Ciao is a 2008 gay independent film directed and co-written by Yen Tan and starring Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza, Charles W. Blaum and Ethel Lung.
Ciao portrays these two days where the two bereaved friends one from Dallas and the other from Italy meet and talk mostly about Mark and the impact he had on both of them in a close, personal and frank manner.
Ciao was made on a very small budget and was co-written by Yen Tan and actor Alessandro Calza.
Ruthe Stein from the San Francisco Chronicle praised the acting, but like some other reviewers criticised the "snails pace" of the movie's story.
[2] AfterElton named Ciao "the best gay movie I've seen this year"[3] and the Los Angeles Times called it "a revelation; a minimalist work of maximum effect".