BREAKING GLASS BRINGS SECOND VOLUME OF ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ SHORTS TO NORTH AMERICAN AUDIENCES

Breaking Glass Pictures is proud to announce the release of the LGBTQ short film compilation MALE SHORTS INTERNATIONAL V2 on DVD December 11, 2018. In this followup to last year's provocative Male Shorts International V1, Male Shorts International V2 brings a select offering of acclaimed world cinema that is sure to captivate audiences.

FREE FALL

Synopsis: Out of the haunting shadows of sexual underground Medellin, sixteen-year-old Jhony is excited and hopeful for his upcoming date with the boy he loves

Cast:
Daniel Bañol Mazo
Julián Tilano

Director: Santiago Henao Vélez
Screenplay: Santiago Henao Vélez
Producer: Juliana Zuluaga
Photography: Liberman Arango
Sound: Mauricio Suaza, Juan Pablo Patiño
Production: Crisálida Films

Country: ??????Colombia
TRT: 14 min.

Festival Selection:
Rome Independent Film Festival 2018 – International Short Film Competition
La Havana International Film Festival 2018 – Latinamerican Panorama

About Santiago Henao Vélez (Director)
Audiovisual Communicator from Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid in Colombia, which he graduated with honors. He has been the director, scriptwriter and art director of several projects. Co-founder of the film production company, Crisálida Films, which is focused on production and training lines. He has worked on the production of several festivals such as the MIFF, Ficci, and the Film Festival of Santa Fe de Antioquia. His first shorts had a relevance in different national festivals. He is now developing his first feature film.

ENTER

Synopsis: During a night of heavy drinking, R. unexpectedly arrives at an apartment where an orgy is taking place. Embarrassed, he locks himself in the bathroom where he finds a man sleeping...a man who he knows quite well.

Cast:
Félix Maritaud
Raphaël Fournier
Manuel Billi
Pavel Danko

Director: Manuel Billi, Benjamin Bodi
Producer: Manuel Billi
Screenplay: Manuel Billi
Producer: Manuel Billi
Editing: Lorenzo Taidelli, Benjamin Bodi
Photography: Benjamin Bodi
Music: Claudius Pan, Malik Yahi
Sound: Nicolas Fournier, Guy Tourreau
Production: Nokto, h7o7 films

Country: ?????France
TRT: 18 min.

Festival Selection:
Festival Chéries-Chéris Paris 2018

About Manuel Billi (Director)
Manuel Billi lives and works in Paris. Film critic and director, he has authored several essays on contemporary cinema. Since the year 2000 he has been collaborating with different Italian and French film magazines. In 2014 he directs his first experimental short film, Battre, enlever. His first fiction short, Ghosts of Yesterday(2017) has been premiered at the Venice Film Festival. ENTER is his second fiction short.

About Benjamin Bodi (Director)
Benjamin Bodi (1978, France) has degrees in drama, performance and photography. At the age of 22, he joined WAX, a Parisian collective of artists imbued with free jazz and surrealism. Two years later, as a programmer, he joined the management of Théâtre 347 in Paris and also worked as a public relation at the Comédie Française. From 2000 to 2012, he performed theater, dance and visual arts with David  Wampach, Christian Rizzo, Dora Garcia, Daniel Larrieu, Anne Zenour and Joao Fiadeiro. He has also participated in projects in these fields as a choreographer, playwright, co-writer and director. Video has always been more or less part of his work. He directed and presented a dozen experimental films in art festivals in France and abroad. In Saudi Arabia, he directed many documentaries based on the birth of a cultural dynamic, and continued this work in the Middle East by working with event companies. In 2015, he met director Manuel Billi, with whom he collaborated with Ghosts of Yesterday before deciding to co-direct their next film.

SR. RAPOSO

Synopsis: In 1995, Acácio had a dream. A dream where he walked hand-in-hand with a man and a woman across an all-green field.

Cast:
Geovaldo Souza
Norval Berbari
Tárik Puggina
Marcos Vinícius
Delcides Neto
Diodi Lucas

Director: Daniel Nolasco
Screenplay: Daniel Nolasco
Producer: Cecília Brito, Daniel Nolasco
Editing: Will Domingos
Photography: Ana Galizia, Larry Sullivan
Sound: Guilherme Farkas, Jesse Marmo
Production: Dafuq Filmes

Country: ?????Brazil
TRT: 23 min.

