5th annual Queer West Film Festival - Sat August 18

Saturday August 18th, 2012 — 5th annual Toronto International Queer West Film Festival

Where: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Address: 12 Alexander St (Off Yonge St. One block North of College St.)
Start Time: 7 pm
End Time: 10 pm
The Bar will be open though out our programming tonight
Cover $5/PWYC includes your Free Program Guide
Festival Hotline: 416-879-7954

http://www.buddiesinbadtimes.com/

Final selection

DIRECTOR: Kai Egener
CITY: Berlin, Germany
TITLE: King Size. 6 min
SCREENINGS: First North American Showing
ABOUT A drag king speaks about being king sized. Production Year: 2011.

DIRECTOR: Kai Egener
CITY; Berlin, Germany
TITLE: Passing. 5 min
SCREENINGS: First North American Showing
ABOUT: Drama: In This almost silent film short, a gender queer person stays true to herself in her own quiet way.

DIRECTOR: Connor Clements
CITY: Belfast, Northern Ireland
TITLE: James. 17:36 min
SCREENINGS: First Canadian show outside of Montreal Quebec.
ABOUT: Young James struggles as the outsider kid at his school. His teacher, Mr. Sutherland, is the only person he feels he can connect with. When James finally puts a voice to his feelings, Mr. Sutherland’s response isn’t what James had hoped for.Jury Prize for Best Short, Image+Nation LGBT Film Festival Montreal 2009.

DIRECTOR: Vivek Shraya
WEB SITE http://vivekshraya.com/
CITY: Toronto, Ontario
TITLE: What I Love About Being Queer. 18:13 min
SCREENINGS: first North American Showing at a queer film festival
ABOUT: It features 34, mostly Toronto-based queers, some of whom you might recognize! VIVEK SHRAYA is a Toronto-based multimedia artist, working in the mediums of music, performance, literature and film.

DIRECTOR: Reid Waterer
CITY: Los Angeles, CA
WEB SITE http://web.mac.com/greenband/Site/Welcome.html
TITLE: Performance Anxiety 15:15 min
SCREENINGS: First Canadian showing.
ABOUT: two straight actors rehearse for a movie’s gay love scene. As you’d expect, they’re not so comfortable with it at first. But as they try different tactics to make it work, it looks as though they may be more “into” it then they had originally expected. The film stars Danny Lopes (as Jacob), Lawrence Nicols (as Duke), and Anthem Moss. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1IRmA6nThk&feature=player_embedded


INTERMISSION

DIRECTOR: Graham-John Salvaterra
CITY: Brampton, Ontario
TITLE: Transformation. 2 min
SCREENINGS: Status never screened previously.
ABOUT: A transwoman in denial seeks to crush doubt through machismo and hard living, but she reaches the end of her ropes her only option is to acknowledge the truth about herself. Can she survive the judgement of her family, of society, of her father?
Graham-John Salvaterra Bachelor of Math, Honors Co-op Computer Science • Waterloo, Ontario

DIRECTOR: Catherine Hernanddez and Flerida Pena
CITY: Toronto, Ontario
TITLE: When Sally Meets Sally. 7:05 min
SCREENINGS: First North American Showing.
ABOUT: Series based on true queer dating disasters. Shot on location at Glad Day Book Shop, 598A Yonge St. Toronto Ontario

DIRECTOR: Katherine Macnaughton and Co-Director & Choreographer: Amy Blackmore (Montreal Quebec)
WEB SITE http://www.bisfilms.com
CITY: Montreal Quebec
TITLE: So There’s This Girl. 5;07 min
SCREENINGS: First North American showing.
ABOUT: So There’s This Girl etches the portrait of a couple, echoing a moment in their lives where sentiments become abstracted and manifest in space through the movement of the ensemble. The couple is at the end of their meal dining out and about to pay. Something has happened between them during their silent meal. Choreography ensures in the moment before they leave.

DIRECTOR: Dan Borden
CITY: Berlin Germany
TITLE: Mix Breed. 23 min
SCREENINGS: First North American showing.
ABOUT: This short is a dark comedy about gay parenthood. Tom, a lonely gay man, is thrilled when a lesbian couple ask him to be the father of their child until he learns he has to battle it out with two other men – including his hated ex-boyfriend – to be the dad.


DIRECTOR: Kyisha Williams
CITY: Toronto, Ontario
TITLE: Red Lips [Cages are for Black Girls] 11 min
SCREENINGS: Previously shown at The Queer West Film Festival in 2010. Back by popular demand.
ABOUT: A film that explores black/radicalized/criminalized/queer/trans identity and its relationship with the prison-industrial complex. It attempts to articulate links between interpersonal and systemic violence, while celebrating the ways in which we survive and celebrate ourselves.

DIRECTOR: Elias Ribeiro
CITY: Johannesburg, South Africa
WEB SITE http://www.urucumedia.com
TITLE: Pink and Green. 28:35 min
SCREENINGS: First North American Showing
ABOUT: A love story between a homosexual couples who face being torn apart by deportation to America. Mario is a Brazilian man living in Los Angeles with his American partner Adam< . After losing his job, Mario faces deportation as American law’s prohit marriage between to same-sex partners.


DIRECTOR: Elias Ribeiro
CITY: Johannesburg, South Africa
WEB SITE http://www.urucumedia.com
TITLE: Dying, and Other Superpowers. 13:48 min
SCREENINGS: First North American showing
ABOUT: On his 18th Birthday, Josh receives a positive diagnosis for HIV. He also discovers a previously doormat telekinetic ability, shattering a mug on the doctors. Superpowers? You be the judge.

Small after party follows tonight’s screening, stick around and enjoy yourself. Feel free to ask any question from the Festival Program Manager, Matthew Drobnich.

The Toronto Queer West Film Festival is owned and managed, by Gay West Community Network Inc. A not-for-profit corporation. Mailing Address 562 Dufferin St. 2nd floor B1 Toronto ON M6K 2A9. Visits by Appointment Only. 416-879-7954 http://www.queerwest.org

This event is part of the Toronto Queer Arts and Culture Festival running August 10 to 18, 2012 http://artsfestival.queerwest.org/events/queer-west-film-festival/film-festival-2012/