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REEL IT OUT QUEER FILM FESTIVAL: LGBTQ Shorts
June 7, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Short films are typically less than 15 minutes long, and all audience members will receive a ballot to vote on their favorites! Join us on Thursday for the opening night of the reception – and for the emotional roller coaster that is always LGBTQ shorts!
THE SHORTS:
“Mai” (Drama) Directed by Marta González.
Carmeta, Mari and Pilar are three ladies who spend the afternoon in the corner bench every day. The arrival of a mysterious couple of girls in the village becomes the main topic of conversation between the three friends. From their strategic location, they greet the strollers as they debate the origin, age and lifestyle of the newcomers. The conversation will change course when the protagonists uncover certain events of their past that they have not been able to forget. 7 ½ minutes
“The Swimming Club” (Documentary) Directed by Ceci Golding.
If you happen to be transgender and you want to go swimming, which changing room do you go into? In this short documentary we meet a group of trans activists who have taken matters into their own hands and set up a safe space swimming club. It is a film about the healing effects of community and the relief that comes after taking the bravest plunge of all – to just be yourself. It is also an ode to universal joys of swimming. 9 ½ minutes
“Brujos” (Web series) Directed by Ricardo Gamboa & Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke.
A supernatural series about gay, Latino doctoral students who are also witches trying to survive the semester and a witch hunt led by a secret society of the straight, wealthy, white male descendants of the first New World colonizers. 8 ½ minutes
“Naughty Amelia Jane” (Satire) Directed by Risheeta Agrawal.
This film is a satire on the hilarious hypocrisy of society towards anything that goes against the “conventional social order of things”, told through a story of two girls who may or may not have had a connection. This is a story about speculation. 11 ½ minutes
“I Have Something To Tell You” (Documentary) Directed by Dumaine Babcock & Ben Joyner.
A fine-art photographer turns to his craft to cope with his HIV/AIDS diagnosis in the acclaimed portrait series “I Have Something to Tell You.” 8 ½ minutes
“The Typist” (Documentary) Directed by Kristine Stolakis.
From the archives of the “queer Smithsonian,” San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, comes the forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen. The Typist details a conflicted clerk’s participation in discrimination and his divided allegiance to homosexuality and heroism. 8 minutes
“Brothers: The Series” (Web series) Directed by Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass.
A critically-acclaimed short-form narrative series that follows a group of transgender male friends, exploring what it means to go up against traditional societal gender roles.BROTHERS was a pioneer effort: the first narrative series about a group of trans male friends to not only feature the stories of transgender men, but also to cast trans actors in the main roles. 6 minutes
“I Like Girls” (Animated) Directed by Diane Obomsawin.
In ‘I Like Girls,’ four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they’re attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness. 8 ½ minutes
“Brown Girls” (Web series) Directed by Sam Bailey.
‘Brown Girls’ is an intimate story of the lives of two young women of color. Leila is a South Asian-American writer just now owning her queerness. Patricia is a sex-positive Black-American musician who is struggling to commit to anything: job, art and relationships. While the two women come from completely different backgrounds, their friendship is ultimately what they lean on to get through the messiness of their mid-twenties. 10 ½ minutes
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