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Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday
April 6 - 16, 2009
8:00 & 9:30 p.m.
167 & 174 Willard
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One
in Ten Film Festival Schedule
To find out more about the films, and to view trailers, go to the
Facebook group: The
One in Ten Film Festival.
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Ask
Not
official
website IMDb
info (USA, 2008, 73 mins)
Directed By: Johnny Symons Persistent Visions
Faced with unmet recruiting goals, the US military has relaxed
its standards to include convicted felons to serve – but
they still show no signs of reducing their homophobia, epitomized
by the shameful “don’t ask, don’t tell”
policy. Filmmaker Johnny Symons (Daddy & Papa) returns to
NewFest with an insightful exploration of the discriminatory
ban, focusing on willing potential recruits and their Right
to Serve campaign, former LGBT soldiers who speak out about
their experiences, and a new recruit’s decision to return
to the closet in order to serve. |
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Be
Like Others
official
website IMDb
info (USA , Canada , Iran, 2008, 74 mins)
In Farsi with subtitles & English with English subtitles
Directed By: Tanaz Eshaghian
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, gays and
lesbians have limited choices: forego same-sex relationships
entirely, or change their sex, since transsexuality is actually
permissible under Islamic law. While this is surely a boon to
actual transgendered Iranians, it instead becomes de facto gender
policing for those men and women who fall outside of the culture’s
rigidly defined heterosexual roles. Be Like Others examines
the lives of a number of men choosing to take this drastic step
to be able to survive in Iran.
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Bi
The Way
official
website IMDb
info (USA, 2008, 93 mins)
Directed By: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker
Bisexuality has long been the subject of suspicion and dismissal
by some lesbians, gays, and straights. But are perceptions of
bisexuality changing, in part due to pop cultural influences?
Are younger people in American today embracing the idea, if
not the exact label, of bisexuality? Bi the Way takes an entertaining
and informative trip around the US to find out, stopping at
various points along the way to explore the opinions of a variety
of people, including Michael Musto and Dan Savage, while focusing
the camera on five main subjects who each have been open to
exploring relationships with both men and women. |
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Breakfast
with Scot
official
website IMDb
info (Canada 2007, 90 min)
When a closeted former hockey pro and his lawyer partner take
in a flamboyant 11-year-old, all their lives are changed in
this alternative family film. In the film, the carefully discreet
lives of a closeted gay couple are thrown into turmoil when
they take in their nephew. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) and Sam (Ben
Shenkman, “Angels in America”) have been in a stable
relationship for four years. Eric’s a former hockey pro
turned sportscaster.
He doesn’t think anyone knows he’s gay and keeps
up a macho façade. Sam’s a lawyer whose patience
with his lover’s closeted behavior is quickly fading.
Things quickly change when Sam gets word that his irresponsible
brother’s ex-girlfriend has died. With the brother nowhere
to be found, Sam is suddenly responsible for the woman’s
son, Scot (Noah Bernett). Eric can’t stand kids and agrees
to this only as a temporary measure. Scot arrives on the scene
in a tizzy of high drama; he’s like a gay cocktail party
embodied by a single child. He dresses flamboyantly, wears his
mother’s jewelry and adores musical theater. Yes, at just
11, Scot is already a gay diva -- much to the shock of his new
straight-acting dad and his partner. Scot, in true gay fashion,
swishes down the school corridors and makes friends with the
other outcasts. Eric decides that what Scot needs is some manliness,
and he signs the boy up for ice hockey. Forcing these two men
to take stock of their lives, Scot truly is a breath of fresh
Canadian air.
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Equality
U
official
website IMDb
info (USA, 2008, 91 mins)
Directed By: Dave O'Brien EyeThink Pictures
What happens when a busload of young LGBT Christian activists
travel around the country to confront antigay discrimination
policies at conservative religious and military colleges? Equality
U tells the story of the Soulforce Equality Ride and their experiences
combating hatred, fear, and ignorance through direct action.
