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HOLLYWOOD TO DOLLYWOOD
82 mins | USA | English | Documentary
Two brothers set out on a mission to find Dolly Parton so they can get their movie script in her hands.
Sponsor: HERB ZEMAN
LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR
105 mins | USA | English | Feature
After being thrown out of his home, Brad heads to LA where he encounters new friends, a new city, and a new family in the strangest of places.
Sponsor: BRYAN MOODY
I AM
71 mins | India | English,Hindi | Documentary
I Am chronicles the journey of an Indian lesbian filmmaker who returns to Delhi, eleven years later, to re-open what was once home, and finally confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. As she meets and speaks to parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was until recently a criminal and punishable offense.
Sponsor: CARL SMITH
TAIN'T NOBODY'S BIZNESS: QUEER BLUES DIVAS OF THE 1920'S
28mins | USA | English | Documentary
In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities and bed partners.
LONGHORNS
75 mins | USA | English | Feature
Travel back to Texas, 1982, where the world is ruled by big hair, synth pop and cowboy boots. Kevin, a straight frat-boy, encounters Cesar, an openly gay student, setting off a chain of events where sexual identity comes into question as well as which side of the fence some of the "longhorns" sit on.
Sponsor: MARK JONES & BEN HELM
CIRCUMSTANCE (THE MOVIE)
107 mins | Iran | Persian | Feature
Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs, and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two young girls discovering their sexuality and struggling with their desires and boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into.
AWARDS: Audience Award, Dramatic- Sundance Film Festival
Sponsor: YULETIDE OFFICE SOLUTIONS
GOING DOWN IN LA LA LAND
107 mins | USA | English | Feature
A candid, sexy, and outrageously funny look at what an actor can - and will - do to survive in Hollywood.
Sponsor: JERRY CHIPMAN
WE WERE HERE
90 mins | USA | English | Documentary
A documentary taking a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the city's inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic.
AWARDS: Outstanding Documentary Feature, Outfest 2011
Sponsor: EXPERIENTIAL HEALING CENTER & STEVE SOLOMON
LOOSE CANNONS
110 mins | Italy | Italian | Feature
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a traditional Italian family. On a trip home from Rome, where he lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he's ready to come out, his older brother ruins his plans.
Sponsor: MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY FILM COMMISSION
THE NIGHT WATCH
90 mins | UK | English | Feature
A tale of lost young Londoners whose lives are inextricably linked via their wartime experiences.
Sponsor: SUSANA RODAS
THE WISE KIDS
91 mins | USA | English | Feature
A thoughtful and evocative coming-of-age drama when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open.
Sponsor: NESHOBA CHURCH, A UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION
WISH ME AWAY
120 mins | USA | Documentary
The story of Chely Wright, the first country music star to ever come out as openly gay. Emerging from a life of hiding, she exposes her truth to her family, fans, and the country music world.
Sponsor: MID-SOUTH PRIDE
JUDAS KISS
94 mins | USA | English | Feature
A quirk in time and space gives a failed filmmaker the chance to reshape his destiny when he visits his peculiar alma mater.
Sponsor: KEITH MCKIBBEN & JERRY ROETHE
DAPHNE
90 mins | UK | English | Feature
This dramatic interpretation of author, Daphne Du Maurier's life is based on letters, and on biographies that examine her forbidden love affairs with high-society figure Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence. It's a story that can rival anything Du Maurier ever invented and one that will transport viewers back to an era that was as sensuous as it was repressed.
Sponsor: CAROLYN WITCOVER & DEBBIE COKE FOR THE WOMEN OF MERISTEM
ROMEOS
94 mins | Germany | German | Feature
20-years-old Lukas is right in the midst of male puberty – medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw up: recruited for his community service he is the only male quartered in the female nurses’ residential hall. What would be a dream for any other boy is acute, everyday stress for Lukas: being transgender means always finding yourself trapped in the wrong social compartment.
Sponsor: WILL BATTS & CURTIS PETTY
CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND
90 mins | USA | English | Feature
In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the cityAfter a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar he falls for street sweeper Heinz,paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son,Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising Christopher returns to London with Heinz but is unable to prevent his return to Germany when his visa expires. Years later Christopher,now a successful writer,returns to Berlin for a final meeting with Heinz,now married with children.
Sponsor: ANTHONY CULVER
EATING OUT: DRAMA CAMP
90 mins | USA | English | Feature
The popular feature film comedy trilogy EATING OUT (currently airing on Logo) is going into production on its fourth and fifth installments shooting simultaneously. Returning to the helm is the director of the original Eating Out movie, Q. Allan Brocka.
Sponsor: DANIEL THIBEAULT
PARAGRAPH 175
81 mins | Germany | English/French/German | Documentary
By the 1920’s, Berlin had become known as a homosexual eden, where gay men and lesbians lived relatively open lives amidst an exciting subculture of artists and intellectuals. With the coming to power of the Nazis, all this changed. Between 1933 and 1945 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code dating back to 1871.
(PRODUCER ATTENDING)
Sponsors: BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL, & BERKOWITZ, P.C. & KAL ROCKET
GUN HILL ROAD
88 mins | USA | English | Feature
After three years in prison, Enrique returns to the Bronx to find his wife estranged and his teenage child stumbling towards a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Sponsor: MEDTRONIC
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