#34. Keep the Lights On – Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs’ good rapport with Sundance dates back to when his 2005 film Forty Shades of Blue claimed the Grand Jury Prize. Financed with a Kickstarter campaign and aided by Sundance Institute’s Annenberg Grant, Keep the Lights On will fill the festival’s queer film quota, but also becomes a force to be reckoned with in perhaps the festival’s U.S Dramatic Competition section.
Gist: Co-written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, this takes place in 1997. Ben is another gay man in New York trying to make a connection through a phone sex line. He meets Nick – closeted, handsome and with a girlfriend attached. From the start, this casual encounter extends itself into a hopeful moment between potential lovers. As Ben negotiates life as a documentary filmmaker, his relationship with Nick, a precociously young lawyer in a prominent publishing house, becomes more than just a fling.
Producers: Sachs, Marie-Therese Guirgis (The Loneliest Planet) and Lucas Joaquin
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