Everett Blunck and Owen Teague in ‘Griffin in Summer’
Nicholas Colia might well be the greatest living gay, Boston-raised director and screen writer America has ever cultivated. There’s no guarantee. After all, he’s only made one feature and several shorts. But what a feature!
Colia’s “Griffin in Summer" (Honor Role Films), a wildly witty study of unbridled youthful hormones,_ _last year walked away with a boatload of awards at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best Screenplay, while earning a Someone to Watch nomination from the Indie Spirit Award folks.
So what’s this hullabaloo all about? Well, it’s summer vacation in the suburbs, and 14-year-old gangly Griffin (startlingly embodied by Everett Blunck) is planning to produce “Regrets of Autumn_,_” a