Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

May 6 - 16, 2010

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All Feature Films

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8: The Mormon Proposition

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

with Iguales

Director Bob Christie in person

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Boston Pride we are opening the 2010 Boston LGBT Film Festival with Bob Christie's stunning documentary on Pride across the globe Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride.

Gay Pride marches and festivals are happening all over the world sometimes under heavy opposition and violence. This feature length documentary follows the Vancouver Pride Society’s (VPS) Parade Director Ken Coolen and his VPS colleagues as they travel to places where Pride is still steeped in protest to personally experience the rampant homophobia that still exists. They also travel to São Paulo, Brazil for the world’s largest gay parade and New York City, the birthplace of the modern gay liberation movement. Increasingly the Pride movement is globalizing. Coolen and many Pride organizers in North America and Europe, where celebration has overtaken political action, strive to remind their communities that Pride is at its heart a global fight for human rights. Despite the hundreds of thousands of people cheering in the streets, Pride is much, much more than a parade and a party. It is a giant step on the road to true equality. The GLBT community during Pride is an entertaining and engaging multi- ethnic group than can bring attention to the issue of human rights with diversity, insight, and of course plenty of fabulousness. Director in attendance Thursday, May 6th, 7:30 PM MFA

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Big Eden

The Wolfe Distribution evening continues with one of the best loved Wolfe titles. Thomas Bezucha's Big Eden screened in the Boston LGBT Film Festival way back in 2001 and we are happy to have it back. Get some popcorn and revisit the sweet romantic comedy that won audience awards at festivals around the world.

Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the small town of Big Eden, Montana, to care for him. While there, Henry hopes to strike up a romance with Dean Stewart, his high-school best friend for whom he still has feelings. But he’s surprised when he finds that Pike, a quiet Native American who owns the local general store, may have a crush on him.

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Chica Busca Chica (Girl Seeks Girl)

Episodes 1-8

This hot and hilarious lesbian soap opera takes you on a wild ride through the mixed up love lives of a group of sexy Madrid lesbians including the unbelievably gorgeous Spanish TV star Celia Freijeiro who plays Nines, the bartender at the local dyke bar (for L Word fans, think Euro-Shane). She’s got her hands full with her latest conquest, the ultra-clingy Monica. Meanwhile, Nines is pursuing Monica’s roommate (the ravishing but straight Carmen) while also trying to fend off the newly out Ana, who keeps pestering Nines to teach her the ways of lesbian love! (Description courtesy of Wolfe Releasing.)

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Children of God

Lead actress Margaret Laureena Kemp and Producer Trevite Willis in person

The Boston LGBT Film Festival is proud to present Kareem Mortimer's debut feature film Children of God as our closing night film. A smash hit at it's screening at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, where it sold out the largest cinema in the city, the Odeon in Leicester Square, we are honored to host the New England premiere of this stunningly beautiful story of love and homophobia in the Caribbean. This is a film not to be missed. Lead actress Margaret Laureena Kemp and Producer Trevite Willis will be in attendance.

Johnny, a white Bahamian artist from Nassau, is depressed and creatively uninspired. Under instructions from his teacher, he relocates to the rural island of Eleuthera, where he meets the confident Romeo, a local boy who inspires a new creative drive in him. Johnny and Romeo embark on a passionate love affair, but when Romeo's fiancée and overbearing mother arrive at his home unannounced, he is asked to make some important decisions about his life and his relationship with Johnny. Meanwhile, Lena, the wife of an ultra-conservative pastor, also arrives on the island. With her marriage on the rocks, and a growing realisation that her husband is not who he appears to be, Lena sets out on a campaign to spread her anti-gay policies among the quiet community. As Lena's crusade gathers momentum, she is challenged by her friend Reverend Ritchie, a liberal clergyman who forces her to question her beliefs and to re-evaluate her rigid political stance. Sweepingly romantic and gorgeously photographed, the film's aesthetic and emotional pleasures are undeniable. In positioning this classic tale of young love against a backdrop of violent homophobia and social unease, director Kareem Mortimer has also crafted a striking examination of identity and gay politics in the Bahamas, tackling these weighty issues with a confidence and sincerity that makes the film universal in its themes. Emerging from a region not known for the production of gay film, Children of God is an important and bold piece of work, signalling Mortimer as a hugely promising talent in the future of world cinema. (Description courtesy of London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival).

