LITTLE POTATO
An autobiographical short about a boy growing up gay in the Soviet Union, his mail-order-bride mom, and their adventurous escape to America.
LGBTQIA
HOW TO MAKE A PEARL
Some people seem to live in a figurative darkness. Due to a medical condition, John Kapellas exists in literal darkness. For ten years he has been confined to his apartment suffering from photosensitivity. Both a visual artist and a musician, John’s creativity is the engine propelling him through a seemingly endless night. In How to […]
FINDING HOME
Finding Home follows Brandon, a Shanghainese lawyer, who left his family and country due to his sexual orientation, as he navigates his new life as a gay immigrant in Los Angeles.
STRONG ISLAND
Twenty-five years ago, William Ford, an unarmed young black man, was killed after an argument with a white mechanic escalated. William was painted as the aggressor while his killer was set free, unpunished. Director Yance Ford’s carefully composed and starkly personal film simmers with a quiet anger as it dissects the long-lasting impact of his […]
SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART
NYC PREMIERE Lorraine Hansberry, best known for A Raisin in the Sun, was a black writer, communist, feminist, lesbian and outspoken trailblazer at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. She led an active life, befriending James Baldwin, inspiring Nina Simone, breaking barriers from Broadway to Hollywood, being monitored by the FBI and seeking love […]
SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD
US PREMIERE Scotty Bowers is an unsung Hollywood legend, known for catering to the sexual appetites of celebrities – straight, gay and omnivorous – for decades. Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer (Citizen Jane, Valentino: The Last Emperor) captures Scotty in his 90s as he delivers the ultimate counter-narrative of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Prepare yourself for a different […]
REBELS ON POINTE
NYC PREMIERE New York City’s Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has charmed audiences for more than four decades, bringing the dance form to a modern audience… with a decided twist. Formed in an era of newfound gay liberation, the Trocks, as the all-male troupe is affectionately known, fuses camp humor with classical ballet, performing […]
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION
NYC PREMIERE In the mid-1980s, Bruce LaBruce and G. B. Jones, a pair of young Canadians, introduced the world to the burgeoning Toronto queer punk scene through homemade zines and scrappy films. In this pre-Internet era, there was no way of knowing that queercore consisted of just two people. Soon enough, their subversive creation spread […]
OH, RICK!
2017 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER WORLD PREMIERE Rick Crom, comedy’s everyman, was the long-running emcee at the Comedy Cellar in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The piano-playing funnyman integrated his talent for musical theater into his act, while artfully shifting the way comedians discuss homosexuality in their routines. A gentleman and the quintessential host, Rick is […]
LOVE, CECIL
NYC PREMIERE Cecil Beaton was a multi-talented photographer, writer and painter who also designed sets and costumes for Oscar®-winning films such as My Fair Lady and Gigi. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who has previously directed major lm biographies of Diana Vreeland and Peggy Guggenheim, shows how Beaton intersected multiple worlds from British royalty to fashion […]