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WELCOME FROM THE MIFO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear Film Family, Welcome to our 7th Annual MiFo LGBT Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale. Our new name, MiFo LGBT Film Festivals, represents both Miami AND Fort Lauderdale, bringing everything together under one unifying name for the first time in our 17-year history. Broward is home to an amazingly vibrant LGBT community, and our goal has always been to host a world-class Film Festival worthy of such a fabulous community. Our growth has matured from a one-weekend event to a Festival that now spans ten days, covering two full weekends, and we are very proud to have expanded our Board to 18 members, with the majority from Broward. We know that the only way for MiFo Fort Lauderdale to continue its incredible growth is to have the LGBT community expand its participation, and that is clearly what is underway. We urge you to JOIN and to get involved in our quest to make Fort Lauderdale a significant part of the LGBT worldwide Film Festival community! I want to thank our wonderful Board of Directors, all of the committee people that work all year to make the two festivals happen, our incredible staff headed by our new Executive Director, Victor Gimenez, our extremely supportive Sponsors, and all of you for attending and helping to spread the word. Please share our emails, “like us” on Facebook and share our posts with your friends, as our greatest path to success is through each and every one of you. Thanks and enjoy the Festival.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM GUIDE Welcome from Board Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Welcome from Executive Director . . . . . . . 8 Festival Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Welcome from GFLCVB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Welcome from City of Fort Lauderdale . . 11 Welcome from Broward County . . . . . . . . 12 Opening Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 & 15 Ladies’ Spotlight Film & Party . . . . . .18 & 19 Centerpiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Film Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Closing Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 & 41 Ticketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 & 43 Venues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Producer’s Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 - 51 Membership Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 & 53 Community Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 FILMS 54: The Director’s Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Akron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 All About E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Beautiful Something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bizarre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Carlotta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Coming In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Daddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Deep Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Downriver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Eisenstein in Guanajuato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Fourth Man Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Front Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Game Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Kiss Me Kill Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Like You Mean It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Liz In September (Liz en Septiembre) . . . 18 Man On High Heels (Hai-hil) . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Margarita, with A Straw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Oriented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Portrait Of A Serial Monogamist . . . . . . . 40 Reel In The Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story . . 31 Skin Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Tab Hunter Confidential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 That’s Not Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 The Girl King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 The Guy With The Knife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Those People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Where The Boys Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Where the Girls Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 While You Weren’t Looking . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Winning Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

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WELCOME Dear Film Family,

Welcome to the 2015 MiFo LGBT Film Festival 7th Annual Fort Lauderdale Edition. As you may have heard, we have combined the names of the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals into MiFo LGBT Film Festival, with a Fort Lauderdale Edition in October and a Miami Edition in April. MiFo is a special organization. An organization where we bring together the best in LGBT films of the year to foster a sense of community. Where we come together to laugh, cry, learn, and be engaged with stories that we care about and stories we identify with. MiFo is where we come together with old friends and meet new ones. One of the great little pleasures in life is being at the cinema and the entire audience gasps together, laughs-out-loud together, or is entirely engaged in what is on the screen. It is a communal experience unique to film. And what better way to follow-up that experience than to immediately talk about it with your friends and fellow audience members. The MiFo LGBT Film Festival is that experience. This year’s theme is UNITED WE FILM - united in our love of film, united in our community, and united in the stories we want to watch, learn, and feel. We are also UNITED as a Festival Family: Members, Audience, Filmmakers, Community Partners, Volunteers, Board, Staff, and Sponsors. I’m Victor Gimenez, the new Executive Director of the Festival. And I’m looking forward to spending time with and meeting each of you during the festival. Whether you have been a part of the family for a while or you are a new member attending your first festival, welcome to the reunion that is the MiFo LGBT Film Festival. All The Best, Victor M. Gimenez | Executive Director On behalf of the Board, Staff and Volunteers 8 | www.mifofilm.com

