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...numerous translations, critical raves and multiple awards. Fraser is less known as a film entity. His 1994 collaboration with two--time Oscar nominee Denys Arcand, Love and Human Remains, though an intriguing snapshot of its time, was generally regarded as a failure. Fraser, who's currently in Los Angeles working on the writing team for next season's Queer as Folk and gearing up for his own Pride Vision talk show, Jawbreaker (which will debut this fall), is also releasing his directorial debut as a filmmaker, Leaving Metropolis. The film, about a gay artist (David, played by Troy Ruptash) and an ostensibly straight married man (Matt, played by Vincent Corazza) who fall in love, is slated for a festival run this fall (tho ugh the Toronto International Film Festival rejected it-"those fuckers," as Fraser refers to them, with a laugh). The script is based on Poor Super Man, Fraser's 1994 theatrical hit that Time magazine cited as one of the "Ten Best" plays of that year. While on hiatus in Toronto from his queer as Folk gig, Fraser paused to talk to Take One about bringing his play to the big screen.
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