13th Annual NCGLFF - Featured Films

From the producer of Boy Culture, Stephen Israel, and the director of Boychick, Glenn Gaylord, comes this hilarious new feature-length sitcom! A throwback to the three-camera sitcoms of the 60s and 70s, Lez Be Friends consists of two super-sized episodes that pay homage to those comedies of days gone by. Ricca Pike is a butch lesbian who must pretend to be a hetero girly-girl in order to live with her two (inevitably shirtless) gay male roommates lest she incur the wrath of their lesbian-hating, old queen of a landlord, Truman DuBois. Set the day after the Stonewall Riots in 1969 Greenwich Village, Lez is a loving homage to the great sitcoms of the 70s with an even gayer twist on Three’s Company than anyone thought possible! Move over Will and Grace, 70s queer history serves as the basis for a delightfully skewered sitcom with gay and lesbian characters that would make Norman Lear proud.

Here’s a toy box of shorts for boys and girls of all ages! No sex and violence, no bad language, no condescension; just fun for everyone. Ready? OK! is a comedic coming-of-age tale about a young boy who’s just discovered his latest passion: cheerleading! As he decides to audition for the squad, his mother is forced to confront age-old stereotypes. A young girl defies convention during her summer swim class in No Bikini. Eddie tells the story of a young Latina girl who is forced to deal with her sexuality as a result of an embarrassing mishap during a summer afternoon kickball game. In Just Me?, the only lesbian in a large, extended family discovers her great-grandmother’s photo album and begins to suspect she is not alone. In a delightful animated comedy, a conservative couple learns that their unborn son will have Fabulosity. 8-year old Kristy is a feisty tomboy who absolutely loves a particular T-shirt of hers. But on the day of her grandmother’s birthday party, Kristy learns that her mother has thrown it away and wants her to wear a dress! Why? Because grandmother always confuses Kristy with her cousin, Johnny.

Fabulosity (US, 2008, 6 min); Eddie (US, 2007, 10 min); Kristy (US, 2008, 7 min); No Bikini (Canada, 2008, 9 min); Ready? OK! (US, 2008, 26 min); Just Me? (US, 2008, 11 min)