Dirk Shafer's (Man of the Year) hyper-kinetic new film is set in the world of the circuit party. It's a fabulously bumpy scene where the boys have perfect pecs, designer drugs flow freely and weaker lives tend to crumble. John is a closeted small-town cop who escapes to LA to be out and proud. He becomes friendly with Hector, a high-end prostitute who brings John into the uniquely gay life of intense bodybuilding and night-into-morning dance parties. He also falls in love with Gill, who has already been through this scene and survived. As John falls deeper and deeper into drugs and partying, most of his friends lose patience, but Gill holds on. Events culminate at the annual White Party in Palm Springs, CA where lives are changed.

Will John pull out of the scene and settle down with Gill? With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, Circuit is bound to get your juices flowing.

The scene, as most of us know, has both wondrous and scary sides, and both parallel elements of the circuit scene are explored in this terrific new film. Circuit begins its tale in a small conversative town as John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) is outed as a fellow cop attacks a gay man. Rather than withstand the homophobia of his fellow officers, he decides to move to West Hollywood to experience life as an openly gay man. He meets up with his cousin Tad (the adorable Daniel Kukan), a documentary filmmaker whose latest project is a profile of the Circuit Party scene. John is quickly sucked into the seductive and bacchanalian world of bodybuilding, night-into-morning dance parties, and hardcore designer drug and steroid abuse. His life skyrockets out of control, torn between the grounded and �over the whole scene� Gill (Brian Lane Green) and Hector, a stunning Latin hustler (Andre Khabazzi, in a star-making performance - the mirror scene is a stunner).

John�s high school sweetie and best friend (Kiersten Warren) gets progressively worried at John�s rapidly deteriorating attitude � and mind. It all culminates in spiraling tragedy at the White Party.

Many will find the film disturbing while others will be drawn to the communal and tribal �men with men� party atmosphere; the film makes no judgments, but certainly doesn't shy away from any of the scene's aspects. With its throbbing soundtrack, terrific cinematography and editing (the shot-on-location party scenes are sure to get your pulse racing), assured performances, graphic drug abuse, and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, Circuit is certain to get your juices going. -Erik Schut & Scott Cranin