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Welcome to the 13th Annual

PROVIDENCE GLBT FILM FESTIVAL

SCREENING LOCATION:

The screening of this year's Providence GLBT Film Festival will primarily take place at the historic Bell Street Chapel which is located at 5 Bell Street in Providence, RI.

401.273.5678

www.bellstreetchapel.org

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PROGRAMMING:

Annie Leibovitz "So, There You Go"
(U S A, 2009, 9 mins.)
Directed by Douglas Sloan
Commissioned by the International Center of Photography Museum this film was created to honor Annie Leibovitz and her Lifetime Achievement Infinity Award. the film looks back at 40 years of Leibovitz' work beginning with her reportage work for Rolling Stone through her current work for Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Assume Nothing
(New Zealand, 2009, 82 mins.)
Directed by Kirsty MacDonald
Many of us assume that there are only two genders and that being female or male follows from the sex of our biological bodies. Focusing on the art, photography and performances of four 'alternative' gender artists of Maori, Samoan-Japanese, and Pakeha descent, Assume Nothing poses the questions: 'What if 'male' and 'female' are not the only options? How do other genders express themselves through art?' Candid, playful and provocative, Assume Nothing travels from Wellington’s Red Rocks to the Metroplitan Museum of Art in New York to explore the potent creative world that flourishes between and beyond genders.

Astoria, Queens
(U S A, 2009, 21 mins.)
Directed by Kyle Coker
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, four Kansas City misfits navigate their new lives in the scary, but exciting Emerald City of New York.

Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics On Trial
Directed by Jonathan Joiner and Robert Martin
(2009, 29 min. U S A)
In 1982, an athletic group tries to hold a “Gay Olympics,” instigating what will ultimately become a battle at the U.S. Supreme Court and a challenge over the place of gays and lesbians in American society.

DANDELION DHARMA
Directed by Veronica DiPippo
(2008, 26 min. U S A)
Trudy (Amanda Tepe), a distraught 20-something, stands brokenhearted and sobbing in the community garden plot she once shared with her fiancé.

Suddenly, she is interrupted by three mysterious women: 80-year old Brit - Emma Chaise (Mimi Cozzens) – feisty former WWII fighter pilot; Liah Montez (Myriam Tubert) - 70-something Hispanic beauty - former owner of a whorehouse in Guadalajara, and “Mad” Sonja (Damara Reilly) - a hip reefer-smoking ex-dancer. As the women become intimate sharing their personal stories of failed romance… along with laced brownies and shots of vodka…. Trudy begins to fall under their spell.

Following tales of love and loss, where “beginnings come from endings, endings from beginnings,” Trudy’s perception of life changes, as she uncovers new meaning to the words “letting go”.

Fish out of Water
(U S A, 2009, 60 mins.)
Directed by Ky Dickens
In “Fish out of Water”, a young lesbian’s rejection by her Christian peers propels her to consult America’s premier theologians in a dissection and debunking of the seven Bible verses used to condemn homosexuality and justify discrimination.

Flight To Sinai
Directed by Charlie Vaughn
(2008, 28 min. U S A)
16 year old Jack Strong comes out to his religious parents and gets sent to a summer camp to change his sexuality.

Fruit Fly
(U S A, 2009, 95 mins.)
Directed by H.P. Mendoza
Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist, moves into a San Francisco artist commune in the hopes of moving her one woman show to a big city. Along with the numerous friends she makes in the art community, she also finds clues to the whereabouts of her biological mother, lessons in humility, and the startling realization that she just might be a fag-hag. All told through 14 original musical numbers written by H.P. Mendoza (Colma: The Musical).

¿IGUALES?
Directed by JAVIER DE LA TORRE
(2008, 15 min. Spain)
Adela isn’t the girl from a romantic comedy. Hassan isn’t the gallant hero of an adventure film. Sylvia isn’t at all like a femme fatale. And Sofía isn’t either what we can call an ideal mother. What they are and what they look for... well, does it matter?

I HAVE IT
Directed by Sam Griffith
(2009, 21 min. U S A)
“I HAVE IT” follows Emily and George (Larisa Oleynik and Devon Gummersall, respectively), a couple meeting for the first time after finding each other on an online dating site for individuals with HIV. George is an upper class mid-late twenties man, who has always embraced his privileged upbringing. He is likeable, good-looking, conservative, and never thought the unthinkable would happen to him. Emily is quirky and predictably liberal, consciously making herself stand out as unique. She is sweet, good-natured, and blatantly honest. While meeting for the first time, their conversation covers a variety of bases, until the white elephant in the room, their disease, is finally addressed. It turns out they both just want someone to talk to, to understand, to listen.

It's Me, Matthew!
(U S A, 2008, 15 mins.)
Directed by Neil Stephens
It’s Me, Matthew! is a psychological drama, based on a true story. “Matthew”, deals with the notion that in life we may subconsciously follow patterns from our childhood.

James
(2008, 17 min. Ireland/ United Kingdom)
Directed by Connor Clements
When James realises long buried secrets can lead to poor family relations, he feels it's time to confide with his only friend a secret of his own.

