Out on Film, presented through GILEAD and WABE, announced the programming of films and occasions for the 35th anniversary edition of the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA Film Festival. Festivals worth the entrance fee,” once again features a varied variety of films ranging from highly anticipated studio efforts to independent films, and from foreign productions to local productions from Georgia and Atlanta. As a component of its carefully curated hybrid presentation. From September 22 to October 2, Out on Film will open with Nicholas Stoller’s comedy Bros, co-written and directed by Billy Eichner, with Todd Flaherty’s Chrissy Judy occupying the final slot of the night. Featured screenings include Micheal Rice’s Black As U R, Connie Cocchia Got Louder’s When Time, Daresha Kiyi’s Mama Bears and the world premiere of Yuval David’s Wonderfully Made – LGBTQ R (elegrine) through executives such as manufacturer Mark McDermott and vocal makers added Lance Bass.
Out on Film’s programming includes 40 feature films (23 narrative films, 17 documentaries) and 16 short film systems with 143 films representing 27 countries. Almost all of those videos will be available for streaming nationwide.
Colman Domingo will be on hand for this year’s Out on Film Icon Award, and other special occasions will come with the 40th anniversary screening of Grease 2 and the film festival’s first script competition, sponsored by Warren Gump.
Out on Film Film Festival Director Jim Farmer said, “Our 35th anniversary presentation will be successful in every ranking that has marked Out on Film over the past four decades, with a glorious mix of films from around the world, as well as our incredible city of Atlanta. We have a big winner at Colman Domingo who will manage to be in the middle of their incredibly busy production schedule and new in-store attractions, adding our first screenwriting contest along with a queer filmmaker celebration.
Out on Film opens Thursday, September 22 with Nicholas Stoller’s Bros,” the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two maybe, maybe, probably, who run into homosexuals, co-written and starring Billy Eichner. The Georgia premiere of Todd Flaherty’s black comedy Chrissy Judy will take a place on the final night of Sunday, October 2. Your true self in the process.
The central screenings come with Micheal Rice’s documentary Black As U R which puts a mirror on black America by asking the question: “Why do we, like other people, protest against racial injustice, but the injustices suffered by black homosexuals Daresha Kiyi’s favorite festival documentary, Mama Bears, focuses on mothers of LGBTQ+ youth through the journeys of Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shapley, two “mother bears” – whose deep love for their LGBTQ+ children has made them strong advocates of the total queer network – and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African-American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance perfectly illustrates why mama bears are so important Daresha Kiyi will attend the screening and participate in a question and answer session after the screening First-time director Connie Cocchia When Time Got Louder follows a young woman who leaves home and her autistic brother for school and finds herself in she finds herself torn between the new life she establishes and her love for home and life. family. The film stars Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost). Connie Cocchia will attend and participate in a question and answer session after the screening. Yuval David’s Emmy-winning documentary Wonderfully Made – LGBTQ+R (Choice) will make its world premiere on Out on Film. Produced by Mark McDermott, with champion producers adding Lance Bass, the film examines the roots of anti-LGBTQ attitudes through exploring the demanding situations and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics with a focus on the process of a task of art that creates unprecedented photographic iconography depicting Jesus. as a member/ally of the LGBTQ+ network. Director Yuval David and executive fabricator Mark McDermott will be on hand to report on the film’s post screening.
Other world premieres come with Kimya Motley’s documentary Intentionally Erased about reports of black trans women in the United States. After the screening, Out on Film will present a panel discussion to deepen the verbal exchange informed through the film. It follows the mystery Love Island of Myles Clohessy an organization of friends as they visit what began as an idyllic pandemic getaway in the LGBTQ vacation paradise of Fire Island, as they find themselves methodically attacked and killed by an obsessed lunatic.
