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River Gallo Is Ready to Conquer Sundance With Bold Intersex Crime Drama ‘Ponyboi’
Actor-writer River Gallo is poised for a big Sundance debut with the unprecedented intersex drama "Ponyboi."
The Sundance Film Festival prides itself on being a place of innovation and discovery, and this year’s 40th anniversary celebration has an entry that could well check both boxes – “ Ponyboi,” a genre-blending road movie featuring writer and star River Gallo. As it often happens on the turnpike, things go south when some tainted crystal meth and a dead mafioso spin Ponyboi’s fragile world into chaos, forcing him to confront his demons. Having spent years hiding their true identity, Gallo brings the full force of their history to “Ponyboi,” which stokes an important and unprecedented conversation about a spectrum of acceptable masculinity and femininity and the pressure for certain queer people to assimilate.
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