/key_art09.jpg"></a><div></div><div></div><div>July 17, 2009. LOS ANGELES. Lines formed outside the Fairfax movie theater and around the block as fans waited in anticipation for the Los Angeles premiere of BoY, the latest film by director Auraeus Solito. The film screened as part of the 2009 Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, or Outfest. According to Outfest organizers, tickets to BoY sold out three days before the screening. The capacity crowd filled the theater and cheered loudly as the final scene unfolded and credits rolled. In the theater lobby, the buzz after the movie was loud and never-ending as audience members milled around and shared their movie experience with others in the audience. The Los Angeles audience demonstrated that audiences around the world have been waiting for a long time for a movie like BoY. </div><div> </div><div>Thank you, Los Angeles, for showing the world that BoY has truly arrived!</div><br /><br /><div></div></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-6383180338194471202009-07-08T09:54:00.000-07:002009-07-08T10:32:43.403-07:00BoY Selected for Gay.com's Top Ten List!<a href="http://www.planetout.com/.a/6a01156e9cba4c970c011570d6e154970c-250wi"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.planetout.com/.a/6a01156e9cba4c970c011570d6e154970c-250wi" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div>Gay. com has selected BoY as one of the Top Ten Highlights for the Boys from "the biggest queer film festival on earth" (aka Frameline33: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival). Frameline33 screened more than 225 feature films, short stories and documentaries during its festival run from June 18 to June 28, 2009. BoY drew huge crowds during its multiple screenings at Frameline33. <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/166505/Filipino-film-Boy-captures-hearts-in-San-Francisco">International media reported on BoY's successful screenings </a>at Frameline33, noting in particular how the audience loved the movie.<br /><br />According to Gay.com, BoY is one of the movies that "you'll be wanting to add to your Netflix queue in the coming year or be looking for at a queer film fest near you — especially if you live in Los Angeles (Outfest.org) or Philadelphia (QFest.com) where those ginormous LGBT film festivals kick off this weekend as well!"<br /><br />To read the full article, visit the website <a href="http://tv.gay.com/2009/07/frameline-outfest-qfest.html">Gay.com</a> or copy and paste this link into your browser: <a href="http://tv.gay.com/2009/07/frameline-outfest-qfest.html">http://tv.gay.com/2009/07/frameline-outfest-qfest.html</a></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-69515440215585740162009-06-11T16:10:00.000-07:002009-06-14T16:50:31.106-07:00"BoY" Selected for the 2009 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival (Frameline 33)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /><br />Contacts:<br />Jeffrey Winter, Orly Ravid<br />New American Vision<br />TEL: 323.466.3536<br />CELL: 818.679.8751<br /><a href="mailto:jeffrey@newamericanvision.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jeffrey@newamericanvision.com</a><br /><a href="mailto:orly@newamericanvision.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">orly@newamericanvision.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.boythemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.boythemovie.com/</a><br /><br />AURAEUS SOLITO’S LATEST FILM, “BOY” TO BE SHOWN AT 2009 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL LGBT FILM FESTIVAL (FRAMELINE 33)<br /><br /><br />San Francisco, CA - “BoY,” the latest film by internationally acclaimed director Auraeus Solito (“The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros”) will be shown at the 2009 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival (Frameline 33) on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 9:30 pm and on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm. Both screenings take place at the Victoria Theater, located at 2961 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, USA 94103.<br /><br />Set in a vibrant urban landscape in the Philippines, “BoY” is a coming-of-age story about a young middle-class man who falls in love with a dancing rent-boy (a.k.a. "macho dancer") named Aries. The young budding poet, who is unnamed, observes lip-synching drag-queens and dancing rent-boys in a gay bar one evening and finds himself attracted to Aries. Selling his prized collection of action heroes and comic books in order to afford Aries for one night, the poet brings Aries home for the New Year. Sparks fly while celebratory fireworks go off outside the house and the men forge a fragile connection that neither of them is certain will last. This is an idealistic, coming-of-age tale of a young man who arrives at his first lesson about love, and who learns to grow confidently into his own sexuality. Principal cast members include Aeious Asin, Aries Pena, Madeleine Nicolas and Nonie Buencamino.<br /><br />“BoY” is enjoying rave reviews from moviegoers and critics alike. One critic praised the film for its “nuanced sociopolitical commentary to a lengthy, lovely, languid love scene…” A viewer from the 2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival, where the film held its world premiere last April, noted that the film has “the most beautiful love scene in the festival.” The Seattle International Film Festival calls the connection between the two central characters “sweet and fragile in a way that brings a freshness to the film.”