Special occasions at Out on Film will take place through this year’s Icon Ward presentation to Colman Domingo. Nominated for the 2022 Emmy Awards, two-time Film Independent Spirit Award, Gotham Award, SAG Award, Critics’ Choice, and NAACP Award, Colman Domingo recently won a Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Actor. in a Limited Series/Anthology and an Image Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his paintings in Euphoria. In addition, Domingo is a Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League and NAACP Theater Award nominee, OBIE Award actor, playwright, director and producer, and Lucille Lortel. A prolific and ubiquitous presence on screen and on the level in recent years, Domingo has made an indelible impression in films such as If Beale Street Could Talk through Barry Jenkins, Lincoln through Steven Spielberg, The Butler through Lee Daniel, Selma through Ava DuVernay, Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, and Janicza Bravo’s Zola. Domingo has also made his mark on television in Fear the Walking Dead, Euphoria and The Knick. As a writer, his plays and musicals include ‘Dot’, ‘Wild with Happy’ and ‘A Boy and His Soul’. Upcoming projects include the fourth season of his series, Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s, as well as the debut of his new West Philly series, Bathrough, for which he will write, direct and executive produce for ALLBLK/AMC+. Colman. Domingo will also star in the Netflix/Higher Ground movie Rustin as Bayard Rustin in 2023. He will also star as “Mister” in the Warner Brothers/Oprah Winfrey/Steven Spielberg produced movie musical The Color Purple, filmed in Atlanta and expected next year. also. Colman Domingo will participate in a “Cinema Conversation” after the screenings of his short films Luna Nueva and Estrella Nueva.
Other highlights of the 35th anniversary edition of Out on Film include local Atlanta films and filmmakers, directed through Mercedes Kane’s art and pep documentary about
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña, owners of the iconic Sidetrack bar in Chicago. Longtime roguytic members include civil rights leaders who have fought for LGBTQ+ equality for decades, activists of the AIDS crisis, and co-founders of Equality Illinois. Jono Mitchell, another Atlanta-based director, will be participating in the film festival with his latest film, Miles From Nowhere. The drama centers on a dying man in a cabin retreat who is forced to face past mistakes after learning that he may not know his friends as well as he thinks. The latest from Atlanta alum Travis Fine is the drama Two Eyes, which tells the story of 3 main characters in 3 different time periods: a young artist who travels to Montana in 1868 to paint the wild and untamed land, a young photographer in 1979 who befriends a money exchange student and young trans musician in 2020. For the Love of Friends via Atlantan Cara Consilvio looks at Brent Nicholson Earle, who in 1986 woke America up to the crisis of AIDS and revered the friends he lost traveling the perimeter of the United States. state
Finally, Out on Film will combine its anniversary party with a 40th anniversary screening of allan Carr’s Grease 2. beloved score of this criminally underrated musical, adding “Playback,” “Back to School,” “Score Tonight” and “Turn Back the Hands of Time. “Lady Stephanie if you can overlook Adrian Zmed’s best hair. If that wasn’t enough, on Saturday, October 1, there will be a loose public reading of the winning script of the film festival’s first script festival, as well as a queer filmmaker.
For more information on purchasing Out on Film passes, tickets and other main points, visit: outonfilm. org.
The selections in the film 2022:
OPENING NIGHT OF THE SELECTION
siblings
Director: Nicolás Stoller
Country: United States, duration: min
This fall, Universal Pictures is proud to present the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men who may, perhaps, probably, stumble upon love. Perhaps. They are very busy.
From the fierce comedic spirit of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, The Lion King, Difficult People, Impeachment: American Crime Story 2019) and the genius of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the films Neighbours, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes Bros, an intelligent, pale and honest comedy about the difficulty of finding a tolerable human being with whom to spend one’s life.
Starring Billy Eichner, the first gay boy to co-write and star in his own big-studio film, and starring a major all-LGBTQ cast, including Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Experience), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal), Guy Branum (The Other Two) and Aguyda Bearse (Married. . . with Children) – Bros is directed by Nicholas Stoller from his screenplay with Eichner. The film is produced by Judd Apatow, Stoller and Joshua Church (co-producer of Trainwreck, Step Brothers) and is produced by Eichner and Karl Frankenfield.
CENTERPIECE SELECTION
Black as U R
Director: Michael Rice
Country: United States, duration: min
Black As U R poses a highly conflicting and avoided question to black America. Why, as a people, do we protest against racial injustice and forget about the injustices suffered by black homosexuals?In this incendiary documentary, filmmaker Micheal Rice takes the audience on an adventure. through the homophobia that characterizes many black spaces, whether it’s a fresh, autobiographical look at their own upbringing in the South. BLACK AS U R is the first step in confronting the African-American network with queerphobia, the hot stories of queer blacks.
