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*Won the Audience Award for "Best Feature" at the [[Frameline Film Festival]] (the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival).<ref name="frameline"> [http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000585/1995 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival], 1995 Audience Award Best Feature</ref> |
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*Won Grand Jury Award at [[Outfest]] (L.A. Outfest).<ref name="outfest"> [http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000390/1995 Outfest], 1995 Grand Jury Award</ref> |
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*It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at [[Sundance Film Festival]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} |
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*Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at [[Sundance Film Festival]]. <ref name="sundance"> [http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000631/1995 Sundance Film Festival], 1995 Grand Jury Prize Dramatic Competition</ref> |
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==External links== |
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| Directed by | John G. Young |
| Written by | John G. Young |
| Produced by | Nancy Larsen James Spione |
| Starring | Gabriel Mann Laurence Mason |
| Cinematography | Matthew M. Howe |
| Edited by | James Spione John G. Young |
| Music by | Emile Menasche |
| Distributed by | Greycat Films |
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Running time | 93 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Parallel Sons is a 1995 gay-themed drama film, written and directed by John G. Young and starring Gabriel Mann and Laurence Mason. It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival,
Plot
Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a rural white young man with a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects.
Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man, called Knowledge, attempts to rob him at gun point, but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, who is an escapee from a nearby local youthful offender boot camp. he nurses him in a family cabin and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots
Nominations
- Won the Audience Award for "Best Feature" at the Frameline Film Festival (the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival).[1]
- Won Grand Jury Award at Outfest (L.A. Outfest).[2]
- Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. [3]
External links
- ^ San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1995 Audience Award Best Feature
- ^ Outfest, 1995 Grand Jury Award
- ^ Sundance Film Festival, 1995 Grand Jury Prize Dramatic Competition