We’ve already covered Sydney Sweeney producing Immaculate and Jesse Eisenberg serving as a producer on Sasquatch Sunset. In yet another example of a top-tier Hollywood actor getting behind a film and filmmaker they believe in, we have Marisa Tomei who both starred in and executive produced Marco Calvani’s feature directorial debut, High Tide.

The movie stars Calvani’s partner, Marco Pigossi, as Lourenço, an undocumented Brazilian immigrant who finds himself in a limbo of sorts while living in the queer mecca of Provincetown. His American lover, Joe, hasn’t returned to town in quite some time, and now Lourenço is stuck, caught between his eagerness for Joe to come back to him but unable to go back to Brazil given his visa is about to expire. Hope comes in the form of James Bland’s character, a nurse named Maurice who also feels lost in today's America. As Calvani described, “They embrace each other, bodies and souls, and together they reconcile their past and their uncertain futures.”

While in Austin for High Tide’s world premiere at SXSW 2024, Tomei, Pigossi, Bland and Calvani visited the Collider interview studio for a brief chat about making the film.

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