Live Events Schedule
Best of Festival
The World According To Allee Willis
Chuck Chuck Baby
Saturday Shorts Showcase
Horror Night: There’s a Zombie Outside
Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot
Sunday Shorts Showcase
Shorts: Men in Shorts
Shorts: Women in Shorts
Shorts: Queer Stories
Feature: The Summer with Carmen
Feature: What We Have Done, What We Have Left
Friday, November 8
7:30PM ILY, BYE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS
Saturday, November 9
1:00PM SAFETY STATE w/Filmmaker Q+A CHUCK CHUCK BABY
3:45PM SATURDAY SHORTS SHOWCASE GOODBYE TANGO THE SOUND OF THE STONEWALL UPRISING DREAM BURGER HELLO STRANGER HOW TO SAY GOODBYE I HOPE HE DOESN’T KILL ME LESBOPHILIA THE PANSY OF PICKADEE STAN BEHAVIOR
7:00PM SPOOKABLE, THE BLACK WIDOW THERE’S A ZOMBIE OUTSIDE w/ Special Guest Ben Baur
Sunday, November 10
1:00PM LOVE’S LAST STAND BULLETPROOF: A LESBIAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE PLOT
3:30PM SUNDAY SHORTS SHOWCASE GRACE SKIN
SATURDAY RITUAL* WHITEWASH INSTITUTION A BIRD HIT MY WINDOW AND NOW I’M A LESBIAN* MAURICE’S BAR MUSCAT STUD COUNTRY *Filmmaker Q+A Following
6:00PM LAST NIGHT DUINO
Thursday, November 14
7:00PM
T-MINUS DESIRE LINES
Hey Indy—we're back! Join us for an all-new collection of films designed to delight and inspire. This year, that amounts to 35 films, shining a light on one or more facets of the queer prism. Thank you to all the filmmakers who submitted their work! Your dedication to bringing vibrant, authentic, stories to life means everything. We couldn’t do this without you.
2024 marks the 24th year of the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. We are thrilled to return to Kan-Kan Cinema for a weekend of live screenings and our closing event the following Thursday, and a virtual experience to keep the energy going at home. We're so grateful that we can share this experience with our film-loving community.
Let's remember the benefactor of our proceeds: IYG. It remains the longest-running LGBTQ youth organization in the entire country. For more than 30 years, IYG has provided safe spaces and vital support for thousands of LGBTQ youth in our state. To learn more about this critically important organization and why we are honored to continue to support it, please visit IndianaYouthGroup.org
We sincerely thank you for supporting the 2024 Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. Let’s GO!
Matt Mutchmore | Director Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
November 8-10 and November 14
Film Screenings—$12
Full Festival Pass (All 8 screenings)—$75
Purchase a Full Festival Pass and get an all-access code for the Streaming Program ($35 Value)
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November 11-17
All-Access Streaming Pass—$35 35 Films—Shorts and Features
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STEVEN STOLEN
Program Host of Stolen Moments on WFYI-FM Indianapolis
Film Programmer and Entertainer, sometimes otherwise known as Vanity Rex
ESS MCKEE
Artist, Illustrator, and Creator of Things, Teacher at Regeneration Indy, and Designer/Proprietor of Inaz Dezign LLC
Big Car Collective Co-Founder/ Director of Programs and Exhibitions
These films are our nominees for the 2024 Best of Festival Awards The winners are selected by our panel of judges and announced at the end of the festival.
Festival Selection Chairs
Ted Letherer
Petra Fippen
Festival Steering Committee
Greyson Gullion
Sylvia Thomas
Michael Barclay
Mickey Rogers
Royce Cole Jr.
Social Media Assistance Annette Marino
Mutchmore
November 8-10 and November 14
Known for her flamboyant style and legendary parties at her uniquely eccentric Los Angeles home, award-winning songwriter and artist Allee Willis was a fearless individualist who made a lasting impact on pop culture. But privately, she struggled with fitting into conventional gender and sexual norms.