When the weather is stronger
Director: Connie Cocchia
Country: Canada, Duration: 114 min
Upon leaving for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother autistic and nonverbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she struggles between her new life and love for her brother. This drama from filmmaker Connie Cocchia stars Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost).
Mom Bear
Director: Daresha Kiyi
Country: United States, duration: min
Did you know that there are more than 32,000 moms in America, many of whom come from conservative and Christian backgrounds, who settle entirely for their LGBTQ children?Mama Bears is an exploration of the travels of Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shapley, two “bear mothers”. “, whose deep love for their LGBTQ youth has made them staunch supporters of the entire queer network, and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African-American lesbian whose struggle for economic self-sufficiency perfectly illustrates why bear mothers are so important.
Wonderfully Done — LGBTQ R WORLD PREMIERE (chosen)
Director: Yuval David
Country: United States, Duration: min
Directed by Emmy winner Yuval David and produced by Mark McDermott, the extremely poignant Wonderfully Made — LGBTQ R(election) is a feature-length documentary that addresses the root of anti-LGBTQ attitudes through exploring the demanding situations and aspirations of LGBTQ Catholics. The film focuses on the Catholic Church because it is one of the largest devout organizations in the world and because its anti-LGBTQ stance is well known and harsh in the world. iconography depicting Jesus as a member/ally of the LGBTQ community, portrayed through multiple LGBTQ models of diverse ethnicities, genders, races, sexualities, and identities. Proponent manufacturers come with Lance Bass, Bishop Gene Robinson, the Rev. Mel White, former Irish President Mary McAleese, Andrew Tobias, Mitchell Gold and Jane Clementi.
CLOSING NIGHT OF SELECTIONS
Chrissy Judy GEORGIA PREMIERE Director: Todd Flaherty
Country: United States, Duration: min
Everyone has that friend who can’t get together, but you can’t help and love him to pieces anyway. every time he has more than a couple of cocktails in the tank. After years of pushing in combination into the New York bar scene, Judy is convinced that it’s the summer that her drag queen act, regardless, will get its big break. That is, until Chrissy’s priorities suddenly change, forcing a disillusioned Judy to take a close look at her trajectory as a queer artist and rediscover her true self in the process. Homosexual men face each other in the search for love, acceptance, romance, and identity.
ADDITIONAL FEATURE FILMS (IN PERSON)
all kinds of love
Director: David Lewis
Country: United States, duration: min
In the context of the Supreme Court’s confirmation of marriage equality in 2015, a long-time same-sex couple divorces just as everyone gets married. After her husband, phobic to engagement, divorces, a stuck gay man tries to become a roommate of a fashionable young nerd who is as romantic as he is, sparks fly.
Every Man: International Male History
Directors: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed
Country: United States, duration: min
This desirable new film spans three decades of the unlikely but enduring influence of the foreign men’s catalog on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. reshaped men’s fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and avant-garde. International Male has reached gay and direct consumers through the redefinition of photographs of masculinity in American culture, generating profits and millions of runs.
Art and dynamism
Director: Mercedes Kane
Country: United States, duration: min
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are the owners of Chicago’s iconic Sidetrack bar, as well as a longtime romantic couple. They are also civil rights leaders who have been fighting for LGBTQ equality for decades, AIDS crisis activists, and co-founders of Equality Illinois.
The Houb
Director: Sharif Nasr
Country : Netherlands : Runtime : 102 min
The Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to the house of his circle of relatives and opens up to his classic parents about being in love with men. His reaction inspires an adventure of discovery through Karim’s isolation as he tries to break an ingrained culture of silence and ends up locking himself in. himself in his parents’ closet. Based on the life of lead actor Fahd Larhzaoui, this new film is darkly comical and bold.
For the love of friends
Director: Cara Consilvio
Country: United States, Duration: min
In 1986, to wake America up to the AIDS crisis and honor the friends it had lost, Brent Nicholson Earle traveled the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs nearly one marathon a day for 20 months in a row. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, and fear, she returns home with her own HIV diagnosis. Although the race ends, Brent’s activism never stops, in Atlanta filmmaker Cara Consilvio’s exquisite documentary.