Their goal: to engage in a dialogue with university administration
and students, explaining the tragic consequences that discriminatory
policies have had on LGBT lives. Some schools welcome them,
while others have them arrested and prevent them from speaking
to students. Can these young activists create social change,
one
university at a time?
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For
the Bible Tells Me So
official
website IMDb
info (USA, 2007, 95 mins)
We meet five Christian families, each with a gay or lesbian
child. Parents talk about their marriages and church-going,
their children's childhood and coming out, their reactions,
and changes over time. The stories told by these nine parents
and four adult children alternate with talking heads - Protestant
and Jewish theologians - and with film clips of fundamentalist
preachers and pundits and news clips of people in the street.
They discuss scripture and biblical
scholarship. A thesis of the film is that much of Christianity's
homophobia represents a misreading of scripture, a denial of
science, and an embrace of quack psychology. The families
call for love.
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Ready?
OK!
official
website IMDb
info (USA 2008, 91 min)
10-year-old Joshua just wants to be on the all-girl cheerleading
squad and play with dolls and dresses. In 2008, what’s
wrong with that? With family-friendly flair, a terrific cast
and plenty of heart and soul, writer/director James Vasquez
tells the story of a single mother struggling to understand
her young son’s love of cheerleading, dolls and dresses.
Andy Dowd (Carrie Preston) has her hands full. She’s trying
to succeed in a new career while properly raising her somewhat
rebellious child. With the help of her wandering brother, who
has returned home to lend a hand, and her gay neighbor, a 21st-century
family unit is assembled. The arrangement suits young Joshua
(Lurie Poston) fine, and all is well for him until he insists
on joining the cheerleading squad at his Catholic school. Sister
Vivian (Tara Karsian) calls Mom in for a chat, and they try
to steer the young man toward more manly pursuits, such as wrestling.
But that doesn’t last long, as Joshua becomes obsessed
with one of the team’s more butch members and is thrown
off the squad. After more agonizing parent-teacher talks, the
conclusion is drawn that Joshua would be “better off”
at a different, more gay-friendly school.
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Training
Rules
official
website IMDb info (USA 2009, 56 min)
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching
basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no
drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy
athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent
university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to
be dismissed from their college team. The film follows the lawsuit
filed in 2006 against Portland and Penn State by student athlete
Jennifer Harris. This high profile case ignited the world of
women’s collegiate sports. It inspired the discussions
so sorely needed to end discrimination based on sexual orientation
that pervades all organized sport.
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U
People
official
website IMDb info (USA 2007, 76 min)
Thought-provoking, vivacious and fiercely intelligent, this
engaging documentary captures 30 lesbian, trans and straight
people of color as they dissect their identity, gender labels
and the relationship between civil and queer rights. One bright
and sunny day, dexterous directors Hanifa Walidah and Olive
Demetrius gathered a group of friends together in a Brooklyn
brownstone to shoot the music video “Make a Move,”
to be broadcasted nationally on the queer TV network LOGO. This
creative endeavor inspired a second camera which captured the
vivacious yet intimate atmosphere behind the scenes. The premise
of the music video and subsequent documentary is simply stated
in the first frame: “When you view this film, do not make
assumptions about anyone’s sexuality.” This bold
statement bridges the divide within the African-American community,
uniting lesbians and transmen; the queer and the straight; and
the masculine and the feminine within each person. From candid,
boisterous conversations on the stoop to intimate interviews
in private, everyone’s voice goes beyond queer identity
to delve into gender stereotypes, familial relationships and
how civil and queer rights relate to each other. U People brilliantly
interlaces
personal thoughts, rare archival footage of all-women parties
at the first African-American house on the block and the energetic
music video that started it all.
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When
Kiran Met Karen
official website
IMDb
info (USA, India 2008, 110 min)
Bollywood actress Kiran is on the verge of becoming an international
movie star -- that is, until she meets sexy magazine journalist
Karen and they find themselves swept up in a torrid affair.
