“Homosexuality is still a sensitive topic, and I immediately felt pressured to write something that was candid but not disrespectful to the LGBT community,” Ho explains on the Fresh Ink website.
Seventeen-year-old Kim Ho was one of the winners of the 2012 monologue competition Love Bytes, held by Fresh Ink, a development program for emerging playwrights from the Australian Theatre for Young People.Īs one of the competition’s winners, Kim was assisted with transforming his original three-minute video entry, Transcendence - which tells the story of a young gay teen struggling with his sexuality and the love he feels for a boy in his French class - into the beautiful nine-minute short film The Language of Love.