Supervision agnes
Director: Chase Joynt
Country: United States/Canada, duration: min
In 1958, a young trans woman named Agnes participated in a sexual disorders exam at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she needed, by any means necessary. For a long time it was thought that his story was exceptional until in the past no records of other patients were seen. Directed by Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and featuring a cast of transgender artists and performers, Framing Agnes uses genre-blurring staging and storytelling techniques to breathe new life into other people unknown in the past who redefined gender in the mid-century. With Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard, Max Wolf Valerio and Stephen Ira.
Fat 2 (1982)
Director: Allan Carr
Country: United States, Duration: 114 min
Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the leader of Pink Ladies at Rydell High School, a gang of women who are the opposite numbers of the school’s fat organization called T-Birds. Stephanie is tired of dating the most sensible T-Bird. Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), so she breaks up with him and temporarily catches the attention of English exchange student Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield). Hoping to convince her, Michael tries to triumph over his distasteful tactics while pushing away the jealous Johnny.
on the side
Director: Matt Carter
Country: United States, Duration: 134 min
After a drunken encounter, two men also joined a homosexual rugby club with money problems and involuntarily sleepwalked into a matter of adultery, but they will have to hide their developing emotions or threaten to destroy the club they love. Set in the middle of the British rugby world, it is a beautiful and moving love story, directed by Matt Carter.
Intentionally erased WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Kimya Motley
Country: United States, duration: 60 min
Kimya Motley is an educator, activist, writer, director and producer working to end violence against all girls. He directed, co-wrote and co-produced this captivating documentary about the allegations of black trans people in the United States.
Jimmy in Saigon
Director: Peter McDowell
Country: United States, Duration: 89 min
Generations after his brother’s death, director Peter McDowell uncovers secrets similar to Jimmy’s sexuality and drug use. Jimmy died as a civilian in Saigon in the Vietnam War when Peter was only five years old and through many of his letters and a truth-seeking adventure he takes around the world, Peter comes to know Jimmy and discovers peace in his own life. This disturbing documentary is produced by Dan Savage.
Tapeworm
Director: Craig Boreham
Country: Australia, Duration: min
In this particular sexually drama, Casey, a country boy fleeing a scandal in a small town, discovers himself in the big city of Sydney. When she meets the town boy, Tib, the two men find everything they were missing, but neither of them knows how to negotiate it.
WORLD PREMIERE The Island of Love
Director: Myles Clohessy
Country: United States, duration: min
The ultimate summer vacation getaway away from COVID-locked New York City temporarily spirals out for an organization of friends in fire Island’s infamous and picturesque LGBTQ party retreat, as they find themselves slowly kidnapped one-on-one by a killer-obsessed maniac playing with risk through Jonathan Bennet.
Love Without Fear (Love Without Fear)
Director: Juan José Frausto
Country: United States, duration: min
Love Without Fear is a romantic and sexy story about Josh Adams and his self-discovery in the city of Taxco, Mexico, as well as an intimate description of two men from other parts of the world who are attracted to others in unforeseen ways. When Josh meets the musician Leo, his life changes in this erotic and human drama.
manscaping
Director: Broderick Fox
Country: United Kingdom, Duration: min
An Afrofuturist, a nude fetishist and a network activist enter a hairdresser. . . Black American visual artist Devan Shimoyama, Australian fetish hairdresser/pornography maker Richard Savvy and Canadian transgender hairdresser Jessie Anderson are 3 queer men who are reinventing hairdressing and redefining masculinity along the way.
one of March
Director: Gabriel Martín
Country: Brazil, Duration: min
Martins’ circle of relatives is a positive dreamer, living quietly on the periphery of one of Brazil’s major cities after the disappointing inauguration of a far-right president. A circle of lower-middle-class black relatives feel the tension of their new truth as the political dust settles. Tercia, the mother, reinterprets her global after an unforeseen encounter that leaves her wondering if she is cursed. Her husband, Wellington, pins all his hopes on the football career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows the ambitions of his father, who secretly aspires to examine astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, his eldest daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and wonders if it’s time to leave home.
Maybe one day
Director: Michelle Ehlen
Jay, a forty-something non-binary photographer, tries to cross the country to start his life over when he separates from his wife. she loves and befriends a charismatic gay boy who has long since given up on love. Struggling to move towards the next bankruptcy of his life, memories of the afterlife resurface as Jay grapples with the inevitable cycles of love, loss, and abandonment.
