Rent Heart Breaks Open online now! Or you can purchase the DVD through TLAgay.com. The HEART BREAKS OPEN DVD comes with many special features including deleted scenes, making-of featurettes, music and poetry from the film, audition clips, teasers & trailers, commentary and much more.
“This is what queer cinema needs to be – homegrown, authentic, brutally honest, not sloppily put together from clichés and gimmicks and shaved abs.” – Wes Hurley, Seattle Gay Scene
A model queer activist and community advocate, Jesus (Maximillian Davis) prides himself in his work with the Seattle LGBT community. At the same time, Jesus is having unprotected sex and cheating on his long-time partner (Samonte Cruz). Jesus’s world implodes when he discovers that he is HIV positive, forcing him to confront his innermost fears, his relationship with his ex-boyfriend, and a future living with HIV. Faced with the unknown, Jesus is pulled from the brink of self-destruction by Sister Alysa Trailer (Brian Peters), a drag queen nun who leads him down a path of self-discovery.
‘heart breaks open’ is a feature film about queer life, public health and community accountability. It was written as a four page outline and transformed to a feature-length project through a collaborative filmmaking process. Actors used improvisational acting to create dialogue and action. Documentary filmmakers captured performances using cinema verité techniques. Seattle locations and their staff were used to create an undeniable meditative realism.