Allee Willis was a singular musical phenom whose career defied societal and industrial molds, from Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" to the Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance" to the theme song from the show Friends. The World According to Allee Willis is both a love letter to the late artist from the famous folks who loved her — Cyndi Lauper, Alice Walker, the Pet Shop Boys, Lily Tomlin, Luenell, DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh, and Willis’ longtime partner Prudence Fenton — and a tour of Willis' impressive archives of early video, kitsch collectibles, and musical offerings. It’s also an invitation to the coolest pool parties of the 80s where you could rub elbows with the likes of Elvira, Patti LaBelle, Paul Reubens, Joni Mitchell, and Debbie Harry at Willis' astonishing Los Angeles home.
Directed by Alexia Spraic USA, 2024, 98 Minutes
Preceded by the short film ILY, Bye
This film is the realization of her wish that her “final art piece be someone putting together the trail I have left behind.”
Kan-Kan, Friday, November 8, 7:30PM
Drama
In this bold Welsh film packed with flourishes of musical whimsy, Helen is a chicken factory worker still living with her estranged husband and his new family with a much younger woman. Can the return of a childhood friend bring Helen a second chance at life?
Helen works the night shift at the local poultry processing plant. Despite the long, ungodly hours, the job offers a genial camaraderie with her coworkers and a welcome respite from oafish husband Gary. Helen’s humdrum world takes a surprising turn with the prodigal return of her schoolgirl crush, Joanne. Thrilled by emotions she hasn’t felt in years, Helen encourages Joanne’s romantic affections, and it’s not long before she shows up outside the factory, ghetto blaster thumping, sports car revving to whisk Helen away for an impromptu beach holiday.
But life intervenes as their burgeoning romance grows: Helen’s home life threatens to upend their happiness, leading the couple to make difficult emotional decisions. If you’ve been searching for a sapphic romance semi-diegetic jukebox musical—featuring the songs of Janis Ian, Minnie Riperton, and Neil Diamond—then Janis Pugh’s warmhearted, generous, and rousing first feature will strike the perfect chord.
Directed by Janis Pugh
UK, 2023, 101 Minutes
Preceded by the short film Safety State
Kan-Kan, Saturday, November 9, 1:00PM
Saturday Shorts Showcase | November 9, 3:45PM
Some of our most entertaining shorts in one delightful package.
Director: Jason Laurits | USA | 14 Minutes
The sudden death of Ruth's beloved hamster reveals a decaying marriage with her curmudgeon wife, Connie. Ruth can either accept the death of things or keep spinning the wheel.
Director: Sian-Pierre Regis | USA | 6 Minutes
DJ and Producer Honey Dijon curates a new jukebox exhibit at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, the site of the birthplace of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in America.
Director: Sami Kali | Switzerland/UK | 9 Minutes
Luke and Simon always go for burgers together after tennis. But this time, Luke wants to tell Simon how he really feels about him.
Director: Amélie Hardy | Canada | 16 Minutes
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the tumultuous story of her gender reassignment journey.
Director: Thibaut Buccellato | France | 8 Minutes
After their break-up, Mia has to return to her ex-girlfriend's apartment. This is going to be their very last moment together.
Directors: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan, Nora Dahle Borchgrevink | UK | 13 Minutes
Buzz waits outside the apartment building of his anonymous Grindr hookup, imagining all the depraved ways this night could end.
Director: Michelle West | USA | 15 Minutes
When free-as-a-bird bisexual Eliana questions giving up the "D" at her ex-boyfriend's funeral, her girlfriend Chase must decide how far she’s willing to go for love.
Directors: Gus George, Paddy Morahan | Australia | 8 Minutes
In a town on the verge of destruction, a young queer man uses his special skills to save his friends and family and becomes the hero he was born to be.
Director: Tyler C. Peterson | USA | 15 Minutes
A drag queen embarks on a quest for better workplace rights, but finds herself in a dicey situation when her new lawyer, a tone-deaf straight woman, is revealed to be a drag super fan.
A man whose identity is intertwined with cult cinema finds that he is having problems distinguishing fact from fiction and believes he's seeing a monster from his movie for real.
The film follows Adam, a budding filmmaker whose imaginative world starts to bleed into his mundane reality. During a camping trip with his partner Ollie and friends Louis and Zeke, Adam spots a decayed corpse lurking near their cabin, which sends him into a panic. His friends dismiss his claims as stress-induced paranoia. When Adam returns to Los Angeles, the zombie begins to stalk him, causing chaos in every aspect of his life. There’s a Zombie Outside embraces its meta qualities without feeling excessive or superficial. It offers a sharp, engaging experience, cementing Michael Varrati’s reputation as one of the most compelling queer voices in contemporary genre cinema. This is a film you won’t want to miss.
