NCGLFF 2001: The Films (in alphabetical order - see the schedule page for more information)

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North Carolina Premiere
THE ADVENTURES OF FELIX
(France, NR, 2000, 97 min, 35mm)
From its whimsical opening moments, with handsome French-Arab ferryman Felix (Sami Bouajila) riding his bicycle along the docks of Dieppe, to its final scenes of a touching reunion on another dock in Marseille, Felix's ordinary characters leave a lasting impression on the audience. Newly unemployed Felix puts on his backpack, kisses his handsome boyfriend goodbye, heads off in search of the father he never knew and meets interesting "relatives" along the way. Ultimately, our young hero's search for his father becomes a discovery of an extended "family" he never knew he had.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and adult situations.

THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO
(US, NR, 1999, 30 min, Video)
"What is everyone looking at?" Our favorite queertoon heroes, Ace and Gary, battle the sinister Dr. BigHead and his assorted minions in this series of eight hilarious animated adventures.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
ANGELS!
(US, NR, 2000, 90 min, Video)
A low-budget underground drag spoof on Charlie's Angels and Austin Powers! What if the Angels had been "freeze-dried" by a dastardly mastermind in 1977, then reawakened 25 years later, still stuck in their disco-era time-warp of jive talk, ERA movements, and a love for Balsam Protein Shampoo and Conditioner? Well, for these ladies, there's nothing to do but shout, "FREEZE, TURKEY!" and continue their crime-fighting investigations. But as the "girls" soon discover, what once used to be cutting-edge crime-solving techniques are now as antiquated as the handheld walkie-talkies they still use while undercover. But never fear, they reclaim their titles as the crime-fighting badasses they once were.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
ASLEEP
(US, NR, 2000, 11 min, 16mm)
A sensitive short feature that captures that moment of shock after hearing a loved one has become HIV- positive. Avoiding the politically correct line about what gay men should do, Asleep instead focuses on how HIV affects their lives.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.sparker.net/asleep

North Carolina Premiere
BASEMENT GIRL
(Canada, NR, 1999, 12 min, Video)
That Girl, the Bionic Woman and Mary Richards help the basement girl find the strength to escape the confines of her subterranean prison and "make it after all."
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
THE BEWITCHED PROJECT
(US, NR, 2000, 16 min, Video)
Three drag queens go in search of the spirit of Agnes Moorehead in this hilarious spoof of Blair Witch. One year later, their footage was found! Was Endora just a character? Or was there more than a little truth behind Agnes' alleged behavior on the set of Bewitched? Be prepared for delicious shudders as our girls get lost in the darkened woods leading to one of Hollywood's most infamous haunted mansions!
Viewer's Guide: Language.

Triangle Premiere
BIG EDEN
(US, NR, 2000, 118 min, 35mm)
A heartwarming comedy about Henry Hart (Ayre Gross), a successful New York artist returning to his childhood hometown to care for his ailing grandfather. Old memories still haunt him--not least, the unrequited love for his best friend Dean, who has also returned to Big Eden after divorcing his wife. Henry's feelings for Dean have not diminished. As Henry walks on eggshells to keep his homosexuality from his friends and family they, unbeknownst to him, already know. Sexual tension sparks between Henry and Pike Dexter, the owner of the local store. Big Eden is a mythical place where racism or homophobia doesn't exist, thus, allowing this fable about love, family, and community to be told.
Viewer's Guide: Language
www.jourdefete.com

North Carolina Premiere
A BOY NAMED SUE
(US, NR, 2000, 57 min, Video)
Follow Theo, and the people who love him, on his six-year transition from a butch dyke named Sue to a trans man. The film traces his physiological and psychological changes as he goes through his passage. His partner Lisa's presence throughout the piece is engaging. She provides Theo with support, love, and understanding, all the while dealing with changes to her own identity as a lesbian. We also hear the reactions of friends when they get the news and their comments throughout, both pro and con. A Boy Named Sue documents one man's journey and its effects on him and those around him.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and scenes of intense surgical procedures.

North Carolina Premiere
BURNT MONEY
(Spain, 2000, NR, 125 min, 35mm)
Set in 1965 and based on real events, this sexy film (Imagine a homoerotic The Usual Suspects) follows a gang of Argentinean thugs on the run to Uruguay following a botched heist. The group includes Fontana, their not-so-capable leader; Cuervo, a macho hothead; and Angel and Nene, a mysterious gay couple dubbed 'The Twins.' Ordered to lay low in a safe house, Fontana desperately tries to track down false passports to help the group escape. The interminable wait flares up tensions. Cuervo, anxious over the girlfriend he's left back in Argentina, baits Angel and Nene. Meanwhile Angel, who's been wounded in the hold-up, begins having strange visions and refuses to have sex with Nene. Hurt by Angel's indifference, Nene cruises for both men and women and begins an affair. Jealousy, misunderstanding and confinement make passions erupt in a blaze of bullets. Burnt Money boasts three sexy young stars of Spanish and Argentine cinema--Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eduardo Noriega, and Pablo Echarri in a big-budget blockbuster from award-winning Argentine master Marcelo Piñeyro (Caballos salvages and Cenizas del paraíso).
Viewer's Guide: In Spanish with English subtitles, nudity, language, violence and sexual situations.