Miles out of nowhere
Director: Jono Mitchell
Country: United States, duration: min
During an annual retreat in a cabin, a dying user has to face his mistakes after learning that he may not know his friends as well as he thinks. This considered drama from prolific Atlanta director Jono Mitchell boasts an impeccable overall cast.
the boys of nana
Director: Ashton Pina
Country: United States, duration, min
When an explosion rocks New York City in a lockdown and without electricity, Amari and Q are forced to face the fragility of their partnership. Ashton Pina set out to create an intimate and fair mirror image in reports that cause tension in a relationship. a bittersweet love story about two black men who, despite their success story, existing cases and callous attitude, care deeply about each other.
nelly and nadine
Director: Magnus Gertten
Country: Sweden/Norway/Belgium, Duration: min
Nelly
Pat Rocco dared
Directors: Bob Christie, Morris Chapdelaine
Country: Canada, Duration: min
In the 1970s, Playboy magazine dubbed Pat Rocco the King of Nudity, but he’s much more than an erotic filmmaker. Rocco is an activist, artist, filmmaker and artist. He’s all Hollywood, with one more story to tell: his own. He came to Hollywood with his parents at the age of eleven. At six, he knew he was gay, had left home, and lived in the closet. It was 1951 Having sung in choirs in his youth, he controlled placing concerts on the radio, in nightclubs, theaters and church basements. With her true prowess and undeniable charisma, she has made her way to TELEVISION variety shows, alongside legends like Phyllis Diller.
yellow belly
Directors: Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes
Country: Australia, Duration: 103 min
Cecilia and Emma were friends of two ages who would grow old together and never let anything stand between them, until Alex appeared. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer who lives the dream of being independent. and millennial woman in fashion. . . until he met Emma for the first time in over a decade. Emma invites Cecilia on her bachelor weekend to a secluded cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia’s weekend hell.
so simple go
Director: Christoffer Sandler
Country: Sweden/Norway, Duration: min
Joanna, 18, wants her ADHD medication to keep her brain in order. When you can no longer take your medication, you will have to be artistic in your search for money. In the midst of this, he meets the captivating and self-confident Audrey. . This meeting adjusts his life in this excitement of the award-winning audience.
Swallowed
Director: Carter Smith
Country: United States, Duration: min
After a drug race goes wrong, two formative years of friends will have to spend a terrible night in a hell of drugs, insects, and obscene intimacy. Jena Malone and Mark Patton (A Nightmare on Elm Street) are the protagonists of this queer horror night.
Two eyes
Director: Travis Fine
Country: United States, duration: 107 min
Two Eyes explores homosexuality, gender and love. . . art and passion. . . in search of your muse. . . and in search of your true other friends along the way. The story follows 3 main characters in 3 distinct periods: a young artist who travels to Montana in 1868 to paint the wild and untamed land, a young photographer in 1979 who befriends a foreign student, and a young trans musician in 2020.
Unidentified objects
Director: Juan Felipe Zuleta
Country: United States, duration: one hundred min
Peter (Matthew Jeffers of New Amersterdam) is an flamboyant dwarf and misanthrope who hides from the world in his seedy New York apartment. embark on an impromptu road trip. What she believes is the site of an upcoming alien stop in the desert of rural Canada. During their surreal odyssey, Peter and Winona will encounter lesbian cosplayers fighting, mushroom-addicted survivors, and even alien cops. the more your trauma is revealed, it becomes transparent that the only thing more stressful than being abducted is being alone in the universe.
Where butterflies fly
Director: Román Nemec
Country: Czech Republic, Duration: 126 min
Daniel is a strange guy who lives with his parents who constantly argue without complaining about their fate. It helps to keep your distance from others, you have no friends, no one understands you, it is different. He’s going to be nineteen and the last thing he would devote his time to is preparing for his next title. Adam is her master of elegance. She is gay and lives on a date with her young husband David and her strictly kept secret is locked at the door of her apartment. Daniel and Adam live in their own bubbles until they find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
Youtopia
Director: Explorer Durwood
Country: United States, Duration: min
The Scout Durwood musical is sure to make you smile. After a devastating breakup, an ancient millennium inadvertently bureaucratizes a hipster cult. When the members begin to disappear, the leader is faced with the awareness that her adventure of self-discovery may cause the end of civilization. as we know her, forcing her to face her most complicated enemy to date: herself.