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College Boys Live

One of those documentaries that suck you in (no pun intended). George O'Donnell's film is a frank look at a group of young men running a pornographic website known as "College Boys Live." While seemingly salacious, the film is actually a poignant drama that explores the motivations and stuggles behind the business of running a voyeuristic website.

In a quiet Orlando, Florida, suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur webcam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site’s creator claims CollegeBoysLive.com is simply about showing that “it’s okay to be gay.” But the neighbors insist it’s a pornographic whorehouse and sue to have them evicted. This intimate and provocative documentary examines a complex subculture, but at its heart is the universal search for family and acceptance. (Description courtesy of filmmaker.)

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Drool

Another black comedy that will knock your socks off. Say hello to the miserable Fleece family. Dad abuses mom, Anora. Daughter Tabby storms around in a teenaged snit. Son Little Pete is bullied at school. Watch what happens when Imogene (Jill Marie Jones), the Kathy K. Cosmetics saleswoman, moved in next door.

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Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement

with Forever's Gonna Start Tonight

Directors Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska, Director Michelle Lawler in person

Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska

Join us for two of the most astounding explorations of people in our community: Edie and Thea and Vicki Marlene. These two documentaries detail the trials and tribulations of unapologetically being who you are in an age when many had to hide. Directors of both films will be in attendance.

After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early ’60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through many battles, both personal and political. These two compassionate and brave women are a model of courage and strenght that speaks to everyone, of any age. Through this film audiences will recognize that dancing, like loving, can continue at any age, and rediscover the timeless message “don't postpone joy.” Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir (The Brandon Teena Story) return with a love story of two remarkable women whose commitment to each other is an inspiration to us all. Directors will be in attendance.

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Eyes Wide Open

with Self Service

Haim Tabakman’s breathtaking, award winning debut film Eyes Wide Open is a gay love story set in the heart of Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Winner of Best Film award at the Palm Springs Film Festival, Eyes Wide Open is a powerful film that the New York Times calls “a quiet and confident debut feature that explores the conflict between sexual desire and religious obligation.”

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Fish Out of Water

Fish out of Water tackles the seven Bible verses used to condemn homosexuality and justify marriage discrimination. This feature documentary uses humor and original animation to make a traditionally complex and controversial topic accessible to those who don't like talking about religion and sexuality.

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Fucking Different Sao Paulo

with Amor Crudo

We continue our series of films from South America with another inception of the Fucking Different Series. They have done New York City, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and now São Paulo. This is the fourth film of the conceptual series Fucking Different, produced by Kristian Petersen. The filmmakers from São Paulo developed their projects in a script workshop during the 16th Mix Brasil Festival. The Brazilian version contains a variety of interesting genres. There are twelve stories in which women address the gay world and men address the lesbian universe.

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Gen Silent

Please join us for the world premiere of award winning director Stu Maddux's new documentary Gen Silent.

Shot in and around Boston, Gen Silent explores the complex issue of LGBT elderly who are sometimes forced back into the closet when they try to obtain long-term/health care. Filmmaker Stu Maddux (Bob and Jack's 52-Year Adventure, Trip to Hell and Back) asked six LGBT seniors if they will hide their lives to survive. They put a face on what experts in the film call an epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender seniors so afraid of discrimination, or worse, in long-term/health care that many go back into the closet. And, their surprising decisions are captured through intimate access to their day-to-day lives over the course of a year in Boston, Massachusetts. Unlike any previous LGBT film about aging, Gen Silent startlingly discovers how oppression in the years before Stonewall now leaves many elders not just afraid but dangerously isolated. Many of our greatest generation are dying prematurely because they don't ask for help and have too few people in their lives to keep an eye on them. Gen Silent brings these issues into the open for the first time. The film shows the wide range in quality of paid caregivers --from those who are specifically trained to make LGBT seniors feel safe, to the other end of the spectrum, where LGBT elders face discrimination, neglect or abuse. (Who would have expected caregivers to try to religiously convert these elders at their bedside!) As we journey through the challenges that these men and women face, we also see reasons for hope as each subject crosses paths with a small but growing group of impassioned professionals trying to wake up the long-term and healthcare industries to their plight.