North Carolina Premiere
BUT I WAS A GIRL
(US, NR, 1999, 69 min, Video)
An obscure escape route through the snowy French countryside. The destruction of thousands of public records at federal offices in Holland. Living as a man while the Nazis search for the only female orchestra conductor in Holland. These are events from the true life-story of Frieda Bellinfante. A handsome and courageous Jewish lesbian, Frieda was instrumental in the Holland Resistance during World War II and made history as one of the first female conductors. The movie chronicles her life and loves through interviews, photographs, and historical footage.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
CHICKS WITH GUNS
(US, NR, 2000, 3 min, Video)
A clever short that proves, when in distress, it's best to be rescued by a beautiful woman!
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
THE CONFESSION
(US, NR, 1999, 22 min, 35mm)
After 35 years together, an aging gay couple suffers an unexpected rift over religion. When Joseph asks his partner Caesar to send for a priest, the request turns their peaceful household upside down in this touching and funny film about commitment, faith, and love.
Viewer's Guide: Language.
www.jourdefete.com

North Carolina Premiere
CRASH AND BURN
(US, NR, 1999, 25min, 16mm)
A gym-bodied leather man into rough trade brings home the man of his dreams…or so he thinks. A young Broadway dancer loses his job as one of the Cats and, unable to call his boyfriend, must travel through downtown New York City in full costume. See what happens when these two men discover that the best part of life is sometimes nothing more than holding the one you love.
Viewer's Guide: Language, nudity, and strong sexual content.

North Carolina Premiere
CRUISE CONTROL
(US, NR, 2001, 7 min, 16mm)
Josh is one of the hottest guys at the Flapjax nightclub. With his gym-pumped body and striking looks, he can get anyone he wants. But usually he goes home alone. Why? Because when he sees someone he wants, he makes a godforsaken cruising face from hell that sends prospective tricks running for cover! But on this particular night, he might just encounter that special someone who may be willing to take home the whole package. By local director Lawrence Ferber.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

Back By Popular Demand!
2000 NCGLFF Audience Favorite
CRUSH
(US, NR, 2000, 27 min, 35mm)
Twelve-year-old Tina is infatuated with 16-year-old Robbie. Bonding over TV and bubble-gum music, they become friends. However, unbeknownst to Tina, Robbie has developed a crush of his own. Crush proves that a straight girl is always a teenage boy's best friend.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.jourdefete.com

North Carolina Premiere THE CUCUMBER CHRONICLES (US, NR, 2000, 20 min, Video) These vignettes of cheeky intellectualism are sure to become a festival favorite. With great wit and humor, these shorts take on some weighty topics with a light-hearted touch that will leave you laughing. Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

The Cucumber Chronicles

North Carolina Premiere
DEATH GOES THROUGH THE CHANGE
(US, NR, 2000, 6 min, Video)
A charming short about the uncomfortable, sometimes painful, experience of finally arranging to meet someone from the chat rooms face to face, especially when your profile isn't exactly accurate.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
SPORTY GIRLS (formerly known as Drama Queen)
(US, NR, 2001, 45 min, Video)
Directed by Kelli Herd (It's In The Water), this high-energy concert film captures a stand-up comedy performance by one of the most exciting talents emerging from the ranks of gay comics. Georgia Ragsdale is known for her hilarious material that ranges from changing the word lesbian to sporty, going through Customs with sex toys, and surviving the Hell of her sister's wedding as the "Maid of Dishonor." Ragsdale's campy yet down-to-earth persona is evident in this laugh-out-loud evening with a smart, perceptive woman.
Viewer's Guide: Language.
www.georgiaragsdale.com

North Carolina Premiere DRAWING GIRLS (US, NR, 2000, 15 min, Video) Ryan and Anthony are best friends working on a comic together, but Ryan isn't interested in drawing girls. Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

