2008 We’ve Got Legs

Director: Cassandra Nicolaou

Seventy-year old Daisy is having a hard day. She’s dug out her old rifle, now all she needs is a box of bullets.

CAN 2007

10-minutes

Director: Peter Oehl

A girl invites a craftswoman in for a beer…

GER 2004

3-minutes

Director: Marie-Pierre Huster

A woman has an appointment for a job interview with the general director of a very prestigious wine company. Though she should be concentrating on impressing the imposing director, she is constantly distracted by more sensuous and seductive thoughts.

FRA 2006

9-minutes

Directors: Dominique Cardona & Laurie Colbert

After her partner dies, successful doctor Finn Jeffries faces the biggest challenge of her life, raising an angry 11-year old daughter.

CAN 2007

88-minutes

Director: Andrea Meyerson

In 2006, to mark her silver anniversary as a performer, lesbian comic Kate Clinton embarked on a 50-city “It’s Come to This!” tour. Her hilarious performance is interspersed with a variety of personal moments and tributes.

USA 2007

60-minutes

Director: Christy Wegener

A hairstyle that won’t go away mirrors the difficulty of moving on after a romance has ended.

USA 2007

13-minutes
Canadian premiere

Director: Jennifer Abod

This documentary celebrates the anti-ageism activists of the Old Women’s Project in San Diego.

USA 2006

27-minutes

Director: Anne Renton

How life might be for heterosexuals if the world was predominantly gay and straight people were the ‘queer’ ones. Follow Jake and Sabrina as they try to find love in a world where they just don’t fit.

USA 2007

7-minutes

Director: Robert Philipson

Pioneer blues vocalist, Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett, performed during the first three decades of the twentieth century. This film features a remake of her 1928 blues number “Prove It On Me” with explicit lesbian lyrics.

USA 2006

4-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Mary Guzman

A butch mechanic meets her match and dreams about the ones that got away in this hommage to perfection: high femmes, aerialists and vintage motorcycles… and more.

USA 2007

10-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Ajae Clearway

This provocative documentary demystifies the issue of sexual difference. The program profiles several people born with ambiguous sexual anatomy, who have managed to deal with some very difficult family and social issues, but today are living “ordinary” and productive issues.

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27-minutes

Director: Abbe Robinson

In 1952 England, Ruth leaves the monotony of her work at a textile mill and secretly takes the train to Manchester, where a secret rendezvous reveals that nothing is quite what it seams.

USA 2006

16-minutes

Director: Katherine Wilkinson

Kelly came out unexpectedly on national television, Katherine fell in love with a straight girl, and Fee got married to avoid burning in hell. Three unique stories explore the impact of discovering and ultimately claiming a ‘queer’ identity.

AUSTRALIA 2006

17-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Alexis Mitchell

If you’re a Torontonian, and hip to the fat revolution, you can’t have missed the recent explosion of the Fat Femme Mafia. These women have been hitting the city with the strong words of politics of size.

CAN 2006

10-minutes

Director: Gwen Haworth

Using archival footage and animation, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transformation partially through the voices of her anxious but living family, best friend, and wife.

CAN 2007

70-minutes

Director: Dagny Thompson

A helpful narrator teaches three queer youth how to deal with difficult social situations they might encounter out in the big wide world they are about to enter.

CAN 2005

8-minutes

Directors: Karen Rutter & Jenny Radloff

This hilarious self-help film uses secret ancient teachings to assist lesbians from all walks of life in coping with the rigours and stresses of their daily activism and angst.

SOUTH AFRICA 2005

8-minutes

Director: Leah Meyerson

A punk rock burlesque music video.

USA 2006

4-minutes

Director: Lukas Blakk

Using borrowed clips from three films about gender bending – two comedies and a tragedy – a personal gender landscape is created. This piece touches on the assumptions, strategies for survival and a commitment to discussion that alternate gender expressions evoke.

CAN 2007

9-minutes

Director: Jane Clark

Set in 1906, the film is based on a romance between Renee Vivien, a lesbian poet living in Paris and Kerime, a practicing Muslim woman and wife of a Turkish diplomat. It structures their last moments together around Renee’s poem, “The Touch” as they meet in a Paris park.

USA 2007

7-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Tonnette Stanford

An outrageous soap-opera drama explores the shocking scandals of the powerful Cassamento family and their lovers. Hair-pulling catfights, countless illicit affairs, flamboyant fashion statements and bizarre story twists – all this and more.

AUSTRALIA 2007

12-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Director: Dylan Vade, Esq & Abe Bernard

A fairytale with a cast of eight fierce and fiery talking genitals who expose harmful legal practices, speak up for gender self-identification, and spread unapologetic tranny pride.

USA 2007

12-minutes

Director: Esmir Filho

A phone call in a classroom…

BRA 2006

3-minutes
Canadian Premiere