Riley

Director: Benjamin Howard

93min.

 

Ambitious high school athlete Dakota Riley begins his senior year like most of his peers, with a steady routine of sports, classrooms, school halls and dinner tables. People have high expectations of Dakota, including Dakota himself. He lives within carefully drawn boundaries, and follows a detailed blueprint that is meant to define him and box him in. But it all begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the carefully crafted idea of who he is supposed to be. Which version of Dakota Riley will be victorious? Trigger warning: Lots of eye candy and glistening bodies.

Opening short: (Un)Free Will.