4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Elegance Bratton is a name and a filmmaker to reckon with. His first feature film, The Inspection, is now playing in theaters and On Demand, and it tells his own life story: being ejected from his home at 16 because his mother could not accept that he was gay and winding up in the U.S. Marine Corps during the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. He is an imposing and impressive man, as Leonard learned at the Coronado Island Film Festival last month where Bratton wowed the audience. Leonard and Jessie came away with the same feeling after our probing and candid conversation.
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0:55.1 | hi everybody I'm Leonard malton and I'm Jesse Malton you're listening to |
1:05.0 | Malton on movies I have to tell you that I have a bad cold yes so if I don't |
1:09.6 | sound quite like myself, that's why. |
1:12.6 | And, uh... |
1:14.6 | Hi as hell on all the Z-Pack. |
1:16.6 | That's him. |
1:17.6 | But he was determined, he was so impressed, both of my parents were so impressed by this young |
1:23.6 | man who they met several weeks ago and got to see his film that he was determined |
1:29.3 | to push through no matter what. And that is one Mr. Elegance Bratton. And you saw the film, |
1:36.0 | I guess, it's over a month now. Well, it was at the Coronado Island Film Festival. Yeah. |
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