Drawing Girls

North Carolina Premiere
DYKES AND THEIR DOGS
(US, NR, 2001, 17 min, Video)
A musical/comedy/dykeumentary about the popular Dykes and Their Dogs contest held annually in West Hollywood. With contest categories showcasing: Most Butch, Most Femme, and Best Owner Look-Alike, it's hard to distinguish who is really performing the tricks, the dykes or their dogs! The original soundtrack literally pants and howls with the title track anthem, "I'm a Dyke, I'm a Dog!"
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere FOUR P.M. (US, NR, 2001, 15 min, 35mm) A sexy and humorous take on a one-night stand which includes an aquarium, a locked door, a closeted politician and, of course, two beautiful women. See what happens when Jenna finds herself trapped in the house of last night's fling. Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
FREAKS, GLAM GODS, AND ROCKSTARS: The NYC Story
(US, NR, 2001, 80 min, Video)
Sometimes nasty, often outrageous, and always looking great in makeup, these are the glam rockers, punks, drag and transsexual performers featured in this documentary celebrating New York's alternative queer music scene. Candid interviews--including a must-see chat with the legendary Jayne County-- reveal what drew these artists to the Big Apple and what they did to survive while making the music they wanted to make. Talk is accompanied by great performance footage. The result is a snapshot of a community of musicians who clearly love what they're doing and who, with only a little good-humored bitchiness, genuinely support each other. Featuring The Toilet Boys, Young and Fabulous, Dean Johnson's Velvet Mafia, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, The Lady Bunny, and many more.
Viewer's Guide: Language, nudity, and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
THE GAY GARDEN SHOW
(US, NR, 2001, 14 min, Video)
Bored with their monochromatic existence, sophisticated urban housewives Gaysee Giardino and her best friend Betty Hertz decide to dig up some dirt on the colorful new neighbor in Apartment 2B.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
GET YOUR STUFF
2001 NCGLFF EMERGING FILM AWARD BEST FILM
(US, NR, 2000, 93 min, Video)
Eric and Phil want to adobt a baby. Gloria has just about given up trying to place teenager TJ and younger brother Brian in a foster home. When Gloria calls Eric and Phil and convinces them to let her drop off the borthers "for just one night," it's difficult to detemine who's more dissatisfied with the situation, the gay copule or the wary boys. Buff Eric and Phil know all about bickering around their designer Beverly Hills home bare-chested and in boxer shorts, but they don't have a clue about how to deal with the precocious kids or the kids' impact on their relationship. Things seem like they might be getting better until Cat, the boys' alcoholic mother, shows up with her own confused agenda. The result is a lively comedy that explores what we think love looks like and the unlikely places we find family.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.
www.revisionfilms.com

North Carolina Premiere
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
(US, R, 2001, 88 min, 35mm)
Winner: Audience Award and Best Director Award for a Drama Feature at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Through a special arrangement with Fine Line Features, the NCGLFF is proud to present this single exclusive screening of the critically-acclaimed punk rock, neo-glam musical odyssey. Move over Rocky Horror Picture Show, a new musical revue is crashing into town! Through a collage of songs, flashbacks, and animation, Hedwig tells her life story. Born a boy named Hansel, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex- change operation to marry an American GI and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with an "angry inch." Finding herself high, dry, and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band, The Angry Inch, and eventually finds the origin of love.
Viewer's Guide: Language, nudity, and adult situations.
www.hedwigmovie.com

North Carolina Premiere
HER URGE
2001 NCGLFF EMERGING FILM AWARD BEST WOMEN'S SHORT
(US, NR, 2001, 15 min, 35mm)
An all-in-her-head kind of gal like Mabel has to think up the perfect solution to satisfy her secret urge. Deals with the devil, musical numbers, and several failed schemes ensue.
Viewer's Guide: Mature Themes.

