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Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf • Valentine Road • Interior. Leather Bar.
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Dear Programmers,
It’s that exciting time of year again—when queer thoughts turn to the “Sundance of LGBT Fests” a.k.a Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
The Film Collaborative is thrilled to be handling a full slate of fabulous films at this year’s festival…see below for our list of titles.
TFC executives Jeffrey Winter and David Averbach will be in town for the whole Festival…and we'd love to meet up with you! Please let us know if you’ll be in attendance! If you’d like to schedule a meeting, please email Jeffrey at jeffrey@thefilmcollaborative.org or call/text at 1.818.679.8751.
Jeffrey will also be in town to represent Wolfe Releasing’s slate of LGBT titles at Frameline, including TEST, FREE FALL, and REACHING FOR THE MOON. Happy to discuss all these films if/when we see each other in S.F.!!!
Email us for screeners or streaming links here.
All best,
Jeffrey Winter
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2013 | USA | 98 min. Director Darren Stein
Writer George Northy
Producers Stephen Israel, Richard Bever, Darren Stein, George Northy
Executive Producers Jennifer Levine, Christopher Sepulveda, Michelle Pollino
Editor Phillip Bartel
Cinematographer Jonathan Hall
Production Designer Michael Fitzgerald
Costume Designer Kit Scarbo
Music Brian H. Kim
Cast Michael J. Willett, Paul Iacono, Sasha Pieterse, Andrea Bowen, Xosha Roquemore, Molly Tarlov, Evanna Lynch, Joanna ‘Jojo’ Levesque, Megan Mullally, Natasha Lyonne, Rebecca Gayheart, Jonathan Silverman, Horatio Sanz
 | | ABOUT THE FILM: The fight for supremacy between a school’s most popular girls takes an unexpected turn when Tanner (Michael J. Willett) becomes its first openly gay student. As they race to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, Tanner, must choose between skyrocketing popularity and the friends he is leaving behind. Darren Stein (Jawbreaker) returns with another comic send-up of high school clique culture, including memorable performances by Megan Mullally and Natasha Lyonne.FESTIVALS
2013: Tribeca (World Premiere), Seattle International, Frameline, Outfest FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, HDCAM, Blu-Ray Click here for more information about this film.WEBSITE: gbfmovie.com Email us for screeners or streaming links.   | |
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2012 | USA | 80 min. Director Yoruba Richen
Writers Yoruba Richen, Erin Casper
Producers Yoruba Richen, Yvonne Welbon
Co-Producer Angela Tucker
Associate Producers Samantha Stark, Veena Rao
Editors Erin Casper, Ali Muney
Cinematographers Nadia Hallgren, Garland McLaurin
Cast Sharon Lettman-Hicks, Karess Taylor-Hughes, Samantha Master, Pastor Derek McCoy, Rev. Delman Coates, Anthony Charles Williams II
  | | ABOUT THE FILM: The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.
The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.FESTIVALS
2013: Los Angeles Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival (New York), AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs), Frameline FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: promisedlandfilm.com/films/the-new-black Email us for screeners or streaming links. | | |   | |
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2013 | USA | 87 min. Director Rodney Evans
Writer Ken Urban
Producers Rodney Evans, Tory Lenosky, Esra Saydam
Editors Rodney Evans, Sabine Hoffman
Cinematographer Arlene Muller
Cast LeRoy McClain, Sorel Carradine, Charlie Barnett, Cameron Scoggins, Maria Dizzia, Sue Jean Kim, Jamie Harrold, Michael Nathanson
| | ABOUT THE FILM: In the age of polyamory and blurred lines of sexuality, what really makes for a happy relationship? Two young couples in New York—one black and gay, one white and heterosexual—find themselves intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy in this captivating new film directed by Rodney Evens (Brother to Brother).FESTIVALS
2013: Frameline, Outfest FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: TFC Slate Email us for screeners or streaming links. | | |     | |
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2013 | USA | 83 min. Director Anna Margarita Albelo
Writer Michael Urban
Producer Christine Treibel
Editor Aleshka Ferrero
Cinematographer Alison Kelly
Production Designer Candi Guterres
Costume Designer Tiger Curran
Cast Anna Margarita Albelo, Guinevere Turner, Janina Gavankar, Agnes Olech, Carrie Preston, Celeste Pechous, Joel Michaely, Drew Droege
  | | ABOUT THE FILM: As another birthday rolls around, forty-year-old filmmaker Anna (played by the director) returns to her never-changing list of resolutions: lose twenty pounds, get a girlfriend, and direct a feature film. Imagine Liz Lemon, if she were a lesbian cinéaste with a dash of Cuban blood in her. This year, Anna plans to knock (at least) two of those resolutions out with one stone, as she begins writing a lesbian remake of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, devised to win the affections of her leading lady, Katia (Janina Gavankar of “The L-Word”). With Anna planning to act opposite her beautiful crush, her two best friends, Penelope (Go Fish’s Guinevere Turner) and Chloe (“True Blood”’s Carrie Preston), round out the four-person cast.
FESTIVALS
2013: Frameline, Outfest FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
North America EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: vaginawolf.com/ Email us for screeners or streaming links. | | |
 
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2013 | USA | 89 min.
Director Marta Cunningham
Producers Marta Cunningham, Sasha Alpert, Eddie Schmidt
Executive Producers Jon Murray, Gil Goldschein; Sheila Nevins (for HBO)
Associate Producer Kevin McSeveney
Editor Tchavadar Georgiev
Cinematographer Arlene Nelson
Music Michael Orendy
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ABOUT THE FILM:
In February 2008, a classroom shooting shattered the coastal, working-class town of Oxnard, California. As the community reeled and the national media descended, a 15-year-old lay dead and his 14-year-old attacker awaited trial for murder. Was this a hate crime, retaliation for unwanted playground flirting or something more complex?