Life Is a Banquet
(U S A, 2009, 59 mins.)
Directed by Jonathan Gruber
Life is a Banquet is a documentary on the life and work of Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actress Rosalind Russell. From her early days in memorable films such as The Women, through career highlights like His Girl Friday and Auntie Mame, to her philanthropic work on behalf of arthritis research and other causes, Rosalind Russell's story is one that continues to amaze and inspire.

Make the Yuletide Gay
(USA, 2009, 89 mins.)
Directed by Rob Williams
Rob Williams, the director of Long-Term Relationship, Back Soon and 3-Day Weekend, brings us a hilarious addition to the gay holiday genre.

The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson (Keith Jordan), an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents (hilarious performances by Derek Long & Kelly Keaton). He keeps his cool as his quirky Midwestern hale and hearty parents try to set him up with his high school sweetheart, Abby (Hallee Hirsh). But when his boyfriend, Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero), shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?

Out in the Silence
Directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson
(2009, 56 min. U S A)
The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy and a quest for change in the small Pennsylvania hometown he left long ago. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school, Wilson takes viewers on an exhilarating journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America.

Sandhill Boys
Directed by Laura Klein
(2009, 20 min. U S A)
“SANDHILL BOYS” is a film about two men, A.D. and The Man (Donald), who spend their days quietly discussing the nature of love and life amongst the tobacco barns and sandy fields of North Carolina’s Sandhill region. As the mentally trapped Donald relives the only meaningful moment of his past, A.D. seizes his destiny and sets out to tell the woman of his dreams that he loves her. After falling victim to his own fears and unable to get the words out, A.D. returns to the same spot he and Donald inhabit, and both men continue living their debilitated existences without hope of ever finding meaning or love.

Storm
Directed by Joan Beveridge
(2008, 13 min. United Kingdom)
A daughter’s unexpected visit to her estranged mother triggers an emotional storm leading to sudden and explosive violence.

Stubblejumper
(Canada, 2009, 48 mins.)
Directed by David Geiss
A unique docu-drama about the life of Saskatchewan-born gay activist Doug Wilson, who was suspended from the University of Saskatchewan in 1975. This biographical film is one hour and utilizes both documentary elements as well as dramatic scenes to tell the story of this captivating and influential man.

Swimming with Lesbians
(U S A, 2009, 69 mins.)
Directed by David Marshall
It has been said, “Gays have a past but no history.” Gays and Lesbians don’t grow up immersed in gay history, it is something they must search for. For those coming of age in the 1950’s, much of significant American gay history is their personal history -- the Mattachine Society, Stonewall, the gay rights movement, psychiatric redefinition of homosexuality, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Romer v. Evens, AIDS, civil unions, marriage -- it’s all in the last 50 years. Swimming with Lesbians is a film that explores an upstate New York community’s efforts to create an LBGT historic archive – led by the extraordinary Madeline Davis.

The Queen
Directed by Christina Choe
(2009, 7 min. USA)
Bobby, a Korean-American teenage outcast, is working at his parents dry cleaners on prom weekend. When the prom queen and her boyfriend, stop by with their dress and tuxedo, Bobby has his own prom to remember.

The Satyr of Springbok Heights
Directed by Robert Silke
(2009, 54 min. South Africa)
Meet the inmates of an architecture that captivates. The location: Cape Town, South Africa. Springbok Heights is a tightly-wound knot of studio apartments… an art-deco masterpiece that weaves its residents into its mortar.

Wouter Malan: Co-op Chairman, musical tendencies, greasy facial hair. Wouter retired early from his career in physical education.

Hilda Steyn: Six-foot-three, impressively large hands. Hilda’s had a crush on Wouter for forty years, but since undergoing elective surgery in the 1970s, Hilda lacks the one thing Wouter seeks most in a companion.

An affluent simpleton, two poor lesbians and a not-unattractive specimen of vermin swell the socially-claustrophobic ranks of this tiny universe, which Springbok Heights strains to contain.

Expert interviews reveal the terrifyingly-beautiful qualities of a building that holds its inmates in its thrall.

The Single Mother
Directed by Ryan Logan
(2009, 6 min. U S A)
Meet The Single Mother - a big-hearted transvestite reincarnation of June Cleaver, who embarks on a perilous journey to obtain the nuclear family featured in his tattered Home & Garden magazines. With the unfortunate predicament of being unable to conceive himself (but not for lack of trying), he pursues increasingly desperate means to procure a child of his own. He attempts adoption. He strives to become a nanny. He even makes a run at luring hyperactive children out of a park using candy. When anatomy gets in the way of destiny... the oven mitts are off.

Weak Species
Directed by Dan Faltz
(2008, 34 min. U S A)
Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food-chain. Seducing his classmates gives Steve a sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When Steve sets his sights on the school star athlete, he starts a cat and mouse chase which could ruin him and his idol. At odds with each other, George and Steve have more in common than they realize. As their paths spiral downward, they could save each other, or continue on their way to self-destruction.

The Providence GLBT Film Festival

PO Box 162 • Newport, RI 02840 (United States)
Street Address: 96 Second Street • Newport, RI 02840

Office: 268 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903
Tel/Fax: (401) 861-4445/490-6735

info@film-festival.org

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August 4-9, 2009

Note that this year's screenings, while spread across the city of Providence, will once again primarily be based at the Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, just off of Broadway in Providence

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