| For Dorian | |
| Director: | Rodrigo Barriuso |
| Producer: | Rodrigo Barriuso Davina Rimmer |
| Starring: | Ron Lea Dylan Harman |
| Music: | Michael Vincent |
| Cinematography: | Kelly Jeffrey |
| Editing: | Michelle Szemberg |
| Studio: | El Pensamiento Films |
| Runtime: | 16 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
For Dorian is a 2012 Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Rodrigo Barriuso.[1] The film stars Ron Lea as Oliver Baum, the father of a child with Down syndrome (Dylan Harman) who is struggling to come to terms with his son's sexual awakening as gay.[2]
The film premiered in 2012 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Ryerson University Film Festival, the annual festival of short films by Ryerson University film students.[3] Its subsequent screenings included the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival[2] and the 2013 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where it won the juried award for Best Canadian Film.[4] It was co-winner with Antoine Bourges's East Hastings Pharmacy of the Lindalee Tracey Award.[5]
It was subsequently included in Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals, the eleventh volume of Peccadillo Pictures' Boys on Film DVDs of gay-themed short films.[6]