12:00 Past is Prologue (Shorts)
Mark Bunyan: Very Nearly Almost FamousCo-founder of the Pink Singers and part of the driving force behind Gay’s The Word bookshop, Mark Bunyan spent the 70s and 80s performing his original songs alongside the likes of Sandie Shaw, Billy Connolly and Tom Robinson, and was present at almost every pivotal event in UK gay history. In the words of a fan, he was “The First Gay Superstar”. But was he too gay for his own good?
Dir. Angie West & Jackie Nunns | 2013 | United Kingdom | 15 min | TRAILER GridAs large numbers of this populace are being unmercifully struck down by this horrid and mysterious/insidious killer virus, in one hospital there remains hope. As Angie Wordsworth (Charlie Clarke), a cover nurse, meets Daniel Cole (Steven Salt), a patient who has been cruelly afflicted with the virus and who has had no-one but Doctor Andrews (Ernest Vernon), to care for him, having being abandoned and left with nothing but his ever diminishing memories.
Dir. David Hastings | 2017 | United Kingdom | 26 min |
Love Letter Rescue Squad“Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it.” With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. More than 40 years later, Deb must consider the future of the collection.
Dir. Megan Rossman | 2016 | United Kingdom | 7 min Legacy of LoveIn Legacy of Love four members of the Dallas LGBTQA community (Cece Cox, Patti Fink, Joe Hoselton and Taylor Souryachak) introduce the Dallas community and its notable past successes. But from a city with a strong history of LGBTQA activism and legal success, including securing an LGBT non-discrimination ordnance before most of the rest of the state had, a uncertain and uneasy future lies ahead. As the subjects take you through their own personal worlds, they introduce issues of race and equality and depict a community that despite its successes and strengths is fractionalized and faces a lengthy and difficult road to equality.
Dir. Jakob Schwarz | 2017 |
General admission $5
1:20 The Lavender Scare
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Free admission for this film!
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With the United States gripped in the panic of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be “security risks” and orders the immediate firing of any government employee discovered to be gay or lesbian. It triggers a vicious witch hunt that ruins tens of thousands of lives and thrusts an unlikely hero into the forefront of what would become the modern LGBT rights movement.
Dir. Josh Howard | 2016 | 1 hour 16 min| WEBSITE | TRAILER
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2:45 Transpose: The Transgender Project
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Transpose is a film documentary that explores the extraordinary challenges and triumphs of transgender people as they transition from the gender assigned to them at birth to living the life that they have envisioned for themselves whether as a transgender man or transgender woman. Transpose is a collection of powerful stories of individuals who choose to determine the course of their life, regardless of the difficult path of transition.
Dir. Kurtz Frausun | 2017 | 45 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER |
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General Admission $5
Q&A Following the Film with:
Jil Lasaca
Moderator
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A former Editor in- Chief of Asian Beat Newspaper, she possesses a great passion for writing, personality development and public speaking. She is a licensed therapist, a real estate developer and entrepreneur, and life and pageant coach. Currently, she serves as program director for Trans-pose – a film documentary that highlights the extraordinary challenges and triumphs of transgendered people. She believes in the power of story-telling as a powerful tool to challenge stereotypes, and change conversations about transgendered people to a more positive light.
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Jess Herbst
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Born Jeff Herbst in Greenville Texas in 1958, she is Mayor of New Hope Texas. Married for 37 years with 2 adult daughters. Self-employed technical consultant for the last 20 years and has served the Town for 14, first as alderman, then road commissioner, Mayor Pro-tem and now Mayor. Active in the transgender rights movement and heavily involved with the fight against the Texas Bathroom bills.
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Jabriel Williamson
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He was born female bodied and male soul and energy. He is a man that tends to wear many hats. He received his dual Master’s Degree in Global Leadership and Business Administration from Dallas Baptist University. Jabriel or Jb as he prefers to go by is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a husband to his gorgeous wife Lisa and a father to five awesomely wonderful children. (James, Aiyana, Liana, Malia and Kasia.) He is a Board Member of Authentic Life Foundation, which is a newly established non-profit organization geared to educate and provide support and resources for all trans-identified individuals and their families. He also is the Ft.Worth Chapter Leader and a Health Advocate for Black Transmen Inc.
