NY queer filmmaker Nick Borenstein got the ultimate seal of approval recently by actually having two short films accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival. No mean feat as this leading Festival is always heavily subscribed with thousands of submissions from the best of contemporary filmmakers.
Judging by his two very cute and funny films, Borenstein seems the type of filmmaker who uses his craft as a substitute for therapy . Basing his plots on what obviously seemed lifted out of his own life …….well, maybe not the recovering alcoholic mother in ’99’. That’s the story of a reluctant son trailing his obsessive mother around the 99C Store where she is very well known by all the staff. It’s a dark comedy of a tilted mother-son relationship that is easy to relate too as it all seems like all gay sons have been there,
Borenstein (playing himself?) in ‘Sweater’ a tender tale of rejection where he seems more put out that he bought a new sweater for this online hook-up. When drowning himself in a latte afterwards, he misreads the straight baristas friendliness (that is soooo gay) and goes into a whole song and dance about what he is already fantasizing as being Mr Right. Oh at least Mr. Right Now.
The talented Borenstein has an acute eye for observation and a natural ability to make his scenarios both easy to relate too and very enjoyable at the same time. It’s easy to see why the Tribecca Programmers were so smitten.
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Wed, Apr 24, 2019 – Sun, May 5, 2019
Labels: 2019, Nick Borenstein, preview, Tribecca