Festival Awards:
Pirenopolis Brazilian Documentary Film Festival 2018 – Best Documentary Short Film
Sao Luis International Film Festival 2018 – Special Mention to the Screenplay

About Daniel Nolasco (Director)
Graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual at Universidade Federal Fluminense and History at Universidade Federal de Goiás, Daniel Nolasco has directed and scripted more than ten short films, such as: Tatame (Tatame), 2016; Febre da Madeira (Wood Sickness), 2015, awarded as Best Director and Best Documentary Film at the 18th FICA; Urano (Uranus), 2013, awarded as best experimental film at Bienal de Curitiba, Os Sobreviventes (The Survivors), 2013, awarded with the Cine França Brasil Award at II Curta Brasília and Best Film at VIII Miragem; Gil(2012), screened at Munich International Festival of Film Schools and more than twenty festivals. Daniel received two honorable mentions for the scripts of Happiness Arives at 40 at the 22nd Rio de Janeiro International short film festival and O Monstro no Armário de Dona Odete (The Monster in Mrs. Odete ?s Closet) at the 18th FBCU. Daniel also worked as post-production producer on the French-Brazilian production La Grenouille et Dieu, 2013, directed by Alice Furtado, produced at Le Fresnoy. He also worked as a producer at the exhibition about the Le Fresnoy School Era uma vez… (Oi Futuro), 2012 and as production manager at Expo® Godard exhibition (Oi Futuro, 2013), which was curated by Dominique Païni and Anne Marquez. It was the biggest exhibition ever made about Jean-Luc Godard in Brazil. Daniel was also part of the team of curators and producers of Mostra de Cinema e Direitos Humanos no Hemisfério Sul (Cinema and Human Rights Festival at the Southern Hemisphere). After filming Paulistas in 2017, Daniel Nolasco presented his last work Sr. Raposo (2018).

OCASO

Synopsis: Late in the afternoon, a student and a construction worker sit on the edge of the bay and leave traces on the landscape.

Cast:
Bruno Bento
Carlos Oliveira
Marina Vianna

Director: Bruno Roger
Screenplay: Bruno Roger
Assistant Director: Pedro Lessa
Producers: Brenda Melo, Ingrid Abreu
Cinematography: Helena Lessa, Will Domingos
Editing: Leandro das Neves
Sound Mixing: Guilherme Farkas
Sound: Vanessa Alcantâra, Marcelo Moura
Art Direction and Make-up: Patrícia Cavalheiro, Nara Dip
Actors Coaching: Bruno Reis

Country: Brazil
TRT: 21 min.

About Bruno Roger (Director)
 Bruno Roger is a new filmmaker from Brazil borned in a small town called Taubaté in São Paulo. He went to Niterói in Rio de Janeiro to study cinema in the Federal Fluminense University, then after did his first shorts movies he went to Fortaleza, Ceará, to improve your knowlegdement in cinema and contemporany art. Your work is about your own life and experiences that he lives and the shorts goes also to the three languages documentary, experimental and fiction 

TWICE

Synopsis: Diego is 17 and is full of life, yet fragile. His best friend Antonio knows and indulges his weaknesses, but he would also like to see him strong and masculine. One night they meet Maria, a breezy natural beauty. To show that he is a “real man”, Diego, is ready to do anything, even to force himself to do things he would never have wanted to do.

Cast
Francesco Aricò
Salvatore Alfano
Cristina Cappelli

Director: Domenico Onorato
Screenplay: Valentina Gamna
Editing: Matteo Cataldo
Photography: Stefano Grilli
Music: Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari
Sound: Flavia Ripa
Production: Mescalito Film

Country: ???????Italy
TRT: 15 min.

Festival Awards:
Naples Cultural Classic Festival 2018 – Nomination for the Best Cast
Naples Cultural Classic Festival 2018 – Best Cast Award
Premio Carpine D’Argento Short Film Festival Visciano 2018 – Best Short
Premio Carpine D’Argento Short Film Festival Visciano 2018 – Popular Jury Award
Noto International Film Festival 2018 – Best Director, Best Actor
Lamezia Film Festival 2018 – Best Actor
Salus Cine Festival Caltanissetta – Best Short Film, Best Actor

About Domenico Onorato (Director)
Domenico Onorato was born in Naples, and he lives between Paris, Milan and Naples. Educated at the prestigious directing school Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan, he won the Giovani Realtà del Teatro Prize, and worked as assistant at Piccolo Teatro and at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He also worked as director as well as assistant director with Giampiero Solari, Monica Nappo, Nicola Nocella. In the film industry he worked as assistant director for Marco Tullio Giordana. He is now teaching video making at the Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi, working with the band A Toys Orchestra as video clip director, writing and directing the play Il baciamano on tour. In 2017 he directed the short film Twice presented at the 33rd Lovers Film Festival.