Austin-made funny and compassionate look at body image in boys
Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at some of the short films screening at Austin Film Festival 2023. Today we talk with Austin Culp, director of Austin-made hybrid drama"Titty Boy" which screens today as part of Shorts Program 9: Best Lil' Shorts in Texas 1.: In my younger years, I had a few different ways of making money. I grew up around bars as a kid, so I spent a lot of time doing various odd jobs around the bars.
The first note I ever took on this project was oddly enough “90's Starz Commercial with boobies instead of movies.” As silly and childish as it sounds, that was enough to put me into the right headspace to write the whole project. And, I’m happy to say, we were able to make a version of the Starz commercial for the film – people know it better as Beethoven’s"Ode to Joy." It’s our credits song and an enjoyable one made with a choir composed of friends.
“The first note I ever took on this project was oddly enough ‘90s Starz commercial with ‘boobies’ instead of ‘movies.’”: Even people who know what gynecomastia is tend to think that it's weight related, and Trey looks like your typical skinny teen. What lead you to casting Anthony Ezell?: Anthony is actually a very accurate reflection of me in my high school years.
Throughout the research process of making the short, I’ve joined subreddits and Facebook groups dedicated to gynecomastia and you see a lot of people taking shirtless pictures asking, “Is this Gynecomastia?”. This condition comes in various forms, shapes, and sizes. All sorts of different body types show up in those groups so it really appears like it can impact just about anybody, it just has different scales on how much it does.
I’m hoping that some teenage kid out there dealing with it might be able to google “Gynecomastia film” and have a chuckle. It certainly won’t fix the issue. But maybe having an outlet will give you a chance to see how we’re all self-conscious about our bodies to some extent. Even the Rock!has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene.
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