“My Own Private Lower Post” is the story of Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, a two-spirited Tlingit, as he seeks to understand how his mother’s trials at Lower Post Resident School have influenced his life. As she shares her story, he comes to understand how he too is a survivor. Haa Koosteeyi (Our Tlingit Way) is where mother and son find the strength to overcome and truly survive. “My Own Private Lower Post” won an Honourary Mention (runner-up) for best BC Short at the 2009 Vancouver Queer Film Festival. This groundbreaking video has been called “enjoyable, emotional and historic” (Whitehorse Star review). English and Tlingit with English subtitles
Filter Films
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In “The Reason Why”, the subjects of growing up queer, fat and lonely are recounted in rebuttal letters to ex-boyfriends who share the same name. Using pornography, television and gay movies, the film explores how to find one’s place while being a minority in a minority community, and how to say all of the things that were never said in significant relationships.
Reason Why, The
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A queer re-imagining of the classic “Beach Blanket Bingo,” set to a rousing musical number by Donna Loren.
It Only Hurts When I Cry
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Chip and Ovi met in an orphanage near the city of Kluj-Napoca in Romania during their teenage years. Ovi was born with disabilities in his arms and Chip has a severely damaged leg from polio. Both were abandoned shortly after birth to be raised in the care of the state. Despite their difficult situation, they dare to dream big: Chip wants to be an oilman in Texas and Ovi a professional cameraman. With humor and charm, they struggle to overcome their disabilities, social discrimination and poverty while dealing with the inevitable ups-and-downs of their relationship. “Featuring a complex, all-encompassing look at two young gay men, both with physical disabilities and living in Romania, “Chip & Ovi” presents a tender, plaintive look into the lives of an orphaned couple dealing with both the struggles of their relationship and of poverty. Each with his own compelling circumstance and interests, “Chip & Ovi” offers the audience the spectacular realization of just what unspectacular minutiae Chip and Ovi must bravely face, without complaint, on a daily basis.” – Reel Affirmations LGBT Film Festival (Washington, DC) In English and Romanian with English subtitles
Chip & Ovi
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“‘Divine Mannequin’ combines the media qualities of video and film with the graphic quality of an animated charcoal line drawing. The images – a subjective point of view of a runner, looped images of buildings and spheres, and a high angle close-up of a man’s face – are placed in a matte frame within a film frame. Rimmer’s film also underlines the human experience with the soothing rhythms and sounds of the runners’ stride, pace and breathing. The spectator is swept along with the aesthetic of everyday movement.” – Maria Insell
Divine Mannequin
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A young girl catches a wild lesbian in her backyard. After getting permission from her mother, the girl can keep the lesbian as a pet, but only for the day.
My Lesbian Friend
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A coda to “Armoire,” in which the bird loops again with unmasked mirror apprehended by a camera in flight.
Coda
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“Trinidad” uncovers Trinidad, Colorado’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex-change capital of the world,” and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the “transsexual mecca.”
Trinidad
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“It’s Goooooooood!!!!” Artist: CHRISTEENE featuring DJ Jaunty Song: Fix My Dick Album: SOLDIER OF PLEASURE
CHRISTEENE “Fix My Dick”
