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BLUES: A Donald Strachey
Mystery
SYNOPSIS
This new installment in the popular and critically-acclaimed Donald
Strachey Mystery series finds the America’s favorite gay private
investigator, Donald Strachey (Chad Allen), taking on the most
complicated case of his career. After his long-time partner, Tim
(Sebastian Spence), asks him to uncover the source of an anonymous and
generous donation to the Albany youth center, he gets caught in a
whirlwind of deceit and danger. When the lawyer who presented the
donation turns up dead, the hard-boiled Strachey must race against the
clock to capture the killer before he strikes again.
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DIRECTED BY
Ron Oliver
CAST:
Chad Allen
Sebastian Spence
THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT
QUEEN RAQUELA
September 26
SYNOPSIS
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, directed by Olaf de Fleur
Johannesson, is an 85 minute drama which chronicles the story of a
naive but street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute named Raquela
who decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. Like many
Transsexuals (often known as "Ladyboys") in the Philippines, Raquela
dreams of marrying a heterosexual man from the West. She spends much of
her time on the internet looking for men who can come and rescue her.
They promise to come, but time after time Raquela gets stood up at the
airport.
Her life changes when, by luck, she lands a job as a webcam host on a
transsexual porn site. The owner of the website, Michael, a "Ladyboy
specialist" who runs his business from New York, promises to help
Raquela. Through the internet, Raquela makes many interesting friends.
Among them is Valery, the only "out of the closet" transsexual in
Iceland, who is looking for someone like herself. Through her friends
in the internet world, Raquela eventually gets the opportunity to
travel far away on her quest to find the straight man of her dreams.
 
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DIRECTED BY
Olaf de Fleur Johanesson
CAST:
Raquela Rios
Stefan C. Schaefer
Olivia Gaudio
Brax Villa
Valerie Grand Einarsson
 
BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
October 10
SYNOPSIS
Adapted from the novel by Michael Downing, BREAKFAST WITH SCOT is a
touching comedy that tells the story of a very 'straight' gay couple.
Eric (Tom Cavanagh of the hit series "ED," "Scrubs," "Eli Stone") lives
for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he's managed to turn
his stint as an ex- Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as
commentator for sports TV. He's living the dream! But when
Eric's boyfriend Sam (Ben Shenkman of "Angels in America" "Law &
Order," "Canterbury's Law") announces that they're to become temporary
guardians of a young boy, Eric's comfortable world shatters.
Enter Scot (Noah Bernett, "Prom Wars," "Girl's Best Friend," "Last
Exit, "Gothika") -- a recently orphaned, swishy 11-year-old
sissy-of-a-boy -- and Eric's mirror opposite. Freaked out by Scot's
'joie de vivre,' Eric and Sam gently nudge Scot away from scented hand
cream and all things pink, towards a more 'acceptable' pastime –
hockey. But after Scot's disastrous first game, Eric begins to
rethink the compromises he's made in his own life in order to be
'accepted.'
Officially sanctioned by the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs, BREAKFAST
WITH SCOT represents the first time a professional sports league has
allowed their logo and uniforms to be used in a gay-themed movie.
109 min
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DIRECTED BY
Laurie Lynd
CAST:
Tom Cavanagh
Ben Shenkman
Noah Bernett
Jeananne Goossen
Sheila McCarthy
Grahame Greene
SYNOPSIS
Three years in the making, Saving Marriage is on the scene as one state
grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have
the right to marry?
You'll hear the personal stories of people that are shaping history.
Career politicians who stand up to their constituents and follow their
hearts. Seasoned lobbyists who see the holy grail of the gay rights
movement suddenly within reach. And regular people thrust suddenly into
the world of politics by an issue that could change their lives.
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DIRECTED BY
Mike Roth
John Henning
EDITED BY
Paula Gauthier
SYNOPSIS
Sixteen-year-old Tru is uprooted by her lesbian moms from her
comfortable gay-friendly home in San Francisco and moved to a
conservative, suburban community in Southern California.
