Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2008

Faybien Allen (RayMartell Moore) wakes up every morning asking the same question "What am I doing with my life?", and it defines every decision he makes.

From the friends he keeps, his relationship with his father and to the men he falls in love with, Faybien finds that everyone in his life has something to say about his meandering path, except himself.

Defined as much by his homophobic father as his flamboyant friends, he careens between self-doubt and pride - mourning the loss of his beloved mother while hopping from club to club with his pals.

When he meets a man that proves there is life after "coming out", Faybien finally allows himself to become vulnerable - an emotion he'd turned his back on after his mother's death.

This love reveals to Faybien that he is worthy of love, respect, and happiness, and our hero soon finds himself heading toward a dramatic conflict between all that he's been taught and all that he's now learning for the first time.

Roger Omeus, Jr. has crafted an instant classic - a film depicting the timeless - and oh so topical - subject of living life as you know you must.