The cast also includes Ben Baur (Something Like Summer), Phylicia Wissa (Santa Clarita Diet), Danny Plotner (HBO’s Euphoria), Ty Chen (The Middle), Francisco Chacin (Poltergays), William Lott (Bottom), Tiffany Shepis (Star Trek: Picard), and drag legend Peaches Christ (All About Evil).
Producer and star Ben Baur will be our special guest at the screening.
Kan-Kan, Saturday, November 9, 7:00PM Streaming November 11-17
Directed by Michael Varrati USA, 2024, 73 Minutes
Preceded by the short films Spookable + The Black Widow
Filmmaker Regan Latimer takes an insightful, funny and personal look at queer representation on television and media’s power to shape how we see ourselves.
Determined to uncover why Hollywood frequently "buries its gays," Latimer dives into the issue of disproportionate lesbian deaths in media. Through interviews with TV writers, executives, queer community members, and fans, she unravels this troubling trend. The quest to understand the dynamics behind the stories we watch on TV is both witty and fast-paced, blending original animation and personal anecdotes with in-depth conversations with TV insiders, LGBTQ+ advocates, and passionate fans.
This humorous hybrid documentary highlights the transformative power of positive queer representation in media while chronicling Latimer’s journey of self-discovery and the profound impact of seeing oneself represented on screen.
Join the media revolution and fight back with queer fandom! Documentary
Directed by Regan Latimer Canada, 2024, 105 Minutes
Preceded by the short film Love’s Last Stand
Kan-Kan, Sunday, November 10, 1:00PM
Sunday Shorts Showcase, November 10, 3:30PM Another serving of our best shorts on the big screen.
Director: Natalie Jasmine Harris | USA | 13 Minutes
Sixteen-year-old Grace prepares for her baptism in the rural 1950's South. When she learns she must repent before the ritual, Grace contemplates her romantic feelings toward her best friend Louise.
Director: Leo Behrens | USA | 7 Minutes
A poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man.
Director: Sydne Horton | USA | 12 Minutes
High School soccer players Cammie, Em, and Kara have a tradition of visiting a psychic after every match. Cammie soon discovers she is in over her head when this psychic unveils an unknown secret in front of her two best friends.
Director: Jerry Hsu | USA | 13 Minutes
After being accepted into the ‘Ivory Estates’, a queer Asian man moves in with his new fiancé and discovers that he’s the only person of color in the neighborhood—among the estates' other secrets.
Director: Jonathan Wysocki | USA | 3 Minutes
A filmmaker contemplates his same-sex marriage, his parents’ “traditional” marriage, the Apollo 13 space mission, and a debate against a marriage equality bill.
Directors: Carmela Marie Murphy, AJ Dubler | USA | 8 Minutes
After a mysterious girl shows up at protagonist Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her identity.
Directors: Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman | France | 15 Minutes
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious owner.
Director: Philippe Grenier | Canada | 16 Minutes
Samir, a 16-year-old Moroccan fisherman, discovers his attraction towards men when he meets Louis, a tourist traveling with his wife. When Louis faces the worst, Samir is the only one who can help him.
Directors: Lina Abascal, Alexandra Kern | USA | 10 Minutes
Stud Country, the largest queer country western line dancing event in America, was created to preserve Los Angeles' little known 50+ year queer line dancing tradition. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, the event is set to lose its venue due to gentrification.
An Argentinian filmmaker, struggling to finish a movie about his unrequited first love, receives an unexpected invitation to reconstruct his memories, revisit his past, and perhaps even find a new ending to his story.
When college-age Matías attended an international school on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, he fell passionately into the world of his eclectic classmates, most memorably a live-wire Swedish rebel-prince named Alexander. Now decades later, as a filmmaker, he is trying to recapture the world — and love — he lost, by making a film about his past. Writer/co-director Juan Pablo di Pace (The Mattachine Family) draws on his own life for this film autobiography: he himself attended that very school in his youth. While Duino starts in the present day, the flashbacks to Matías’ college years in Italy gradually take over, and we see what has so captivated and obsessed Matías for decades: the energy and promise of young lives, the unrequited yearning for a just-out-of-reach lover…these are memories that will both inspire and haunt the young filmmaker and give Duino a delicious and sexy poignancy.
