Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Director: Jamie Babbit,

Year: 2007

Length: 86mins

Language: English

Genre: Comedy

Description:

From the director of “But I’m a Cheerleader” & “D.E.B.S” comes Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Anna, an all American gal and high school grad has been rejected by her college, her girlfriend just broke up with her, and her big sister is getting married. Anna needs to find a purpose in life. Luckily she meets Sadie, who invites her to join the Clits In Action, or C(i)A, a radical feminist group. Anna soon gets in touch with her radical feminist side and adventure ensues.

Trailer: www.power-up.net/TRAILER_IBTC.mov

Official Site: www.power-up.net/ibtc.htm

Boy I am

Director: Samantha Feder & Julie Hollar

Year: 2006

Length: 72 min

Language: English

Genre: Documentary

Description:

Delving into the heated debate between lesbian feminism and the struggles of transgendered persons for inclusion and acceptance, this film illuminates the polarization of queer communities.

As the FTM community grows in size and visibility, some lesbians feel their women-only spaces are being undermined and their community changed. Boy I Am follows the final months before three New York City trans men undergo surgery and depicts them debating issues around space within queer communities. Each speaks poignantly about the roles of race, class and feminism in their lives and during their transitions. Drawing links between the right to choose and the right to accessible health care, they defend their place in the feminist movement while searching for acceptance within the queer community.

WINNER Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Seattle GLBT Film Festival 2006

Trailer: sfeder.blip.tv/file/367712?filename=Sfeder-BOYIAMTrailer839.mov

Official Site: boyiam.mayfirst.org/About.html

Puccinni for Beginners

Director: Maria Maggenti,

Year: 2007

Length: 82 mins

Language: English

Genre: Comedy\Romance

Description:

“Puccini for Beginners” is a sophisticated screwball sex comedy.

Allegra loves Samantha. But she won’t say so.

Grace loves Philip. But he won’t marry her.

Samantha leaves Allegra.

Philip leaves Grace.

Allegra meets Philip.

Allegra falls for Philip.

Allegra meets Grace.

Grace falls for Allegra.

Allegra falls for Grace.

Allegra sees Philip and Grace simultaneously and has no idea they’re exes.

A story about chance encounters, psychoanalytic excuses and one woman’s struggle to make a commitment.

Trailer: www.logoonline.com/shows/events/puccini_for_beginners/

Shelter Me (Riparo)

Director: Marco Puccioni

Year: 2007

Length: 98 min

Language: Italian English subtitles

Genre: Drama, Lesbian

Description:

Anna and Mara return from a holiday in North Africa to find that Anis, a young Moroccan boy, has smuggled himself across the border in the trunk of their car.

For Anna, an upper class factory owner, Anis represents an opportunity to act charitably, while factory worker Mara responds to the boy with suspicion. Against either of their expectations, Anis slowly inserts himself into the couple’s life, and with them creates a new and unconventional family unit. Living beyond the bounds of accepted society—as lesbians, as immigrants, as working class—the three struggle as their relationships become ever more complex, and outside pressures begin to take their toll.

With outstanding performances from the leads, and a narrative that resists the temptation to simplify the intersections of race, culture and class in the protagonists’ lives, Shelter Me creates a compelling portrait of what it means to struggle for acceptance across both physical and emotional borders.

 

Boy Culture

Director: Q Allan Brocka

Year: 2007

Length: 88 min

Language: English

Genre: Drama

Description:

BOY CULTURE is the candid confession of “X”, a wildly successful male escort. After ten years of sex-for-pay, “X” gets romantically entangled with his two hot roommates and a reclusive elderly client, Gregory. But before Gregory will agree to sex, he tells an unsetting love story spanning fifty years and dares “X” to try something he hasn’t felt for years: emotion.

Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Matthew Rettenmund, BOY CULTURE takes on issues of sexual mores and emotional risk with a witty and incisive voice, revealing the leap of faith that love demands.