North Carolina Premiere
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
(Norway, NR, 2000, 5 min, 35mm)
Annie picks the perfect moment to tell Mom she's a lesbian---while Mom is stuffing the Christmas turkey!
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
HUGE
(US, NR, 2000, 63 min, Video)
Direct from the New York City MIX Festival.
A brilliant collection of 20 three-minute digital videos by members of NYC's gay and lesbian filmmaking community and based on the theme "Huge." Filmmakers were given one day to shoot and two days to edit. They range from feature directors Ira Sachs (The Delta), Stephen Winters (Chocolate Babies), and Stephen Kijak (Never Met Picasso); screenwriter Daniel Reitz (Urbania); to award-winning student filmmaker Michelle Groskoph (Women in Prison). Prepare yourself for a refreshing, sometimes brutally honest, series of underground films-from a shy lesbian discovering her inner bullhorn to a few things about squash that you didn't know to a cute boy with a naughty dream who wakes up with a huge….plus so much more!
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual content, language, nudity, and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
IN WISCONSIN, THE BLIND CAN HUNT
(US, NR, 7 min, 16mm)
Love. A comic poetic narrative about one man's hunt for love. The story explores the elusive and fickle nature of his love. In other words, he is one of those guys who is in it for the hunt. Features gratuitous references to cheese and beer. Shot in North Carolina and Virginia by local director Art Stone.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
INTIMATES
(Hong Kong, NR, 1997, 110 min, 35mm)
An epic tale of love found, lost and hopefully found again. Director Jacob Cheung has created an honest story of unexpected love between two women. Wai (Theresa Lee) is fed up with her wimpy boyfriend and decides to journey to China with her "Auntie" Foon (Gua Ah-leh). To her surprise, it becomes a voyage of self-discovery for both women. Foon helps Wai with her love life and recalls her own true love. Fifty years earlier, Foon (the winsome Charlie Young) chose the virgin life of the Comb Women in order to avoid marrying a man she did not love. At first, Foon is distracted by a hunky fisherman, but when she is hired as a maid by the beautiful Wan (Carina Liu, Best Actress Hong Kong Film Awards), Foon finds real love.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
AN INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP
(US, NR, 2001, 82 min, Video)
Faygan Taylor is an up-and-coming playwright preparing for the opening of a lifetime. She believes she has a strong hold on her life and career. Faygan surrounds herself with a group of fun and caring friends. She occupies her time dealing with their problems and struggles while distancing herself from the biggest hurdle she will ever face. When her best friend Danielle reveals that she is in a relationship with another woman, all hell breaks loose. Danielle's tempestuous younger sister Kelly refuses to validate the relationship and becomes adamant about breaking the two apart. Faygan's tightly woven persona begins to unravel due to Danielle's disclosure. Dazed and confused, unable to reckon with Danielle's revelation and the desire stirring within her, Faygan turns to the ruggedly handsome Jamie for his logical ear and kind heart. The two secretly take their fondness for each other to another level and an intimate friendship is born. Faygan struggles with her longing for Danielle as Jamie's affections intensify – raising the stakes, driving Faygan to come to terms with her true feelings and to make a life-altering decision which will transform her and her friends' lives forever.
Viewer's Guide: Mature Themes.
www.anintimatefriendship.com

North Carolina Premiere
IRON LADIES
(Thailand, NR, 2000, 104 min, 35mm)
The macho world of Thai national sports competitions can't quite fathom that butch coach Bee has assembled her volleyball "dream team" from this unlikely assortment of characters: Mon, the lovelorn transvestite; Jun, the raucous drag queen with wildly over-supportive parents; Nong, the muscle-bound make-up artist; Pia, the transsexual stage star with a fickle boyfriend; Wit, the "straight" player; and Chai, the reluctant mediator of his teammates' frequent outbursts. When April, May, and June (transvestite triplets) join the team, the fun really begins. Facing parental shame, homophobic violence, and public discrimination, this lovable crew struggles to become a cohesive unit. Based on the true story of a misfit team making it the Thai male national championships in 1996. The Iron Ladies breathes giddy new life into both the screwball comedy and the "against-all-odds" sports movie genres, but its most extraordinary feat is in painting a surprisingly out, celebratory portrait of gays in Thailand. Winner of two Teddy Awards at this year's Berlin Film Festival. In Thai with English subtitles
Viewer's Guide: Mature Themes.

North Carolina Premiere
JAKE: TODAY I BECAME A MAN
(US, NR, 2000, 15 min, Video)
A hilarious, smart documentary about an eloquent 13-year-old boy who defied gender roles by developing his own drag show at the age of 11. He's got all the moves and speaks with the wisdom of a sage. Probably the youngest drag queen ever to hit the screen, Jake and his world are captured on tape from his toddler years to his Bar Mitzvah. Articulate and self-aware, he's a spandex-wearing performer who startles us with his clarity and charm
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
KEVIN'S ROOM
(US, NR, 2001, 60 min, Video)
"You put a group of men in a room and expect them to bond immediately, and why? Because they're black and gay?" snaps Kevin's skeptical lover. Nevertheless, it's Kevin's job as a social worker to get his diverse group of clients to share their secret fears and joys. Charles is HIV-positive and wants to get political. Pharaoh thinks he can't catch AIDS because he's 100% top (well, make that 95%…) Teddy is a churchgoer engaged to a woman who has no idea he sleeps with men. Paris is a compulsive flirt. And Kevin himself is hiding a very guilty secret. Produced as a TV pilot with funding from various public health groups in Chicago, Kevin's Room transcends its educational mission.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

LET'S GET LOST SERIOUS!
(US, NR, 5 min, 16mm)
Sex. This film is a visual riff about gay sex in the age of AIDS. A very personal look at how much things changed in one man's life. Includes many references to Madonna and other cultural icons. Shot entirely in Chicago, Illinois by local filmmaker Art Stone.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity.

