SEASHORE to Hit DVD, VOD Next Month

Set amidst the remote and rugged oceanside of Southern Brazil, this drama is an exploration of friendship, sexuality and personal identity for two teenage boys, with an erotic subtext that culminates in tender and mysterious ways.

Two Brazilian high school students, Martin (Mateus Almada) and Tomaz (Mauricio Barcellos) reconnect in a windswept coastal town where Martin's grandfather recently passed away. Despite group outings and flirtations from local teenage girls, Martin and Tomaz gradually realize that their true interest lies in each other. In an abandoned seaside house, secrets are shared, old family wounds are re-opened, and together they grapple with the meanings of friendship and love, and sexual tension in a suddenly adult world.

Former actors turned filmmakers Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, who wrote and directed SEASHORE, collaborated seven months with their lead actors to create a rich internal world and nuanced performances. They have crafted a poetic and heartwarming ode to the end of adolescence, gorgeously capturing a time of innocence, uncertainty, and sexual awakening.

SEASHORE world premiered at the prestigious 2015 Berlin Film Festival, and has been playing film festivals to critical acclaim since.

A fine supporting cast and excellent performances by attractive young stars provide the innocence and hesitancy of youth that permeate Seashore, as the onetime boyhood friends delicately explore the nature of their friendship as maturing young men. Directed by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon (A Ballet Dialogue) with an undercurrent of erotic tension that culminates in tender and surprising ways, Seashore brilliantly defies viewer expectations with its confident, deliberate pacing and pronounced yet subtle sense of the mysterious. The spare, dreamlike narrative simultaneously withholds and provides important information while moving through elliptical surprises rife with possibilities. A unique use of sound and image conveys inner states of character, complementing Seashore's layered and elastic wintertime photography, aided by a nostalgic indie soundtrack (including a Daniel Johnston song). This quiet, haunting, and poetic work of art mirrors the viewer's own reflections, resulting in an exceptionally rewarding experience.

SEASHORE has a runtime of 83 minutes and is not rated. The film will be released on August 4, 2015. The film is being released by Wolfe Video.

Now in its 30th year, Wolfe is the largest exclusive distributor of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT) films. Major Wolfe releases in 2015 include this year's Swiss Oscar submission, the powerful gay historical drama, The Circle; the award-winning new feature from legendary lesbian director Monika Treut, Of Girls and Horses; the heartwarming gay drama, Eat With Me (co-starring Teddy Chen Culver, Sharon Omi, Nicole Sullivan and George Takei); the popular film festival hit, Boy Meets Girl; and the highly acclaimed gay teen romance Boys. Wolfe is also well known for the DVD releases of such beloved modern classics as Cloudburst, Undertow, Desert Hearts and Big Eden. Wolfe's acclaimed motion picture library can be found at WolfeVideo.com as well as at national retailers such as Netflix, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and VOD destinations such as Comcast, Time Warner, Hulu, iTunes, Youtube Movies and WolfeOnDemand.com. Find more info online at www.wolfevideo.com. Follow Wolfe Video on Facebook and Twitter at @WolfeVideo.

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