PORT AUTHORITY
by Danielle Lessovitz
synopsis
On the steps outside New York City’s dizzying central bus station, Port Authority, a girl named Wye vogues with her siblings. Paul, a young drifter, watches her, transfixed by her beauty. After he seeks her out, an intense love soon blossoms between them. Wye introduces him to the ballroom community, an underground LGBTQ subculture, and to her house, a self-selected chosen family. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his feelings for her and the social forces that seek to rupture their bond.
international title: | Port Authority |
original title: | Port Authority |
country: | United States, France |
sales agent: | mk2 films |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Danielle Lessovitz |
film run: | 94' |
release date: | FR 25/09/2019 |
screenplay: | Danielle Lessovitz |
cast: | Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi, Louisa Krause, Devon Carpenter, Christopher Quarles, Eddie Plaza, Taliek Jeqon |
cinematography by: | Jomo Fray |
film editing: | Clemence Samson, Matthew C. Hart |
art director: | Emmeline Wilks-Dupoise |
costumes designer: | Chester Algernal Gordon |
music: | Matthew Herbert |
producer: | Zachary Luke Kislevitz, Virginie Lacombe, Rodrigo Teixeira |
executive producer: | Bobby Allen, Efe Cakarel, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Fernando Fraiha, Sophie Mas, Lourenço Sant'Anna, Martin Scorsese, Lawrence Snookie Taylor, Emma Tillinger Koskoff |
associate producer: | Kate Antognini, Damian Bao, Jari Jones |
line producer: | Amanda Messenger |
production: | Madeleine Films, RT Features (US), Sikelia Productions (US) |
backing: | Aide aux cinémas du monde du CNC (FR) |
distributor: | ARP Sélection |