Gay rugby film gets Cork screening

A RUGBY film with a difference airs tonight at the Cork Film Festival. Walk Like A Man follows the Sydney Convicts and the San Francisco Fog as they prepare for the Bingham Cup, the World Cup of gay rugby.

“We see it very much as a sports film with a twist,” says producer Patricia Zagarella. “We hope it challenges people’s perceptions of what it means to be gay, to be a man, to be a rugby player — but it’s a sports film.”

One of Zagarella’s friends played for the Sydney Convicts: “I was taken by the fact that he was playing a hard-core game like rugby, and the apparent contradiction of gay rugby.