‘THOSE PEOPLE’ IS CLOSING FILM AT KASHISH 2016

The award-winning film from USA, Those People directed by Joey Kuhn, will close the seventh edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. The closing film will be screened at the iconic Liberty theatre on May 29, 2016. 182 films from 53 countries will be screened at KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival from May 25-29, 2016.

Joey Kuhn’s feature debut is impressively polished.
Dennis Harvey·Variety

The film is a tad studied in its melancholy wistfulness, with a few too many shots of pining Charlie or beautiful screwup Sebastian shooting forlorn gazes out of car windows.
David Rooney·Hollywood Reporter

The Whit Stillman-esque romantic melodrama Those People goes to great lengths to humanize Manhattan’s upper crust, with generally successful results.

THOSE PEOPLE

May 29th / 9.30pm / Liberty Cinema

(2015) 89 min / Feature USA Dir: Joey Kuhn

On Manhattan’s gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist. Charlie is a handsome budding artist who is hung up on his self-centered friend, Sebastian. The feeling is not mutual. Sebastian’s life is turned upside down after a scandal puts his father in jail. When Charlie meets a hot Lebanese concert pianist, older & more grounded than Sebastian, their developing relationship starts to interfere with Charlie & Sebastian’s long time friendship.

JOEY KUHN Born and raised in New York City, writer/director Joey Kuhn makes films that draw inspiration from the nexus of fine art and pop culture. Joey’s short films Thinly Veiled (2010) and Now Here (2011) have played at festivals around the world. In addition to his work as a writer/director, Joey is an editor, a still photographer, and a
diehard Mariah Carey fan. He graduated from Brown University in 2007 with a B.A. in Art-Semiotics and graduated with an M.F.A. from NYU’s Graduate Film Program in May 2014. Those People is his first feature film.

Festivals & Honors:
Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, NewFest
Best Actor – Jonathan Gordon, Atlanta Out on Film
Audience Award – Best U.S First Feature, Outfest Film Festival
Emerging Talent, Writer-Director Joey Kuhn, Long Beach QFilm Festival
Jury Award, Best Feature Film, Kansas City LGBT Film Festival

Film Courtesy: The Film Collaborative