Bashment, May 12, 2012 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

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Director

Rikki Beadle-Blair

Year

2010

Run Time

110

min

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

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JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London’s exciting outlaw urban music scene. He’s got the skills, he’s got the rhymes, and he’s got the drive. But there’s a problem — not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks — he’s also gay. And gay — in the world of hip-hop and ragga — ain’t good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it’s going to get a bit grimy… but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and Orlando is beaten into a state of permanent brain-damage, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

J.J. is an aspiring M.C. who’s taken London’s outlaw urban music scene by storm. He’s got the skills, the rhymes, and the drive. But he may run into a few hurdles on his reach for greatness; he’s white, he’s from the sticks, and he’s gay. J.J.’s resolved to come out onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, bringing his boyfriend Orlando along as moral support. While J.J. is onstage, the frustrated competing band, Illmanics, take out their rage on Orlando, beating him so badly that he suffers permanent brain damage. A victim reconciliation program brings J.J. face to face with Orlando’s attackers. (Description courtesy of Trista Kendall, Frameline International LGBT Film Festival.)

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