LIFE'S A BUTCH
(US, NR, 2000, 14 min, Video)
A spoof comedy about a strict femme who loves femmes. Frustrated beyond all belief, she determines her only hope at a femme date is to pose as a butch daddy. Succeeding at this, she wins the femme of her dreams only to discover another role-bending truth about butch/femme dating!
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.kgbfilms.com

North Carolina Premiere
…LOST
(US, NR, 2000, 5 min, 35mm)
A day in the life of a young man who is lost in the world of drugs, anonymous tricks and unsafe sex.
Viewer's Guide: Explicit sexual content, nudity, and drug usage.
www.jourdefete.com

North Carolina Premiere LOST AND DELIRIOUS (Canada, NR, 2001, 100 min, 35mm) Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Lea Pool (Set Me Free) marks her English-language debut with an evocative portrayal of adolescent love in the lives of three boarding school girls. Mary, forced to attend boarding school by her disinterested parents, discovers intimacy and camaraderie with her roommates Paulie and Tori. As Mary gets to know them better, it becomes apparent that behind closed doors Paulie and Tori are more than just friends. Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations. www.lostanddeliriousthemovie.com

Lost and Delirious

North Carolina Premiere
LOST CAUSE
(US, NR, 2000, 7 min, 35mm)
A humorous and on-target look at one man's experience with "phone" bureaucracy at a local AIDS hotline.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
MONKEY'S MASK
(Australia, NR, 2000, 91 min, 35mm)
One of the most gripping and disturbing lesbian-themed films to hit the screen in years! A kind of Basic Instinct meets Bound that includes sizzling love scenes between Kelly McGillis and Susie Porter. Some hearts will stop for Jill (Porter) in the first moments of this sexy Australian thriller that takes us deep into a world of literary rivalry and seduction. Everyone will be spellbound by Diana, the alluring poetry professor played by McGillis (Top Gun, The Accused). The film is based on Dorothy Porter's acclaimed erotic murder mystery. Jill meets the enigmatic Diana while investigating the case of a missing poet. The poet was last seen reading her sexually charged work to an audience of potential suspects, at which Diana was, of course, present. The story begins to twist and thicken as a body turns up dead, and Jill, with very little to go on, looks for clues in the poet's work—its taunting lines to unknown lovers ringing in her brain. It's not long before the teacher and the detective are creating their own twists and turns to a murder mystery that will keep you guessing till the very end.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity, sexual situations, and language.

North Carolina Premiere
THE MOUNTAIN KING
(US, NR, 2000, 20 min, 35mm)
Two sexy young strangers--one clean-cut and straight, the other street-wise and dangerous--spend a day at the beach walking a fine line between seduction and hustle. What begins as an erotic escape ends with some unexpected emotional consequences.
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual content, nudity, language, and drug usage.
www.jourdefete.com

North Carolina Premiere
ON THE BUS
(US, NR, 2001, 105 min, Video)
In mid-1998, The Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) hired director Lance Black to create reality show for Internet broadcasting about six gay men who travel cross-country on a bus. The show would be called On The Bus. A cast was assembled and then sent to the "Burning Man" festival in the desert near Reno, Nevada, to shoot its pilot episode. More than 60 hours of footage was shot. Later, when presented to the executives at DEN, the material was deemed "too gay" and sealed in a vault, never to be seen again. Two years later, DEN was shut down on charges of sexual misconduct, and Lance Black was awarded the footage he had worked so hard to capture. Black has edited the footage into a fascinating film about six strangers who gradually realize that they're only as sick as their secrets. There's Jimmy, the Swedish Olympic diver; Jason, the sensitive porn star; Billy, the sexy Jewish intellectual; Charles, the beautiful guy everyone wants and no one can have; Damon, the tortured musician who's not as pretty as the rest; and Lance, our reflective, little-seen narrator. Sporting a mobile home (à la Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), the boys travel in style—but all they can think about is sex. The simmering erotic tension finally bubbles over when the boys reach Burning Man, where rampant nudity, drugs, and artistic anarchy get added to the mix.
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual content, nudity, language, and drug usage.

North Carolina Premiere
OVERRIDE
(US, NR, 2001, 10 min, Video)
Rebellion and romance mix when a bad boss gets his due and a stunning butch babe whisks an overworked, underpaid assistant to a place of fantasy and secret seduction.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
PUMP
(US, NR, 2000, 18 min, 16mm)
Pump is a cynical, surreal comedy about one girl's fall from the curb of love. Ruby discovers that Louise is not the girl she pretended to be. She wasn't a track star in high school, her beautiful red hair comes from a bottle, and she's two-timing Ruby to boot! By hook or by crook, Ruby is determined to be rid of her broken heart. This moody and hilarious film is the perfect antidote to that thing called love.
Viewer's Guide: Language and violence.

