2012 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Friday Sept 21st - 8pm
America's Most Unwanted - 21minThis short documentary takes a personal look at GLBT children
in Foster Care
Performance Anxiety - 15min
Two straight male actors are cast in a Gay love scene.
Start rehearsal.
Unraveling Michelle - Feature
This feature documentary follows the Male-to-Female transition of B-Movie DP Joe O'Ferrell into Michelle. There is as much hilarity and comedy in this piece as there is poignancy.
Saturday Sept 22nd - 3pm
Eddie - 10mintells the story of a young Latina girl who is forced to deal with her sexuality as a result of an embarrassing mishap during a summer afternoon kickball game.
The Wait - 9min
Two women arrive at the same place after the death of a third.
Filled with Water - 5minAnoka walks into a TV and her heart begins to glow for the ballerina inside. But she learns filling her heart can mean breaking it.
Troy Roness Show - 20min
Hailing from Bismark, Troy Roness tells a local-to-North Dakota story of living as a Gay Man.
Screaming Queens - 57mintells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. A historical documentary, this film researches and proposes the idea that the Stonewall Riots weren't the first.
Saturday Sept 22nd - 8pm
Outcomes #1, #2, #3
Short GLBT Portraits from the Hudson River Valley, NY
Surfacing - 8min contrasts the very different ways in which three young gay men come out in their suburban landscapes.
Outcomes #4
Short GLBT Portraits from the Hudson River Valley, NY
The Drive North - 13minTwo youths bicker their way up the east coast into a discomforting transition into adulthood.
Outcomes #5
Short GLBT Portraits from the Hudson River Valley, NY
Gen Silent - 1hr, 30min
This important feature documentary takes a much-needed look at what it means to be GLBT and elderly in the US today.