Watch A Clip From Yen Tan's Sundance Drama PIT STOP

Yen Tan's Pit Stop will have its World Premiere at Sundance on January 21 and ScreenAnarchy is proud to present a first clip from the film.

Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance.

Far from the gay centers of the world, director Yen Tan explores the complex and oft-forgotten lives of gay men in small-town America. The understated, contemplative nature of Ernesto and Gabe's story is told from the perspective of an observer, allowing us--even if just for a moment--to understand what it means to be an outsider. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama. In a refreshingly quiet film, Tan's protagonists never try to run away from their relatively hollow surroundings, but opt to fill life's deepest voids with their tenacious confidence.

Bill Heck and Amy Seimetz are front and center in this clip, the pair delivering a wonderfully fragile and nuanced moment. Marcus DeAnda and John Merriman round out the cast. Check the clip below.