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Overhand
When a closeted boxer gets a shot at the championship, a leaked photo with the man he loves triggers a ruthless cover-up that helps him win the belt but forces him to choose who he’ll be when the spotlight finally fades.
Overhand is a story about the price of silence. It follows a championship-caliber fighter who has built his entire public life around a performance of masculinity while hiding the person he actually loves. When violence in the ring collides with the violence of the closet, he's forced to choose between the career he's sacrificed everything for and the truth that could set him free—or destroy him. The film sits at the intersection of sports drama and queer cinema, in the tradition of Moonlight and Creed.
Genre: Drama | Format: Feature Film
Comps: Moonlight, Creed | Status: Financing and Pre-production
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Aquarian Cinematic produces film and television that centers characters the industry too often sidelines—queer people and older people navigating messy, complicated, extraordinary lives. Our stories live in heightened realities grounded in emotional truth: dark comedies, psychological thrillers, and character-driven drama where the protagonists are going through it and coming out transformed on the other side.
Founded by writer-producer Peter Salvatore Petralia, the company draws on twenty years of international production experience across four continents, a deep network of European and North American collaborators, and the conviction that the most compelling stories come from voices that have spent a lifetime on the outside looking in.
Aquarian Cinematic is based in Nanaimo, BC, Canada on the stolen homelands of the Snuneymuxw First Nations. We are committed to being in solidarity with Indigenous Sovereignties on their own terms.
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