2015 FESTIVAL TEAM Programming Committee Board of Directors Campbell Alexander Ilene Berliner Joe Billingsley Karon Carpenter Tina Da La Fe David Emert Jeannie Harper Bonny Johnson Lorenz Muther Nick Scalzo Steve Starrett Kley Tarcitano Jon Templin Linda Watson Peter Zimmer George Zuber

Mark Gilbert, Chair Jennifer Kriz, Vice-Chair Susan Solman, Secretary Brian D. Beasley Karon Carpeter Bennett Goldworth Larry Hyer David Jobin James C. Moon Miguel Oliva Michael Schneider Noelle Stevenson Jodi L. Strang Linda Watson Peter Zimmer George Zuber

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Dennis Edwards & Mark Steinberg

Damian Pardo

Jeff Weinstock

Steven Adkins & Diego Goncalves

Seth & Liebe Gadinsky

Edward Pascoe

Chris Wright

Brian Adler & Omar Suarez

Bennett Goldworth

Don Perkins & Willaim Niebles

Louis Benevento & Patrick Duffy

Bill Hahne

Mona Pittenger

Joseph Blount

Benjamin Hein

D’Andrea Pratt

Ric Katz

State Representative David Richardson

Raquel Berman & Carol Coombes

Michael Bottrill Fourth Man Out Victoria Brennan Friday @ 8:00 p.m.

David Leeds & Peter Casey

Edwin A. Scharlau & Victor M. Gimenez

Terrence Brown

Marc Lichtman

Paul Scolieri-Rothberg

Albert Canas & Stewart Stein

Director: Nackman DanielAndrew Cabrera Runtime: 95 minutes USA, 2015Campbell David

Tony Lima & Adam Kruszelnicki

Mark Scott

Jerry Chasen & Mark Kirby

Stephen Macriostas & David Pulley Susan Solman & Alisa McGowan

Peter Dokuchitz & Ron Poskus

Leticia Carrazana The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Johnnie Mejia & Sergio Garcia

Daniel Spring & Jean Marc De Silva

Annette Hogan

Fabio Storti & John Repici

John Lyman

Jimmy Thomas & Maurice Lawrence

Jeff Peters

Michael Toomey

Christopher Mueller & Tom Richards

Ronald Traub & Ramon Ortgea

Dennis Roy

Chi Chi Truoung

Robert Ruiz

Richard Weber

Martin Watkins

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Opening Night Film

Gabino & Thomas R.auto Yolimechanic Michael Meltzer & Alan Ngim Just like hisCuevas pals, twenty-something Adam enjoys beer, hockey and inappropriate bodily functions . But Adam also Marty Davis Charles Million & Tim Nardi likes guys . A hilarious mash-up of man-child and coming-out comedies, Fourth Man Out examines a small-town, blue-collar Kelvis Del Rio Richard Milstein & Eric Hankin guy who lets his friends know he’s gay - and what happens when Scott Diffenderfer John Lee C. in & its Robert Moon they try to help him find a&boyfriend . Both funny James and daring exploration of the kind of gay man we rarely see on the big screen, William & Glenn Barcheski Frank Navarro & Julio Hernandez Fourth Man Dollaway Out is a feel-good comedy with plenty of heart that focuses on the growing pains of friendship . David Draigh

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East Coast Premiere

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Carlotta

Tab Hunter Confidential

Saturday @ 12:45 p.m.

Saturday @ 3:00 p.m.

Saturday @ 5:00 p.m.

Director: Jake Witzenfeld Runtime: 87 minutes Israel, 2015 In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles

Director: Samantha Lang Runtime: 91 minutes Australia, 2014

Beasley & Oliver von Gundlach Director: Brian Jeffrey Schwarz Runtime:Randy 92 minutes Bullard & Eduardo Hepp USA, 2015

The Classic Gateway Theatre

Cinema Paradiso

A universal story about identity, family, tolerance and acceptance, Carlotta lays bare the life of confused teenager Richard and his flight into the turbulence of the hedonistic sixties and seventies . Against the threat of criminal prosecution and social rejection, Carlotta becomes not only a showgirl, but also a household name, a daytime TV star, and a symbol of generational change . Spanning forty years, Carlotta is an uplifting celebration of finding your place in the world and making your mark against all odds .

