France, Champs-Elysées Film Festival: Yen Tan’s new feature in competition in Paris

Champs-Elysées Film Festival 2018

SYNOPSIS: A closeted young man returns home for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

CAST: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung, Aidan Langford

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Yen Tan (Writer/Director/Co-Editor) premiered the critically-acclaimed Pit Stop at Sundance 2013. It was nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards. His previous feature, Ciao (2008), was a Queer Lion contender at Venice Film Festival. Yen also co-directed Until We Could (2014) with David Lowery, an Addy-winning PSA for Freedom to Marry that was narrated by Robin Wright and Ben Foster. Yen has been a fellow of Austin Film Society’s Artist Intensive, IFP’s Film Week, and Film Independent’s Fast Track. He was born and raised in Malaysia and now lives in Austin, where he also works as an award-winning key art designer for independent films and documentaries. He was profiled by director Maris Curran (Five Nights in Maine) for Adobe Create. 1985 is inspired by his Short of the Week of the same title, which won a Special Jury Award at SXSW 2016.

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Yen Tan
Drame | États-Unis | 2018 | 1h25 | Anglais sous-titré français
Sam. 16/06 – 16:00 – PublicisCinémas – VOSTFR
Dim. 17/06 – 20:00 – Le Balzac – VOSTFR
Mar. 19/06 – 14:00 – Cinéma Le Lincoln – VOSTFR

Champs-Elysées Film Festival