Faggot (film) explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Samuel Larochelle, "Un court métrage sur l’homophobie dans le sport" . Fugues, April 20, 2016.
  2. Regan Reid, "Rebels on Pointe takes best Canadian feature at Inside Out". Playback, June 6, 2017.