North Carolina Premiere
QUEEN OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
(US, NR, 2001, 82 min, Video)
A hilarious documentary charting six months of preparation leading to the "Quest for the Crown" competition in LA, judged by celebrities such as Eric McCormack, Kirsten Johnson, and Julia Louis-Dreyfess (all interviewed in hilarious bits). You'll grow to know each of the seven drag contestants, each representing a different country ("Miss Antarctica?" howls Miss Norway. "That isn't even a country! That bitch is a continent!"), and listen to them reveal their secret plans to outwit, outplay, and outlast each other for the trophy.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.
PLEASE NOTE: "Queen of the Whole Wide World", showing Saturday at 7:10 PM, is SOLD OUT.

North Carolina Premiere
THE RAPE OF GANYMEDE
2001 NCGLFF EMERGING FILM AWARD BEST MEN'S SHORT
(US, NR, 2001, 11min, Video)
Olympus is hotter than any circuit party in this hilarious queer retelling of the Greek myth. Leather Daddy Zeus makes a boy toy out of Ganymede, while lipstick lesbian Aphrodite has problems of her own.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
RED DIRT
(US, NR, 2000, 110 min, 35mm)
In the confines of a town that has never truly felt like home, Griffith Burns leads a stagnant life full of heavy responsibilities. The death of the family matriarch forces him to set aside his dream of leaving Mississippi and to become the caretaker of his Aunt Summer (Karen Black). Summer is a faded beauty and an emotionally unstable agoraphobe, who is haunted by the past. Griffith soon realizes she is beyond saving and decides to leave Pine Apple once and for all, leaving beyond his only friend, Emily. His carefully constructed walls of shame and silence begin to come down and his life takes an unexpected turn when Lee enters. Tag Purvis evokes the traditions of Faulkner, Williams, and Fitzgerald in his debut film.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.
www.reddirt.com

North Carolina Premiere
REVOIR JULIE (JULIE AND ME)
(Canada, NR, 1999, 91 min, 35mm)
The rose-colored glasses of memory always idealize one person from the past, with whom everything could've been perfect--if it hadn't gone so horribly wrong. This film explores the second chance at love and friendship. Freshly single, Juliet has decided to take stock of her life and reorganize her priorities. At the top of her list is to see Julie again, her childhood friend who she hasn't spoken to in 15 years because of a misplaced kiss. Initially their relationship is strained, but they begin to reclaim their friendship, explore what went wrong, and try to make sense out of the chemistry and sexual tension boiling below the surface.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes

RICK AND STEVE: THE HAPPIEST GAY COUPLE IN ALL THE WORLD
Episodes 1-4
(US, NR, 2000-01, 32min, 16mm)
Episode 1: When the lesbians come for dinner, more than quiche will be on the menu in this riotous animated hit that was the Emerging Film Award Winner from last year's NCGLFF Festival.
Episode 2: Uh-oh, Steve's parents are coming to visit and the lesbians need more…uhm, product. Special guest appearance by Chastity Bono!
Episode 3: Rick and Steve teach the lesbians a lesson about parenting that you won't find in any textbooks. Featuring guest voice cameos by RuPaul and Guinevere Turner.
Episode 4: Rick and Steve's favorite butch porn star makes their dreams come true when he agrees to a threesome. If only they had watched his videos to the very end….
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
ROCKWELL
(US, NR, 2000, 22 min, 16mm)
Jake Bowman is a handsome high school letterman who plays football with his dad. His small midwestern town offers him no excitement. Then Cody, a city boy, enters his life. He sees Cody as the epitome of all that he wants to be…except that Cody is gay. Soon, Jake begins to question his life and feelings, but, in the end, he must trust himself to choose his own path.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
SCOUT'S HONOR
(US, NR, 2001, 58 min)
Winner: Best Documentary Audience Award and Freedom of Expression at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
A powerful and timely documentary that traces the conflict between the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America and the broad-based movement by many of its members to overturn them. The compelling story is told largely through the experiences of 13-year-old Steven Cozza and 69-year-old David Rice--both heterosexual and dedicated to the Scouts, but even more determined to change the course of Scouting history. Along the way, they meet gay Scouts and Scoutmasters whose painful stories of expulsion earned national attention. A real-life tale of gay and straight people working to end anti-gay prejudice.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
SEX BECOMES HER: The True Life Story of ChiChi LaRue
(UK, NR, 2000, 70 min, Video)
Chi Chi LaRue, the most famous drag-queen-cum-gay-porn director in the world, takes the audience on an all-access tour of the gay porn industry. LaRue, aka Larry Paciotti, is not afraid to reveal how she became the most successful director in contemporary gay adult filmmaking. This documentary probes the world of gay male porn, uncovering how young actors work long and hard to make the films that fans love. Interspersed between the sex, candid interviews with producers and directors and porn superstars (including Ken Ryker, Steve Rambo, and Cole Tucker) provide a comprehensive understanding of what makes Chi Chi so chi chi. LaRue is a true groundbreaker; she claims to be the first porn director to use drag queen actors and one of the first to demand safer sex on her sets when AIDS began ravaging the porn industry. To show that her life is more than just latex and lube, LaRue takes the filmmakers on a tour of her hometown, a sleepy Minnesota burg where her mother still lives.
Viewer's Guide: Explicit sexual content, nudity, language, and sexual situations.

