2017 FILM SCHEDULE
April 28, 2017
Friday April 28th
6:30 pm - Opening reception
7:15 pm - Short Film - Cakes Da Killa: No Homo
7:30 pm - 2 Episodes - Cheetah in August
Q&A After the Show
THE PURSUIT: 50 YEARS IN THE FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS - Saturday - 11am - The Match 1
April 29, 2017
The Pursuit: 50 Years in the Fight for LGBT Rights
The pursuit of happiness for the LGBT community continues 50 years after activists publicly protested discrimination against 'homosexuals' with picket signs in front of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. LGBT elders - four surviving protesters and eleven activist peers - recall life in the 1960's, when 'gays' were 'hidden in plain sight,' vulnerable to arrest, subjected to psychiatric treatment, fired from jobs and publicly shamed.
SHORT FILMS BLOCK ONE - SATURDAY 12:15pm THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
SHORT FILMS BLOCK ONE: SATURDAY
Prudence
Handsome Girl
Scatter (Elsewhere)
Open recess
No Matter What Happens I Love You
The Escape Hatch
SHORT FILM BLOCK TWO - SATURDAY - 1:30PM - THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
Let Us End With It Too
Shala
Vessels
Rainbow Day Camp
SHORT FILM BLOCK THREE - SATURDAY - 2:40PM - THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
The Swimming Pool
Sex x Friend
No More Josef
Stars Beyond
Dawn
LANDSCAPES - SATURDAY - 4PM - THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
Four humble ladyboys working in the rubber tree forests at night, in the rice fields during the day, looking for a way to survive, exist and have the others accept them with their difference.
SHORT FILMS BLOCK FOUR - SATURDAY - 5:10 PM - THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
My Brother
Escaping Agra
FAW
Queen's Mile
IT'S NOT JUST ME - SATURDAY 6:35 PM - THE MATCH 1
April 29, 2017
Four people embark on a journey of self-realization from female to male. What is revealed to an audience is remarkable and explores the largely invisible and very real side of gender transition to the wider community.
THE LAVENDER SCARE -SATURDAY 7:50 PM - THE MATCH
April 29, 2017
The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual.
FROM SELMA TO STONEWALL: ARE WE THERE YET? - SUNDAY - 12PM - MATCH 1
April 30, 2017
A black, straight preacher and a white, lesbian activist form an unusual bond as they seek to find the intersection between the Black Civil Rights and the LGBTQ Equality movements of today.
TWO SOFT THINGS, TWO HARD THINGS - SUNDAY - 1:15 PM - THE MATCH 1
April 30, 2017
As a small group in Nunavut, Canada prepare for a seminal LGBTQ Pride celebration in the Arctic, the film explores how colonization and religion have shamed and erased traditional Inuit beliefs about sexuality and family structure and how, 60 years later, a new generation of Inuit are actively 'unshaming' their past.
PUBLIC INTIMACY - SUNDAY- 2:40 PM - THE MATCH 1
April 30, 2017
Public Intimacy is a movie about how we deal with sexuality and love on public and private levels. The four stories of 'Public Intimacy' deal with urgent and profound themes, like homophobia, prostitution, trans-sexuality and madness. 'Public Intimacy' proposes a cinema that is focused on its characters. They are an investigation that aim the core of our problems and their wish is to humanize the spectator. If movies have this power, to humanize, than they are already changing the world.
SHORT FILM BLOCK FIVE - SUNDAY - 4:00 PM- THE MATCH 1
April 30, 2017
Walk for me
The Man Crush
Caged
Exchange
Intrinsic Evil
CLOSING FILM: SUNDAY - 6:30 PM - THE MATCH 1
April 30, 2017
SHORT FILM: For the Family
FEATURE FILM: Accidental Activist: One Couple's Journey to the U.S. Surpreme Courts Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court