Tru’s only friend is a closeted football player, and even that
friendship is jeopardized when she starts the school’s first
Gay-Straight Alliance.
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DIRECTED BY
Stewart Wade
CAST:
Najarra Townsend
Jake Abel
Matthew Thompson
Alexandra Paul
Cynda Williams
Alec Mapa
Bruce Vilanch
Nichelle Nichols
Jasmine Guy
Jane Lynch
Elaine Hendrix Muller
THE WORLD UNSEEN
November
SYNOPSIS
In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited
Amina (Sheetal Sheth) has broken all the rules of her own conventional
Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a
café with Jacob, her 'colored' business partner. When she meets
Miriam (Lisa Ray), a young traditional wife and mother, their
unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind
her. As Amina helps Miriam’s sister-in-law to hide from the police, a
chain of events is set in motion that changes both women forever.
In a system that divides white from black and women from men, what
chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?
From overcoming oppression to finding personal freedom, from the
hardships of a loveless marriage to the hesitant joy of an unexpected
love affair, "The World Unseen" transports the viewer to a vibrant,
colorful world that is universal in its themes.
 
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DIRECTED BY
Shamim Sarif
CAST:
Lisa Ray
Sheetal Sheth
David Dennis
Rjesh Gope
Grethe Fox
Bernard White
Parvin Dabas
Nandana Sen
Colin Moss
Natalie Becker
Amber Rose
Avantika Akerkar
I CAN'T THINK
STRAIGHT
November
SYNOPSIS
Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin prepares for an
elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters
Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend Ali.
Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more
different from each other but the attraction is immediate. Tala’s
feisty nature provokes Leyla out of her shell and soon both women
reveal their feelings for each other. But Tala is not ready to accept
the implications of the choice her heart has made and escapes back to
Jordan where her chain-smoking high-brow mother finishes preparations
for an ostentatious wedding.
As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, simmering
family tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala
to be true to herself. Meanwhile heartbroken Leyla relishes her newly
found sense of identity and self-respect and moves on with her new life
– much to the shock of her tradition-loving Indian parents. Single
again, Tala flies back to London – but it will take more than just a
date set up by Ali and Leyla’s sister Zara to win Leyla back.
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DIRECTED BY
Shamim Sarif
CAST:
Lisa Ray
Sheetal Sheth
Antonia Frering
Dalip Tahil
Nina Wadia
Ernest Ignatius
Siddiqua Akhtar
Amber Rose Revah
Anya Lahiri
Kimberly Jarai
SYNOPSIS
Director Yair Hochner gives us a wacky comedy that ignores politics
altogether while focusing on its characters’ domestic and romantic
problems.
And no one has more problems than gay siblings Shirley and Omer. Omer
is almost thirty and still hasn’t found himself — or the man of his
dreams. A series of disastrous blind dates hasn’t helped. Shirley is a
little younger and has already nabbed her dream woman, Michal, owner of
the hippest café in town (and Shirley’s boss). But the thought
of settling down scares Shirley, who wonders if she’s ready to give up
her long-held plan of traveling to Antarctica.
As the siblings sort through their feelings and prepare for adulthood,
friends and relatives chime in with their advice and problems of their
own. No one has more of either than their “Jewish mother from hell,”
Shoshanna, played, in what Hochner describes as a tribute to both the
films of John Waters and the late great Divine, by Yoam Huberman, one
of Israel’s most talented drag artists.
110 min
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DIRECTED BY
Yair Hochner
CAST:
Guy Zo-Aretz
Lucy Dubinchik
Tomer Ilan
Liat Akta
Yiftach Mizrahi
Ofer Regirer
Yuval Raz
Oshri Sahar
Yael Deckelbaum
Dvir Benedek
Miss Laila Carry
Rivka Neuman
November
SYNOPSIS
A man dies very unexpectedly and leaves behind two men: Jeff, his best
friend and Andrea, an Italian he’s been corresponding with online. Jeff
informs Andrea of Mark’s passing; Andrea writes back to express his
shock and sympathies. On a whim, they continue their correspondence and
a rapport grows between them. They eventually meet, where they extend
their e-mail exchanges into more personal and intimate conversations.