ADDITIONAL FEATURE FILMS (VIRTUAL)
love of country
Director: Wapah Ezeigwe
Country: Nigeria, Duration: forty-five minutes
Kambili returns home after fifteen years when his sister, Nneka, writes him an honest letter of reconciliation. Upon his return, he faces bittersweet memories of his formative years, his remote appointments with his family, and his deep affection for his upbringing. With the hope that things would now go better – he would rebuild his relationship with his sister and find Ifediora again – his expectations fade when he realizes that Ifediora, homosexual, has evolved with a woman to whom he is engaged and Nneka still has not replaced who she is.
Dawn, her father and the tractor
Director: Shelley Thompson
Country: Canada, Duration: min
When a young woman with an unexpected resemblance to John Andrew’s wife, Miranda, appears a few days before his funeral, he begins an odyssey toward understanding. Her son Donald is now Dawn, at home to mourn his mom and fix the distance with his father. When Dawn is reunited with her sister Tammy and her fiancé Byron, a new circle of family order begins to emerge. An old tractor becomes dawn’s concentrate, which has a mechanical mind, but John Andrew’s long-standing resentments about the tractor exacerbate the circle of family tensions.
Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls
Director: Julianna Notten
Country: Canada, Duration: min.
When she finishes high school, Erin, the only absent user in her class, and Liz, another e-book comedian and track and field star, see their friendship put to the test when Liz is accepted into a user high school and Erin falls in love with a new woman and former child star, Sydney. Erin believes that the only way to save herself from a safe fate next year is to invite Sydni to the big dance and walk in with the popular kids, but the plan goes wrong when she starts wasting Liz along the way. Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls is a story of friendship, first love, and resolution about what’s vital to you when everything changes, all told through a lens.
Game on, queer interruptions in sport
Director: María Takács
Country: Hungary, Duration: 107 min
Gay runners, a lesbian boxer, an intersex t-shirt and a transgender footballer, all on one team!Can you believe it? They are athletes whose lives are invisible, unimaginable to society. In recent years, other LGBTIQ people in games have become more visible, but many of them still remain in the closet, especially in professional games. The film features five protagonists from four other countries, each shaking up the amateur game with their gay, lesbian, trans and intersex identities. They communicate candidly about their background in gambling, their individual reports, and their personal lives.
An adventure to be proud of
DirectorChristopher Wesley Moore
Country: United States, duration: min
After a decade of pride in Jackson, Mississippi, a local pride committee is formed to plan for the biggest and safest pride Mississippi has ever had, as the COVID pandemic threatens to cancel the event for the third time.
Screens with:
Mississippi Vacations
Director: Cristina Huff
Country: United States, duration: 35 min
The Hollidays in Mississippi focuses on the dates between Eric White (GoDiva Holliday) and Justin Tyler (DeePression Holliday), two dragsters born and raised in a small Mississippi town. While the film highlights the importance of queer families (the families we create from the doors of our biological families) through the lens of White and Tyler, this story will eventually stick to the exclusive relationship between White and Tyler. COVID-19 stops them in their tracks, White loses his penchant for directing shows and passes the baton to Tyler to complete his legacy of building queer communities in Tupelo, Mississippi.
No mermaid was left behind
Directors: Shirin Barghi, Martine N. Granby
Country: United States, duration: 31 min
No Siren Left Behind is a short documentary about New York’s oldest and largest women-run club: its position in queer history, the lives of its members, and the sisterhood of a selected family.
Our dad, Danielle
Director: S. E. King
Country: United States, duration: min
Danielle Joy “DJ” Healey was terrified of being herself for 57 years, fearing to waste her wife, two daughters and a prestigious legal career. He almost died trying to protect those who enjoyed his reality. For more than a part of her life, Danielle has had privilege and strength on the outside while suffering tremendously on the inside. The classic dream of the nuclear family in idyllic Sugar Land, Texas, replaced once they revealed on their Facebook network in 2017 the secret they had kept for decades: Danielle is trans.
A race for more
Director: Ray Whitehouse
Country: United States, duration: min
As a transgender woman in Texas, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe hoped to encounter resistance to her crusade for the city council. I didn’t intend to come out with identity, activism, and civic engagement. During the electoral crusade, she discovers herself in an unforeseen adventure of self-discovery and healing.
