Meet Albert Payano, a 21 year-old OutSet fellow whose short script was chosen to be produced.  All 15 fellows arrived to their first class on November 8^th 2012 with a simple pitch of an idea they had for a story.  The fellows, all between the ages of 16-24 years old, had never met before and were asked during class to write down their pitch on piece of paper without their name.  They were prompted to fold it into a paper airplane, or for those who experienced anxiety with that prompt, just to simply crumble into a ball…most chose the later.  Five Outfest Alumni filmmakers sat across the room in the LifeWorks office at The Village and asked them to throw their ideas into the air at them.  Let them go.  Fly them across the room…. or dramatically whip them as needed.  Without knowing whose was whose at this point, mentor Deondray Gossett, picked up a paper airplane off the ground and read the following aloud, “Jake, a confident teen who is out to his mom as gay, is unaware that his mother has been snooping in his room and found condoms and incriminating writings on his computer about the most recent invitation from his friends: an all-boy weekend away at the cabin of Jake’s crush. She is as torn as ever.  Their trust in one another will dramatically be tested.”  This of course caused some fellows in the class to gasp and laugh out loud.  Everyone discussed what the themes were, how the story could be told, and what could happen to test their relationship.  It was very exciting for Albert who sat silent and listened to the buzz of ideas and then finally revealed it was his idea. Read more