ShortList 2018: ‘Little Potato’ Tells Gay Russian Story With an Almodovar Twist (Video)
Wes Hurley wanted to turn the story of his journey from Russia to the United States into a movie, but he wasn’t thinking of a short documentary.
Instead, Hurley wrote a feature script about growing up gay in the repressive and homophobic Russian society, about his and his mother’s move to the United States and about a bizarre twist that followed after she became the mail-order bride to an intensely religious man in Seattle.
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