From Jeffrey Schwarz, director of I Am Divine and Vito, comes Hayden & Brian Thompson a look atDon a closeted Hollywood legend . In the 1950s, Tab Hunter isBill “America’s Boy Next Door .” Nothing, it seems, can Hussey damage his skyrocketing career . Nothing, that is, except for the fact Mark that Tab Hunter is secretly gay . Now, Tab Hunter’s Jernigan secret is out . In Tab Hunter Confidential we meet, for the first Kriz as he shares with us the whole story time, theJennifer real Tab Hunter of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s roller coaster .

Oriented

The Classic Gateway Theatre

STUDIO HEADS

Oriented follows the life of three gay Palestinian friends confronting their national and sexual identity in Tel Aviv . Khader is a Tel Aviv “darling” from a prominent Muslim family living with his Jewish boyfriend David, a local LGBT nightlife impresario . Khader is conflicted by his desire for change in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation . Fadi is an ardent Palestinian nationalist confronted by the guilt of Jewish love . And Naim must confront his family with the truth about his sexuality . Meanwhile, a war is brewing beyond their personal conflicts .

Colgate Darden & Ed Heidel

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Ladies’ Shorts Program

Where The Girls Are Saturday @ 5:15 p.m.

Douglas Pew & Donald K. Croxton Total Runtime: 92 minutes Fred Poston The Classic Gateway Theatre

Larry Feldman, M.D. & Vinh Huy Nguyen

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George Anthony In The Zuber Hollow | & Director: AustinSnyder Bunn, USA, RT: 17 mins

Miguel Oliva

In Sunset Director: Narissa Lee, USA, RT: 24 mins JimAdrift Tyrell & Jay| Richard Dibiaso & Roger Thomson

Andre Perwin & Rod Gillis

Take Shape Plastic Surgery Disaster Preparedness | Director: P.A. Melissa Finell, USA, RT: 15 mins

In English and Thai with English subtitles

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Ladies’ Spotlight

Liz in September (Liz en Septiembre) Saturday @ 7:30 p.m. Director: Fina Torres Runtime: 92 minutes Venezuela, 2014 In Spanish with English subtitles

C&I Studios Every year, womanizing party girl Liz and her friends celebrate her birthday at a Caribbean beach retreat . This year might be the final celebration, because she is terminally ill, a fact she hides . When Eva, a young outsider arrives, Liz seduces her . But the ingénue is deeply wounded by the recent death of her young son, and nothing turns out as expected . The encounter between these two opposite women changes their lives, setting new perspectives where love, life and death, away from any morals, play as simple steps of nature . Actress, Patricia Velasquez, will be in attendance. 18 | www.mifofilm.com 18

FESTIVAL EVENTS Friday, October 9 at 6:30 p.m. Producers & Filmmakers’ Soiree NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale 1 E Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Thursday, October 15 at 8:00 p.m. Centerpiece Film | 54: The Director’s Cut Cinema Paradiso 503 SE 6th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Friday, October 9 at 8:00 p.m. Opening Night Film | Fourth Man Out NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale 1 E Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Thursday, October 15 at 10:00 p.m. Centerpiece Party Cinema Paradiso 503 SE 6th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Friday, October 9 at 10:00 p.m. Opening Night Celebration NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale 1 E Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. Men’s Spotlight Film | Daddy Cinema Paradiso 503 SE 6th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Saturday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. Ladies’ Spotlight Film | Liz in September C&I Studios 541 NW 1st Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Sunday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. Ladies’ Closing Night Film | Portrait Of A Serial Monogamist The Classic Gateway Theatre 1820 East Sunrise Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

