Crossroads is a forthcoming film by writer/director Katie Smith and produced by Gloria Daniels-Moss.
It tells the story of Rex, a young gay man currently in a secret relationship with a co-worker.
Though aware and happy with his own sexual orientation, Rex has been hiding this fact from his father, Adrian, with whom he still lives. Unable to tell anyone due to losing his mother to cancer and his father taking it especially hard, he keeps the relationship a secret. Things take a difficult turn when his father inadvertently discovers his son’s secret and forcefully confronts him on the matter. Tension builds, arguments ensue and Rex subsequently tries to take his own life.
Crossroads features up-and-coming actors Liam Hallinan (Rex), Chris Clynes (Jamie) and Paul Dewdney (Adrian.)
Writer, Katie Smith said: “When casting, we wanted the people auditioning to be people with their own histories, their own identities and their own feelings that they could bring to the portrayal of the characters.
“Playing roles where you are needed to lay bare your entire being for the world to see is crucial to playing a successful character and although challenging in places and certainly emotional, we believe Liam, Chris and Paul achieved this.
“Crossroads was written because it was a film that ultimately wanted to show a series of strong and poignant emotions. Grief, anger, sadness, distress, love, thrill and passion but the main emotion was grief. The film basically boils down to Adrian’s judgmental attitude about his son’s sexual orientation, but in reality, it is the grief of losing his wife that appears to be controlling him.
“With a tiny budget, we worked hard to try and make Crossroads something that the audience could watch with their breaths caught, and their chests tight, so they can fully understand, not only the emotions people can go through with hiding their sexual orientation, but everything in between as well.
“As a heterosexual female, I have been asked why I have made a film that focuses so intimately on homosexuality? Well, the reason is this… The world isn’t just full of heterosexual couples. It is filled with lesbian couples, gay couples, bisexual couples, transsexual couples and everything in between, and rightly so. If we all made movies about the “stereotypical” boy meets girl then we begin to push out valuable members of a very diverse and cultured audience.
“I have a real and honest interest in creating films that differ from the typical love story and the generalisation of romance. I believe emotions come in hundreds and thousands of different ways and so does love which is why Crossroads hits so many distinctive points.”
Currently, Crossroads is in post-production and the production team hope that once complete that it will be a successful short film within the festival circuit, including LGBT groups.
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