Executive produced by the late television legend Norman Lear (All in the Family; Maude) and Brent Miller (One Day at a Time), Duino also stars newcomer Santiago Madrussan, August Wittgenstein, Krista Kosonen, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Succession).
Directed by Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés P. Estrada, USA/Argentina/Italy, 2024, 108 Minutes
Preceded by the short film Last Night
Kan-Kan, Sunday, November 10, 6:00PM
In this hybrid documentary and narrative film, past and present collide when an Iranian American transman travels through the LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Deep dive into transmasculine desire for cisgender gay men in this sexy, intimate doc-fiction hybrid by Jules Rosskam. Ahmad, an Iranian American transgender man, explores his gay desires as he travels back and forth in time from a queer archive in the present with Kieran (played by Theo Germaine from Showtime’s Work in Progress), to a bathhouse in the past, walking the halls and bumping shoulders, and more, with cis men back in time.
Transcestor Lou Sullivan, a female-to-gay-male activist in the 1980s, comes alive through archival footage and letters, blazing the trail that present day transmasc folks experience as they talk openly and frankly about their experiences of sex with cis gay men. These illuminating and occasionally humorous stories run the gamut from PrEP to fetishization, from Grindr to sex work. Winner of the NEXT Special Jury Award at Sundance, Desire Lines is a revolutionary declaration of following one’s authentic desire.
Directed by Jules Rosskam USA, 2024, 81 Minutes
Preceded by the short film T-Minus
Kan-Kan, Thursday, November 14, 7:00PM Streaming November 15-17
Streaming November 11-17
Director: Sami Kali | Switzerland/UK | 9 Minutes
Luke and Simon always go for burgers together after tennis. But this time, Luke wants to tell Simon how he really feels about him. How will Simon react? Luke's vivid imagination leads us into some intense scenarios, only to reveal a surprising truth.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Jerry Hsu | USA | 13 Minutes
After being accepted into the ‘Ivory Estates’, a queer Asian man moves in with his new fiancé and discovers that he’s the only person of color in the neighborhood— among the estates' other secrets.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Directors: Gus George, Paddy Morahan | Australia | 8 Minutes
The Pansy of Pickadee tells the story of a queer young man and a town on the verge of destruction. When all else fails, the young man uses his special skills to save his friends and family and becomes the hero he was born to be.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Oliver Zel | USA | 9 Minutes
A serial dater meets his match. Also screens before Duino
Director: Jonathan Wysocki | USA | 3 Minutes
A filmmaker contemplates his same-sex marriage, his parents’ “traditional” marriage, the Apollo 13 space mission, and a debate against a marriage equality bill.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Directors: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan, Nora Dahle Borchgrevink | UK | 13 Minutes
Buzz waits outside the apartment building of his anonymous Grindr hookup, imagining all the depraved ways this night could end.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Tom Paul Martin | UK | 15 Minutes
Professional superheroes Sterling and Meridian have just finished saving the day (again) when suddenly, they find themselves in a rare moment alone. The suits come off, but when old tensions and old enemies return, our “heroes” learn the dark truth about who they are underneath.
Director: David Sonnenborn | USA | 24 Minutes
A gay man overdoses on psychedlics and reconnects with his uncle (Rex Lee, Entourage) who died of AIDS in the '90s.
Director: Deshon Leek | USA | 15 Minutes
Two estranged men reconnect in a jazz bar where they embark on a forbidden dance.
Director: Philippe Grenier | Canada | 16 Minutes
Samir, a 16-year-old Moroccan fisherman, discovers his attraction towards men when he meets Louis, a tourist traveling with his wife. When Louis faces the worst, Samir is the only one who can help him.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Director: Lina Abascal, Alexandra Kern | USA | 10 Minutes
Stud Country, the largest queer country western line dancing event in America, was created to preserve Los Angeles' little known 50+ year queer line dancing tradition. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, the event is set to lose its venue due to gentrification.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Directors: Fiume, Julian McKinnon | France | 20 Minutes
Alfredo is cycling through the streets of a foreign city when he is caught in a thunderstorm. Guided by his fantasies, he seeks shelter in a theater, and finds himself trapped in a perverse game: an assassin eliminates the cinema's locked-in customers one by one.
