A world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Grear Patterson’s acclaimed debut feature Giants Being Lonely will now arrive stateside next month, on April 6, courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. Led by Jack Irving, Ben Irving, and Lily Gavin, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer. Set in a leafy, semi-rural Southern enclave, the film follows a trio of high school seniors as they navigate their final year together through the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death––as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
“I hoped to share a feeling of what it is to grow up,” says Grear Patterson. “To shine a light on the strings of universal loneliness. The ones that connect all of us. All of us that made it through our adolescence and finally found solace and acceptance in ourselves and the consequences of those that fray.”
“Giants Being Lonely is a film about surviving adolescence,” adds producer Olmo Schnabel. “Sometimes it seems like there’s no way out. How do you know which choice to make? What is that thing that differentiates those who survive and those who don’t? Is it love, family, kindness, someone who makes you feel like you’re not invisible?”
“The final days of suburban American high school provide the backdrop to Giants Being Lonely, a box-fresh cut of expressionistic filmmaking from debut writer-director Grear Patterson, a visual artist whose work to date has focused on a kind of post-modern Americana–a stylistic background that translates efficiently to the screen,” Rory O’Connor said in his Venice review.
Watch our exclusive trailer premiere below.
Bobby (Jack Irving) is the star pitcher on his high-school baseball team, a motherless dreamer whose alcoholic father loves him but remains distant and aloof. His teammate Adam (Ben Irving) is the coach’s son, prone to violent reproaches at home with little support from his emotionally distant mother. Caught in between them is Caroline (Lily Gavin), a high school beauty from a seemingly perfect home who loves both golden boys, and just wants to go to prom. Set in a semi-rural landscape of verdant forests and pent-up yearning, the debut feature from lauded mixed-media artist Grear Patterson is a deeply personal story of youth and young manhood, tracing the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death – as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
Giants Being Lonely arrives digitally on April 6.