SEQUINS is a short comedy film about the coming of age of a 17-year-old teenage boy, of self-discovery and achieving your ambition. In Paul’s case, he wants to become a ‘drag queen’. Opportunity favours the brave, and after meeting Mimi Le Pur, a seasoned performer and drag queen, at The Sequin Club in Blackpool, his future is set; this is despite his fear of ridicule from his peers (remember he still is at school) and of being ostracized or disowned by his parents (a very real consideration as well all know).
Mimi (or Rodger out of drag) helps Paul to begin his journey and to transform himself both emotionally and physically. When it comes to Paul first outing as a drag queen he does it to the song ‘Female of the Species’ written by Scott Thomas et all.
…A thousand thundering thrills await me
Facing insurmountable odds greatly
The female of the species is more deadlier than the male…
A particularly app choice when you look at all the lyrics.
There are a lot of cameo parts in sequins, but in particular, I want to direct your attention to the performers’ comments when he first goes to the club and asks to become a drag queen…
…we were all like him once
Me, be a fairy godmother!
Mama has a daughter…
Director: Michael Beddoes
Writer: Amy Clarke
Stars: Robbie Gaskell James Dreyfus Ben Willbond
Links:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequin
- YouTube – Sequins (lgbt short film)
- Wikipedia – What is a Sequin
- The Truth About Alex by Anne Snyder
In ‘Thirteen or So Minutes’ we meet Lawrence Jefferies and Hugh Greery in the bedroom just after sex; the post-coital sex talk is about how both of them are ‘straight’, but what develops is that both of them had talked openly to each other in the bar about themselves and their lives. What transpires out of this after sex talk is that they fell in love with the person, not just because each of them was men, or that one was a man and the other a woman which would be normal for both of them. That life is beautiful, and it makes no difference what gender they are, that falling for someone just means you are alive and awake