Scenes for Stonewall Movie Shot in Nyack

Scenes for a new film about the Stonewall riots in the 1960s were shot in Nyack over the weekend.

The independent movie “SissyMan” uses the riots, a seminal point in the gay liberation movement, to tell the story of a pair of teen lovers who find themselves on opposite sides of the event, reports The Journal News.

Filmmakers used Nyack Fitness on South Franklin Street to shoot extra re-enacting the riots, and those scenes will be added to others using “green screen” movie special effects.

The film, made by former Stony Brook University students Joshua Atesh Litle, Adam Bradley and Vasi Laurence, is slated to be submitted for inclusion in the Toronto International Film Festival in May.

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