Also screens before There’s A Zombie Outside
Director: Taylor James | USA | 13 Minutes
Unemployed and down on her luck, Siobhan (the hilarious Meg Stalter) is presented with a life changing job opportunity. Unfortunately, she can't get her foot out of her mouth long enough to get her foot in the door. Featuring the voice talents of Rainn Wilson and Benito Skinner, ILY, BYE also stars Kanoa Goo of TV's The Rookie
Also screens on Premiere Night before The World According To Allee Willis
Director: Jason Laurits | USA | 14 Minutes
The sudden death of Ruth's beloved hamster reveals a decaying marriage with her wife, Connie. Ruth can either accept the death of things or keep spinning the wheel.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Sam Stewart | USA | 15 Minutes
Showbiz never dies, even in an apocalypse! When two women on opposite teams of a dating show realize their partners aren’t the ones, they must win a life-saving luxury bunker in an alternative way or risk facing the end of the world alone.
Also screens before Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot
Director: Thibaut Buccellato | France | 8 Minutes
After their break-up, Mia has to return to her ex-girlfriend's apartment. This is going to be their very last moment together, before they say goodbye.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Jasmine Harris | USA | 13 Minutes
Sixteen-year-old Grace prepares for her baptism in the rural 1950's South. When she learns she must repent before the ritual, Grace contemplates her romantic feelings toward her best friend Louise.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Director: Sydne Horton | USA | 12 Minutes
High School soccer players Cammie, Em, and Kara have a tradition of visiting a psychic after every Saturday match. Cammie soon discovers she is in over her head when a highly recommended psychic unveils an unknown secret in front of her two best friends.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Director: Carmela Marie Murphy, AJ Dubler | USA | 8 Minutes
After a mysterious girl shows up at protagonist Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Director: Sophie Saville | Australia | 15 Minutes
After discovering her new next-door neighbour is an old flame; an older, more confident Sarah decides to pursue her again, but is the one who got away worth the wait?
A follow-up to Sophie Saville’s Peach (2020 Festival Selection.)
Director: Michelle West | USA | 15 Minutes
When free-as-a-bird bisexual Eliana questions giving up the "D" at her ex-boyfriend's funeral, her girlfriend Chase must decide how far she’s willing to go for love.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Limited Streaming, November 11-November 14
Director: Tyler C. Peterson | USA | 15 Minutes
A drag queen embarks on a quest for better workplace rights, but finds herself in a dicey situation when her new lawyer, a tone-deaf straight woman, is revealed to be a drag super fan. Featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Ginger Minj and Heidi N Closet.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Sian-Pierre Regis | USA | 6 Minutes
DJ and Producer Honey Dijon curates a new jukebox exhibit at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, birthplace of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in America.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Amélie Hardy | Canada | 16 Minutes
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the tumultuous story of her gender reassignment journey.
Also screens in Saturday Shorts Showcase
Director: Leo Behrens | USA | 7 Minutes
Skin is a poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Directors: Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman | France | 15 Minutes
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious owner.
Also screens in Sunday Shorts Showcase
Director: Jonathan Andre Culliton | USA | 15 Minutes
Two trans best friends, Alexandra Gray (Gossamer Folds) and Marval Rex, venture into the woods on a cabin getaway vacation only to end up a part of a horny supernatural world. Spookable features an all-trans cast and crew.
Also screens before There’s A Zombie Outside
Director: Emily Lerer | USA | 12 Minutes
T-Minus tells the story of Andrew, a trans mechanic, and a drag queen named Lex as they roadtrip from Ohio to Detroit to obtain an abortion.
Director: Jonathan Andre Culliton | USA | 15 Minutes
Mourning her late boyfriend Jamie, Willa Justice is jolted from her grief by the murder of a vacationing couple. She tracks the killer with clues left by Jamie's ghost and the enigmatic Doctor Eggs, leading to a climactic battle with the villainous Pink Face.
Director: Jeanette L. Buck | USA | 15 Minutes
In the dystopian near future, a gay and a lesbian couple form an unlikely friendship as they flee the midwest for safety, heading to New England where it is safe and legal to be queer.
