A Film About a Gay Porn Film

Making a bold debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday was Humpday, an independent comedy about two heterosexual men entering an amateur porn film contest. According to Indiewire.com, Magnolia Pictures has obtained rights to the film and will release it this summer, first as video-on-demand, and then distribute it in theaters a month later.

Indiewire critic Erik Kohn termed the film, "a comedic Revolutionary Road for twenty-first century audiences," commending director Lynn Shelton for creating "ceaselessly entertaining dissection of heterosexual confusion."

The film's Web site, Humpdayishere.com, describes the main characters' actions as transcending pornography and homosexuality, and instead, more characteristic as an art project.

This is Shelton's third film, according to Festival.sundance.org. The Web site also mentions her second film, My Effortless Brilliance, which garnered attention when it premiered at the SXSW (South by Southwest) 2008 entertainment festival, and which won her a nomination for the 2009 Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award.