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Daddy’s Boy

Directed by Daniel Armando2015USA78 mins

Four young men, each somewhere near the crossroads where boyhood and adulthood meet, find their lives intertwined in the strange world of low-budget porn and male burlesque photo shoots in New York City. Max (Al Miro) is a suave, handsome Italian living in Canada who has become somewhat of a regular in the adult film scene. Checking into a hotel before the shoot, he struggles to put his feelings toward his distant father into a letter. Elsewhere in the city, Max meets and exchanges phone numbers with Fabian (Joe Lopez), a Puerto Rican from Queens with latent homosexual tendencies, who is grappling with the challenges of becoming a father for the first time and hearing an unexpected revelation from his own dad. Manuel (Jonathan Iglesias), a quiet but confident midnight cowboy from Arizona, makes his way to New York to shoot a porn scene with Max. While in town, he reaches out to his estranged older brother Jorge (James Koroni), a somber dancer in a loveless relationship with an overly critical photographer.

With a nod to the French New Wave and a dash of Cassavetes, writer-director Daniel Armando weaves themes of fatherhood, family, and manhood into a beautifully stylized, enormously evocative, and highly erotic sketch of contemporary New York City that feels timeless with its stunning black-and-white cinematography.

Expected Guests

Daniel Armando
Director
Al Miro
Actor
James Koroni
Actor
Ryan Balas
Editor/Cinematographer
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Director
Daniel Armando
Year
2015
Country
USA
Running Time
78 mins
Language
English, French, & Italian
Section
US Feature, U.S. Features
Program Note Writer
Joe Bowman
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