A
Long Island beauty queen humorously realizes that she is more than just a
pretty face. In the days leading up to her senior prom, where she has been
nominated for prom queen, Donatella begins to explore her sexuality and intellect.
We follow Donatella through her search for herself in confusing and claustrophobic
spaces: a Born Again Virgin meeting, her delinquent boyfriend’s hot
rod, the dysfunctional dinner table, a Long Island mall, and finally, to the
prom. Throughout her journey, Donatella finds refuge from these plastic surroundings
in a poetic natural space of her own imagination where she freely expresses
herself and her desires for Mina, a girl in her English class.
This film is the third film in the BeauteouS trilogy,
three portraits of three sisters and their relationships to beauty. It is
the fictionalization of the experiences of our middle sister, Michele.
Reviews
Release Print, March 2004 , Film Arts Foundation, Article on Short Film Festivals
and Giovanna's experience at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short
Films screening BeauteouS. Voice
of San Diego, November 2005 Metro
Weekly, Washington D.C. gives BeauteouS 5 stars!
The Lounge radio interview, Sept 2003 - transcript forthcoming The Lavender Lens, review,
Sept 2003 Gay and Lesbian
Times interview, Sept 2003
