DIRECTOR: JASON LAST & JAIME RUBIANO / PRODUCTION COMPANY: ZEBRAFISH MEDIA + ACTIUM PICTURES / COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: FRANCE, CANADA / DURATION: 7’00” / CAST: OWEN PALLETT, MEGHAN COLLISON (NEXT), SHAYNE CHRISTIANSEN / MUSIC: OWEN PALLETT / STYLIST: LAURA JONES @ JEDROOT / HAIR: JOEY GEORGE @ ARTLIST MAKE UP: ASAMI MATSUDA @ ARTLIST
FILM SYNOPSIS: ”He became as equally famous for being a sexual Olympian as he was for his amazing compositions,” says the Canadian avant-indie singer-songwriter Owen Pallett of 20th-Century composer Ned Rorem, whose memoir The Paris Diary detailed flings with Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein and Noel Coward among others. An extract from Pulitzer Prize-winner Rorem