Paul Lekakis

Prisoners are dying at the Ogden Correctional Institution, a prison where a corrupt Warden has turned the prisoners into underground fighters. When an investigative reporter is thrown into the mix and left for dead, she must fight for her life.

Years ago, Dirk Longstreet (Olivier Gruner) walked away from The Circuit, the merciless underground fight club with no rules, where money changes hands as men are killed. But now gangsters have got his brother, and only one more journey inside the ring will save his life.

Years ago, Dirk Longstreet walked away from The Circuit, a merciless underground fight club with no rules, where money changes hands as men are killed. But now gangsters have got his brother, and one more journey inside the ring will save his life.

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.