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Hannah Free

Starring Sharon Gless (Queer as Folk, Cagney & Lacey) in a tremendous performance, Hannah Free is a moving film about the lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

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Is It Just Me?

Actor Nicholas Downs, Director J. C. Calciano, and producer Michael Amato in person

World premiering to great acclaim at the 2010 Palm Springs Film Festival, Is it Just Me? is a contemporary romantic comedy that explores the complications of finding Mr. Right. Is it Just Me? recently won best narrative feature award during the inaugural Michigan Film Awards. Lead actor Nicholas Downs, Director J. C. Calciano, and producer Michael Amato in attendance.

Frustrated by his ongoing failure to meet Mr. Right, columnist Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room -- Xander, a sweet, hunky musician, who's recently moved to LA. While smitten, Blaine discovers that he's been chatting to Xander under his go-go dancer roommate Cameron’s profile. When Xander wants to meet in person Blaine forces Cameron to take his place. This leads to a battle for Zander's attention with Cameron and Blaine fighting to see if brains wins over beauty. J.C. Calciano's smart, funny, debut feature explores the frustration of finding the right one in a online world!

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Loving Annabelle

We continue to celebrate Wolfe Distribution with an evening of our favourite Wolfe titles. First up is Katherine Brooks award winning "forbidden love" story Loving Annabelle from 2006. Come to the brattle, grab some popcorn and revisit the film that Greg Marzullo, of the Washington Blade, called "A must-see film full of rich imagery, a painful love story and attention-grabbing performances.",,

Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she’s bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

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Night Fliers

in person

Sara St. Martin Lynne

Join us on closing day for another film focusing on youth and the LGBT experience. Director Sara St. Martin Lynne brings her feature length version of the short Rock in a Hard Place to the Boston LGBT Film Festival. This is a story about the transformative power of the friendship between four young kids living in a rural town.

Already firmly in a life crisis at 12, things go from bad to worse for Jesse Hawthorne when her emotionally disconnected father moves the family to a rural town, a place whose beauty belies the toxic normality at its core. Jesse is almost immediately bullied by the local mini-mean girls in training, who find Jesse’s tomboy nature both repellent and yet somehow attractive. Her only ally is neighbor Jacob, who has his own demons (including an aggressive paint huffing brother) that he is trying to escape. Together they form likely friendships with the local super nerds, and, as puberty begins to hit their circle, everyone soon has a crush on each other, regardless of gender. Once Jesse and her outsider posse discover punk rock and sneaking out to shows, nothing will stop them as they embrace who they are and rise above the closed minds of their community. Complete with an infectious soundtrack, Night Fliers will remind you about the transformative power of friendships, and how salvation can come from unexpected places. (Description courtesy of Charlotte Gutierrez, Frameline 33)

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Out in the Silence

with Get Happy

Directors Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson in person

Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson

Following the story of a small American town confronting a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper, this gripping documentary will challenge you to rethink your values and help close the gaps that divide our communities.

The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown. Drawn back by a plea for help from a gay teen, Wilson takes viewers on an exhilarating and often surprising journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America.

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Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!

Evgeny Afineevsky in person

Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they do so, their parents find it difficult to cope with the news

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Plan B

Our Latin film series continues with the Argentinian romantic comedy Plan B, a beautifully shot, funny debut film from Marco Berger. Marco's film is an astounding examination on friendship and male relationships. How far would you go to get back at an ex-girlfriend?

Bruno’s plan to win back his ex-girlfriend hits a snag when he becomes attracted to her boyfriend.