Trailer: www.boy-culture.com/trailer.html

Official Site: www.boy-culture.com

 

Eternal Summer

Director: Leste Chen

Year: 2006

Length: 95 min

Language: Mandarin, with English Subtitles

Genre: Drama

Description:

Jonathan is an introverted and academically disciplined young man, trying hard to fulfill his potential. Shane, rambunctious and charismatic, is always getting into trouble. Friends since preschool, the two young men share a connection that they each struggle to understand. For Jonathan, it is love and physical desire; for Shane, there is an irreplaceable and engrossing friendship that threatens to eclipse his attachment to his girlfriend, Carrie.

The sensitive and subtle direction of Leste Chen and the outstanding performances of the three young leads elevate this film high above most coming-of-age dramas. Created with a clear understanding of the meaning that resonates from such formative relationships, Eternal Summer is an endearing portrait of love, friendship and the hard choices that come with growing up.

Trailer: www.comingofagemovies.com/titles/eternalsummer/index.html

She’s a Boy I knew

Director: Gwen Haworth

Year: 2007

Length: 70 min

Language: English

Genre: Documentary

Description:

They say that when someone comes out of the closet, they can’t stop talking about it. Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth not only talked… she made a movie.

Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation, Haworth‘s documentary She’s a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth’s decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity.

The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker’s process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen’s transition.

Official Site: www.artflick.com

Curiosity of Chance

Director: Russell P. Marleau

Year: 2006

Length: 98 min

Language: English

Genre: Drama

Description:

The Only Way He Could Fit In was to STAND OUT!

Writer/Director Russell P. Marleau gives the John Hughes-styled high school comedy a queer twist in this touching coming-of-age tale. It’s the 1980’s, when new wave angst and gender-bending fashion were all the rage. The new kid at school Chance Marquis (Tad Hilgenbrinck of American Pie Presents:Band Camp), however is out. And his being a gay, somewhat awkward teenager makes him the target of the school bully. To deal with this dilemma, Chance turns to the opposite ends of the high school spectrum for help. On one end is the flamboyant drag queen and at the other, the varsity jock, Levi

Sparks (Brett Chukerman of Eating Out 2) on whom Chance has a bit of a crush. Chockfull of the comic conventions of the high school genre – the idiot faculty, the good-hearted but delusional parents, the fairy tale reversal of popularity – The Curiosity of Chance is a frothy bit of nostalgic filmmaking. But like with the best of John Hughes, knowing the genre doesn’t mean its story won’t also touch your heart.

Trailer: www.moviesbox.us/comedy/the-curiosity-of-chance-2006.html

Official Site: www.thecuriosityofchance.com

 

Nina’s Heavenly Delights

Director: Pratibha Parmer

Year: 2007

Length: 94 min

Language: English

Genre: Comedy

Description:

NINA’S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS is a surprising love story where Scottish humor meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, THE SHAHS and their award winning Indian restaurant, THE NEW TAJ.

The story is told through the eyes of NINA SHAH, a young Scottish Asian woman. Nina had left home under a cloud after an argument with her father but when he dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return. Her return reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe Bollywood drag queen, and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman who now owns half the restaurant.

Then Nina discovers her father’s secret – The New Taj has been selected for The Best of the West Curry Competition. In the turbulent, but exhilarating days that follow, Nina, with Lisa’s help, embarks on a personal mission to win the trophy for the third time. But Nina’s feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realizes that she is falling in love.

Can her feelings ever be reciprocated? And, if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family?

Trailer: www.moviecentre.net/upcomingmovies/trailer/movie_id_1873.htm

Official Site: www.ninasheavenlydelights-themovie.com/

 

Breakfast With Scot

Director: Laurie Lynd

Year: 2007

Length: 90 min

Language: English

Genre: Drama

Description:

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 (TomCavanagh), an ex-NHL hockey player-turned-sportscaster and Sam (Ben Shenkman), a lawyer, who end up with temporary custody of recently orphaned Scot, (Noah Bernett) an 11-year-old boy who turns out to be a total sissy.
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. During production, in an interview with the Toronto Star, Cavanagh said: “You have to give full credit to the NHL and the Leafs for signing on.”
In the New York Times, Bernadette Mansur, executive director for the NHL Foundation said, “From our standpoint, this is about a modern family helping to raise a young boy. There was no intention for this to be a political statement, but having said that, we’re not going to back down.”

Official Site: www.caprifilms.com/breakfastwithscot/index.html