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Kurtz Frausun
Director
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Award-winning (London Film Awards 2013), Dallas, Texas experimental filmmaker & D/FW musician, based in Irving, Texas, began in music and branched into filmmaking years later. He's a graduate of Southern Methodist University, a board member of Arttitude, a 501(c)(3) non-profit LGBTQ+ organization which unites a diverse community of local artists, academic researchers, and public & private organizations, to create positive change through art, music, and other artistic endeavors. He is also a member of the International Association of Press Photographers.
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Finnigan
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He is the Executive Director and co-founder of Trans-Cendence International, Inc. He serves as a leader in the transgender community of DFW and serves as a consultant to other transgender communities outside of Texas. He sits on the advisory boards for The Diversity Center of Oklahoma, Inc and LGBTQ S.A.V.E.S. Finnigan participates in social education, civil and equal rights advocacy and works closely with many leaders of the community to help further education on transgender and gender diversity issues and policies. Finnigan is a veteran of the United States Coast Guard Transgender/Gender Identity Consultant Ally Training Consultant. He lives in Arlington with his wife Susan and their wonderful 4 legged critters.
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Krista De La Rosa
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She is a leader/activist in the LGBTQ community bringing her fun and energetic personality to the world. I have a huge passion for helping the community and being a positive influence on many people. I enjoy sports, music, movies and anything outdoors. If I had to choose between Coke or Dr. Pepper I think I would go with Dr. Pepper!
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4:15 And Why Not? (Shorts)
Naughty Amelia JaneThis film is a satire on the hilarious hypocrisy of society towards anything that goes against the "conventional social order of things”, told through a story of two girls who may or may not have had a connection.
Dir. Risheeta Agrawal | 2017 | India & Czech Republic | 12 min CountingIn 1951 Violet and Milly make a love promise over a penny. In 2015, the promise comes due, and Violet must face a heartbreaking reality.
Dir. Dan Pal | 2016 | 10 min |
DuskGrowing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider society. A more than tough childhood left behind, Chris meets dream woman Julie, and life lightens a little, but the growing feeling that theirs is a life half lived haunts Chris. Endlessly imagining what might have been, Chris is finally struck by the realisation that for some decisions there is no right answer, and that it's those that truly define us.
Dir. Jake Graf | 2017 | United Kingdom | 15 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER And Why Not?Virginie, a charming girl girl, is waiting for an old girl friend she lost touch with but met up with again on the social networks. In the meantime, a man sitting in the bar takes his chance to approach her. Is he only a womanizer or more than that?
Dir. Nicolas Fay & Blanche Pinon | 2016 | France | French | 12 min | TRAILER |
General admission $5
5:15 Afterglow (Shorts)
HookupAdam is looking for love in all the quick places.
Dir. Stan Madray & Sameer Nurani | 2017 | 10 min Cupid Prefers a sniper's RifleA romantic comedy-crime film hybrid about two hitmen that are hired to kill each other, and fall in love in the process.
Dir. Inbar Marmelshtein | 2017 | Isreal | Hebrew | 11 min | TRAILER |
VersatileAlex and Hugo are a young couple who had been together for a little more than six months. One Friday night, when they arrive at Alex's flat, they will discuss some pending issues about their relationship sexual roles. What seems to start as a simple discussion will become something more serious exposing some important issues about the necessary things needed to make a relationship work.
Dir. Carlos Ocho | 2017 | Spain | Spanish | 15 min | TRAILER AfterglowAfterglow is a sensorial movie about finding the joy of living again. David discovers that his boyfriend Allen is suffering from depression and, on the course of a day, makes him see the beauty and pleasure of the most mundane things.
Dir. Akira Kamiki | 2017 | Brazil | Portuguese | 12 min |
General admission $5
7:00 One Way Street
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What happens when your desires drive you in the wrong direction? Revved up by passion and ignoring all the signs, three people set out to fulfill their fantasies.
Fasten your seat belts, this adventure could wind up on a very bumpy ONE WAY STREET! Dir. Andrea Meyerson | 2017 | 14 min |
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General admission included with the purchase of a signature Move ticket.
8:00 Signature Move
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Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma (Sari Sanchez), a confident and vivacious Mexican-American woman. Zaynab’s recently widowed mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi) has moved in and spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas while searching for a potential husband for her only daughter. Alma’s mother, Rosa (Charin Alvarez), is a former professional Luchadora which Zaynab finds fascinating as she has recently taken up lucha-style wrestling training with a former pro wrestler, Jayde. Zaynab tries to keep both her love life and her wrestling a secret from her Muslim mother, who knows more than she lets on.
Dir. Jennifer Reeder | 2017 | 1 hour 19 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER |
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General admission $15