Dirty (2020 film)

Dirty is a 2020 short LGBT coming-of-age romantic drama film, written and directed by Matthew Puccini. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film.[1]

Dirty
Poster
Directed byMatthew Puccini
Produced byCecilia Delgado
Matthew Puccini
Jeremy Truong
Written byMatthew Puccini
StarringMorgan Sullivan
Manny Dunn
Music byNathan Prillaman
CinematographyMatt Mitchell
Edited byWilliam Sullivan
Production
company
Jacob Burns Film Center
Bering Pictures
141 Entertainment
Release date
  • January 24, 2020 (2020-01-24) (Sundance Film Festival)
  • April 2, 2020 (2020-04-02) (SXSW)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film made its online premiere through a virtual screening by SXSW, due the festival's cancellation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, they still awarded the film with a Special Jury Award for the performances of its lead actors, Morgan Sullivan and Manny Dunn.[2][3][4] It then went on to play at BFI Flare, Outfest Fusion, Atlanta Film Festival and the Palm Springs International ShortFest.[5][6]

According to Puccini, this film and his previous short, Lavender (2019), are personal to him, saying: "I’m grateful for both films for different reasons and they are all part of one period of my life — exploring these ideas of intimacy and loneliness and queer people seeking connection. In some ways they’re almost two attempts to answer the same question."[7]

Premise

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.[8]

Cast
  • Morgan Sullivan as Marco
  • Manny Dunn as Graham
  • Sean Patrick Higgins as Mr. Flanangan
gollark: no, lyric bad?
gollark: No, palaiologos, not gibson.
gollark: They're okay, although I have some concerns with them and will thus be running against them.
gollark: The staff team doesn't ACTUALLY need to do much? This will probably be fine if we pick a reasonably sane owner.
gollark: Who even knows?

References
  1. "2020 Sundance Preview: 10 Must-See Short Films in Park City". IndieWire. January 23, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  2. "SXSW Film Festival Shorts To Stream On Mailchimp Presents". Deadline. March 5, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  3. "The 2020 SXSW Film Festival Announces Jury and Special Awards". SXSW. March 24, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  4. "SXSW 2020: Best Short Films Streaming Online". The Young Folks. May 9, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. "Palm Springs ShortFest Selects 2020 Films". Palm Springs Life. June 5, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  6. "Take a look: ShortFest announces lineup of 332 short films". Palm Springs Desert Sun. June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  7. "Behind the Title: Unit9 director Matthew Puccini". postPersepctive. April 8, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  8. "Matthew Puccini - Dirty". Retrieved June 5, 2020.
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