Also screens before Chuck Chuck Baby, with a Q+A with executive producer and screenwriter Rani Deighe Crowe
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Laugh out loud hilarious and unrelentingly horny, The Summer with Carmen brilliantly blends its intersecting narratives, as memory collides with fantasy and art rubs up against truth.
Fun, sexy, Greek, and low-budget – those are the guidelines a foreign movie producer has given twinky actor Nikitas (who keeps losing roles for acting "too gay") for a potential film project. So over the course of a long afternoon at a scenic gay nude beach, Nikitas and his BFF Demos, a former actor turned pencil-pushing public servant, begin to write the screenplay for what they hope will be their big cinematic break.
Nikitas fancies himself the next Xavier Dolan, and Demos has dreams of a Hemsworth brother playing him. Under the beating sun on the blue Mediterranean, the besties (who met in film school) uncover the perfect subject matter as they recall the chaotic, fruitful antics of their respective love lives two summers ago.
Struggling to transform real events into a hero's journey, the two friends question the no. 1 rule of script writing theory — the hero that changes — while turning a page in their long-lasting friendship.
Directed by Zacharias Mavroeidis, Greece , 2024, 106 Minutes
Streaming November 11-17
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge.
Leo leads a seemingly typical life. Amidst hanging out with friends, bickering with his Italian family at the dinner table, going to school, and making out with his girlfriend Monique, Leo guards a secret he’s afraid to confront - a hidden truth buried deep within.
As Leo grapples with his inner turmoil, he finds himself unexpectedly drawn to his best friend Boof, and the quiet introverted boy at school named Tom. These newfound feelings force Leo to confront his true desires and come to terms with his identity.
However, everything changes after a high school gathering when rumors about Leo’s sexuality begin to circulate shattering his once stable world. Faced with the fear of rejection from those closest to him, Leo must navigate the uncertain waters of acceptance and love.
Directed by Gabriel Carrubba, Australia , 2024, 84 Minutes
Streaming November 11-17
In 2020, the Union of Black Episcopalians proposed a resolution that all parishes of the Indianapolis Diocese document their racial history. All Saints Episcopal Church chose to film a documentary. Documentary
Parishioners of All Saints Episcopal Church, as well as their Bishop, their DEI consultant, and their historian, endeavored to turn a critical lens inward to understand how their own racial history and bias has played a part in shaping the community they are today. Featuring rare, on-camera “light bulb” moments as members experience realizations and regrets during vulnerable efforts at deep introspection with one another, this film serves as an example of self-reflection and is a strong document of changing attitudes towards race since the 1950s This story of an inner city parish attempting to recognize instances of bias and white supremist behavior in the past and present, trying to learn how to repair harm, is also full of joyful memories, humbling awakenings, open wounds, and challenges to change now and forevermore.
Directed by noted Indianapolis filmmaker Catherine Crouch, 2023, 75 Minutes
Streaming November 11-17
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When his car breaks down during a fateful road trip, Evan, a suicidal young man, meets Léo, a mysterious boy who offers to drive him to his destination. Along the way, romantic tension ensues as the pair reckon with traumas of the past, conflicts of the present and the potential of the future – together or apart. Evan soon realizes that he may have found something – or someone –worth living for.
Programs at IYG revolves around building community, developing leadership qualities, and increasing self-esteem and self-efficacy. Through this programs, our staff hopes to lessen the impact of stressors most commonly faced by LGBTQ+ youth.
One of the most important resources we offer to the youth is case management. Our case managers interview and evaluate youth to complete intakes and assessments.
One in four LGBTQ+ youth that comes out to their family is kicked out of their home. Many youth “couch surf,” stay with family/friends, or end up living on the street. IYG offers a plethora of resources for these youth including laundry, shower, food pantry, rapid rehousing assistance, clothing, and transportation assistance.
IYG's Indiana GSA Network provides support to Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSA) and Diversity clubs in middle and high schools across the state. Support comes in the form of information, community, skill-building resources, regional and state-wide events, and annual site visits.
IYG offers education and support to parents/guardians, family, and other caring adults. Meetups, online support, and both one-on-one and family counseling sessions are all available.
