This is a pilot for a series planned for 12 half-hour shows. Awaiting funding.
The 27-minute pilot is available on VHS or DVD for $9.95 + $3.50 shipping, total $13.45, payable through paypal.com toinfo@shallowbeach.tv
A documentary that chronicles how the male nude has been depicted in photography since it began in the late 1820s.
David Leddick is acknowledged as a pre-eminent authority on the subject of the male nude in all forms of art, and has published several definitive books on the subject. This documentary covers the subject as it related to the entire history of photography from 1827 to the present time.
Andrew Delaplaine is a writer/director living on South Beach.
- A Taste of Art / New York City – June 2004
- Bare Bones Film Festival – May 2004
- Connecticut G&L Film Festival – June 2004
- DC Independent Film Festival – March 2004 (Washington DC)
- Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival – October 2004
- Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee – June 2004
- Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – November 2004
- Los Angeles Outfest – July 2003 (World Premier)
- Melbourne Film Festival – March 2004
- Made in Miami Film Festival – January 2004
- Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – November 2004
- Miami Int’l Short Film Festival – November 2004 (WINNER – HONORABLE MENTION)
- Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival – October 2004
- Mix Brasil (Sao Paulo, Rio, Brasilia) – November 2004
- NewFest (New York City) – June 2004
- New York LGBT Film Festival – June 2004 (New York Premier)
- Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films -- September 2004
- Portland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – October 2004
- Philadelphia Int’l G&L Film Festival – July 2004
- Q Cinema (Fort Worth) G&L Int’l Film Festival -- June 2004
- Queer Screen Film Festival (Sydney) – February 2004
- Rhode Island International Film Festival – August 2004
- San Antonio Underground Film Festival – May 2004
- Santa Fe Film Festival – December 2004
- Seattle Arts Festival – June 2004
- Seattle Fucking Fabulous Film Festival – August 2004
- Sydney / Mardi Gras Film Festival – March 2004
- Tambay (Tampa, FL) Film & Video Festival – April 2004 (WINNER – BEST DOCUMENTARY)
- Turin International G&L Film Festival – April 2005
CAST LIST
- David Leddick
- David Vance
- Glen Mitchell
- George Hester
CREDITS
- DP Felipe Marrou
- Editor Juan Pena
- Writer David Leddick
- Director A. Delaplaine
Andrew Delaplaine is a writer/director living on South Beach. He is developing several live action and animated projects for cable TV as well as three feature films.
In the past, with his sister Renee, he has owned a restaurant on South Beach (Scratch), a nightclub (Warsaw Ballroom), a newspaper (The Wire), among other enterprises.
He now works full-time on entertainment projects.
This documentary is based on David Leddick’s monumental and definitive work, “The Male Nude,” published in three languages by Taschen. This half-hour documentary can only begin to hint at all that’s covered in the 700-page brick of a book, but I thought it was necessary to offer in video form some of the riches of the seminal work on which the video is based. Pending funding, we will shoot 12 half-hour segments that would cover the subject as it deserves to be covered.
- “Life's a Drag,” live-action feature, 114 minutes, currently in post, 2007.
- “Becoming Quentin,” documentary feature, 114 minutes, 2007.
- “The Morning Show,” animated feature, 86 minutes, 2007.
- "Hillary in '08," animated short, 20 minutes, 2007.
- "Snakebite," animated short, 3 minutes, 2006.
- “Amanda Demanda,” narrative animated short, 24 minutes, 2004.
- “David Leddick's The Male Nude,” documentary, 27 minutes, 2003.
- “Product Placement,” narrative short, 14 minutes, 2003.
- “The Midnight News,” narrative short, 6 minutes, 2003.
- “You Can Do It,” narrative short, 5 minutes, 2002.