Saturday, October 10 at 9:30 p.m. Spotlight Party C&I Studios 541 NW 1st Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Sunday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. Men’s Closing Night Film | Those People Cinema Paradiso 503 SE 6th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Sunday, October 18 at 10:00 p.m. Closing Night Party & Awards Ceremony Bahia Mar Fort Lauderdale Beach 801 Seabreeze Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato

JAMES NADEAU – Executive Director, Boston Lesbian, Gay, Director: Ray Yeung Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival Runtime: 87 minutes JAYNE SHERMAN - Independent Producer (film & USA, 2015 theater), and Head of English Mom’s Money Productions In EnglishFounder and Cantonese with subtitles

Saturday @ 9:45 p.m.

Saturday @ 10:00 p.m.

Director: Casper Andreas Runtime: 100 minutes USA, 2015

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Saturday @ 7:30 p.m.

JONATHAN STEIN - Fine Artist, Arts Curator and Filmmaker, The Classic Gateway Theatre Owner of Jonathan Stein Fine Arts Inc . Inc . Front Cover follows FEATURE Ryan, a gayJURY New York City fashion stylist, who DOCUMENTARY rejects his Asian upbringing . He is given an assignment that could NATE KLARFELD Broward Steering Committee, change his life . For- Chairman, a photo shoot, he needs to style Ning, a closEquality Florida and Producer andto Host, Stonewall Live!US . on After a eted, popular foreign actor trying make it big in the Blogtalk Radio rocky start, an unlikely friendship develops between them, leading Ryan to SCHARLAU examine his –cultural identity and make a major decision EDWIN Award-Winning Film Producer & Director, about an of enticing path for his life and career that might or Founder Route new 7 Productions might not involve Ning . DMITRY ZHITOV - Multi-Award Winning Filmmaker, Co-Founder of KinoFilm Productions

Cinema Paradiso Influences of Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock are evident in this sexy gay twist on classic L .A . film noir . After confronting his hunky, unfaithful boyfriend (Gale Harold, Queer as Folk), beautiful Dusty blacks out, only to wake up to find his boyfriend murdered and he’s the prime suspect . Director Casper Andreas (Going Down In La La Land, The Big Gay Musical), screenwriter David Michael Barrett (Such Good People), and a gorgeous and talented cast create an over-the-top and very sexy murder mystery that is an entertaining guilty pleasure . Writer, David Michael Barrett, and Actor, Van Hansis, will be in attendance.

The Classic Gateway Theatre Revered filmmaker Peter Greenaway shows his acclaimed and controversial filmmaking style in this bold and sexually explicit celebration of Sergei Eisenstein’s gay coming-of-age during what is now considered his transformative trip to Mexico during the 1930s . Temporarily free of Soviet constraints, the famed Russian director discovers his wild side upon meeting and bedding a gorgeous tour guide named Palomino . What starts as a workrelated trip becomes a dizzying journey into the mind of a visionary who discovers romance for the first time .

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Reel In The Closet

Bizarre

Stuff

Where The Boys Are

Sunday @ 12:45 p.m.

Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Sunday @ 5:15 p.m.

Director: Stu Maddux Runtime: 82 minutes USA, 2015

Director: Etienne Faure Runtime: 98 minutes USA, 2015

Director: Suzanne Guacci Runtime: 98 minutes USA, 2015

Total Runtime: 95 minutes

The Classic Gateway Theatre

LGBT home movies dating back to the 1930s creates a visual history of the LGBT community . As these films are found, happy full lives that existed behind closed doors are seen for the first time . Couples whose love spanned many decades are documented in films of vacations, dinner parties, and intimate moments . Along with these personal moments, footage of political and social movements also highlights the importance of the conservation of this material and the struggle to save it before they are lost forever .