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Play in the Gray

Director Kaitlin Meelia and performers in person

Challenging and entertaining, Play in the Gray is a documentary that turns gender on its head by exploring the personal lives behind a small group of Boston-based drag theatre performers, All the Kings Men (ATKM). the troupe takes viewers on a ride through extreme gender presentation and frustrations regarding the limited tolerance - even within the queer community - for that gray area between She and He. Director and performers in attendance

Play in the Gray is a penetrating, and at times vulnerably raw, portrait of the work, art, and emotional lives of the members of All the Kings Men. All the Kings Men is a drag and cabaret inspired theater troupe based out of Boston. The troupe intrigues— on stage they perform as old ladies or appear to be women dressed as men or men dressed as women. Their electrifying, award-winning show makes audiences laugh while also questioning themselves and the world. Behind the scenes, Katie, Maria, Julee, Karin, Jill and Leighsa, the members of All the Kings Men, practice hard, spend long hours on the road, and struggle to “make it”—they want All the Kings Men to be a household name.

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Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance

Presented by CineMental

CineMental presents Madsen Minax's groundbreaking documentary Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance, culminating with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political, and the trans experience isn't always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy. Syster Act will be performing!

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Rivers Wash Over Me

Director John Young in person

Writer - director John Young's powerful drama Rivers Wash Over Me continues our afternoon of films about the young gay experience. Please join us for a film that is heartwrenching and true to life. Director John G. Young will be in attendance and the screening will be followed by a panel discussion on LGBT youth issues co-presented by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Youth (BAGLY).

Forced to relocate from Brooklyn to rural Alabama, sensitive gay teen Sequan faces harassment and abuse both at school and at home. Hope arrives in the form of Lori, a perceptive but troubled girl who introduces Sequan to her gay brother. As the new friends plan an escape from their small-town existence, a brush with violence threatens to derail everything. Rivers Wash Over Me is a beautifully lensed and emotionally affecting drama with devastating performances.

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Space of Desire

We are proud to present the U.S. Premiere of David Chow's experimental documentary about gay life in Hong Kong. Mixing fact with fiction, the filmmaker takes us into the lives of present day Hong Kong gay men, revealing their hidden aspirations and desires.

Scottish police detective and his alleged fatal affair with a young Chinese man. This sets off an investigation that threatens to rock the moral foundation of the Hong Kong Law Enforcement and Justice Department in the 1980s. Filmmaker David Chow takes us into the lives of present-day Hong Kong gay men to reveal their hidden aspirations and desires. He tracks down gay couples, a lovelorn painter, a taxi driver, activists, radical politicians, sociologists, sexologists, philosophers, and political analysts.Filming in pick-up joints, bars and saunas, he reveals a gay community forced underground by marginalization, criminalization, and discrimination. Chow uncovers how the conservative Hong Kong establishment is reluctant to improve the rights of the local gay community.

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The City of Your Final Destination

with Delphinium

A Very Special Preview Screening of James Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination

The story is about a young American academic, Omar Razaghi (Metwally), who attempts to persuade the reluctant heirs of a celebrated Uruguayan novelist, Jules Gund, to allow him to write an authorized biography of the writer, who has recently died. Undeterred by the executors' adamant refusal, and urged on by his vehemently ambitious girlfriend (Lara), another academic, Razaghi turns up uninvited on the family's doorstep in a remote corner of Uruguay, hoping to change their minds. Before long, he is joined there by his super-efficient girlfriend, Deirdre. The Gund family, living in two big rundown houses on an overgrown, steamy estancia named "Ocho Rios," reacts to the intrusion in different ways. The writer's widow Caroline Gund (an unusually acerbic Laura Linney) stubbornly states with every breath that she will never, never give her permission. The writer's brother Adam Gund (Hopkins) has a contrary opinion: a biography can only help to keep the writer's name before a book-buying public. The writer's young mistress Arden Langdon (Gainsbourg) at sides with Caroline. Then, as she begins to fall for Omar -- or is she succumbing only to the charm of someone, anyone, new? -- she changes her mind. Two further supporters of Omar are Gund's ten-year-old daughter Portia, and Pete, Adam's practical-minded companion (Sanada). How Omar comes in time to have his wish granted, and the effect of that on his future, makes up the plot of this film about the random nature of love and the ways in which we avoid or confront life's choices. (Movie description courtesy of Merchant Ivory Films.)

