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High Tide

High Tide

MARCO CALVANI | USA | 2024 | 101 MIN | / ENGLISH + PORTUGUESE EST

MARCO CALVANI | USA | 2024 | 101 MIN | / ENGLISH + PORTUGUESE EST

Feature

Synopsis

Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown. As the summer season comes to a fade, he sparks an intense and unexpected romance with Maurice. Together, the two reconcile the pasts they've left behind and their uncertain futures. For his feature directorial debut, Marco Calvani places Brazilian star Marco Pigossi (Gen V) at the heart of High Tide along with Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei, Tangerine's Mya Taylor, and Bill Irwin (Rustin). High Tide finds the wayward Lourenço (Pigossi) with a pair of much-needed prospects on the horizon as summer in Ptown begins to wind down: a flirtatious fling with handsome New Yorker Maurice (James Bland, Giants) and a meeting with an immigration lawyer (Bryan Batt, Mad Men). But shadows of both Lourenço and Maurice's romantic pasts and the harsh realities of being an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. hover over a gay man approaching the next chapter in his life. With an excellent ensemble cast and stunning visuals, High Tide isn’t just Lourenço’s story, as Calvani weaves a colorful tapestry of queer lives intersecting on the beaches of a quintessential gay destination.

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Filmmaker Bio

Trained as an actor since he was a teenager back in Italy, Marco Calvani is an award-winning writer and director based in the US. Over the course of his twenty-year career as a theatermaker, his work has been produced extensively across the six continents. His cinema debut The View from Up Here - based on his eponymous play commissioned by The Actors Studio and directed by Estelle Parsons - stars Oscar winner Melissa Leo and César winner Leïla Bekhti. His first feature film High Tide celebrated its world premiere at SXSW in march 2024 and it will be theatrically released in October.

Producer

Marco Calvani, Mickey Liddell, Terrence Meck, Marco Pigossi, Edgar Lacey Rosa, Pete Shilaimon, Marisa Tomei, Beau Ward, Jacob Yakob, Joseph Yakob

Writer

Marco Calvani

Cinematographer

Oscar Ignacio, Jiménez

Cast

  • Marco Pigossi
  • James Bland
  • Marisa Tomei
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