Maurice, an attractive 18-year-old French boy with a murky past, arrives in New York with no place to stay . Kim and Betty, who run the hip underground club Bizarre, give him a job along with room and board . The Bizarre becomes Maurice’s new family, and he adapts to its eccentric world of outcasts as he begins a disturbing relationship with the bartender, Luka, who also has a mysterious background . But the world of the Bizarre is an ephemeral refuge, and it isn’t long before Maurice’s past catches up with him .

With two beautiful, young daughters and a house in the suburbs, married couple Trish and Deb Murdoch have built what should be a perfect life together . But their relationship is threatened when Trish’s ongoing grief over the death of her father coincides with Deb’s attraction to Jamie, the mother of their daughter’s classmate . Anchored by strong performances from its three leads, it’s a touching study of one couple’s struggle to navigate the trials that life throws .

Southeast Premiere

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Men’s Shorts Program

Cinema Paradiso From Sydney, Australia to a family gathering to a high school reunion and from a gloryhole to a potentially gay politician (no, that is not the same film), these films run the gambit of locations and genres where the boys are . Sunday Lunch | Director: Céline Devaux, France, RT: 14 mins In French with English subtitles Hole | Director: Martin Edralin, Canada, RT: 15 mins Bowes Academy | Director: Greg Emetaz, USA, RT: 15 mins I Am Syd Stone | Director: Denis Theriault, Canada, RT: 11 mins The Outfit | Director: Yen Tan, USA, RT: 12 mins Trunk | Director: Jack Taylor Cox, UK, RT: 12 mins

Director, Suzanne Guacci, will be in attendance. VISITING GUESTS:

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Director: Joey MarcoKuhn Kreuzpaintner 104minutes minutes Runtime: 88 Germany, USA, 20152014 In German with English subtitles

Director: Grant Scicluna Runtime: 96 minutes Australia, 2015

Director: Sven J . Matten Runtime: 108 minutes Canada, 2015

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Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso

Elsie, a forty-something television producer and serial monogamist, is beginning to feel restless in yet another long-term relationship . The changing landscape of post-Apartheid South African politics She decides it is time to break up with her girlfriend and pursue and lifestyles is portrayed through two relationships: a successful the young DJ/barista she has had her eye on . After successfully black real estate woman who is cheating on her white wife, and landing who she thought was the girl of her dreams, Elsie is faced their gorgeous bohemian daughter dating a gender non-conformwith the growing realization that she may have broken up with her ing women in the Soweto ghettos . While both plot line survives on soulmate . Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is a hilarious, honest and its own the co-mingling of the stories is where While You Weren’t oh-so-romantic comedy about the coming of middle age . Looking becomes true genius . Preceded By: S. Mitchell, and Actress, Diane Flanks, will Director, John Night Life | Director: Sarah Scarlett Downing, USA, 12 mins be in attendance. 24 24 40 | | www.mifofilm.com 40 www.mifofilm.com

Charlie and Sebastian are childhood best friends despite Charlie’s Notoriously hip Berlin-based celebrity hairdresser, Tom Herzner, obsession with his rich, charismatic pal . Following the arrest of falls in love with Heidi, the quirky owner of a neighborhood hair Sebastian’s father, Charlie moves in with his friend for support . salon, turning both of their worlds upside down . The relationship Soon after, Charlie meets Tim, a pianist whose willingness to talk starts out slow but begins to grow; the only hurdle looming big is about his feelings is both intriguing and intimidating to Charlie the fact that Tom is gay . Director Marco Kreuzpaintner (Summer who faces a choice between what he has always wanted and what Storm) uses rapid-fire dialogue and witty vignettes of gay life, might be . Set in the wealthy world of Manhattan’s elite millennials, including Tom’s flamboyant and disapproving gaggle of friends . Those People tells a familiar story of loyalty but in a way that is Coming In depicts a lighter side of gender relations that will touch uniquely beautiful . and tickle every viewer .

The Classic Gateway Theatre James has served time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier, although the body was never found . Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy’s mother, James sets out on a journey of self-discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy’s death brim to the surface . Old friendships and family ties are tested as James must find his path to the truth . Downriver is a dark, brooding, intense and powerful film .

U.S. Premiere

Cinema Paradiso Daniel, a hunky and successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression . His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses under him when panic attacks force him to deal with his past . Fear, paranoia and desperation appear to get the better of him; people around him are unable to help . Daniel, however, won’t give up . He tries to recapture what was once his, guided by the sexy, younger Alexander, with whom he embarks on a tentative journey into a painful past .

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CENTERPIECE FILM

OCTOBER 18

18 OCTOBER 15

Deep Run

Game Face

Akron 54: The Director’s Cut

Sunday @ 12:45 p.m.

Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Director: Hillevi Loven Runtime: 75 minutes USA, 2015

Director: Michel Thomas Runtime: 99 minutes USA, 2015

Directors:Mark BrianChristopher O’Donnell and Sasha King Director: 88 minutes Runtime: 106 minutes USA, 2015

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Game Face shows the quest to self-realization of LGBT athletes and their acceptance in society . The documentary tells the parallel stories of Fallon Fox, MMAs first transgender pro fighter, and Terrence Clemens, a rising college basketball player in Oklahoma who happens to be gay . The film follows both athletes during their coming out process and sheds light on the obstacles LGBT athletes deal with throughout their career .

Studio 1998, director Mark Christopher a cinematic Benny 54! and In Christopher, 18-year-old freshmencreated at the University of monument toatthis ostentatious of Art Deco, plush, and Akron, meet a football game,mixture exchange phone numbers frivolous 1970s hedonism, and drug-induced party people . quite rapidly fall for each other . Everything is24-hour great until a tragic Prior its release, the studiotomade more “mainstream” eventto from the past comes light this and film threatens to tear them by eliminating all the things that would have made it great . 54: The and their supportive families apart . Akron touches the heart with Director’s Cut progressive is a reintegrated version that isthe weightier, universal and themes including beauty darker, and acmore drug-addled and, above all, queerer than the version that ceptance of young gay relationships, a mother’s fierce love for her received at the Phillippe, Campbell, children, the the nod burden of time . livingRyan with the most Neve painful truth andSalma the Hayek, and Mike Myers shine like a brand new coke spoon . ability to forgive .

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Director Hillevi Loven and LGBTQ supporter Susan Sarandon are the talents behind Deep Run, a powerful verité portrait of trans life in rural North Carolina . Exiled by her family and rejected by an ex, 17-year-old Spazz has no one to lean on for support . But when Spazz falls in love again and summons up the courage to become Cole, a strong-willed trans man, his candid humor and steadfast, all-inclusive Christian beliefs counter the bigotry he experiences daily . This exquisite documentary reveals rebirth and courage within America’s deeply conservative Bible Belt .

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Centerpiece Film

Sunday @@ 5:00 p.m. Thursday 8:00 p.m.

Filmmakers and Talent expected to be in attendance.

OCTOBER 18

East Coast Premiere

Skin Deep Sunday @ 5:15 p.m. Director: Jonnie Leahy Runtime: 72 minutes Australia, 2014

The Classic Gateway Theatre Skin Deep is a beautiful, heartwarming urban adventure which proves that sometimes finding yourself begins with getting lost with a stranger . Leah and Caitlin couldn’t be more different: one a straight-laced girl-next-door in fierce denial of being diagnosed with terminal melanoma, the other an off-the-rails, grungy lesbian toying with death . Their chance meeting quickly spirals into a tumultuous night of adventure, pushing them both beyond their comfort zones and to finally decide to choose life while they still can . Preceded By: Stevie | Director: Chloe Jury-Fogel, USA, 18 mins www.mifofilm.com | 39

OCTOBER 16

Winning Dad

That’s Not Us

Like You Mean It

Friday @ 7:30 p.m.

Friday @ 9:15 p.m.

Friday @ 9:45 p.m.

Director: Arthur Allen Runtime: 95 minutes USA, 2015

Director: William Sullivan Runtime: 97 minutes USA, 2015

Director: Philipp Karner Runtime: 90 minutes USA, 2015

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That’s Not Us is an intimate portrait of three twenty-something couples - one gay, one lesbian, and one straight - as they travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer . But amidst the fun, sun, sand and carefree attitudes also comes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship and make love last . Relatable in ways that may be uncomfortable, the characters in That’s Not Us are thoughtful and emotionally complex human beings, probably just like you and me .

Having spent years auditioning for bit parts, Mark questions whether he’s masculine enough for Hollywood’s leading-man criteria . His relationship with Jonah, a sweet-natured musician and unfailingly supportive boyfriend, is on the verge of collapse, and nostalgia for happier times only makes their current troubles worse . As they attempt to reignite their intimacy through sex, drugs and therapy, Mark is forced to confront his own self-worth within the vast and notoriously isolating City of Angels .

OCTOBER 16

Margarita, With A Straw Friday @ 7:00 p.m. Director: Shonali Bose Runtime: 100 minutes India, 2014 In Hindi and English with English subtitles

Southeast Premiere

The Classic Gateway Theatre In this inspirational love story, Laila is a student, aspiring writer, and a member of a band, who just happens to have cerebral palsy . Always seeking more freedom and new experiences, Laila wins a place at New York University and leaves for Manhattan . There she meets a fiery activist, Khanum, who challenges her beliefs, sparks her creativity, and eventually takes her to bed . It’s a remarkable love story .

Colby’s dad knows his son is gay, but he doesn’t like talking about it . He respects it but ignores everything about that aspect of his son’s life - he doesn’t even know about Colby’s long-term boyfriend, Rusty . Increasingly committed to Rusty, Colby hatches a plan to trick his father into camping with Rusty under the pretense that Rusty is Colby’s straight friend and future business partner . Colby is convinced that, given the chance, his father and his boyfriend will get along great…but do they?

Southeast Premiere

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MEN’S SPOTLIGHT FILM

OCTOBER 17

East Coast Coast Premiere Premiere | Men’s Spotlight East

OCTOBER 17

Florida Premiere

OCTOBER 17

East Coast Premiere

OCTOBER 17

Southeast Premiere Premiere Southeast

Daddy Out Coming

Girl King The Guy With The Knife

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Sebastian

Man On High All About E Heels (Hai-hil)

Saturday @ @ 12:45 7:30 p.m. Saturday p.m.

7:30 p.m. Saturday @ 3:00

5:00 p.m. p.m. Saturday @ 9:45

Saturday @ 10:00 p.m. 5:15 p.m.

Director: Alden GeraldPeters McCullouch Director: Runtime: 70 89 minutes minutes Runtime: USA, 2015 2015 USA,

Mika Kaurismäki Director: Alison Armstrong 102minutes minutes Runtime: 84 Finland, 2015 USA, 2015 In English and Swedish, French and German with English subtitles

MichaelCiurlizza Stabile Director: Carlos 72 minutes Runtime: 108 minutes Peru, USA, 2015 In Spanish and English with English subtitles

Director: Jin Jang Louise Wadley Runtime: 125 minutes 93 minutes South Korea, Australia, 20152014 In Korean with English subtitles

The Classic Gateway Theatre Cinema Paradiso Coming Out follows young filmmaker Alden Peters on his coming Colin McCormack thinks he has it all - a great job, a steady stream out journey, capturing everything on camera as it happens . This of hot younger guys, and a best friend whose devotion he takes groundbreaking coming-of-age film places viewers directly inside for granted . But when a charming intern sweeps him off his feet, the raw, intimate moments when Alden reveals his true identity to Colin sees a chance for something more . . . a family of his own . his family and friends, ranging from the painfully awkward to the What he discovers instead is a shattering secret that may cost hilariously honest . Colin everything . By turns funny, heartbreaking and hopeful, Preceded By: the universal need for love and connection and Daddy explores theAfternoon evolving understanding of “family” in today’s An (En eftermiddag) | Director: Søren rapidly Green, changing world . Denmark, 8 mins . In Danish With English subtitles. Caged (Uitgesproken) | Directors: Dylan Tonk & Lazlo Tonk, Netherlands, 14 mins . In Dutch with English subtitles. 34 | www.mifofilm.com 34 30 30