North Carolina Premiere
SOMETHING CLOSE TO HEAVEN
(US, NR, 2000, 22 min, 35mm)
In Texas in 1986, a sweet, thoughtful boy struggles with his desires for the neighborhood bully and his urge to dress up in his mother's lingerie, helped by a special imaginary friend living in his backyard.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
SPARKED!
(US, NR, 2000, 29 min, Video)
Long-time couple Jackie and Meade have been out of sync lately, but things heat-up when newcomer Sydney arrives on the scene.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere STRAIGHT DOWN THE AISLE (US, NR, 2000, 23min, Video) Step into the straight-laced world of pink taffeta and heels as more than 30 lesbians recall their (not so pleasurable) experiences as bridesmaids at straight friends' weddings. From butch dykes who are asked to grow out their hair to bridesmaids who are still in love with the bride, Straight Down the Aisle: Confessions of Lesbian Bridesmaids takes a humorous and critical look at the constructs of heterosexual unions. Directors Christine J. Russo and Kelly Hankin skillfully weave personal testimonies from lesbians whose partners weren't invited to the ceremony or were asked to mask their relationships, alongside interviews with wedding industry experts who try to explain, no matter how vaguely, the appropriate role of the bridesmaid. Viewer's Guide: Language.

Straight Down the Aisle

North Carolina Premiere
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
(US, NR, 2000, 5 min, 16mm)
Two men meet and fall in love. Things are good. And then, uh-oh…it's time for a talk. This is a humorous short that pits lovers against one another in a highly subtextual dialogue whose deepest meaning may only be known to the penguins who overhear it all.
Viewer's Guide: Language.

North Carolina Premiere
SWALLOWS
(US, NR, 1999, 90 min, 35mm)
Who's getting married? That's the wonderful puzzle offered by this hilarious romantic comedy in the tradition of Big Night that has something for everyone---gay, straight, older, and younger. Love is the most popular side-dish served at The Swallows, a charming restaurant in the picturesque Southern California town of Capistrano. Hank is preparing for a wedding dinner when his chef suddenly takes off. Enter his old flame, Pietro, to save the day! There's also Jeff, a handsome plumber looking for the man of his dreams; Eddie, who's stuck in town for several weeks as he raises money to fix his car; and Mimi, an aging hippie in love with a taken man.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
SWIMMING
(US, NR, 2000, 98 min, 35mm)
It's the start of another Carolina summer and it's becoming increasingly clear to Frankie (Lauren Ambrose of last year's Psycho Beach Party), a young local, that she wants more out of life than Myrtle Beach can offer. She spends her days working in her family's restaurant and wastes her nights hanging out on the boardwalk with her best friend, Nicola, proprietor of a piercing shop and self-proclaimed trouble seeker. Frankie has always played sidekick to Nicola, so neither is prepared when two new arrivals, a young siren hired as a waitress, (Joele Carter from last year's Just One Time), and a drifter selling tie-dyes out of the back of his van (Jamie Harrold), begin to court only Frankie. Nicola's ensuing jealousy sets in motion a series of betrayals driving a wedge into their friendship and forcing Frankie to take a stand.
Viewer's Guide: Language and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
SYLVESTER: MIGHTY REAL
(US, NR, 2001, 10 min, Video)
Before Prince, before Boy George, and before RuPaul, there was '70s musical sensation Sylvester. Writer/producer Tim Smyth tells the story of one man who was way before his time.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
TABOO (GOHATO)
(Japan, R, 2001, 98 min, 35mm)
In nineteenth-century Japan, a ravishingly androgynous young recruit sparks lust among the ranks and leadership of the all-male Shogun militia, where homosexuality is much more accepted than we might imagine. The boy's youthful locks, seemingly at odds with his savage swordsmanship, quickly gain Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda) a long list of obsessive admirers and rival lovers, whose perpetual denials of homosexuality inevitability crumble with sharply observed wit. When jealousy leads to a string of savage murders, the entire Samurai order begins to fall apart. At first glance, the alluring Kano seems obedient, if detached, moving from bed to bed impassively, or beheading a condemned Samurai with savage dispatch. Yet, hidden behind his bangs is a glint of bloodlust, a love of his own disruptive power. Legendary Japanese director Nagashi Oshima has devoted his 40-year career to breaking taboos. His latest offering--the first-ever gay Samurai movie-- offers no concessions to Western audiences. This wholly Japanese film, hypnotically elegant in its period costumes and its moody electronic score, transports us to a world far from ours, yet one eerily familiar in its emotional terrain. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Viewer's Guide: Violence and adult situations.

