21st Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

May 11 - 22, 2005

Jury Award Winners

from 21st Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
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Jury Honorable Mention

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Audience Awards

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Best in Show Shorts

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All Feature Films

from 21st Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Butterfly

蝴蝶

Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.
Mak Yan-Yan
 min
Cantonese
Hong Kong
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2003
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events
John Scagliotti
 min
English
United States
2003
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2002
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Do I Love You?

‘Do I Love You?’ is a romantic philosophical comedy about life and the questions it throws at you.
Lisa Gornick
 min
English
United Kingdom
2002
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Dorian Blues

Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out to his father; he gets kicked out of the house.
Tennyson Bardwell
 min
English
United States
2005
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Girl Play

Two real-life lesbian actresses meet by chance when they are cast as lovers in a local stage play, and end up actually falling in love. Robin, who is married to her girlfriend for half a dozen years, and Lacie, someone who never had a lasting relationship, are both cast to play lesbian lovers in a Los Angeles stage play. Innocently, the stage director, Gabriel runs the actresses through a series of rehearsals designed to “bring out the intimacy” in each performer. Soon the two women find themselves increasingly and undeniably attracted to each other and overcome with desire. They must ask themselves whether this relationship is manufactured, created for the sake of the “girl play”, or is true love.
Lee Friedlander
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2003
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Jim in Bold

A documentary on the life and death of Jim Wheeler, and the gay and lesbian youth across America who live his dream today.
Glenn Holsten
 min
English
United States
2003
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Keep Not Silent

Et SheAhava Nafshi

This profoundly moving film explore the clandestine struggle of three women fighting for their right to love within their Orthodox Communities in Jerusalem. All three are lesbians, and members of a secret support group called the “Ortho-Dykes”.
Ilil Alexander
 min
Hebrew
Israel
2005
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Making Grace

Documentary that examines lesbian motherhood through the eyes of longtime partners Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan, who desperately want to have a child.
Catherine Gund
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

My Summer of Love

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
Paweł Pawlikowski
 min
English
United Kingdom
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Noah's Arc

Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today’s issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend’s children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Patrik-Ian Polk
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Saving Face

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Alice Wu
97
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Superstar in a House Dress

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Craig Highberger
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Aggressives

This pioneering documentary filmed in NYC from 1997-2004 follows a group of "Aggressives," or "AG's" - masculine presenting and/or identifying - queer people of color who were assigned female at birth. It explores their dreams, secrets and deepest fears as well as their social spaces like the "ballroom" and club scene. Ultimately the film focuses on the humanity of the subjects while attempting to unravel evolving terms around gender definition.
Daniel Peddle
75
 min
English
United States
2005
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Journey (Sancharam)

സഞ്ചാരം

Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling.
Ligy J. Pullappally
 min
Malayalam
India
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Joy of Life

A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voice-over to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as “suicide landmark,” and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. The Joy of Life is a film about landscapes, both physical and emotional.
Jenni Olson
 min
English
United States
2005
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Time We Killed

The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor tries to kick her growing agoraphobia by re-imagining her past and contemplating world events of the present. As Robyn begins to overcome the amnesia that afflicted her as an adolescent, she fears coming down with “the amnesia of the American people”
Jennifer Reeves
 min
English
United States
2004
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The “D” Word

A NYC parody of that ‘other’ Sapphic series. Dot, artistic director of a downtown theatre, and her partner of 7 years, Dina, a crunchy-granola dyke, are looking for a sperm donor to expand their family. They throw a party to find him amongst the guests of their close circle of friends: Daynisha, a closeted WNBA player; Dixie, a bisexual journalist into S & M; Drea, the resident Butch heart-throb and dog groomer; Dex, Dot’s younger FTM musician sibling; Dim, their next door neighbor chess coach and his newly arrived girlfriend Dani, a playwright curious about life in NYC; and Daria, the proprietor of the Drunken Pussycat, a bar where everyone gathers to gossip and kvetch. All of them struggle through much dyke drama in the Big Apple.
Noelle Brower, Maggie Burkle & Cherien Dabis
 min
English
United States
2005
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

You I Love

Я люблю тебя

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend’s erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.
Dmitry Troitsky & Olga Stolpovskaya
 min
Russian
Russian Federation
2004
 min total program
No items found.

All Short Film Programs

from 21st Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
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Screenings & Events

May 11 - 22, 2005

SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Saving Face

FREE

Women's Opening Night

Wed, May 11, 2005 @ 8:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Alice Wu
97
 min
English
United States
 min total program
Director Alice Wu and star Lynn Chen in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Dorian Blues

FREE

Men's Opening Night

Thu, May 12, 2005 @ 6:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out to his father; he gets kicked out of the house.
Tennyson Bardwell
 min
English
United States
 min total program
Director Tennyson Bardwell and producer Mary Beth Taylor in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Joy of Life

FREE

Fri, May 13, 2005 @ 6:15 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voice-over to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as “suicide landmark,” and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. The Joy of Life is a film about landscapes, both physical and emotional.
Jenni Olson
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Girl Play

