Audience fave “DISH” screens at NEWFEST@BAM

Award-winning short film comes to Brooklyn

Brian Harris Krinsky’s DISH took the NewFest 2009 Audience Award for Short Film and will screen in the Men’s Shorts Program at NEWFEST@BAM on August 29.

DISH, a slice-of-life treatment of emo Latino teens in East Los Angeles, follows Israel and Louie as they do what teens do best: dish about each other’s sex lives via text messages.

From the director

In this QueerLounge video interview (a GLAAD project), director Brian Krinsky describes the film as an original story and talks about how he found the teen actors on Craigslist. “I just think the emo style is really cool — that’s the skinny jeans and the fringed bangs. I thought of all the kids who are Latino… it was a really niche world to look into, and I just started writing scenes and a story developed.”

DISH premiered at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, followed by a European premiere at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

What the critics are saying

“… suffice to say that Dish packs more sexually-graphic dialogue, coming-of-age drama, wisdom and heart into 15 minutes than most two-hour movies do.”
- Movie Dearest Blog | Rev. Chris Carpenter (movie critic for Orange County and Long Beach Blade)

“We should be nervous about watching the sex talk of a couple of cute fifteen year olds, but this clever, tasteful and captivating film hits all the right notes, taking on profound issues without ever preaching… DISH is emblematic of a California of today, a Wassup Rockers/Elephant hybrid with its own identity.”
- WehoNews.com | Roy Rogers Oldenkamp

NewFest@BAM tickets

Don’t miss this short film coming to Brooklyn, NY, as part of the Men’s Shorts Program at NEWFEST@BAM. Tickets now on sale at the BAM website here.

Discount for NewFest Members

Members, get a discount at the Box Office by showing your membership card. Tickets are $7 — you MUST present your member ID card at the box office to purchase tickets. Each member can purchase a maximum of two member-price tickets per film. If you don’t have a membership card, send an email to membership@newfest.org and we will get it out ASAP.