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Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him . Filmed over the course of eight years, Crowned Queen at the age of six, Kristina of Sweden was thrust The Guy With The Knife traces the friendship between a prominent into a labyrinth where a court of austere, Lutheran men pressure gay rights activist and a convicted ‘gay-bash’ murderer . Set against her to marry and produce an heir . She finds sanctuary and love the backdrop of gay rights, victims’ rights, and prisoners’ rights and with her lady-in-waiting, the beautiful and elegant countess Ebba the harsh Texas justice system, the film casts a fascinating spotlight Sparre . Soon, the forces around the Queen realize that Ebba is the on how the flaws of the system - - and the court of public opinion key to controlling her but underestimate Kristina’s brilliant mind - - affect justice . and her drive to be free . Torn between the conflict of political and personal aspirations, Kristina chooses to make one of the most Director, Alison Armstrong, will be in attendance. controversial decisions in history .

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Cinema Paradiso With Falcon Studios, gay porn mogul Chuck Holmes built an empire on flesh and fantasy . From 1972 to 2000, Chuck fought the FBI, vice Sebastian’s Angeles existence is thrown out of and squads and comfortable an epidemic Los to document the emerging gay culture orbit when his mother’s deteriorating health sends provide gaynews men of across the country with a vision of life thathim was flying back to hiscelebratory . hometown Chuck’s in Peru . Once there, his previous life unashamed and business brings him fortune as a closeted son seamlessly starts again . When hishehandsome beyond imagining and powerful friends, but when attempts to husband Josh showsinto up aunannounced - to the shock disdain channel his millions gay rights movement of theand 90s, he finds of hishis mother her community Sebastianthan must two that moneyand is sometimes more-welcome heconfront is . vastly different cultures, both of which have profoundly informed Preceded By: his identity . Sebastian is gracefully shot and directed by Carlos The Typist | Director: Kristine Stolakis, USA, 8 mins . Ciurlizza in an impressive debut . Filmmakers and Talent expected to be in attendance.

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Friday October 9

Sunday October 11

Saturday October 10

Reel In The The Closet

Oriented Orient ed

3:00

Carlotta

Bizarre Bizarr e

5:00

5:15 Filmmakers Soirée

8:00 Fourth Man Out (Op Ope ening ng))

10:00 Opening Night Party

7:30

Front Front Cove overr

Liz In September Sept ember

9:30

12:45

12:45 Deep Run

3:00

The Guy With

Game Fac Face e

5:15

Confidential

Stuff

Men’ss Men’ Shorts

All About E

7:30

Beautiful Something

While You You

Coming In

Weren’t Looking

9:45

Downriv Do wnriver er

Steel

Spotlight Party

5:00 Seed Money Mone y

5:00

5:15 Skin Deep

7:00 Margaritia, Mar garitia,

8:00

With A Straw

7:30

Girl King

Daddy

Portrait Of A Serial Monogamist

Those People

9:15 That’s Not Us

10:00 Centerpiece Party

Akron Akr on

Winning Dad

54: The The

Kiss Me Kiss Kill Me

Sunday October 18

Coming Out

The Knife

Director’s Cut

Eisensttein Eisens

Saturday October 17

5:15

Tab Hunter Hunter

Ladies’ Shorts

10:00

Friday October 16

12:45

6:30

Thursday October 15

9:45 Like You Like You Mean It

9:45 10:00 Man On High Heels

Sebastian Sebas tian

10:00

Closing Party