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Pride Film Festival Announced
May 21,, 2008
Friday June 13th - Sunday June 15th
(Please note some films present material which may be considered of a mature nature)
Friday June 13th
Brewvies
677 S 200 W
7:00pm
OPENING RECEPTION
8:00pm
THE WALKER
Directed by Paul Schrader, starring Woody Harrelson, Lilly Tomlin, Lauren Bacall, Kristin Scott Thomas
Everyone loves a good scandal!
A contemporary drama set in DC, Carter Page (Harrelson)--a well-healed and popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion, and card partner to some of the capitol’s leading ladies (Lilly Tomlin, Lauren Bacall, Kristin Scott Thomas)--finds his loyalty and morality tested when he is implicated in scandal, blackmail, and murder.
108 min, Rated R for language, some violent material and nude images.
Saturday June 14th
Tower Theatre
876 E 900 S
12:00pm
SHE’S A BOY I KNEW, A film about love, family, and trans-sexuality.
Directed by and featuring Gwen Haworth
Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and hand-drawn animation, Haworth's auto-ethnography SHE'S A BOY I KNEW is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but is also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition.
70 min 2007 Canada, Documentary, unrated with brief and graphic nudity relating to gender transitioning
1:30pm
LOVE MY LIFE
Directed by Koji Kawano starring Japanese supermodel Asami Imajuki
Opposites attract in this charming love story from Japan. Ichiko is a happy go lucky girl who falls in love with serious Eri, a fellow student at the university. Ichiko wants to tell the world about their love – beginning with her father. But gay romance is not quite as easy as Ichiko envisions. When she comes out, she learns some very surprising family secrets. Adapted from a Japanese manga by Ebine Yamaji and featuring soundtrack by NOODLES.
96 min 2006 Japan, unrated but with some sexual nudity
4:00pm
SEMPER FI *With Special Guest Jeff Key
Directed by Vince DiPersio
The story of Jeff Key, who at thirty-four years old and gay, joined the Marines to fulfill his life long dream. After 9/11, Key was sent to Iraq, a deployment he could have dodged by revealing his sexual orientation to his superiors. Returning home with shattered ideals and broken hearted by what he had witnessed, Key turned his experiences into a riveting one-man play, EYES OF BABYLON. SEMPER FI, through its powerful juxtaposition of interviews, voiceovers, Jeff's personal footage from Iraq and scenes from his play, showcases his journey revealing the power and dignity of what it means to be a gay American at war.
73 min +30min discussion, USA documentary, unrated
Saturday June 14th
Brewvies
677 S 200 W
6:00pm
EDGE OF HEAVEN
Directed by Fatih Akin Winner of Best Screen Play at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Nejat seems disapproving of his father Ali's choice of live in girl friend, a prostitute named Yeter. His opinion changes as he learns of her devotion to her daughter. When Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten a political activist who has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. Ayten is befriended by Lotte, a young woman who invites her home. When Ayten is arrested Lotte travels to Turkey where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless quest to free Ayten.
120 min , German, Turkish, Unrated
8:00pm
KISS THE BRIDE,
Directed by C. Jay Cox (LATTER DAYS) starring Tori Spelling, James Karner, and James O’Shea
When Matt (Karner) receives an invitation to high school best friend Ryan's (O’Shea) wedding he's surprised - especially that Ryan is marrying a woman! Matt plans to rescue his former love from whatever "she-devil" has trapped him into this huge mistake. On the other hand, Ryan's perky fiancé Alex (Spelling) takes quite the liking to Matt. Is she, completely adorable, disarmingly ditzy, very cunning - or all three? As Matt tries to rekindle the old flame, Ryan is intent on putting out any sparks.
115 Min Rated R for sexual content and language 2007 USA
10:00Pm
XXY,
Winner of the 2007 Montreal Best Picture Award and the 2007 Cannes Critics Week Grand Prize among 9 other awards and 16 nominations!
Directed by, Lucia Puenzo, Starring Ines Efron
For just about everybody adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Ines Efron) who was born an intersex child. Alex begins to forthrightly explore her sexuality, her mother, searching for resolution, invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit along with their 16-year-old son Álvaro (Martin Piroyanski) at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore. Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face many uncomfortable truths.
1 hr, 31min, Argentina, Unrated but brief sexual nudity
Sunday June 15th
CITY LIBRARY
210 E 400 S
1:00pm
SHORTS
QUEEN OF LINCOLN ROAD,
Directed by Eric Smith
The wild and colorful handmade outfits of Irene Williams caught the attention of Eric Smith on Lincoln Road during one of his frequent trips to South Beach Miami. Shades of HAROLD AND MAUDE and GREY GARDENS come together in this sweet, funny, and thoroughly endearing portrait of a rare bird in paradise.
Doc 23min
SISSY FRENCH FRY
Directed by JC Oliva
Welcome to wildly eclectic and diverse West Beach High, where the annual Student Body President election will pit the quirky, much-beloved incumbent Sissy French Fry against a handsome, charismatic – and socially intolerant – transfer student with a devious plan to restore the “status quo.”
Short comedy 28min
2:00pm
PANEL: Dustin Lance Black, writer of many BIG LOVE episodes and the in production HARVEY MILK feature, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn along with local celebrity Radio Active Producer, Troy Williams.
3:00pm
A JIHAD FOR LOVE Special guests director Parvez Sharma and Producer Sandi Dubowski (TREMBLING BEFORE G_D)
Winner of the 2008 Torino International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival award for Best Documentary
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. Filmed over five and one-half years, in 12 countries and nine languages, A JIHAD FOR LOVE comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, this film seeks to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, which can mean 'an inner struggle' or 'to strive in the path of God'. In doing so the film and its remarkable subjects move beyond the narrow concept of 'Jihad' as holy war.
81 min + discussion