Bold and engaging, this Sapphic love story is set in New York
City, where beautiful Bollywood starlet Kiran (Chriselle Almeida)
suddenly stops a press conference for her latest film because
of incriminating questions. She rushes outside and hunts for
a cab, finding one already occupied by the sultry Karen (Kelli
Holsopple), a novice journalist who convinces Kiran to ride
with her. She also sweet-talks the sensitive star into giving
her an exclusive interview for the magazine she works for. Confused
but intrigued by this alluring woman, Kiran invites her home
–- where she resides with her music mogul fiancé
-– to spend the evening chatting. Sparks immediately
fly and the duo throws caution to the wind, unable to prevent
their torrid affair. They share an intense passion, but is this
a one-night stand, or does Kiran have the courage to follow
her heart?
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XXY
official
website IMDb
info (Argentina/Spain 2007, 86 min)
Spanish with English subtitles
In this astonishingly original coming-of-age drama, an adolescent
with a painful secret on the brink of exposure is faced with
a choice that most of us would struggle to fathom. Alex is not
like other girls. A wild-eyed and gorgeously feral 15-year-old,
she has a secret few can claim: she is intersexed. Though convincingly
raised female, her parents keep her hidden away in a coastal
village hoping that exile might shield her from the cruelties
of the world. But her imposed gender role and isolation amongst
the sandy mounds and the cold crashing tides has eaten away
at the extraordinary teen’s once indomitable spirit. As
puberty encroaches, she falls into severe withdrawal and refuses
to take the medication that prevents her from masculinizing.
In response, her mother covertly invites Buenos Aires’s
top plastic surgeon for a visit, hoping to persuade Alex to
elect female gender assignment surgery. The girl’s father,
on the other hand, is enraged by the thought of anyone bullying
his daughter. Consequently, when the surgeon arrives with his
wife and teenaged son in tow, a geyser of complex emotions and
excruciating conflicts erupts. Further complicating matters,
the surgeon’s son Alvaro, currently questioning his sexuality,
is magnetized to the double-gendered firecracker. Forming a
highly charged connection, the youths speed down a road plagued
with heartache and dilemma.
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Zombie
Prom
official
website IMDb
info (USA, 2006, 37 mins)
Directed By: Vince M. Marcello
1950s horror comic books meet musical comedy in this campy romp
featuring RuPaul!
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Shorts Competition
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Just Before the Drop
(USA, 2009, 10 mins)
Adapted and Directed by Sam Wagner
Based on the stage play by David-Matthew Barnes
Starring Cory Jones and Rachel Volpe
Moments after her husband of ten years leaps to his death from
a twelve story building, a woman comes face to face with a man
who claims to have been her husband’s lover of five years.
On the rooftop, sorrow and anger culminate in a second tragedy.
This will be the film's Worldwide
Premiere. |
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The (718)
IMDb
info (USA, 2009, 22 mins)
Written by: Parrish Hurley ('92)
Stephen is a struggling actor and a reluctant homosexual. His
beer drinking, football watching, Peter Pan existence is threatened
when his two straight best pals get serious with their future
wives, leaving him in an empty nest. It's gonna take the counsel
of a freestyling subway poet named The F Train Messiah (and
a lot of lager) to prepare him for his most challenging role:
Himself.
This will be the film's Worldwide Premiere. |
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Trophy
(USA, 2008, 10 mins)
Written & Directed By: Karla DiBenedetto
A teenager’s routine visit to her father’s vacation
home turns steamy when she finds herself unexpectedly attracted
to her father’s fiancée.
This will be the film's Central Pennsylvania Premiere. |
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Queerer Than Thou
(USA, 2009, 8mins)
Co-produced by: Kalil Cohen & Tera Greene
Queerer Than Thou is a comedic short that tackles the age-old
question of "Who is the queerest of them all?"
This will be the film's East Coast & Central Pennsylvania
Premiere. |
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