Was meeting a friend for coffee this afternoon and brought along a screener of "Boy Culture," the movie we were supposed to see last month on Outfest Awards night. A bad back (now much improved) sidelined me for a few days then and I still felt bad that he hadn't seen this well-done movie directed by Q. Allan Brocka who wrote and directed "Eating Out."

Well now, you won't need a friend with a screener to see "Boy Culture" because it was reported later Friday on Advocate.com that TLA Releasing has acquired all North American, United Kingdom, Australian, and New Zealand theatrical and home entertainment distribution rights to the movie! So it will be hitting the big screen then be released on DVD for all to see. No specific release dates yet.

Raymond Murray, president of TLA Releasing, called the film "a fresh, playful film brimming with strong performances, a charismatic cast, and a witty, incisive voice.� TLA has also released such films as "Latter Days" and "Another Gay Movie," among many others.

Based on novel by Matthew Rettenmund and adapted to film by Brocka and Philip Pierce, "Boy Culture" centers on a male escort named “X� (Derek Magyar), who gets romantically entangled with his two roommates, Joey (Jonathon Trent) and Andrew (Darryl Stephens of "Noah’s Arc" and "Another Gay Movie"), and a reclusive, elderly client, Gregory (Patrick Bauchau of"Panic Room").

"Boy Culture" won the Jury Award for Best Feature at the 2006 Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Screenplay at 2006 Outfest in Los Angeles. It is a terrific movie and will be well worth watching whenever it comes your way. In the meantime, here are a few images from the movie: