Reuters reports:
The youngest film director at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, 21-year-old Ash Christian, is living proof that being a chubby gay kid from Paris, Texas, doesn’t mean you can’t direct and star in a movie.
“Fat Girls” is a semi-autobiographical comedy about awkward Texas teenager, Rodney, and his friend, Sabrina, who is so fat that in a moment of passion with her boyfriend in a car, her rear end gets stuck in the steering wheel. . . .
The film shows the trials and tribulations Rodney and Sabrina go through in finding dates for the graduation dance at their high school.
Mocked by the cool kids and dealing with a conservative religious mother in Rodney’s case, and two lesbian mothers in Sabrina’s, the pair eventually triumph, or at least survive and learn to be happy with themselves. . . .
He is already working on his next film, another comedy about a boy in a wheelchair who wants to act in a community theater and aspires to play the role of Jesus.
“I’ve never seen people in wheelchairs being portrayed as real people,” he said. “This character is not a nice guy, he’s in a wheelchair, and he’s mean and vicious, and I think people are going to fall in love with him.”
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