Max has released the official trailer for the upcoming HBO original documentary titled You Were My First Boyfriend, featuring co-director Cecilia Aldarondo as she re-lives moments from her teenage years which affected her throughout life.
The film had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. It will be available for streaming on November 8, exclusively on Max.
Check out the You Were My First Boyfriend trailer below (watch more trailers):
What to expect in You Were My First Boyfriend?
Described as a hybrid documentary, You Were My First Boyfriend is written and directed by Aldarondo and Sarah Enid Hagey, with Hagey also serving as its editor. In addition to Aldarondo, Melissa Baker, Sarah Baker Butterfield, Laura Gallegos, Gabriel Kristal, Joel Pickering, and Jo Anne Taylor will appear in the documentary as themselves.
The cast also includes Trinity Soos, Hannah Whipple, Xander Black, Maya Karp, Ella Marie Fraley, Delanie Nicole Gill, Erica Kaylee Gouldthorpe, Isabella Rivera Gandulla, and Cole Donaldson. It is executive produced by Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez, with Aldarondo and Ines Hofmann Kanna producing. The creative team also includes editor Shannon Kennedy and coordinating producer Anna Klein.
“What if you could rewrite your adolescence? In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years,” reads the synopsis. “She revisits some of her most formative – and at times cringeworthy – childhood experiences, tracking down old crushes and reenacting visceral memories of youthful humiliation and desire, at times playing the role of her younger self and casting teenagers to play the kids in her life who still haunt her. Oscillating between present and past, humor and heartbreak, YOU WERE MY FIRST BOYFRIEND is a hybrid documentary that takes seriously the power of adolescence and the way time impacts memories, exploring what it means to grow up and make peace with the drama of our teenage trauma.”
