ASU’s 11th Annual Queer Film Festival

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Five Mondays starting 9/13.

All films will be shown at 7:30 pm in Room 114 in Belk Library and
Information Commons.  Screenings are free and open to the public.
Discussion will follow the film.

Monday 9/13. 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION (2010. USA. 80 minutes).
“Equality for Some.”  This documentary provides a searing indictment
of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and
passage of, California’s anti-same sex-marriage legislation,
Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long
campaign against gay rights from Hawaii to New York.  Narrated by
Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award winning screenwriter of MILK.

Monday 9/20.  GEN SILENT (2010, USA. 63 minutes.) An award-winning
film documenting elderly LGBT people who go back into the closet to
survive in the healthcare system. Here we see meet six LGBT elders and
a wide range of paid caregivers: From those who are specifically
trained to make LGBT seniors feel safe, to the other end of the
spectrum, where LGBT elders face discrimination, neglect or abuse. As
we journey through the challenges that these men and women face, we
also see reasons for hope as each subject crosses paths with a small
but growing group of impassioned professionals trying to wake up the
long-term and healthcare industries to their plight.

Monday 9/27. WERE THE WORLD MINE (2008, USA. 95 minutes.) If you had a
love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy,
prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling
musical daydreams, finds out.  After his eccentric teacher casts him
as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe to
create the play's magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the magic
flower, Timothy's fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new
reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with
the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies,
Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes.  As
Shakespeare writes, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Monday 10/4.  UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE). (2009, Peru. In Spanish with
English subtitles. 100 minutes.) An unusual ghost story set on the
Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his
devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Monday 10/11. THE OWLS (Older, Wiser, Lesbians) (2010, USA. 66
minutes.) Four older lesbians kill a younger one and try to get away
with it in director Cheryl Dunye’s newest work, a funny, mysterious
and humane generational anthem starring some of the most popular
underground artists in Lesbian Cinema.  Made for $22,000, THE OWLS is
a collective act, re-thinking how to make films that matter outside
the system. “We created our own system, peopled by lesbians, queers
and people of color, film professionals all raising themes about aging
as well as inter-generational dialogue; loneliness and community;
dreams raised and deferred; butch/trans anxiety; cross-racial and
inter-racial desire and strain; and the history of lesbian cinema and
self-representation.”