<br /><br />The film is also attracting a different kind of attention in some parts of the world. The government censors in Singapore banned the film from being shown in that country in March, after organizers of the international film festival there selected the film for its competition. According to the Singapore government censors, “BoY” was banned because members of the censorship board “felt that the film normalised homosexuality and that the homosexual scene was prolonged and explicit and filmed in a romanticised manner.”<br /><br />According to Solito: “Initially, I was so happy that the film festival in Singapore selected the film for competition. It however became a great disappointment that the censors in Singapore disallowed the film from screening in the festival. The phrase "normalises homosexuality" and "romanticise" very clearly articulates their homophobic view. To the censors, I want to send the message: "Gay people also make love."<br /><br />Auraeus Solito's first feature film The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros won 15 international awards. A gay love story set in Manila, Solito's film was a part of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the Las Palmas Film Festival, and the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and won three awards at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. His film also earned a Best Foreign Film nomination at the 2007 Film Independent's Spirit Awards. TULI, his second feature film, won Best Picture and Best Director at the Digital Competition at the 2005 CineManila Film Festival and the NETPAC Jury Prize at the Berlinale, International Forum for New Cinema; 2nd Prize for Best Feature Film at the Montreal Film Festival. He made Philippine Science, his third dramatic feature film, in 2007, which won awards at the 14th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France.<br /><br />To purchase tickets for “BoY,” please visit Frameline’s website at <a href="http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1766&FID=45" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1766&FID=45</a><br /><br />For more information about future film festival venues and details about ordering a copy of the film when it becomes available on DVD, please visit the film’s website at:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.boythemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.boythemovie.com/</a><br /><br /><br />###"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-63683567112876885752009-06-11T15:26:00.000-07:002009-06-11T16:28:59.224-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzNa-eci9NQIIqD3YhkryRsoO28zoO9N598aC7IrLwaHQaZd117Mgcdmbduq5FAyLpSCuc9ByNqLxNUNr2LjjU4xHG-OT9MvOW3OnSSqb9oamHNuRqJPvRNURzEXmQDmdUzhFFpGuR3mV/s1600-h/Seattle+International+Film+Festival.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346216049664954290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzNa-eci9NQIIqD3YhkryRsoO28zoO9N598aC7IrLwaHQaZd117Mgcdmbduq5FAyLpSCuc9ByNqLxNUNr2LjjU4xHG-OT9MvOW3OnSSqb9oamHNuRqJPvRNURzEXmQDmdUzhFFpGuR3mV/s320/Seattle+International+Film+Festival.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-6481648112546968842009-06-11T15:12:00.000-07:002009-06-11T16:20:22.288-07:00May 21 - June 14: BoY's North American Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffff66;"><blockquote><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#ffff66;">"The connection between the two central characters is<br />sweet and fragile in a way that brings a freshness to the film. Boy explores the relationship as a life-changing moment as the sensitive poet learns to grow more confident and assured in his sexuality..."</span> </blockquote></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=29119&FID=123">http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=29119&FID=123</a>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-53050910113041415522009-06-10T13:05:00.000-07:002009-06-12T13:06:25.168-07:00<a href="http://www.siff.net/_img/capital/featured_photo_3.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.siff.net/_img/capital/featured_photo_3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-15154125079612495022009-05-23T20:43:00.000-07:002009-05-23T20:49:48.745-07:00Torino LGBT Film Festival: Rave Reviews for BoY!<span style="color:#ffffcc;">Celebrate the success of the world premiere of BoY in the Torino LGBT Film Festival! One reviewer writes with exuberance that BoY has:<br /><br /></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"><strong>"...the most beautiful love scene of the festival..."</strong></span></div><br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">("Nel riuscito Boy, influenzato dal </span><a class="keyword link_in_articolo" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #333333; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px dotted; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.gay.it/keyword/63/Cinema.html"><span style="color:#ffffcc;">cinema</span></a><span style="color:#ffffcc;"> sensuale di Lino Brocka, abbiamo visto la più bella scena d'amore del festival: i corpi avvinghiati dei protagonisti vengono poeticamente inquadrati dietro un acquario colmo di pesci fluttuanti...")<br /><br />To read the complete review of the movie in this Italian language website, visit:<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.gay.it/channel/cinema/26479/Il-giro-del-mondo--Da-Sodoma-a-Hollywood-.html">http://www.gay.it/channel/cinema/26479/Il-giro-del-mondo--Da-Sodoma-a-Hollywood-.html</a>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-38833929284469797522009-05-12T13:09:00.000-07:002009-06-12T13:15:31.922-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9bLmWoRK-lzoxoJuA3esjT4igSgoeAkp_y5COonOS4UB3rH7nGwzEvQiId-__HWcYa0uagsEaG2WhTi-iwyq-A7N7BvNkvOYjArwYk3OpUTPmp8c0KBjUNfChNjlnSU5dRgbtrIGgPa_G/s1600-h/auraeus+in+torino.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346537293896804962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9bLmWoRK-lzoxoJuA3esjT4igSgoeAkp_y5COonOS4UB3rH7nGwzEvQiId-__HWcYa0uagsEaG2WhTi-iwyq-A7N7BvNkvOYjArwYk3OpUTPmp8c0KBjUNfChNjlnSU5dRgbtrIGgPa_G/s200/auraeus+in+torino.