Vapor (film)

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Vapor
Directed by Kaveh Nabatian
Written byKaveh Nabatian
Produced byMarie-Luc Beaudin
Cédric Bourdeau
Stéphane Tanguay
StarringMarco Ledezma
Evergon
CinematographyChristophe Collette
Edited byElric Robichon
Music by Bell Orchestre
Production
company
Productions Kinesis
Distributed byLocomotion Distributions
Release date
  • July 14, 2010 (2010-07-14)(JFL)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageSpanish

Vapor is a Canadian comedy-drama short film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2010. The film depicts the emotional journey of Enrique Salgado (Marco Ledezma), a middle-aged gay Mexican man, through shame, fear and internalized homophobia toward self-acceptance, after being invited to pose in the nude for a photographer (Evergon). [1]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2010. [2] It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 31st Genie Awards, [3] and a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 13th Jutra Awards. [4]

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References

  1. "Top 10 short films to be shown at Hagen theatre". Courtenay Comox Valley Record, July 14, 2011.
  2. "Canada's Top Ten for 2010". Now , December 15, 2010.
  3. "‘Barney’s Version,’ ‘Incendies’ top Genie noms". Variety , February 2, 2011.
  4. Marc Cassivi, "Soirée des Jutra: Incendies, favori d'un cru relevé". La Presse , February 9, 2011.