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Love is Love
Director Anne Renton, 2007, USA, 7min
Jack and Sabrina, two heterosexuals, struggle to find love in a world where they just don't fit in. Follow this comedic yet poignant look at how life might be if the world was predominately gay, and straight people were the queer ones.
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The Bond
Director Michael T. Connell, 2007, USA, 6min
This is a film about the bond between a parent and a male to female transgender child, from the perspective of the parent.
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Congratulations Daisy Graham
Director Cassandra Nicolaou, 2007, Canada, 15min
70-year-old Daisy Graham is having a hard day. No one in her small town wants to let her forget about the big ceremony tomorrow, a ceremony at the local high school in her honor. But Daisy has more important things to think about than some ceremony — she's dug out her old rifle, now she needs a box of bullets.
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Kali Ma
Director Soman Chainani, 2007, USA, 14min
When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. Starring popular Bollywood star Kamini Khanna ("Monsoon Wedding"). Kali Ma plunges us into a battle, where we discover the secrets that divide mothers and sons and the love that binds them together.
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Love Bite
Director Craig Boreham, 2008, Australia, 3min
Noah and Gus hang out and smoke weed after school. As the munchies kick in Noah feels compelled to share a secret desire that has been tormenting him.
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Ma Rainey's Lesbian Licks
Director Robert Philipson, 2006, USA, 4min
Pioneer blues vocalist Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett, was one of the earliest professional blues singers and among the first generation of such singers to record. Billed as "Mother of the Blues," she lived the unconvential life of a blues diva and broached topics in her music that were taboo in other forms of musical expression. This film features a remake of her 1928 blues number "Prove It On Me" with explicit lesbian lyrics.
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MR_RIGHT_22
Director Reza Rameri, 2007, Germany, 12min
It's Adam's first internet date, but when he transmitted his photo to the date, he never received the date's picture in return. So there he is, sitting in a gay bar (a totally alien world for Adam) waiting for his unknown Mr. Right to approach him. He is late, that's for sure. Adam's tension rises with every passing minute. With a little help from the snappy waiter, Adam tries his best to relax. And finally, Mr. Right appears, or does he?
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Fuori Target (Missing the Target)
Director Werther Germondari and Maria Laura Spagnoli, 2008, Italy, 3min
A shooter with a gun isn't able to keep his concentration while he's training…
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Private Life
Director, Abbe Robinson, 2006, United Kingdom, 15min
Yorkshire, England, 1952. Ruth Ackroyd leaves the monotony of her work in her father's textile mill on a Friday afternoon and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems…
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You, Me and Him (Café com Leite)
Director Daniel Ribeiro, 2007, Brazil, 18min
When the plans for the future change, new bonds are created between Danilo, Lucas and Marcos. In between video games and glasses of milk, pain and disappointment, they need to learn how to live together.
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The Red Dress
Director Barney Cheng, 2008, USA, 7min
A mischievous woman honors friendship and life by fulfilling her transgender best friend's last wish.
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Duck Soup
Director Kathryn Goldie, 2007, Australia, 4min
A sweet compliment over a simple meal... what could go wrong?
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Babysitting Andy
Director Pat Mills, 2007, Canada, 11min
What do you do if you're nine and nobody will tell you what fellatio means? If Andy, the most curious 9-year-old, has a question, she will do anything to get the answer. When Andy's uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behavior. Armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, Andy corners the men, who can do nothing but comply.
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Eric Himan: "Little Boy Blue"
Director Nathan McLeod, 2008, USA, 4min
Friday's featured music video is from out-musician, Eric Himan. The song, "Little Boy Blue" is from Eric's latest album, "Resonate" and was written about a transgendered boy Eric met years ago. The boy taught Eric how to be himself without apologies.
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Le Baiser (Romeo's Kiss)
Director Julien Eger, 2007, France, 11min
When Cécile skips out of rehearsal during Romeo and Juliette, kissing for the sake of art gets complicated for Thomas and Jérémie.
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Were The World Mine
Director Tom Gustafson, 2008, USA, 95min
Infused with homoerotic energy, Thomas Gustafson's "Were the World Mine" literally sings with Shakespearean lust, total abandon and creativity. In this remarkable musical fantasy, an inspired English teacher casts her summer production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with magic in mind. Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is a gay teen stranded in a private, rugby-obsessed boys school. But there's just one thing about rugby he's obsessed with: the uberhot Jonathan (Nathaniel Becker). Both teens are students in Ms. Tebbit's (Wendy Robie, who "Twin Peaks" fans will recognize as Nadine) English class. She's a teacher with a mission: to excite her students with the literature of the ages. When she decides to cast these two boys as the romantic leads in her production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," you know she's just as mischievous as Puck himself. The rugby coach and townspeople are up in arms, and Timothy sends himself off into musical gay fantasies that look as if they're designed by Pierre et Gilles. But Timothy just can't get the language right, and Ms. Tebbit advises the boy to let the words work their magic. They do just that as Timothy finds in the script the recipe for a potion to make people gay! One spritz from Timothy's magic pansy and the person goes totally queer. The entire town, filled with Christian fundamentalists, is whipped into a frenzy as the glorious production night approaches. This deliciously surreal confection is steered by first-time co-writer/director Thomas Gustafson, whose awardwinning 2003 short "Fairies" inspired this bit of magic. The musical numbers are over-the-top, production values are first-rate and the acting is as flawlessly beautiful as the boys. We know the Bard would appreciate this totally queer take on his immortal tale of mayhem: "If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended."
