Eric Debets Articles

Stephan Bender, Maximillian Roeg in Dream Boy (top); Sharon Gless in Hannah Free (bottom) Out on Film, Atlanta's gay & lesbian film festival, kicked off last night with a screening of Casper Andreas' The Big Gay Musical. The festival runs until Oct. 8. Among the screening films are: Glenn Gaylord's Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, featuring hunky guys, some identity mix-ups, a three-way [...]

Outfest 2009 hightlights on Friday, July 17. Synopses from the Outfest website. Steam by Eldar Rapaport (top); Vandals by Simon Steuri (middle); El Abuelo by Dino Dinco (bottom) Safe Words (Fri, Jul 17th 7:00pm, FAIRFAX 1) Shorts Program Running Time is 92 min Steam Directed By: Eldar Rapaport USA, 2009, 16 min Moving between anxiety, reflection and fear, two strangers try to make sense of [...]

Jason Bushman Interview – Part I My favorite line in the movie has to do with the un-specialness of nonstop sunshine. You show a very deglamorized — i.e., very real — Los Angeles in Hollywood, je t'aime, e.g., people riding buses, homeless people in the streets, dingy motels, etc. Since you've referred to Hollywood, je t'aime as your "love letter" to LA, were you ever [...]

Writer-director Jason Bushman's feature-film debut, Hollywood, je t'aime was recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The tale of a Frenchman befriended by a handful of social outcasts while looking for Hollywood stardom, Hollywood je t'aime turned out to be a quirky, funny, touching revelation. The good news is that those who missed the film at LAFF will now get the chance to check [...]