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The Fish Child

El Niño Pez

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

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The Owls

Director Cheryl Dunye in person

We celebrate noted filmmaker Cheryl Dunye with the Boston LGBT Film Festival's inaugural Director's award. Ms. Dunye astounded the world with her breakthrough film Watermelon Woman in 1996 and we are honoured to present her latest film The Owls. Please join us in celebrating a filmmaker who has made an amazing contribution to LGBT cinema. About the making of the The Owls: Director Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz, Candi Gutteres and Ernesto Foronda invited a group of lesbian and gay artists with creative links to work on this project. This marked the beginning of the ‘Parliament Collective’, a large multiethnic artists’ collective that developed the story for The Owls.

Ten years ago ‘The Screech’ was the hottest lesbian band around. Iris and Lily were the lead vocalists, MJ the producer, and Carol always went on tour with them. But the days of big dreams and wild nights have long since past. Sexy Iris now drinks too much and fantasises about a comeback that has yet to materialise. She and MJ split up years ago, but just can’t let go. Carol and Lily are so bored by their relationship that they can’t seem to decide on anything, except perhaps to have a child together. And then Cricket enters this Bermuda triangle of fallow desire, disappointment, anger and boredom. This argumentative twenty-year-old is looking for trouble – and finds it. After a pool party awash with cocaine and alcohol, Iris winds up on Cricket’s lap. This makes MJ – to whom Iris has been unfaithful so often before – even more furious. An argument ensues and escalates into a fight during which Cricket is badly injured and dies. The girlfriends decide to overcome their differences, pull together and get rid of the corpse. Their complicity creates a firm bond. But then, a year later, Skye turns up on Lily and Carol’s doorstep. Revenge is her aim and seduction her strategy … (Description courtesy of The Berlinale)

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The Undertow

Contracorriente

GLAAD President Jarrett Barios and Wolf Video President Maria Lynn in person

Please joins us for a very special evening. We will be awarding famed LGBT film distributor Wolfe with our Community Award. Wolfe President Maria Lynn will be presented with the award for all of their work over the past 25 years in getting LGBT films out into the world. The award ceremony will be followed by a special screening of the Sundance Audience Award winning drama Contracorriente (The Undertow). Jarrett Barios, President of GLAAD will be presenting the award to Maria Lynn and will introduce the film.

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town’s rigid traditions.

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To Die Like a Man

Morrer Como Um Homem

Famed Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues bring his latest film, hailed in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes, to the Boston LGBT Film Festival. Rodrigues' tale of Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, who watches the world around her crumble, continues our focus on Latin cinema.

Once upon a time there was a war… In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL. Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status. Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identity, the sex change operation that will transform her into a woman, Tonia struggles against her deeply-held religious convictions. If, on the one hand, she wants to be the woman that Rosário so desires, on the other, she knows that before God she can never be that woman. And her son, whom she abandoned when he was a child, now a deserter, comes looking for her. Tonia discovers that she’s ill. To get away from all her troubles she travels to the countryside with Rosário, on the excuse of visiting his brother. Rosário takes the road of his childhood but will never find the right way. Lost, they find themselves in an enchanted forest, a magical world where they come across the enigmatic Maria Bakker and her friend Paula. And that meeting will turn their whole world on its head… (Description courtesy of Cannes Film Festival)

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Watermelon Woman

In honour of Cheryl Dunye's new film The Owls we are pleased to be screening the film that made her a household name.

Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.

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We Are the Mods

A smash hit at festivals everywhere, E.E.Cassidy's award winning film "We Are the Mods" starts the festival off with a bang. Cassidy perfectly captures the mood and feel of neo-Mod Los Angeles complete with motor scooters and vintage ska. Come and see the movie Filmmaker magazine called "an affectionate and good-hearted homage to not only seminal films of the 1960s but also to the heady rush of young artistic discovery familiar to any sensitive ex-high schooler." We Are The Mods is a teen drama using the familiar territory of 'good girl corrupted by the bad' while simultaneously serving as a tribute to 60s cult classics like Blow-Up and the early work of Jean-Luc Godard.

