Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. Castro
- Note to Self, dir. Alex Bohs, 2017 USA, 2 minutes 👍
- What Do You See, dir. Michael Bonner, 2017 Australia, 6 minutes 👏 WORLD PREMIERE
- 98 Years* and Counting: More Women Leaders Needed Everywhere, dir. Kirthi Nath, 2018 USA, 3 minutes 👏
- My Own Wings, dir. Katia Repina, 2016 Spain/USA, 9 minutes, in English, Spanish, French and Ukrainian with English subtitles throughout 👏 BAY AREA PREMIERE
- The Things that Make Us, dir. Fox Fisher, 2017 UK, 3 minutes 💖 WORLD PREMIERE
- Many Loves, One Heart, dir. Sarah Feinbloom, 2017 USA/Jamaica, 19 minutes (also screened in the “Realness & Revelations” shorts program) 👏 WORLD PREMIERE
- Angela Wilson: A Butcher’s Story, dir. Gaby Scott, 2018 USA, 7 minutes 👏 U.S. PREMIERE
- Picture This, dir. Jari Osborne, 2017 Canada, 33 minutes 💖
Note to Self
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| Note to Self |
Alex has just broken up and sends a video message to his future self. It’s a brief glimpse into the dynamics of a furtive relationship (didn’t tell any of his friends, didn’t post any photos, etc.) that ended awkwardly. Interesting, definitely worth two minutes of your time. Recommended.
• IMDb • official website •
What Do You See? • WORLD PREMIERE
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| What Do You See? |
Sereena came from Malaysia to Australia to study, but also began her transition from male to female. Her ambition to be an engineer didn’t pan out (possibly because of transphobia), so she performs lip-sync and is branching out into photography. She asks the simple question: What do you see? A man? A woman? A freak? It’s a highly personal glimpse of the life of a person who is even more complex than her costumes. Highly recommended.
• Frameline guide • Sereena’s Vimeo channel • (I couldn’t find any other website, IMDb, etc.)
98 Years* and Counting: More Women Leaders Needed Everywhere
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| 98 Years* and Counting: More Women Leaders Needed Everywhere |
A straightforward celebration of women’s leadership and appeal for greater participation moving forward. The film is mostly snips of interviews at protest marches, with the interviewees displaying their signs, interspersed with a few relevant factoids. Timely and well executed, highly recommended.
• IMDb • official web • Facebook: @98YearsAndCounting • Twitter: @98YearsCounting #98YearsAndCounting (note: IMDb’s Twitter link is incorrect!) •
My Own Wings • BAY AREA PREMIERE
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| My Own Wings |
One of the first things children are taught is that the world is divided into male and female, but it turns out that Nature doesn’t see it that way. 98+% of humans are anatomically unambiguously one or the other, but that leaves quite a lot of people in between. (Depending whose definition and statistics you quote, the intersex population is anywhere from 0.02% to 1.7% of human beings.) The medical community is only beginning to see intersex traits as something other than shameful secrets to be surgically remedied immediately.
In this short documentary, we see several people born with intersex traits telling their own stories of parents, peers, and doctors, and their journey to finding a solid sense of self. Highly recommended.
• official website • English trailer (Vimeo) •
The Things That Make Us • WORLD PREMIERE
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| The Things That Make Us |
Filmmaker Fox Fisher is a transman; his partner Owl is a transwoman. Their narrations of their individual paths to finally loving their own bodies and each other’s, are interwoven in a tapestry, with one sometimes mirroring the other’s statement and sometimes standing in contrast. It’s an open and honest declaration of hard-won self-confidence. MUST SEE.
• IMDb • official website •
Many Loves, One Heart: Stories of Courage and Resilience • WORLD PREMIERE
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| Many Loves, One Heart |
This documentary presents interviews with a few of those people, including the first openly LGBTQI police officer in Jamaica, the pastor of a church that openly embraces LGBTQI congregants and has ministered to the HIV-positive community for a quarter century, and the director of J-FLAG, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays. It’s a profoundly hopeful story of trying to move the country beyond the patrimony of intolerance and violence to perhaps one day soon being a beacon of hope for the 21st-century Caribbean. Well done, highly recommended.
• IMDb • (also appeared in the “Realness & Revelations” shorts program)
Angela Wilson: A Butcher’s Story • U.S. PREMIERE
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| Angela Wilson: A Butcher’s Story |
Angela Wilson was tired of working as a restaurant cook, so she took on Avedano’s butcher shop in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, where she remains committed to local, sustainable sourcing of her meat, to knowing her regular customers, and to empowering women and knowing her staff. It’s an interesting and all-too-rare story in the age of supermarkets and Costcos. Well done (no pun intended), worth seeing, Highly recommended.
• Frameline guide • Avedano’s website • Twitter: @Avedanos •
Picture This
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| Picture This |
Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple” and co-host with Stella Palikarova of the “Deliciously Disabled” podcast, is planning his second annual sex-positive accessible play party. He takes us through his childhood into adulthood, including his adventures and misadventures with sexuality. He is deeply committed to the principle that everyone is entitled to sexual expression as a fundamental human right, and utterly unwilling to sit forgotten in the back of the (metaphorical) room while everyone else goes about their sexy lives. Among the philosophical questions he addresses: is it better to be seen as a fetish object or not to be seen at all? He wears his heart (and much more!) on his sleeve, but does it with self-confidence and no illusions. A compelling documentary with an empowering message for everyone. MUST SEE.
• IMDb • official website (NFB Canada) •
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