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Asog

2023

Completed

Climate Story Fund

Producer

Amanda Ernst

Director

Seán Devlin 叶世民

Doc Society Support

Production support

Impact campaign support

Film Details

Format: Feature length film

School teacher by day, proudly gay comedian by night: Rey travels to a talent pageant that will test how far they’ll go for fame.

Subjects

Environment

Awards

São Paulo International Film Festival - Best Performance (2023)

Audience Award - Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) (2023)

Best Documentary Feature - Honorable Mention - Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) (2023)

Best BC Film - Honorable Mention - Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) (2023)

RBC Emerging Artists Award - Calgary International Film Festival (Canada) (2023)

Best Feature Film - Queer Lisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer (United States of America) (2024)

Committee Choice Award - Bali International Film Festival (aka BALINALE) (Indonesia) (2024)

Frameline Completion Fund - Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival (United States of America) (2023)

Hivos Prize - Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam (Pink Filmdays Amsterdam) LGBT Film Festival (Netherlands) (2024)

Best Feature Film - Festival Mix Milano (Italy) (2024)

Best Film - Special Mention - CinemAsia Film Festival () (2023)

Best Feature Film - Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival () (2024)

Festival Screenings

Hawaii International Film Festival (2023) Best Film

L.A. Outfest (2023) Outstanding Screenwriting in an International Narrative Feature

São Paulo International Film Festival (2023) Best Fiction

São Paulo International Film Festival (2023) Best Picture

Warsaw International Film Festival (2023) Canadian Narrative Feature Award

Takes you down a funny road but also makes you really see it, potholes and all.

Jaya is a comedian first and foremost and the film honors their sense of humor, the impulse to laugh as a break from crying.