Sadie’s art is her photography. Nico’s art is her life. Together they explore Britain’s 60’s mod culture of music, fashion, drugs and vintage scooters in contemporary Los Angeles. Sadie observes the world through the lens of her 35 mm camera, but everything changes when she meets Nico, the new “mod” girl who was born with Milroy’s disease that causes her to have abnormal swelling in her foot. Nico doesn’t hide her disability, in fact she loves the spotlight. Sadie is drawn into Nico’s thrilling world of aesthetics where Sadie learns about herself and who she really is.

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Wild About Harry

Shot entirely on Cape Cod, Wild About Harry tells the story of a widowed father of two trying to move on with his life and coming to terms with who he is. Set in 1973 and inspired by real events, American Primitive is a true to life drama of coming out in a time and a place that encouraged people to keep personal lives private. Starring Tate Donovan of TV's Damages and Adam Pascal, the original Roger in RENT, Wild About Harry is a beautiful, understated film about family and relationships that is perfect for Mother's Day.

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Zombies of Mass Destruction

Queer Horror Experience

Meet us at the brattle for an evening of queer horror films. Greg Ivan Smith returns to the Boston LGBT Film Festival with his new short Remission, and a great big awesome dose of zombie craziness from Kevin Hamedani.

An idyllic peninsula town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a ragtag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hordes of undead back!

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All Short Film Programs

from Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

Best of Boston

FREE

Local Filmmakers

in person

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Once again we bring you the best in local made films. Boston is a center for film schools and filmmakers we are proud to offer up a program to the local LGBT filmmaking community. Bring your friends and family (and your films - if you got em!) and we'll throw them up on screen.

Blazing Wanderlust

FREE

Queer Women of Color Shorts

in person

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Once again we team up with the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) to bring you the best of films created under their umbrella. Join queer women of color on feisty and fantastic voyages! From dyke couples navigating their desire to the riveting routes of sex toys, you’ll be spellbound to saunter through your own saucy sojourns.

Global Queers

FREE

International Shorts

in person

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The best of short films from around the world.

Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever & More

FREE

Films by Katrina del Mar

Director Katrina del Mar in person

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An explosive program of rebel girls, rock n roll, and wheels by the noted New York underground filmmaker thought of as the "Lesbian Russ Meyer," Katrina del Mar. We present her “Gang Girls” trilogy. Join us for the New England premiere of her latest film Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever. Director will be present.

Men's Shorts Program

FREE

in person

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Once again we bring you the best in gay men’s shorts. They’ll make you laugh, cry, and possibly perspire! Fenway Health, a member of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, is delighted to sponsor the Men's Shorts program this evening and welcomes you to the "We Love Men's Shorts" afterparty at Club Café in their newly designed Napolean Piano Bar starting at 9:30pm. There will be free food, door prizes, and a chance to mingle with others who love Men's Shorts.

Not So Young At All

FREE

in person

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Funny, painful, sad. These short films explore the gay experience in which growing up sometimes turns us into maniacal manipulators, pot smoking high school slackers, over achieving type A's who'll stop at nothing to succeed, and ultimately post college queens in Queens.

Sportos!

FREE

in person

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A program for those who love sports or those who love watching them!

What's in the Experiment?

FREE

in person

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What’s in the experiment? A bit of everything, and then some. Featuring experimental work, music videos, animation and new narrative explorations, this program surveys the strange and beautiful, the super-saturated, the sensually textured, the intimate, the uncomfortable and the wacky. Reworked film and video footage and still images are collaged to reclaim and queer gender and sexuality. Masculinity is exposed through domestic tasks and poetry. Femininity is celebrated through strength, the knowing gaze, and cake. BDSM intoxicates. The experiment is a delicious mix of subversion, sexuality, and humor. Program curated by Aliza Shapiro.

