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BOY comes OUT in FRANCE!

2009-06-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

The Boy in Mexico tonight!!!

2009-06-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

El Chico Con El Sol En Sus Ojos screens in Mexico City as part of MIXMexico tonight at 8:30 tickets here

Second Edition of THE BOY in print

2009-06-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

The new edition of The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes is out with cover artwork from the movie! You can get it at Amazon.com

The Boy in Tel Aviv

2009-06-11T07:31:00.001-07:00

THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES screens as part of Tel Aviv's 4th LGBT Film Fest on June 27th. More info here.

Pics from the Premiere of BOY in NYC

2009-06-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

Thank you to everyone who attended the premiere of THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES on June 9th as part of the 2009 NewFest! A packed house and a Q & A at midnight! Tim Swain, Mahogany Reynolds and Josh Ubaldi were on hand to answer some questions with director Todd Verow and producer/screenwriter James Derek Dwyer. More photos are available here. (photo by Dale Clarke)

NY GCN on THE BOY!

2009-05-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

Todd Verow's "The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes," which has its world premiere at NewFest (Jun. 9, 10:00 p.m., SVA 2), marks in some ways a radical new direction for the filmmaker, who burst on the scene two decades ago as an enfant terrible. This compelling and erotic film is an entertaining globe-hopping thriller, yet shares the impassioned self-discovery that marks the best of his previous work.

John (Tim Swain, from Verow's "Between Something and Nothing") meets Solange (Mahogany Reynolds) at the funeral of their mutual friend Kevin (Josh Ubaldi), who committed suicide. Their conversation about knowing someone well carries the subtext of John's knowing very little about himself. Solange hires him as a personal assistant for a European TV program she's hoping to host. Wanting direction in his life, John follows this possibly untrustworthy woman to Paris, Milan, and Berlin. There, he has a series of affairs with handsome but possibly untrustworthy guys.

The situation is not as it seems, but it would spoil the story to say just how. Verow shoots the low-budget film on DV, which gives it intimacy. There are many close-ups of the characters - especially during the numerous sex scenes.

Verow imbues the film with a distinctive atmosphere by deliberately not making it a European travelogue. There are a few street scenes, but most of the action takes place in the nightclubs, restaurants, and bedrooms where John and Solange spend most of their time. This spare style suits the film. Unlike his prior "mood" pieces, this plot-driven drama nicely builds its narrative tension.

Verow establishes a different tone here, but continues to explore issues of identity, love, and betrayal, and these themes resonate. "The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes" may not be as provocative as Verow's previous work, but perhaps that's what makes it so exciting. He challenges viewers to change - just like his characters.

Verow sat down with Gay City News to discuss what was new about working on a film that didn't have the autobiographical qualities of "Anonymous," "Vacationland," and "Between Something and Nothing," all intensely personal works.

"I wanted to take a break from my own stuff," he explained. "This film is based on a novel by James Derek Dwyer and real things that happened to him. It's not autobiographical, but I was very familiar" with the story.

Verow's perspective as a detached observer helped inform his approach to the film, his first literary adaptation since "Frisk," back in 1995. He described John as "a spectator in his own life. He is not really involved in all this crazy stuff that is happening around him." This quality appealed to Verow because, he said, "So many times in life these days, people don't get involved. We watch things, but we don't get absorbed in them."

The passion that characterizes the numerous sex scenes is also a departure for the filmmaker. "It was a conscious decision," Verow said. "I had done so much explicit sex in other movies, for this one the challenge was to make the sex as erotic and sensual and sexy as possible without showing anything. What I wanted to capture in the sex scenes was the intensity of a one-night stand and how it's physical, but at the same time fleeting."

"The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes" succeeds in this respect, and in other ways as well. Verow eschews the traditional genre film, mixing elements of comedy, romance, action-thriller, and drama in one satisfying package.

Despite the ways "The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes" differs from his other work, the filmmaker sees it as another of his coming of age films. "A lot of people don't come of age until much later in life," Verow said. "John's doing everything he's supposed to do," yet he is drawn to the way his friend who committed suicide approached things. "I would hope that people at some point would say, 'Why am I here? What's going on? What's the purpose of my life, and if there is no purpose, what am I going to do?'" Verow concluded.

By: GARY M. KRAMER
05/28/2009
original link here

TLV Fest : BOY

2009-05-27T13:03:00.000-07:00

The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes will screen as part of the 4th Annual Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival June 27th. Tickets here!

NEWFEST listing for the World Premiere screening

2009-05-14T12:36:00.000-07:00

The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes
Narrative Features
(USA, 2008, 95 mins)
Digibeta
World Premiere
Directed By: Todd Verow

After his best friend Kevin commits suicide, John decides his life needs a change and he spontaneously heads off to Europe to follow Kevin's muse Solange, a minor pop music diva and eccentric B-movie actress. As the odd pair become embroiled in a world of sex, drugs, and murder the boundaries of trust start to wear thin and John begins to wonder whether Solange is the victim of a bizarre lifestyle or its mastermind. Shot on location in Europe and featuring a killer soundtrack, Todd Verow's most recent film is an homage to 80's cinema and a fun installment in the prolific director's portfolio.

