LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival - Jan. 9/10 event
40s
See the Full Lineup of Films:
RISE LIKE A PHOENIX, 8min., UK
Directed by Carl Hunter
Rise like a Phoenix is a short, poetic documentary about Eurovision Song Contest fans. The film hears the intimate testimonies of what the contest means to them. The interviews are played over their black and white moving portraits hinting at the voluptuousness of fashion photographer Irving Penn’s Vogue, Photo shoots.
https://www.instagram.com/carl_james_hunter/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/rise-like-a-phoenix-review
DOGMA, 27min,. USA
Directed by Fernando García Arias
Lorena, a 45-year-old transgender person, a refugee in the Catholic religion, fasts for 9 days in search of her liberation and acceptance as a woman. In the process, she discovers that her deliverance is not in faith. A critique of social exclusion and the Catholic religion as an institution.
https://www.instagram.com/amendozaproducciones/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/dogma-review
DANCING HEART, 13min., Mexico
Directed by Amaranta R. Saavedra
Lesbian love has always been a rebel act. But a relationship between two women, teenagers and feminist is pure anarchy. Dancing heart is a pathway over the time Luisa and Violeta have been together, how they have faced discrimination and how with courage and feminism they have hold to go on and get around any obstacle. It is the story about two women who love each other in a world made for straight people, trough acceptation, change and a constant struggle for taken a happiness that seems to be denied for woman who love other woman.
https://cactoproducciones.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CactoProducciones
https://www.twitter.com/Cactoproduccion
https://www.instagram.com/cactoproducciones/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/dancing-heart-review
TRIPPING, 11min., USA
Directed by Amelia Xanthe Boscov
A flirty-butch, lesbian mom (Dot-Marie Jones - GLEE, BROS), goes on a road trip with her pregnant high schooler daughter in order to get an abortion at the nearest women’s health clinic.
http://trippingfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/trippingfilm/
https://www.instagram.com/trippingfilm/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/tripping-review
DADDY, 20min., USA
Directed by Jay Beckett
Rodrigo is an unstable, and materialistic queer man who falls madly in love with his sugar daddy. Rodrigo's best friend finds out that he is married to a woman and has a new born son. His world collapses along with his mind. Heartbroken and mentally disturbed, he goes on a quest to seek revenge.
https://www.2ndactfilms.com/daddy
https://www.instagram.com/daddy_theshortfilm/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/daddy-review