Faggot | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Olivier Perrier |
Producer: | Olivier Perrier Guillaume Bibeau-Laviolette |
Starring: | Robin L'Houmeau Eliot Nault |
Cinematography: | Émile Massie-Vanasse |
Editing: | Véronique Clément |
Studio: | Avec Panache |
Runtime: | 10 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Faggot (French: Tapette) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Olivier Perrier and released in 2016.[1]
The film centres on Alex Girard (Robin L'Houmeau), a young junior hockey player in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec who is struggling with whether to come out as gay to his teammates.
Perrier, a film student at Concordia University at the time of making the film, won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2017 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[2]