‘Tu Me Manques’ filmmaker discusses transformative movie about LGBTQ+ suicide
Updated May 06, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Suicide related to the destructive, self-loathing cocktail of fear and shame is what filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott deftly explores in his new transformative movie “Tu Me Manques.”
Originally staged as a 2015 play of the same name in Bellott’s Bolivian homeland, the movie focuses on a grieving and conservative father flying from South America to New York City hoping to find answers as to why his closeted gay son committed suicide.
For Bellott, the fear of being ostracized in his home country was only exceeded by the desire to publicize the devastating number of suicides related to living as a closeted gay man in Bolivia.