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TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Message..................................... BeneficiarIES.................................................. Sponsors........................................................ SIGLFF Board & Volunteers......................... A special thank you.................................... Thursday Night Feature Program........... Thursday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
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Welcome to the 21st Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (SIGLFF). It can rarely be argued that Artists create their pieces with (and sometimes out of) passion. They use their medium to show us their vision, to express an emotion, or perhaps just to question what. Artists are the reason we have independent films. It can’t be for the notoriety or wealth, although sometimes there are allusions of grandeur. I mention this because this year we are proud to publicly World Premiere a piece by one of our own, not just community member but also a board member who has had a passion for film and the festival for many years. Check out the last feature on Saturday nights program. Her passion shaped the film that she is sharing with us this season. (Check out the last feature on Saturday nights program.)
Artistry isn’t defined by or stopped at the creation of the medium. Art is often repurposed through the way pieces are arranged, edited or displayed. For instance, the recent John Paul Gaultier exhibit would only have been a closet, if others had not edited his artistic pieces and given us a narrative. Through this, a new piece of art was created. It is for this reason that this year’s festival is dedicated to the artisans of our programming committee. Without their vision (and numerous hours of movie watching) we would not have the visual tapestry that is before you this year. To our community supporters, our sponsors, our board members and their spouses, the numerous volunteers and you the audience. Thank you.
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Closet Door Theatre Company is Sacramento’s newest community theatre company founded just this year. It is also the only LGBT theatre company in the Sacramento area. CDTC is a 100% volunteer theatre company and is a California Non-Profit organization. CDTC is committed to the presentation of quality theatrical productions to enrich the LGBT community of the greater Sacramento region. The goals of the organization are to preserve and expand LGBT theatre by presenting classic plays, introduction new artistic works, and educating the community at large through the art of the theatre. CDTC was founded by community members Rich Jones, Board President, Michael Hedges, Board Vice President, Erik Mann, Board Treasurer, Noemi Rios, Grant & Sponsorship Director, and Misty Adams, former Board Secretary, with the assistance of Matthew Burlingame and Kurt Kurtis. Their newest Board Member is Maile Lapez, Board Secretary. For more information about CDTC and upcoming events, fundraisers and shows, visit their website www.ClosetDoorTheatre.org and “like” them on facebook. CDTC Board Meetings are on the last Wednesday of the month.
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Cloudburst
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
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Cloudburst is a romantic road movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald. It stars Oscar®-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as Stella and Dot, an aging couple who escape from a nursing home in Maine and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be legally married. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life’s ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty’s prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Awardwinner Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal. It’s a last-gap bid to stay together. En route to Canada, they pick up a young hitchhiker, Prentice, played by newcomer Ryan Doucette. A small-town boy turned modern dancer, he is returning to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother. Despite his bravado, Prentice is a confused and wounded soul who has much to learn from Stella and Dot as they wage their own unexpected battle – after three decades, can they keep their family together?
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Shabbat Dinner
Director: Michael Morgenstern I USA
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The coming out story of two boys, it addresses universal issues of finding acceptance and truth as a teenager.
Zenne Dancer
Directors: M.Caner Alper & Mehmet Binay
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Zenne Dancer is inspired by the true characters and stories of Zenne Can
(Kerem Can) and Ahmet Yildiz (Erkan Avci). It is the contemporary story of three unlikely friends: Ahmet, a hyper-masculine gay (bear); Can, a male belly dancer (Zenne); and Daniel (Giovanni Arvaneh), a German photo-journalist. Through this dynamic friendship and the events that unfold around them, the film explores layers of intolerance along masculine/feminine, east/west and traditional/modern lines in Istanbul, a city that is itself geographically, culturally and historically at the very crossroads of those divides. Can and Ahmet meet Daniel, a German photojournalist newly arrived in Istanbul and working on a coffee table book about the city. The three of them forge a friendship and Daniel and Ahmet grow even closer. But Daniel grows wary of Ahmet as he seems to be hiding something and also meeting with someone on the side. When confronted, Ahmet reveals that his hyper conservative family, suspicious and fearful of Ahmet`s sexual orientation, has hired a man to spy on him and who is now blackmailing Ahmet to keep the truth from his family. Ahmet and Can decide to apply for a “medical”, an archaic Turkish process required to “prove” one’s homosexuality in order to be granted a release from military service. Zenne Dancer is an honest and unflinching look at living openly gay in Turkey, confronted by a systemic, institutionalized and culturally embedded homophobia.