Tickets here!

Long out of print collection of Todd Verow short films and videos RE-RELEASE!

2009-04-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

ALL STAR: SHORT FILMS BY TODD VEROW is now available again from AMAZON.COM

Includes all Verow's short films and videos from late 80's to present time with new packaging!

Mini iMix of the BOY soundtrack selections on Itunes!

2009-04-23T12:47:00.001-07:00

Purchase from iTunes here...

BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING wins BEST LGBT FILM

2009-04-07T13:47:00.000-07:00

BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING wins BEST LGBT FILM at THE FIRST ANNUAL 2009 SENE festival (South East New England Film, Music and Arts Festival)
http://www.senefilm.org/

BSN Screening in Rhode Island!

2009-03-24T10:36:00.001-07:00

BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is screening at the RISD Auditorium on Sunday April 5th at 7pm. There will be a party afterwards, it is the closing night movie of the SENE Festival.

The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes (trailer)

2009-02-11T18:28:00.000-08:00

BSN on DVD!

2008-11-10T16:10:00.001-08:00

Click here for your copy

BSN at CUFF!!!

2008-10-29T07:13:00.000-07:00

Between Something & Nothing screens at the much-loved Chicago Underground Film Festival on November 1st. More info here.

BSN in Germany

2008-10-13T19:54:00.000-07:00

Between Something and Nothing screens in Berlin and Hamburg!

2008 Fire Island Film and Video Festival Awards BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING Best Feature Jury Prize

2008-09-04T22:12:00.000-07:00

HUNTINGTON, N.Y., September 5, 2008—The Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival’s programming committee is pleased to announce the winners of the seventh annual Fire Island Film and Video Festival Jury and Audience Awards for 2008. The Festival was held in Cherry Grove, at the Community House, produced by the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in association with the Arts Project of Cherry Grove. The Festival was held on five successive Thursday nights, July 31 to August 28. The festival featured several New York premieres along with appearances by several filmmakers including "Between Love and Goodbye" director Caspar Andreas, "Pageant" director Ron Davies, "You Belong to Me" director Sam Zalutsky, "Area X" director Dennis Shinners, and "just" director Edward Gunawan.

The Jury Award Winner:
Best Feature - Between Something & Nothing by Todd Verow. A gritty drama based on the filmmaker's experiences at Rhode Island School of Design.

Pre-Order Between Something & Nothing

2008-09-03T14:11:00.000-07:00

Verow's latest festival hit is out on his birthday 11-11-08 from WaterBearer Home Video!

Between Something & Nothing Opening Night film of Fire Island Film Fest

2008-07-12T19:04:00.001-07:00

Thursday, July 31- OPENING NIGHT

FIRE ISLAND FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

At the Community House, Cherry Grove, Fire Island

City Paper / Philadelphia recommends Between Something & Nothing

2008-07-10T10:23:00.001-07:00

The elements of Todd Verow's work that once could be dismissed as technical deficiencies now, with a steady output averaging a film a year since his 1995 feature debut, Frisk, have to be taken as stylistic quirks. His latest is an indirect follow-up to 2006's autobiographical Vacationland, depicting his years as an art student and part-time hustler at the Rhode Island School of Design. Both films share a surfeit of affectless acting and tangential storylines, but the friendship between the director's alter ego and a female student with a penchant for shoplifting provides a spine for the often wandering narrative to cling to. —Shaun Brady (July 16, 9:30 WT; July 20, 12:15 AB)

Q Fest - Indonesia

2008-07-10T10:20:00.000-07:00

BETWEEN SOMETHING AND NOTHING will screen as part of this year's Q Fest in Jakarta!!

more info here

Frey Day!

2008-07-07T19:01:00.000-07:00

read the full article here

Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

2008-06-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

BETWEEN SOMETHING AND NOTHING will screen as part of the 14th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:

Wednesday, July 16 • 9:30 • Wilma Theater
Sunday, July 20 • 12:15 • Arts Bank

Todd Verow, James Derek Dwyer and cast will be in attendance.

TIME OUT NYC highlights Between Something and Nothing!

2008-06-06T10:23:00.000-07:00

Between Something & Nothing
Wednesday 11, 8pm
Dir. Todd Verow (2008, 105 mins)
New Queer Cinema veteran Verow (Frisk, Vacationland) used his experiences at Rhode Island School of Design to inspire this fictional cautionary tale about a wide-eyed art student named Joe (the square-jawed Tim Swain) who is seduced into the fast lane by a hard-partying classmate (Julia Frey) and into selling his body by an aloof hustler (Gil Bar-Sela). Joe’s descent is framed by Hartleyesque deadpan deliveries from the leads, but Verow leaves a small window open for comedy—mostly at the expense of his alma mater’s pompous art professors. TIME OUT NYC

Israel LGBT Fest 2008

2008-06-02T08:14:00.001-07:00

Todd Verow will be attending and screening films at the 3rd Annual Israel LGBT Film Festival. More info here.