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div>Solito in the World Premiere of "BoY" at the Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Italy, as the translator translates to Italian, "This film is dedicated to all romantics and to all of us who are normal!"</div></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-15764622027869300272009-04-07T22:14:00.000-07:002009-05-02T11:05:45.445-07:00April 23 - 30 2009: World Premiere of Boy, a Film by Auraeus Solito, in Torino, Italy!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:24;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.tglff.com/cmz855-2957-15102/news/WORLD-PREMIèRE---OUT-OF-COMPEITITION:-Boy-by-Auraeus-Solito.html">BOY</a></span><br />By Auraeus Solito / Philippines / 2009 / 80 MIN<br /><br />Producer: Auraeus Solito, Endi “Hai” Balbuena<br /><br />Screenplay: Jimmy Flores, Arturo Calo<br /><br />Cast: Aeious Asin, Aries Pena, Madelaine Nicolas<br /><br /><br />A coming-of-age story about a boy who falls in love with a Macho Dancer.<br /><br />A young budding poet, who is unnamed, observes lip-synching drag-queens and dancing rent-boys in a gay bar one evening and finds himself attracted to Aries, who comes from a poorer part of town. Selling his action heroes and comic books so as to be able to afford Aries for one night, he buys Aries at the bar and brings him home for the new year. Sparks fly while celebratory fireworks go off outside the house and the boys forge a fragile connection that neither of them is certain will last. This is an idealistic, coming-of-age tale of a sensitive boy who arrives at his first lesson about love and who learns to grow confidently into his own sexuality.<br /><br />Auraeus Solito's first feature film The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros won 15 international awards. A gay love story set in Manila, Solito's film was a part of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the Las Palmas Film Festival, and the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and won three awards at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. His film also earned a Best Foreign Film nomination at the 2007 Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Circumcision, his second feature film, won Best Picture and Best Director at the Digital Competition at the 2005 CineManila Film Festival and the NETPAC Jury Prize at the Berlinale, International Forum for New Cinema; 2nd Prize for Best Feature Film at the Montreal Film Festival. He made Philippine Science, his third dramatic feature film, in 2007, which won awards at the 14th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France.<br /><br /><br /><br />For tickets and more information about the 24th Torino GLBT Film Festival, visit:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tglff.com/cmz855-2957-14127/First_Festival_Guidelines/a.html">http://www.tglff.com/cmz855-2957-14127/First_Festival_Guidelines/a.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(85,26,139); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><br /></span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322188671993068994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLv_IGpIhHX_fSjUf8-Tin-wSjA02hxD5e9a6tlg4Kd5zYPf1125_q3lV4CzGNTc_FGHRmRdYSVI7f3iNxHyHpcF0VKOA3J-iQMLAnBNbF_FXXNpmvEQ41VUYlNeCe-hsV23hJ11f7q0w/s320/torino.jpg" border="0" />"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-43991013133121482682009-04-02T17:26:00.000-07:002009-04-08T17:58:25.175-07:00April 30 - May 8, 2009: Boy Celebrates Asian Premiere at the 10th Annual Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea)!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HMzsg_QchrQXR_OOeiaeFwnQbxvclIx70GiMqN4X6wxF84GqUz3r5jZnB4waON1o6K9SFHMYob1SNuaZFX6dqzhSeHeW8nfNBSetrVr81Ys9AKbUgS5lDMdL3ku24f0MC3Mc-5gC1QDJ/s1600-h/jiff.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HMzsg_QchrQXR_OOeiaeFwnQbxvclIx70GiMqN4X6wxF84GqUz3r5jZnB4waON1o6K9SFHMYob1SNuaZFX6dqzhSeHeW8nfNBSetrVr81Ys9AKbUgS5lDMdL3ku24f0MC3Mc-5gC1QDJ/s320/jiff.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322484605881175154" /></a><a href="http://www.jiff.or.kr/"><br /></a><div><br /></div><div>Boy, a Film by Auraeus Solito, will celebrate its Asian Premiere at the 10th Annual Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>For more information about JIFF, please visit their <a href="http://eng.jiff.or.kr/news/BoardView.aspx?page=1&BoardcfgID=6&BoardID=852">website here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-41896780276901267372009-03-06T11:14:00.000-08:002009-04-08T17:55:55.520-07:00April 19, 2009: Boy Invited to the Singapore International Film Festival<span style="font-size:180%;"></span><div><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><a href="http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20090316-194513/Boy-trouble)">Breaking News! Read about Boy and the Singapore International Film Festival here.</a></span><br /></span><div><br /><br />Visit the website for the <a href="http://filmfest.org.sg/displayFilm.php?filmID=15&filmCat=2">Singapore International Film Festival</a> here.</div>"Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264886634381460749.post-31369491025087241522008-08-02T00:01:00.000-07:002008-08-02T00:25:53.466-07:00A Different Kind of Love StoryWelcome to the Official Movie Site for Boy! Please check back soon for details about the premiere of Boy.<br /><br />For more information about film sales and distribution, please contact the Global Distribution Team at <a href="mailto:boythemovie@gmail.com">boythemovie@gmail.com</a>."Boy," a Film by Auraeus Solitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561585130687930510noreply@blogger.com0