Newcomer Conor Leach dives into the deep end in director Samuel Van Grinsven's slick, dream-like look at how one teen uses technology to pinpoint his sexuality. We never learn the name of the main ...

A 16-year-old who uses a hookup app to meet older men for sex gets in over his head in Samuel Van Grinsven’s first film, 'Sequin in a Blue Room.' By Harry Windsor Made on a modest budget at film ...

The graduation project of its New Zealand-born director and co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven, the 80-minute movie charts a mostly compelling path from multiply meaningless gay hook-ups through to ...

Mirroring Gregg Araki’s boldly queer 1992 classic The Living End, this stylish debut feature opens with a declarative title card: “A homosexual film by Samuel van Grinsven”. A deftly constructed ...

If there’s one thing that hasn’t got any easier over time – even with the development of dating apps – it’s our quest for love. Two films at SBS On Demand show that whether it’s 1950s Scotland or ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sequin, as he calls himself, is a 16-year-old schoolboy so eager to explore the opportunities presented by his homosexuality that his ...

To mark the release of Sequin in a Blue Room on 17th May, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray. Samuel Van Grinsven’s stylish debut feature is an uncompromising exploration of sex in a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Went Up The Hill directed by Samuel Van ...

We never learn the name of the main character in Samuel Van Grinsven’s fearless queer debut, “Sequin in a Blue Room.” Anonymous is just the way he likes it. Using a gay cruising app, he goes by the ...