Robbie Lemieux’s ‘Fester’ Scares Up New Twist to the Coming-Out Genre
Anna Marie de la Fuente As if coming out of the closet were not daunting enough, Canadian filmmaker Robbie Lemieux amps up the fear factor in his feature debut, “Fester.”A participant in the Frontières Co-Production Market, run by the Fantasia International Film Festival alongside Cannes’ Marché du Film, “Fester” is not your average coming-out story.“Writing ‘Fester’ was essentially a way to process why it had been so difficult for me to come out. I also wanted to tell a story about someone who is afraid of coming out for reasons that aren’t centered around the narrative tropes we so often see in coming-out dramas such as homophobic communities/families, religion, or other oppressive external obstacles,” said Lemieux.