Women's Short Films

FREE

in person

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Our annual collection of shorts about dyke life - funny, sexy, serious, and silly –returns! From looking for love in Second Life, holding on for just Five Minutes more and dealing with heartbreak Dr. Seuss style, to Buttery Tops, bathroom encounters, and learning what happens when the Postwoman rings twice, this program promises something for everyone.

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Screenings & Events

May 6 - 16, 2010

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

FREE

with Iguales

Thu, May 06, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Director Bob Christie in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

We Are the Mods

FREE

Fri, May 07, 2010 @ 6:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Is It Just Me?

FREE

Fri, May 07, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Actor Nicholas Downs, Director J. C. Calciano, and producer Michael Amato in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

And Then Came Lola

FREE

Fri, May 07, 2010 @ 8:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ellen Seidler and Megan Silar

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

College Boys Live

FREE

Fri, May 07, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Assume Nothing

FREE

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Space of Desire

FREE

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Play in the Gray

FREE

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

Director Kaitlin Meelia and performers in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Gen Silent

FREE

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Please join us for the world premiere of award winning director Stu Maddux's new documentary Gen Silent.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

What's in the Experiment?

FREE

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Undertow

FREE

Contracorriente

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town’s rigid traditions.

GLAAD President Jarrett Barios and Wolf Video President Maria Lynn in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever & More

FREE

Films by Katrina del Mar

Sat, May 08, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

Brattle Theater

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Director Katrina del Mar in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Sportos!

FREE

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

Brattle Theater

A program for those who love sports or those who love watching them!

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in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!

FREE

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

Brattle Theater

Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they do so, their parents find it difficult to cope with the news

Evgeny Afineevsky in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement

FREE

with Forever's Gonna Start Tonight

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska

Directors Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska, Director Michelle Lawler in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Not So Young At All

FREE

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Hannah Free

FREE

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Wild About Harry

FREE

Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Loving Annabelle

FREE

Mon, May 10, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Big Eden

FREE

Mon, May 10, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Eyes Wide Open

FREE

with Self Service

Tue, May 11, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Blazing Wanderlust

FREE

Queer Women of Color Shorts

Wed, May 12, 2010 @ 6:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

min

min total program

in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The City of Your Final Destination

FREE

with Delphinium

Wed, May 12, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Brattle Theater

A Very Special Preview Screening of James Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Chica Busca Chica (Girl Seeks Girl)

FREE

Episodes 1-8

Wed, May 12, 2010 @ 8:45 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance

FREE

Presented by CineMental

Wed, May 12, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Men's Shorts Program

FREE

Thu, May 13, 2010 @ 7:15 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

min

min total program

in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Drool

FREE

Thu, May 13, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Plan B

FREE

Thu, May 13, 2010 @ 9:20 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Bruno’s plan to win back his ex-girlfriend hits a snag when he becomes attracted to her boyfriend.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Women's Short Films

FREE

Fri, May 14, 2010 @ 6:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

min

min total program

in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Fish Child

FREE

El Niño Pez

Fri, May 14, 2010 @ 8:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Zombies of Mass Destruction

FREE

Queer Horror Experience

Fri, May 14, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

To Die Like a Man

FREE

Morrer Como Um Homem

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Fish Out of Water

FREE

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 1:00 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Out in the Silence

FREE

with Get Happy

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 3:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson

Directors Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Beauty and Brains

FREE

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

Fenway Community Health Center

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Global Queers

FREE

International Shorts

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

Brattle Theater

The best of short films from around the world.

min

min total program

in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Rivers Wash Over Me

FREE

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Director John Young in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Owls

FREE

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Director Cheryl Dunye in person

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Fucking Different Sao Paulo

FREE

with Amor Crudo

Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Best of Boston

FREE

Local Filmmakers

Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

8: The Mormon Proposition

FREE

with The Single Mother

Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Watermelon Woman

FREE

Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

Fenway Community Health Center

In honour of Cheryl Dunye's new film The Owls we are pleased to be screening the film that made her a household name.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Night Fliers

FREE

Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 3:45 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sara St. Martin Lynne

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Children of God

FREE

Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lead actress Margaret Laureena Kemp and Producer Trevite Willis in person

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

Screenings & Events

May 6 - 16, 2010

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