Rainbow Sun Short Film
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Good morning beautiful people and thank you for joining us on this journey.
This is a story of a multiracial family dealing with heartache, pain and loss but more importantly it's a story of compassion, love and acceptance.
A son the day before his prom struggling to find the right time to tell his man's man of a Father that he is gay. A father struggling to tell his son that his mother is dying of Sickle Cell Anemia. Is the son strong enough to accept his mother's sickness? Does a man who is stereoptypically considered very masculine mean that he won't be accepting of his son being gay?
Stereotypes is something that I think we all deal with and this short will tackle some of those. The perception we have of people just by simply looking at them can be and most of the time are completely inaccurate. I personally have experienced the effects of being stereotyped. Being a heavily-tattooed Latinx man, it is something I deal with on a daily basis.
Being tough or even tough-looking does not mean you are not capable of compassion, love, or empathy, on the contrary some of the toughest people I know are also the most gentle.
I write my truth and I have dealt with identity issues a majority part of my life, growing up perdominantly in Black culture, I've always felt more of a connection than I have with my own LatinX culture. My children are Afro Latino. Because of that reason I choose to write not only about LatinX issues but also Black issues. This is why I decided to talk about Sickle Cell Anemia a blood disorder that affects 8 percent of the African American community. Growing up I only knew of two celebrities that were battling with Sickle Cell Anemia, the late great Prodigy of the rap group Mobb Deep and T-Boz from TLC. In doing my research I've learned that many others have SCA people such as actor Larenz Tate, former NFL Player Tiki Barber and Santonio Holmes along with the late musician Miles Davis.
Within this story we are also dealing with a teenager battling with his sexuality. Does who you choose to love matter? The answer is no it doesn't. I think so often even within our own families we assume that because someone is tough or "stereotypically masculine" that they wouldn't be accepting. Chris in this film deals with that issue thinking that his father Javier a tough, machismo appearing, heavily tattooed man would not be accepting of who he chooses to love. But a fathers love for his son outweighs any misconceptions he has of him. Like I said before this is a story of LOVE, COMPASSION and ACCEPTANCE.
WE WOULD LOVE FOR ALL OF YOU TO SUPPORT THIS BEAUTIFUL FILM THAT WE HOPE YOU ALL CAN RELATE TO IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THANK YOU WITH LOVE CARLOS AVILES & CAST
Stereotypes is something that I think we all deal with and this short will tackle some of those. The perception we have of people just by simply looking at them can be and most of the time are completely inaccurate. I personally have experienced the effects of being stereotyped. Being a heavily-tattooed Latinx man, it is something I deal with on a daily basis.
Being tough or even tough-looking does not mean you are not capable of compassion, love, or empathy, on the contrary some of the toughest people I know are also the most gentle.
I write my truth and I have dealt with identity issues a majority part of my life, growing up perdominantly in Black culture, I've always felt more of a connection than I have with my own LatinX culture. My children are Afro Latino. Because of that reason I choose to write not only about LatinX issues but also Black issues. This is why I decided to talk about Sickle Cell Anemia a blood disorder that affects 8 percent of the African American community. Growing up I only knew of two celebrities that were battling with Sickle Cell Anemia, the late great Prodigy of the rap group Mobb Deep and T-Boz from TLC. In doing my research I've learned that many others have SCA people such as actor Larenz Tate, former NFL Player Tiki Barber and Santonio Holmes along with the late musician Miles Davis.
Within this story we are also dealing with a teenager battling with his sexuality. Does who you choose to love matter? The answer is no it doesn't. I think so often even within our own families we assume that because someone is tough or "stereotypically masculine" that they wouldn't be accepting. Chris in this film deals with that issue thinking that his father Javier a tough, machismo appearing, heavily tattooed man would not be accepting of who he chooses to love. But a fathers love for his son outweighs any misconceptions he has of him. Like I said before this is a story of LOVE, COMPASSION and ACCEPTANCE.
WE WOULD LOVE FOR ALL OF YOU TO SUPPORT THIS BEAUTIFUL FILM THAT WE HOPE YOU ALL CAN RELATE TO IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THANK YOU WITH LOVE CARLOS AVILES & CAST
Organizer and beneficiary
Carlos Aviles
Organizer
Atlanta, GA
Rainbow Sun
Beneficiary