Our Lives On Film, May 13, 2012 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

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Lesbian Factory

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Susan Chen

57 min

Mandarin

Taiwan

Lesbian Factory is a love story as well as a document of a social movement. It portrays a group of foreign migrant workers far from home, courageously resisting an unjust social system in a strange country. At the same time it faithfully records the trust and emotional bonds between people during times of greatest difficulty. Lesbian Factory presents the stories of seven lesbian couples against an atypical setting, covering labor disputes, reflecting on the migrant worker system, examining the discriminatory treatment of migrant workers, and showing love without bounds.

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T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

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Robert Phillipson

28 min

English

USA

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues divas presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities,

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Special Guest

Short Film Program

Youth Shorts Program

FREE

Thu, May 10 @ 7:00 pm

Coolidge Corner Theater

min total program

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Short Film Program

Bashment

FREE

Sat, May 12 @ 10:00 pm

Brattle Theater

min total program

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J.J. is an aspiring M.C. who’s taken London’s outlaw urban music scene by storm. He’s got the skills, the rhymes, and the drive. But he may run into a few hurdles on his reach for greatness; he’s white, he’s from the sticks, and he’s gay. J.J.’s resolved to come out onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, bringing his boyfriend Orlando along as moral support. While J.J. is onstage, the frustrated competing band, Illmanics, take out their rage on Orlando, beating him so badly that he suffers permanent brain damage. A victim reconciliation program brings J.J. face to face with Orlando’s attackers. (Description courtesy of Trista Kendall, Frameline International LGBT Film Festival.)

JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London’s exciting outlaw urban music scene. He’s got the skills, he’s got the rhymes, and he’s got the drive. But there’s a problem — not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks — he’s also gay. And gay — in the world of hip-hop and ragga — ain’t good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it’s going to get a bit grimy… but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and Orlando is beaten into a state of permanent brain-damage, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.