A black male burn-survivor and amputee goes on a date with a regularly-abled man for the first time since his accident.
The Things You Think I’m Thinking (2017)
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This is an honest movie about hard subjects. It is not meant to please the politically correct. It is also not a gay movie. It is much deeper than a portrayal of one sexual lifestyle.
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The Things You Think I’m Thinking is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Sherren Lee and released in 2017. The film stars Prince Amponsah as Sean, a gay man struggling with his emotional insecurities and body image issues as he embarks on his first date with another man (Jesse LaVercombe) since being badly scarred and losing both of his arms in a house fire.
LaVercombe wrote the screenplay as a tribute to Amponsah. It was Amponsah’s first film role after returning to the stage in 2016, following his own real-life injuries in a 2012 apartment fire.
Starring Prince Amponsah, Jesse LaVercombe
Directed by Sherren Lee
Produced by Charlie Hidalgo, Sherren Lee
Written by Jesse LaVercombe
Edited by Simone Smith
Cinematography by Ian Macmillan
Original Score by Casey Manierka-Quaile
The Things You Think I’m Thinking won the Grand Jury Award for Best International Narrative Short Film at Outfest 2018, AWFJ EDA Award at the Whistler Film Festival 2017, the Special Jury Prize at the Canadian Film Festival 2018, two Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director Fiction and Best Multicultural at the Yorkton Film Festival 2018, the Best Canadian Short Award at Inside Out Toronto 2018 and OutEast Queer Film Festival 2018, has been in competition at over seventy festivals including Slamdance 2018, SXSW 2018 and was selected as a VIMEO STAFF PICK premiere on November 20th, 2019.
