IS YOUR TEEN A HOMOSEXUAL?

《你的孩子是同性恋吗？》是一部寓言式的喜剧短片，通过模仿1950年代“青少年卫生”教育影片的风格，讽刺了特朗普时代的美国。强尼在幕外旁白叙述者的帮助下向家人出柜，但刻板印象和偏见却比亲情更加根深蒂固。

“Is Your Teen A Homosexual?” is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump’s America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.

导演：塔玛拉·谢尔巴克
编剧：塔玛拉·谢尔巴克
主演：洛朗·皮特尔、劳拉·米切尔、詹姆斯·穆雷、尼尔·克罗奇、伊莎贝拉·达莱桑德罗
制片人：塔玛拉·谢尔巴克、法伊萨尔·卢奇梅迪亚尔
摄影：加布里埃莱·基斯拉特
类型：短片
时长：6分钟
完成时间：2018年
对白语言：英语
地区：加拿大
制片公司：明想制作公司

Director: Tamara Scherbak
Screenwriter: Tamara Scherbak
Cast: Laurent Pitre, Laura Mitchell, James Murray, Neil Kroetsch, Isabella D’Alessandro
Producer: Tamara Scherbak, Faisal Lutchmedial
Cinematographer: Gabriele Kislat
Genre: Short film
Length: 6 min
Year: 2018
Dialogue: English
Region: Canada
Production Company: Miksang Productions

塔玛拉·谢尔巴克是一位加拿大编剧兼导演，涉猎剧情片、纪录片和实验电影等多个类型，她的作品曾在全球各大电影节展映。她的代表作包括赢得了蒙特利尔女性电影节的最佳导演奖的《爷爷》（2009），；入围Hot Docs国际纪录片节的竞赛单元的《只有天空和水》（2011）；以及《你的孩子是同性恋吗？》（2018），这部短片剧本曾在2015年柏林电影节天才短片创投会中被选为9个开发项目之一。该短片已在包括纽约NewFest、魁北克电影节及基辅国际短片电影节在内的30多个电影节展映。塔玛拉还为加拿大国家电影委员会和Vice传媒执导作品，其中包括四集系列片《为了更好》，该片在多个在线平台上获得了数百万次观看。她的最新作品是心理惊悚片《白噪音》（2023），在奇幻电影节全球首映并获得两项大奖——最佳加拿大短片的金观众奖和评审团评选的银梅尔斯最佳影片奖。塔玛拉曾入选多个知名电影节人才计划，如多伦多国际电影节、柏林电影节以及Netflix—班夫多元化声音倡议。

Tamara Scherbak is a Canadian writer and director with a body of work across the genres of fiction, documentary and experimental cinema that have travelled to film festivals around the globe. Notable works include “Dedashka” (2009), winner of Best Director at the Montreal Festiv’elles Film Festival for women filmmakers, “Only Sky & Water” (2011), which screened in competition at the Hot Docs Film Festival and “Is Your Teen a Homosexual?” (2018), 1 of 9 scripts selected for development at the 2015 Berlinale Talents Short Form Station. This short fiction film has screened at over 30 film festivals such as NewFest in New York City, Rendez-vous Québec Cinema and the Kyiv International Short Film Festival. Tamara has also directed work for the National Film Board of Canada, and Vice Quebec including the 4-part series “For The Better” garnering millions of views across online platforms. Her most recent work, the psychological thriller “White Noise” (2023) had its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival where it won two awards, The Gold Audience Award for Best Canadian Short Film and the juried Silver Mels Best Film Award. She is an alumna of multiple prestigious festival talent labs, such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale as well as the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative.

我认为《你的孩子是同性恋吗？》这部电影在当今世界显得尤为重要——从俄罗斯禁止“同性恋政治宣传”到美国及全球范围内的极右翼运动。我想探讨社会中的政治宣传手段，并颠覆人们对教育类影片的预期。讽刺似乎是最好的方式，可以揭示表面下潜藏的偏见，甚至更深、更隐蔽的那些从角色的行为中展现出来的偏见。

将1950年代的教育影片设定与当下美国对比，似乎是探讨压抑、刻板印象和偏见的理想氛围，这是一种反思当今世界的方式。影片旨在成为一面镜子，通过喜剧和讽刺的视角，反映我们的当代生活。希望通过影片，我们能激发观众的笑声和讨论。

“Is Your Teen a Homosexual?” is a film that I feel is really pertinent in today’s world—from Russia banning “homosexual propaganda” to the alt-right movement in the United States and across the globe. I wanted to explore the levels of propaganda within society and play with the expectations of the genre of educational films. Satire seemed like the best route to tap into those prejudices lingering under the surface and the even deeper, more insidious ones that get revealed about the characters.

The setting of a 1950s-era educational film juxtaposed with modern-day America seemed like the perfect atmosphere to explore repression, stereotyping and prejudice as a way of examining our world today. The film is meant to be a mirror, a way of reflecting on our contemporary life through the lens of comedy and satire. We are hopefully provoking both laughter and discussion from the audience.