The sensationalized tale of a young, biracial LGBT teen pushing an emerging young white supremacist to his breaking point made for great headlines and drew attention to the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens, as well as the overwhelmed educational and juvenile justice systems. But it only scratched the surface of the real story. VALENTINE ROAD picks up where the traditional media coverage left off, delving deeper to explore the entwined paths of victim Lawrence “Larry” King and his killer, Brandon McInerney. Family, friends, teachers and classmates of the two young men, as well as their attorneys, law enforcement officials, jurors and mental health professionals, discuss the aftermath of the deadly incident, the trial and its impact on the community.
Through interviews, cinéma vérité footage and the examination of details and documents leading up to and including that fateful day (later brought into trial), filmmaker Marta Cunningham unravels the multifaceted human narrative that links Larry and Brandon. Both were troubled individuals growing up in difficult homes. The film raises key questions facing schools and communities all over the country: what do you do to help kids like Brandon and Larry before violence occurs—and what do you do after you’ve failed?
FESTIVALS
2013: Sundance
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
Click here for more information about this film.
WEBSITE:
valentineroaddocumentary.com
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2013 | USA | 82 min.
Directors Shaun Kadlec, Deb Tullmann
Producers Shaun Kadlec, Deb Tullmann
Executive Producer Jamie Wolf
Editor Josh Peterson
Music Joan Jeanrenaud
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ABOUT THE FILM:
Like everywhere else in the world, gays and lesbians in Cameroon seek refuge in the city. The two young gay men in this film are crazy about Rihanna and Lady Gaga, who has been a gay icon since her hit song ‘Born this way.’ But the tolerance Lady Gaga sings about is just a dream for them. In their country, homosexual relations are subject to punishment of up to five years in prison, and it is almost impossible to come out to your own family.
This film describes both the impossible and the possible. The filmmakers’ unobtrusive proximity to their protagonists has yielded conversations in which their interlocutors discuss their longing for a love life they are forbidden to have. Alice Nkom is a lawyer and human rights activist fighting to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. Thanks to her, there is quiet hope and small niches can be discerned where there is something akin to a life not based upon self-denial. After Call me Kuchu, which documented the situation for homosexuals in Uganda and won a Teddy Award in 2012, BORN THIS WAY makes it clear that the worldwide struggle for tolerance and equality still has a long way to go.
FESTIVALS
2013: Berlin, Frameline, Outfest
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
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WEBSITE:
bornthiswaydocumentary.com
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| ABOUT THE FILM: The 1980 film Cruising (starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop investigating a murder in the NYC gay leather bar scene) was plagued with controversy, and its director was forced by the MPAA to cut 40 minutes of sexually explicit material. Those 40 minutes have never been screened publicly. Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews set out to reimagine what might have transpired in those lost scenes in this intriguing film about the making of a film.
The cameras roll as Franco and Mathews assemble a mix of gay and straight men, including the likeable Val Lauren in the lead role. What emerges is a portrait of the fascinating dynamics that drive the filmmakers’ need to challenge normalcy, the interplay of celebrity and experimentation, and the dilemma faced by actors struggling to reconcile who they are with the idea of performing in a sexually explicit, gay, S&M film. The result is a provocative exploration of the importance of the radical and transgressive in society and the value of engaging with things that scare us.FESTIVALS
Sundance 2013 FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film.WEBSITE: interiorleatherbar.com Email us for screeners or streaming links. | | | | |
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2013 | USA | 86 min.
Director
Jeffrey Schwarz
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ABOUT THE FILM:
I AM DIVINE is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker John Waters. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine was the ultimate outsider turned underground royalty. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture. I AM DIVINE is a definitive biographical portrait that charts the legendary icon’s rise to infamy and emotional complexities.
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2013: SXSW (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World Click here to watch the teaser. WEBSITE:
divinemovie.com Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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2013 | USA | 80 min. Director Yen Tan
Writers Yen Tan, David Lowery
Producers Kelly Williams, Jonathan Duffy, James M. Johnston, Eric Steele
Executive Producers Bala Shagrithaya, Vilcek Foundation
Associate Producers Emily Ting, Lawrence S. Dickerson, Whurley
Editor Don Swaynos
Cinematographer HutcH
Production Designer Scott Colquitt
Sound Eric Friend
Music Curtis Glenn Heath
Cast Bill Heck, Marcus DeAnda, Amy Seimetz, John Merriman, Alfredo Maduro, Corby Sullivan, Bailey Bass, Heather Kafka, Richard C. Jones, Jonny Mars, Yesenia Garcia
| | ABOUT THE FILM: Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance. Far from the gay centers of the world, director Yen Tan explores the complex and oft-forgotten lives of gay men in small-town America. The understated, contemplative nature of Ernesto and Gabe’s story is told from the perspective of an observer, allowing us—even if just for a moment—to understand what it means to be an outsider. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama. In a refreshingly quiet film, Tan’s protagonists never try to run away from their relatively hollow surroundings, but opt to fill life’s deepest voids with their tenacious confidence.
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2013: Sundance, SXSW, Seattle International, Frameline, Outfest AWARDS
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film.WEBSITE: pitstopthemovie.com Email us for screeners or streaming links. | | |     | |
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