DIRECTOR'S NAME: VINCENT WILLIAM GAGLIOSTRO AND STEWART SHINING / COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA / DURATION: 2"42" / MUSIC: DIRK BOGARDE / CAST: MARCIO PATRIOTA AND MARCOS PATRIOTA / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: STEWART SHINING / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: VINCENT GAGLIOSTRO / HAIR: GARRETT PIKE / MAKE-UP: GARRETT PIKE
SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS:
Two twins from Brazil explore brotherly love in the penthouse of The Standard Hotel in New York City. At one point they got very hungry.
SHORT DIRECTOR BIO:
Stewart Shining is best known for his fashion and beauty photographs of major celebrities and models. Having shot for virtually every major magazine, from Vogue to Vanity Fair, Shining has photographed celebrity subjects that include Robert Pattinson, Drew Barrymore, Halle Berry, and Alicia Keys. In addition to his advertising work for the agencies Lloyd & Co, Saatchi, and Shahid & Co., he has recently begun video projects, some of which were recently screened at the ASVOFF Festival at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Shining lives and works New York where he runs a studio and serves on the Board of Directors of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and ACRIA.
Gagliostro was noted in New York magazine for his “in your face” graphic, “make no apologies” style. And also sited in that same issue as one of the six most influential players in the gay community of the time. His activism and his art are inseperable. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally. He is currently making his first feature film entitled After Louie.
