![]() It's made me realize that there are even gatekeepers to the queer community. Has the feedback surprised or challenged your point of view? I love the way it makes people think and all the conversations surrounding it. It's like on one hand it's a movie, they never come out the way you want. It's been great! The recognition for doing this film this way feels really nice. What type of feedback have you received so far? And then the edit of the film is where so much of the playful attitude of the film came from. The earlier drafts had this cool tone of like a noir mystery in the middle of it that totally got scrapped(saving for later). How have the script and film evolved over the course of their development? I hope someone who thinks they're cis and straight sees this movie and goes "hey wait am I gay? They're just like me! These gays have electricity!" ![]() Once I saw characters that looked like me exercising their queerness in the same way I do (obviously), I felt I could express myself further. It's almost like I didn't know the extent of my gayness until making Pretenders. But I wanted to make a film reflective of that and those sensibilities. I suppose it comes from privilege as a straight-passing white guy with fondness for privately crossdressing. I spent most of my time doing absurd things with my friends and talking about our feelings, not really having the world beat me down for my queerness. My own experience with queerness comes from soft discovery when I was young, and then rediscovery at a post-college age. How do personal and universal themes work in your film? It's arguably the most heartfelt lowbrow comedy of all time, let's say it that way. It's a cartoonishly witty movie about both growing with and growing apart from your closest, most intimate friends: the earworms and phrases you had with only them, the support lengths you'll go through to keep the glue of the group together, and the heartbreak that comes along with it. ![]() Who wants to waste their money by getting up and leaving? Hopefully you won't want to. If you're a member of the audience it's probably because you paid to get in. It's a lot more simple than a victorian era star-crossed lovers rehash. I wanted to write a movie that rebelled against that with goofy stoner characters taking a road trip to a beach town. Queer struggle and trauma is more often than not fetishized in movies and/or put in some far off place in time. There are far too many lesbians in cinema history without electricity. Watch on Prime Video, iTunes and Goggle PlayĬongratulations! Why did you make your film? Interview with Editor/Writer/Director Tristen Stafford Losers in their hometown and losers on vacation, Jasper, Hannah, and Nick lie, scheme, and steal their way to bull-shittery and debauchery on their not-so-idyllic beach vacation.
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