FREE

Festival Spotlight

Fri, May 13, 2005 @ 8:15 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Two real-life lesbian actresses meet by chance when they are cast as lovers in a local stage play, and end up actually falling in love. Robin, who is married to her girlfriend for half a dozen years, and Lacie, someone who never had a lasting relationship, are both cast to play lesbian lovers in a Los Angeles stage play. Innocently, the stage director, Gabriel runs the actresses through a series of rehearsals designed to “bring out the intimacy” in each performer. Soon the two women find themselves increasingly and undeniably attracted to each other and overcome with desire. They must ask themselves whether this relationship is manufactured, created for the sake of the “girl play”, or is true love.
Lee Friedlander
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2003
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Jim in Bold

FREE

Sat, May 14, 2005 @ 2:45 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A documentary on the life and death of Jim Wheeler, and the gay and lesbian youth across America who live his dream today.
Glenn Holsten
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Aggressives

FREE

Sat, May 14, 2005 @ 5:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This pioneering documentary filmed in NYC from 1997-2004 follows a group of "Aggressives," or "AG's" - masculine presenting and/or identifying - queer people of color who were assigned female at birth. It explores their dreams, secrets and deepest fears as well as their social spaces like the "ballroom" and club scene. Ultimately the film focuses on the humanity of the subjects while attempting to unravel evolving terms around gender definition.
Daniel Peddle
75
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Journey (Sancharam)

FREE

Sat, May 14, 2005 @ 7:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling.
Ligy J. Pullappally
 min
Malayalam
India
 min total program
Director Ligy Pullappally in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Keep Not Silent

FREE

Sun, May 15, 2005 @ 1:50 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This profoundly moving film explore the clandestine struggle of three women fighting for their right to love within their Orthodox Communities in Jerusalem. All three are lesbians, and members of a secret support group called the “Ortho-Dykes”.
Ilil Alexander
 min
Hebrew
Israel
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2003
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

FREE

Sun, May 15, 2005 @ 3:40 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events
John Scagliotti
 min
English
United States
 min total program
Congressman Barney Frank in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Men's Short Films

FREE

Wed, May 18, 2005 @ 6:15 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 min
 min total program
Director Eric Smith in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

You I Love

FREE

Wed, May 18, 2005 @ 8:15 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend’s erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.
Dmitry Troitsky & Olga Stolpovskaya
 min
Russian
Russian Federation
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Time We Killed

FREE

Thu, May 19, 2005 @ 6:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor tries to kick her growing agoraphobia by re-imagining her past and contemplating world events of the present. As Robyn begins to overcome the amnesia that afflicted her as an adolescent, she fears coming down with “the amnesia of the American people”
Jennifer Reeves
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Superstar in a House Dress

FREE

Thu, May 19, 2005 @ 8:15 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Craig Highberger
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Women's Short Films

FREE

Fri, May 20, 2005 @ 6:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 min
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2005
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The “D” Word

FREE

Fri, May 20, 2005 @ 8:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A NYC parody of that ‘other’ Sapphic series. Dot, artistic director of a downtown theatre, and her partner of 7 years, Dina, a crunchy-granola dyke, are looking for a sperm donor to expand their family. They throw a party to find him amongst the guests of their close circle of friends: Daynisha, a closeted WNBA player; Dixie, a bisexual journalist into S & M; Drea, the resident Butch heart-throb and dog groomer; Dex, Dot’s younger FTM musician sibling; Dim, their next door neighbor chess coach and his newly arrived girlfriend Dani, a playwright curious about life in NYC; and Daria, the proprietor of the Drunken Pussycat, a bar where everyone gathers to gossip and kvetch. All of them struggle through much dyke drama in the Big Apple.
Noelle Brower, Maggie Burkle & Cherien Dabis
 min
English
United States
 min total program
Writer/Producer Dasha Snyder and stars Sergei Burbank, Rose Sias, Jessica Horstman, and Victoria Soyer in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Making Grace

FREE

Sat, May 21, 2005 @ 1:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Documentary that examines lesbian motherhood through the eyes of longtime partners Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan, who desperately want to have a child.
Catherine Gund
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Butterfly

FREE

Sat, May 21, 2005 @ 3:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.
Mak Yan-Yan
 min
Cantonese
Hong Kong
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2002
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Do I Love You?

FREE

Sun, May 22, 2005 @ 6:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
‘Do I Love You?’ is a romantic philosophical comedy about life and the questions it throws at you.
Lisa Gornick
 min
English
United Kingdom
 min total program
Director Jennie Livingston in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Noah's Arc

FREE

Closing Night

Sun, May 22, 2005 @ 8:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today’s issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend’s children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Patrik-Ian Polk
 min
English
United States
 min total program
Director Patrik-Ian Polk and star Darryl Stephens in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2004
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

My Summer of Love

FREE

Festival Postscript

Mon, May 30, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
Paweł Pawlikowski
 min
English
United Kingdom
 min total program
Director Pawel Pawlikowski and actresses Emily Blunt and Nathalie Press in person
21st Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

Screenings & Events

May 11 - 22, 2005

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