GLAA joins Reel Affirmations for film screening Oct. 25

October 21, 2002

Dear Friends,

We hope you are enjoying Reel Affirmations, DC's twelfth international gay and lesbian film festival, going on now through October 27.

This year, GLAA is joining Reel Affirmations as a Community Partner for the presentation of "A.K.A.," a British film released in 2002. See the description below.

Please join us -- it should be fun!

Reel Affirmations presents A.K.A.
Friday October 25 - 9:30 pm - Lincoln Theatre
1215 U Street, NW, Washington, DC
Admission $9

Complete Film Festival screenings, venues & events information can be found at www.reelaffirmations.org.

Film Description

It's 1978 Britain when we meet handsome 18-year-old Dean Page (Matthew Leitch), the product of an abusive father and a waitress mother who imagines herself friends with her high-class clientele. That combustible combination provides the emotional engine that drives this film, based on a true story, in ways that will leave you entranced to the end. Dean wants out of his working-class milieu, but his hopes for art school are on the rocks. Showing true chutzpah, he approaches a "friend" of his mother's, Lady Gryffoyn, and on sheer charm talks his way into a job, along with a place to stay. It's not long before Gryffoyn's real son Alexander forces lower-class Dean out of their house and on his way. Dean then heads to Paris, where he takes up Alexander's identity, finding a high-end gallery job to suit his new drugs and disco lifestyle with the dashing older David (George Asprey) and his cute American boytoy Benjamin (an over-the-top Peter Youngblood Hills). Using an imaginative, video-shot, triple-screen approach, the director makes this remarkable story come to life. He suggests that "lies are like wishes." If you tell them often enough, they just might come true.

Dir. Duncan Roy, 2002, UK, Video, 120 min.
Evokes the Talented Mr. Ripley with its lush, European cinematography, but this adorable Talented Mr. Page assumes his upper-crust identity sans murder

Awards: Outfest/HBO OUTstanding First Narrative Feature
Sponsored by: ABSOLUT
Community Partner: Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC