Vapor (film)

Vapor is a Canadian comedy-drama short film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2010. The film depicts the emotional journey of Enrique Salgado (Marco Ledezma), a middle-aged gay Mexican man, through shame, fear and internalized homophobia toward self-acceptance, after being invited to pose in the nude for a photographer (Evergon).[1]

Vapor
Directed byKaveh Nabatian
Produced byMarie-Luc Beaudin
Cédric Bourdeau
Stéphane Tanguay
Written byKaveh Nabatian
StarringMarco Ledezma
Evergon
Music byBell Orchestre
CinematographyChristophe Collette
Edited byElric Robichon
Production
company
Productions Kinesis
Distributed byLocomotion Distributions
Release date
  • July 14, 2010 (2010-07-14) (JFL)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageSpanish

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2010.[2] It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 31st Genie Awards,[3] and a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 13th Jutra Awards.[4]

References

  1. "Top 10 short films to be shown at Hagen theatre". Courtenay Comox Valley Record, July 14, 2011.
  2. "Canada's Top Ten for 2010". Now, December 15, 2010.
  3. "‘Barney’s Version,’ ‘Incendies’ top Genie noms". Variety, February 2, 2011.
  4. Marc Cassivi, "Soirée des Jutra: Incendies, favori d'un cru relevé". La Presse, February 9, 2011.


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