LAVENDER

A young gay man grows increasingly entangled in the marriage of an older gay couple.

Director Bio

Matthew Puccini is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His short film Lavender was recently acquired for distribution by Fox Searchlight and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where it received Vimeo’s award for Best U.S Fiction and was listed as one of Indiewire’s 10 Must-See Shorts. His previous short film The Mess He Made premiered at SXSW in 2017 and was a finalist for the Iris Prize. His short documentary Marquise was acquired by Topic and screened at Outfest Fusion. Puccini is a 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a member of the 2017 New York Film Festival Artist Academy, and a 2018 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

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