Full log of Ms. Vera
Director: Roberto James
Country: United States, Duration: min.
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook tells a story of ancient activism and networked art through the works of two San Francisco artists and long-term AIDS SURVIVORS. During one of the darkest periods in U. S. history. broken network for which a total action has arisen. Supporters, other activists, and members of the queer art network sign up for the film to help paint this brilliant portrait of the perseverance, compassion, and outrageous style of dime shops.
SHORT FILM PROGRAMS (IN PERSON)
ALL UNDER THE RAINBOW SHORTS
The Baldwin Files
Real. Tory Devon Smith and Laura Seay, min, United States
The beast
Real. Urvashi Pathania, nine minutes, United States
Body language
Real. Odu Adamu, 10 minutes, United States of America
church camp
Real. Andrew D. Bourne, 14 minutes, United States of America
Going out with a time machine
Real. Naman Gupta, 15 minutes, United States of America
Half
Real. Jacob Roberts, min, United States of America
Difficult
Real. Robin Takao D’Oench
leather boy
Real. Jack McGreal, minutes, USA
Taffeta
Real. Lovell Holder, min, United States of America
Troy
Real. Mike Donahue, min, United States of America
TRANSEXCELLENT
100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu
Real. Gbenga Komolafe, 14 min, United States of America
Do I know you from anyone?
Real. Gwen Rathbone, min, United Kingdom
how to date a trans person
Real. Nyala Moon, 12 minutes, United States of America
only benjamin
Real. Paige Murphy, 24 minutes, United States of America
pronouns in organic
Real. Frankie Shaftain-Fenner, 20 minutes, United Kingdom
Transit: A Fairy in New York
Real. Emily Dinova, 18 minutes, United States of America
LET’S LAUGH AGAIN
Brutal
Real. Sam McConnell, thirteen minutes, United States
rooster n bull 3
Real. Nathan Adloff, 24 minutes, United States of America
F^¢k ‘Em Right!ght B@¢k
Real. Harris Doran, 12 minutes, United States
gay haircut
Real. Jude Hope Harris, 7 minutes, United States
Gay History Tour
Real. Adam Enright and Aaron Fuksa, 7 min, USA
Syed Family Christmas Eve Game Night
Real. Fawzia Mirza, min, United States of America
Chariot Fairy
Real. Erich Rettstadt, 10 min, Taiwan
Unicorn
Real. Matt Porter, 14 minutes, United States
BEING WHO WE ARE
Nearby
Real. Benett Holgerson, 15 minutes, United States
Parents
Real. Martin Luca, five min, United States of America
foreign uncle
Real. Sining Xiang, 20 minutes, United States of America
The Men of the Letter
Real. Andy Vallentine, nine minutes, United States
Parrot
Real. Kyle B. Thompson, min, United States of America
end line
Real. Becky Cheatle, 10 min, Ireland
Undulations
Real. Dylan Mitro, 20 minutes, Canada
Queer parivar
Real. Shiva Raichandani, 27 minutes, United Kingdom
Spangle
Real. Averi Israel, min, United States
TAKE A STAND
CANS supports
Real. Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, 18 min, UNITED States
Dawn, a Charleston legend
Real. Ron Davis, 34 minutes, United States
Fishing paradise
Real. Shiva Raichandani, 12 minutes, United Kingdom
Removed
Real. Julie Casper Roth, 27 minutes, United States
INSPIRATIONS
Blind Angels: Richmond, Virginia
Real. Umbreen Butt, nine minutes, United States
love, beard
Real. Brydie O’Connor, 15 minutes, United States of America
One elevator at a time
Real. Flo Singer and Ben Dame, nine min, United States
Take the long back
Real. Qiydaar Foster, 35 minutes, United States of America
Sparkling bay
Real. Daisy Ifama, 12 min, United Kingdom
LATINOXTRAORDINARIO
Tiles
Real. María Paula Arboleda, 19 min, United States of America
Hello
Real. Oscar Pérez-Chairez, 33 min, United States of America
Novena
Real. Fernando López, 15 min, United States of America
Six away
Real. Monty Cole, thirteen minutes, United States
AROUND THE WORLD
All the prizes I have given you
