Hi my name is Steven Vazquez and my Thesis film is called "Hi Ben"
The Story:
Ben’s dad has never visited his home and for the first time he is coming for dinner. In the middle of a conversation about sports. Ben and Jeremy are trying really hard too act like two straight men. Ben leaves the living room to check on the food and Jeremy leaves beside him to grab some drinks. Once in the kitchen Jeremy adresses Ben and tells him how uncomfortable he feels pretending to be something that he is not. Ben does convince him to relax and that they are almost done pretending. They head back to the living room with Ben's dad and he starts talking about a experience he had with a gay couple at the airport. Ben and Jeremy get very uncomfortable. Ben notices a photo of him and Jeremy that he forgot to remove. while Ben distracts his dad, Jeremy removes the photo and heads to the kitchen. Jeremy just wants to get himself out of this sitiation but Ben begs him to stay. Later, The 3 of them sit on the dining table and Ben decides to talk to his father after he has made several comments that made Jeremy extremly uncomfortable and decided to leave the house. Before Jeremy left he finally tells his dad that he is gay and in a relationship with Jeremy. His father overreacts and blames Jeremy for his son being gay. Ben’s dad offers to take Ben to conversion therapy, but Ben declines. Later, Ben’s dad says some hurtful things towards Jeremy. Ben makes an instant decision and tell his father to get out of his house knowing that he may lose him as a father.