North Carolina Premiere
THE TELL TALE VIBRATOR
(US, NR, 2000, 9 min, 16mm)
And you thought coming out to your parents about being a dyke was a nightmare! A single woman, whose parents are visiting for dinner, receives an unexpected visitor.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
TITLER
(US, NR, 7 min, 35mm)
A startlingly original, always outrageous work that has been described as "Everything nobody wants to see all at once!" Meet Titler and his demented psyche through a series of offbeat a capella songs! Be warned: not meant for children, homophobes, grandparents, small dog owners, members of the Christian Coalition, people with high blood pressure, employees of law enforcement agencies, or anyone from within the Salt Lake City city limits!
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

North Carolina Premiere
UNDETECTABLE
(US, NR, 2001, 80 min, Video)
In spite of life-improving drug therapies and widespread public education programs, new cases of HIV are on the rise as AIDS continues to claim the lives of many loved ones. In Undetectable, videomaker Jay Corcoran (Life and Death on the A-List), provides a powerful examination of the current course of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Tracing the lives of six women and men in Boston being treated with various triple- drug therapies, Corcoran explores the difficult truth that while drugs are saving lives, they are not a cure. As personal testimonies reveal, the drug therapies can have agonizing side effects, and for some individuals the regimen is too costly and difficult to follow. A profound recognition of our uncertain future.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.wringinghands.com

North Carolina Premiere
WEBCAM BOYS
(US, NR, 2001, 60 min, Video)
Meet the Webcam Boys: a bunch of hot and sexy guys with a talent for typing with one hand. There's Kip, the hugely popular California surfer boy at KipCam; David, the shy ex-porn-star daddy at SpyOnDad; and Cody and Cory, half-brothers and a hot couple at 2StudBrothers, among others. Everything these fellows get up to can be viewed online 24/7---for a fee, of course. And yes, that means everything! So, along with the sex and nudity, there is sleeping, making dinner, and figuring out monthly expenses. This probing and amusing documentary uncovers the webcam phenomenon and the motivations of the men who work in this growing industry. Your interest may be piqued because it's sexy, but stick around, because the models are funny, friendly, and, above all, real.
Viewer's Guide: Language, nudity and sexual content.

North Carolina Premiere
THE WEEKEND
(US, NR, 1999, 97 min, 35mm)
Gena Rowlands is a beautifully coiffed, power-queen diva, Brooke Shields is her caustic daughter, and James Duvall is the young gay artist caught up in family intrigue in this star-studded drama. The setting is the lush country homes of Westchester County where Laura (Rowlands), a rich widow never fully clothed until she has a cocktail in her hand, awaits her daughter and her boyfriend for the weekend. Down the road, Marion (Deborah Kara Unger) and John (Jared Harris) still mourning the death of her brother Tony, entertain Lyle (David Conrad), Tony's former lover. Tensions rise when Lyle brings his new boyfriend Robert (Duvall) along. What begins as a pleasant weekend retreat soon escalates as familial resentments, loneliness, sexual turmoil, and repressed grief rise to the surface.
Viewer's Guide: Nudity, language, and adult situations.

WEEKI WACHEE GIRLS
(US, NR, 1999, 22 min, 16mm)
Best friends forever, Katie and Maura have dreamed of being part of the live mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Springs for as long as they can remember. It's the summer of 1979, they're 15, and everything is changing, especially when Katie discovers a secret that threatens to destroy their friendship.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.spacelab.net/~kcumming

WET DRESS
(US, NR, 2000, 8 min, Video)
An aloof butch finds herself face to face with her fantasy girl in this charming short feature.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.
www.kgbfilms.com

North Carolina Premiere
XXXY
(US, NR, 2001, 13 min, Video)
Kristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk bluntly about their experiences with the medical system and with forced, multiple genital surgeries. We also meet Kristi's parents and Dr. Jorge Daaboul, who joins the call for an end to genital surgery on intersex children and the secrecy that typically surrounds the procedures.
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.