2007

Director: Cassandra Nicolaou

Seventy-year old Daisy is having a hard day. She’s dug out her old rifle, now all she needs is a box of bullets.

CAN 2007

10-minutes

Director: Lukas Blakk

Using borrowed clips from three films about gender bending – two comedies and a tragedy – a personal gender landscape is created. This piece touches on the assumptions, strategies for survival and a commitment to discussion that alternate gender expressions evoke.

CAN 2007

9-minutes

Directors: Dominique Cardona & Laurie Colbert

After her partner dies, successful doctor Finn Jeffries faces the biggest challenge of her life, raising an angry 11-year old daughter.

CAN 2007

88-minutes

Director: Gwen Haworth

Using archival footage and animation, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transformation partially through the voices of her anxious but living family, best friend, and wife.

CAN 2007

70-minutes

Director: Jane Clark

Set in 1906, the film is based on a romance between Renee Vivien, a lesbian poet living in Paris and Kerime, a practicing Muslim woman and wife of a Turkish diplomat. It structures their last moments together around Renee’s poem, “The Touch” as they meet in a Paris park.

USA 2007

7-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Andrea Meyerson

In 2006, to mark her silver anniversary as a performer, lesbian comic Kate Clinton embarked on a 50-city “It’s Come to This!” tour. Her hilarious performance is interspersed with a variety of personal moments and tributes.

USA 2007

60-minutes

Director: Dylan Vade, Esq & Abe Bernard

A fairytale with a cast of eight fierce and fiery talking genitals who expose harmful legal practices, speak up for gender self-identification, and spread unapologetic tranny pride.

USA 2007

12-minutes

Director: Tonnette Stanford

An outrageous soap-opera drama explores the shocking scandals of the powerful Cassamento family and their lovers. Hair-pulling catfights, countless illicit affairs, flamboyant fashion statements and bizarre story twists – all this and more.

AUSTRALIA 2007

12-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Christy Wegener

A hairstyle that won’t go away mirrors the difficulty of moving on after a romance has ended.

USA 2007

13-minutes
Canadian premiere

Director: Anne Renton

How life might be for heterosexuals if the world was predominantly gay and straight people were the ‘queer’ ones. Follow Jake and Sabrina as they try to find love in a world where they just don’t fit.

USA 2007

7-minutes

Director: Cecilia Barriga & Claudia Lorenz

Two swiss ladies meditate on friendship, love and becoming older as they swim down the river that flows through their town.

SWITZERLAND 2007

5-minutes

Director: Gina Pei Chi Chen

A twelve-year old girl struggles to follow her expected gender and cultural roles while exploring an emerging masculine nature.

CANADA-TAIWAN 2007

12-minutes

Director: Brian Lilla

Tale of Two Bondage Models is an intimate documentation of personal struggle and the cathartic process of exploring pain between Loralei Lee and Princess Donna.

USA 2007

9-minutes

Director: Joyce Draganosky

Beth discovers she has a lot in common with her son’s new girlfriend.

7-minutes

Director: Pat Mills

When Andy’s Uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behaviour.

CAN 2007

11-minutes

Director: Debra Chasnoff

In 1996, It’s Elementary, a documentary about elementary school’s combating sterotypes of gays and lesbians in their classrooms, screened on the festival circuit and on PBS to great acclaim – and great controversy. This follow-up shows how the original film has helped to spread gay-straight alliances and educational outreach programs across schools all over the world.

USA 2007

46-minutes

Director: Kami Chisholm

A butch dyke who can’t sleep goes to a nightly 3 am Insomniacs Anonymous meeting and meets the girl of her dreams.

USA 2007

11-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: Michael T. Connell

This is a film about the bond between a parent and a male to female transgender child, from the prospective of the parent.

USA 2007

6-minutes

Director: Heidi Arnesen

When the power goes off in the ladies locker room after spinning class, three women share a shower and a pleasurably tense experience in the dark.

NOR 2007

7-minutes

Director: Michael Bodie & Silas Howard

A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends.

USA 2007

5-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Ivan Coyote & Veda Hille

What was it like being queer in Vancouver in the 50s? The 60s? The 70s?

CAN 2007

21-minutes

Director: TM Scorzafava

The adventure of a female immortal called to rise from her suspension between light and dark to rescue the mortal she loves, but left behind.

USA 2007

12-minutes

Director: Margret Bergheim

An older woman makes an untraditional choice that shows it’s never too late to choose love.

NOR 2007

9-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Melanie McGraw

When a young girl is accidently left behind at a desert gas station while on a road trip with her large family, she must finally find the courage to make her voice heard.

USA 2007

15-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Sonja Dare

A funny and satirical documentary which looks at the lives of outback lesbians, through the eyes of three local gay women.

AUSTRALIA 2007

27-minutes

Director: Kat-I

A couple readies themselves for a romantic getaway at the beach — if only they could get out of their driveway.

USA 2007

5-minutes

Director: Amy Neil

In this touching documentary, a lesbian from Texas uncovers a stockpile of vintage photographs that reveal the hidden life of her grandmother and her grandmother’s ‘best friend’.

USA 2007

22-minutes

Director: Nicole Brending

Two antique dolls confront their secret feelings for each other after a night of unforgettable passion.

USA 2007

7-minutes

Director: Anna Albelo

A fresh docu-comedy that follows the filmmaker as she investigates a contemporary lesbian phenomenon… Dinah Shore Weekend.

FRA 2007

28-minutes

Anna Gutmanis

This London Ontario born singer-songwriter sought out legendary music producer Karen Kane to record “I Am Who I Am”… a powerful statement against homophobia and winner of the the Pride in the Arts 2009 Pride Song Award.

CAN 2007

4-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Director: David Quantic

Camile Schwartzbaum leads her community theatre company in a frantic search for the perfect 1980s movie that she hopes to turn into the next Broadway smash a la Xanadu.

USA 2007

6-minutes

Director: Pierre Portelli & Darren Bonhomme

Sometimes even a monster home in the suburbs isn’t big enough to contain the baggage of one complicated couple.

CAN 2007

7-minutes

Director: Mary Guzman

A butch mechanic meets her match and dreams about the ones that got away in this hommage to perfection: high femmes, aerialists and vintage motorcycles… and more.

USA 2007

10-minutes
Canadian Premiere