The web series consists of six episodes and follows David’s character as he goes further into the life of a young gay Manileño.
Vargas just came out with the pilot episode, titled “Best Hookup Ever,” in which a young man named David, after a failed one-night-stand, finds himself entangled with a diverse group of friends. Think: what Andrew Haigh was doing for ‘cisco in the two glorious seasons of Looking. Vargas, an ardent advocate of the local LGBTQ community, has recently partnered with TEAM Magazine for a web-series, titled Hanging Out, reflecting the lives of gay millennials in Manila. If you take a look at the trailer here, you’ll get quickly what I mean.
It’s a personal favorite, something of a mesh between Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar-wai. The film won best picture at the recently concluded Cinema One Originals Film Festival, and with it the very likely chance of a theatrical run abroad. Petersen Vargas made a stunning debut feature with 2 Cool 2 Be 4Gotten, a film with a razor-sharp view at pubescent life as a young gay man.