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Who I am
Director Jesse Peretz, 2006, USA, 12min
Two young women confront their sexuality at the crossroads of race and class. This film, written by 17-year-old Whitney Peters, tackles the complex aspects of identity: race, class, gender and sexuality.
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Tru Loved
Director Stewart Wade, 2007, USA, 99min
16-year-old Tru is uprooted by her lesbian moms from her comfortable gay-friendly home in San Francisco and moved to a conservative, suburban community in Southern California. Surrounded by homophobic football players, Paris and Nicole wanna-bees, Tru escapes into fantasy. She daydreams of living in a 1950's black-and-white "Leave It to Beaver" — like household with two moms and two dads. Her only friendship is with a closeted football player, and even that friendship is jeopardized when she starts the school's first Gay-Straight Alliance. The film is an examination of one teen's courageous ability to counter smalltown small-mindedness, broaching tough issues of interracial dating, gay parenting, and school-sanctioned homophobia that the average after-school special eschews. This family friendly film features appearances by Bruce Vilanch, Jane Lynch, Alec Mapa, Jasmine Guy, Marcia Wallace, Nichelle Nichols, and David Kopay, the first professional athlete to come out.
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Happenstance
Director Joyce Draganosky, 2007,USA, 8min
Beth discovers she has a lot in common with her son's new girlfriend.
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The World Unseen
Director Shamin Sarif, 2007, United Kingdom, 103min
Early apartheid South Africa is an unlikely place to be free. Yet here's Amina scandalizing her conservative Indian community by living as she pleases. They gossip about her wearing men's clothing and taking women lovers: they wonder if she'll ever marry. Furthermore, Amina owns a successful café with her "coloured" business partner Jacob. To skirt the law, they pretend he is just an employee. Into this haven of rebels comes young wife and mother Miriam, who stuns Amina with her shy beauty. Their immediate mutual attraction suprises them both. Seeing such a selfpossessed Indian woman makes Miriam think and feel things she hasn't before. She discovers just how imprisoned she is in her traditional marriage and starts to look for ways to have her own voice and enter the larger world. As the two women get to know each other, passion ensues, and events soon force them to stand up to the ever-vigilant and volatile apartheid police. Bringing her award-winning novel to the screen, director Shamim Sarif gives us fully-realized characters resisting dehumanization in a touching story of the daily fight for liberation and its immediate rewards, where the beauty of the surrounding landscape belies the turmoil in a system built on fear, hatred and separation.
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Bramadero
Director Julián Hernández, 2007, Mexico, 22min
The beautiful and erotic Bramadero finds Hassen and Jonás on the outskirts of Mexico City. Away from it all, they've found a spot where they can seduce one another and merge into one; where sex becomes desire, desire becomes love, and only death will separate them.
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The Window
Director Philippe Gosselin and Ronald Regina, 2008, USA, 6min
Three men discover the pleasure of showing the world what they're made of.
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Kiss Me Deadly
Director Ron Oliver, 2008, USA, 85min
Robert Gant stars as Jacob Keane, an openly-gay photographer living the family life in Milan with his boyfriend, Paolo and Julia, the daughter he shares with his lesbian friend Kyra. One fateful day, Marta (Shannen Doherty), a long-forgotten friend from his past, shows up at his door. Years earlier, Keane and Marta were partners, agents for the CIA working in Eastern Europe. Now she has amnesia, and she's being tailed by someone they once knew — someone who wants something from both of them. Similar in style to "The Bourne Identity" movies, the film also stars acclaimed character actor John Rhys-Davies and features a suspenseful game of who-dun-it that questions the main characters' true loyalties.
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Crafty
Director Erik Gernand, 2008, USA, 9min
A crafty activist collecting signatures for a gay marriage petition encounters a craft-loving housewife who refuses to sign on for the cause.
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Words Matter
Director Kathryn Moore, 2008, USA, 25min
The fight for marriage equality is moving forward. With the May 15, 2008 California Supreme Court decision, we have a reason to celebrate. We must now talk to our family and friends about why we must defeat the November ballot measure that would amend the constitution to make marriage only between a man and a woman. The word marriage matters. Equality matters. This film is a celebration of the rights we have won, and a call to action to keep the movement going in the right direction.
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