They talk about their respective countries, their jobs, their families,
their lives. Mostly, they talk about Mark. What began as a tragedy that
linked two strangers from different ends of the world becomes a deeply
realized friendship that may change their lives forever.
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DIRECTED
BY
Yen Tan
CAST:
Adam Neal Smith
Alessandrao Calza
Charles W. Baum
Ethel Lung
PLAYING
WITH FIRE
Fall
SYNOPSIS
Beautiful, seductive rich girl Daphne gets her kicks playing mind
games; finding and seducing young working-class men until she cruelly
kicks them to the curb. But when she comes across handsome med
student Nick, she discovers a challenge. Nick isn’t so easily
seduced. So Daphne and her friends set about seducing Nick’s
girlfriend, Heather. When things go wrong and Heather gets in a
terrible accident, Daphne finds her comfortable easy world spiraling
quickly out of control, and it will take all of her ability to find out
who is in control of this dangerous game.
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DIRECTED BY
David DeCouteau
CAST:
Susan Anton
Kelly Albanese
Kyle Jordan
Tom Sandoval
Candace Moon
Carrie Southworth
Michael Bergen
SYNOPSIS
Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of
the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a
lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and
present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz and
his friend Michael Callen, supported by controversial AIDS researcher
Joseph Sonnabend, began urging gay men to avoid unprotected anal sex as
early as 1982 -- and were treated as pariahs by the mainstream gay
community. Berkowitz is a fascinating, prickly, decidedly unsaintly
character, and Wein's film provides a fascinating and crucial slice of
traumatic sexual history that's all but invisible to younger
generations.
GRAND JURY
PRIZE WINNER – L.A. Outfest
RT: 75 minutes, color, 35mm color, aspect ratio 1.85, sound: Dolby, in
English
DIRECTED BY
Daryl Wein
CAST:
Don Adler
Richard Berkowitz
Susan Brown
Demetre Daskalakis
Richard Dworkin
William Haseltine
Larry Kramer
Ardele Lister
Michael Lucas
Francisco Roque
Gabriel Rotello
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend
Bill Stackhouse
Krishna Stone
Sean Strub
Edmund White
SERBIS
Winter
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SYNOPSIS
Morality has two sides - absolute and relative.
The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down movie house, which
shows dated sexy double-feature films. As the rest of the members go
about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how they suffer and
deal with each other’s sins and vices. Preoccupied with their personal
demons, the family is unmindful that inside their movie theater,
another kind of business is going on between the “serbis” boys (male
prostitutes) and the gay patrons.
The Philippines/France, 2008, 35mm, 94', Colour, Tagalog
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DIRECTED BY
Brillante Mendoza
CAST:
Gina Pareño
Jaclyn Jose
Julio Diaz
Kristofer King
Dan Alvaro
Coco Martin
LITTLE ASHES
January 2009
SYNOPSIS
Romantic story about the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dali,
filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.
In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values
are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the
avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and
determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and
rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's
social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Salvador
is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and
Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in
Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong
pull towards the charismatic Federico - who is himself oblivious of the
attentions he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Margarita.
Finally, in the face of his friends' preoccupations - and Federico's
growing renown as a poet - Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own
artistic success. Federico and Salvador spend the holiday in the
sea-side town of Cadaques. Both the idyllic surroundings and the warmth
of the Dali family sweep Federico off his feet. Salvador and he draw
closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets,
convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by
others. It is more that a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of
souls. And then one night, in the phosphorescent water, it becomes
something else...
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DIRECTED BY
Paul Morrison
CAST:
Javier Beltran
Robert Pattinson
Matthew McNulty
Marina Gatell
Arly Jover
Esther Nubiola
Simón Andreu
Vicky Peña
Sue Flack
Ferran Audí
Bruno Oro
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