Real. Ciao Scott, 17 minutes, Brazil
I am Leo
Real. Tajo Hurrle, 18 min, Germany
small sky
Real. Jess X. Snow, 14 min, Canada
Makassar is a city for football fans
Real. Khozy Rizal, 20 minutes, Indonesia
Parenthood
Real. Vicente De Ramos, cinco min, Spain
Bathrooms
Real. Michael Gamarano Singleton, nine minutes, United Kingdom
FOR WOMEN
The Birth of a Butch
Real. Gia-Rayne Harris, min, United States of America
Blue Hour
Real. Stacey Rushchak, 27 min, Poland
The Eye of the Veil
Real. Dorothy A. Atabong, 23 minutes, Canada
Melting point
Real. Mindy Stricke. five minutes, Canada
Oisín
Real. Alba Fernández, 21 min, Ireland
second father
Real. Penny PJ Chen, min, United States of America
ANIMATION EXPLOSION
bi the way
Real. Amir Ovadia Steklov, 15 min, Germany
Black box
Real. Alana Mango, min, United States of America
the woman in the mirror
Real. Iuri Moreno, 12 minutes, Brazil
It’s a gray, gray world
Real. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib, 6 min, Iran
actual injury
Real. Carrie Hawks, 15 minutes, United States of America
The Magentalman and the Gentlemint
Real. James Crang, five minutes, UK
Nails!
Real. Eliana Pipes, five min, United States
New moon
Réal. Jeff Le Bars and Jérémie Balai, min, United States
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Beautiful stranger
Real. Benjamin Bellor, 26 min, France
First
Real. Jesse Ung, 17 minutes, New Zealand
naked in the forest
Real. Paul Ploberger, 30 minutes, Austria
Too rough
Real. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, United Kingdom
cloth
Real. Erika Nakayama, 18 minutes, Japan
Too rough
Real. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, United Kingdom
SHORT HOUSE
Amine
Real. Shanrica Evans, thirteen minutes, United States
Capacity
Real. Marlee Archer, 7 minutes, United States of America
They hold together
Real. Alvin Agarrat, min, United States of America
I can you everything
Real. Kevin Anthony, 12 minutes, United States
Create a scene
Real. Jono Mitchell, 12 minutes, United States
My abortion stored my life
Real. Ruby Fludzinski and Tiler Wilson, nine minutes, United States
one day,
Real. Alexandra Faith, 7 minutes, United States of America
Perfect first date
Real. Kyle Hamlin, min, United States of America
piercing me
Real. John e. Kilberg, 10 minutes, United States of America
HORROR SHORTS – THE THINGS THAT ARE IMPACTED AT NIGHT
Housewives
Real. Sydne Horton, 22 minutes, United States of America
Infested hearts
Real. Michael Varrati, 17 minutes, United States
Mom, if I’m a vampire
Real. Deborah Chuang, 17 Minutes, Taiwan
white wedding
Real. Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, min, United Kingdom
CONNECTIONS – DRAMATIC SHORT FILMS
Iago and Tristan
Real. Miguel Ibáñez Monroy, 12 min, Spain
The Men of the Letter
Real. Andy Vallentine, nine minutes, United States
As a parent, as. . .
Real. Urvashi Pathania, 12 minutes, United States of America
Masaru
Real. Rubén Navarro, 12 min, United States
pole star
Real. PJ Palmer, 30 minutes, United States of America
The Spirit God Has Given Us
Real. Michael Donte Jemison, 20 minutes, United States
FOR WOMEN 2 (virtual)
frida
Real. Aleksandra Odic, 21 minutes, Germany
Preserve/Delete
Real. Kriz Gautier, 19 minutes, United States of America
Killing me
Real. Jillian Junco, 12 minutes, United States of America
static space
Real. John Klein and Kate Black-Spence, 28 min, United States
A LITTLE BIT OF THAT, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT (Virtual)
The drawer
Real. Tonika Huff, min, United States of America
fever
Real. Angele Scott, 19 minutes, United States
Fireworks
Real. Sam McGowan, 15 minutes, Australia
Timber
Real. Harry Sabulis, min, Australia
Man
Real. Rahul Roye, min, India
The boy of my dreams
Real. Tristan Scott-Behrends, five min. WE.
The Truth of the Arabian Nights
Real. Chris Molina, 15 minutes