The SIGLFF board of directors is proud to present Sacramento filmmaker
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with our 2012 Completion Grant for her debut short film, Prowler. Her film will be shown at SIGLFF 2012 on Saturday, October 13th. Writer/Director Deason will be available for a question and answer session the night of the screening. The Completion Grant funds will be used in part to support transcription and subtitling services for the hearing impaired as well as duplication and distribution services to send the film to other festivals. To apply for a SIGLFF Completion Grant visit SIGLFF.org
7:30 P.M. Teens Like Phil Directors Dominic Haxton & David Rosler USA, 20 min. Inspired by the alarming increase in reallife tragedies involving high school bullying and suicide, “Teens Like Phil” tells the story of a gay teen, Phil, and his former friend, Adam, who brutally bullies him. Happy Hour Director Becky Lane USA, 4 min. Set in a bar in 1960, two women share a look that launches a fantasy encounter. An homage to the women who had the courage to explore their sexuality in the mid-20th century, and a lament for those who could not. Set to the song, “Oh Regret” by singer/songwriter Mary Lorson. Down Here Director Diogo Costa Amarante Portugal, 11 min. Emily is moving through a strange and foreign territory, but her difficult quest will soon find comfort in the most unlikely of places. Dol (First Birthday) Director Andrew Ahn USA, 11 min. A gay Korean-American man yearns for a family life just out of reach.
Why We Ride: The Story of AIDS/Life Cycle Directors Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll USA 13 min. Each year, more than 2,500 participate in a bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in order to raise money for the fight against HIV/AIDS. This film tells the story of this emotional journey.
7 Deadly Kisses Director Sammaria Simanjuntak Indonesia, 4 min. From fish kiss to dragon kiss – this is where people of all ages and genders who want to learn how to kiss can find out (almost) everything about kissing.
She Said Lenny Director Jim Donovan Canada, 8 min. Ellen’s first date with the ‘man of her dreams’ is almost perfect. ‘Prince Charming’ is young, stylish, witty ... but a woman.
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Dirty Talk Director Jeff Sumner, USA, 12 min. Nathan, a conservative English teacher, tells his best friend, Zach, about a onenight stand with a hot Latin man who loves to talk dirty.
La dérade Director Pascal Latil, France, 13 min. Sometimes there is a bigger gift to receive than love.
Always Again Director Estel Campreciós United Kingdom, 6 min. Kim just got engaged. A client congratulates her by saying that HE (the fiancé) is a lucky man. When Kim corrects the acquaintance stating that she is engaged to a woman, Kim’s told off for being too out by her gay boss. Is she too out?
Putting the “I” in Trans Director Steen Starr, Canada, 6 min. On June 27, 2011, the Toronto Star newspaper featured an article titled “Gay Activism Makes Comeback”. They just didn’t exactly proofread it. Filmed on location at the 2011 Trans Pride March in Toronto, Canada.
33 Teeth Director Evan Roberts, USA, 10 min. Eddie’s fascination with his older neighbor, Chad, heightens after he spies on him in the bathroom measuring his manhood.
Prowler Director Dawn D. Deason, USA, 7 min. SIGLFF is proud to support this debut short film from Sacramento filmmaker Dawn D. Deason. Someone is stalking the beautiful Sedona Venegas (Natalie West.) As the stalker follows her movements through the house, Sedona notices a few odd movements and noises outside. Is it her imagination?
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