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Opening Night "The Gymnast" $15 includes reception party

All other show times $10

Women On Film Festival 2007 Schedule

• Opening Night  Tuesday 9/4/07- show time 6:30PM            "The Gymnast" preceeded by Reception Party @ 5:30PM
• Wednesday 9/5/07 -show time 6:30PM                                  "Truths and Transformations" followed by Q&A w/ Directors
• Wednesday 9/5/07 -show time 6:45PM                                  "The Gay Marriage Thing" preceeded by "Running Home"
• Thursday 9/6/07-show time 6:30PM                                        "Boy I Am"
• Thursday 9/6/07 -show time 6:45PM                                        Shorts Program   {see below}

                                            "THE GYMNAST" Directed by Ned Farr

 

Feature Presentation Tuesday September 4th show time 6:30PM 

Film Sponsored & Opening Night Reception Hosted by Diamonds International

Opening Night Reception in the Sussman Lounge starting 5:30PM

Staring Dreya Weber (Lovely and Amazing & Everything Relative) & Addie Yungmee making her acting debut. Ms. Yungmee's film credits as a dancer include Memoirs of a Geisha, Bowfinger, Collateral and others.

Jane Hawkins (Weber) was once one of America's top gymnasts, but events and injury prevented her from fulfilling her Olympic destiny. Almost twenty years have passed in obscurity, working hand to mouth as a massage therapist while slowly disappearing in a passionless marriage. In an attempt to give meaning to her life, she has been secretly trying to get pregnant, against her husband David's wishes. Though still in peak condition, her doctor informs her that she may have waited too long to have children and without David's money, she can't afford the fertility drugs that might make the difference.

A chance meeting with Denise, a former gymnastic teammate, provokes Jane to reexamine her life and past. While visiting a gymnasium, she is recognized by a coach, who recruits Jane for a completely different kind of venture: being part of a Cirque Du Soleil type of aerial act.

Also recruited to be part of the act is an enigmatic dancer named Serena (Yungmee).

When events force the coach out of the project, Jane and Serena attempt to put the act together themselves, and in the process, fall in love. After Denise convinces her the affair with Serena is a form of denial, Jane must choose between having a child with her suddenly willing husband, or creating a completely new life for herself.

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Wednesday September 5th 2007 show time 6:30PM Sponsored by Equality Florida

                                                                        "Truths & Transformations"

              Directed by Caren Block & Paula Dowd

Truths & Transformations is a documentary that challenges people’s positions on gay marriage and assimilation into mainstream culture. Should the gay community embrace traditional institutions or should they find ways to preserve their queer identity?

A lightning rod for self examination and dialogue, the viewer is offered a glimpse into the lives of people whose truths have transformed their personal, familial and sexual identities.

Abandonment, incest, consumerism, semantics, conformity and ignorance play against a stirring political backdrop leading viewers to decide whether we should all be reaching for the proverbial brass ring.

This presentation will be followed by a discussion with the film makers. Caren Block and Paula Dowd are partners in Smoking Gun Films, a Cambridge-based film company dedicated to making films that portray diverse lives on film as they truly are. Their first film, Everything Good (see shorts program below), toured the 2005 US festival circuit, received distribution, and is currently touring Europe’s film festivals. Truths & Transformations, a documentary, is their first feature film.

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   Wednesday September 5th 2007 show time 6:45PM    Sponsored by PFLAG                                     

    "The Gay Marriage Thing" Directed by Stephanie Higgins

The Gay Marriage Thing presents the politics, the piety and the people embroiled in and affected by the heated debate over same-sex marriage. With its refreshingly atypical style of cinematic storytelling, this scrapbook narrative boldly cracks open the headlines to explore humanity. Resonating with people on all sides of this issue from Virginia to Utah and Iowa to California, this quiet American story is a snapshot scrapbook of the social struggle of our time. 

preceeded by the short film

                                                   "Running Home" Directed by Karla DiBenedetto

Ostracized by Christian parents and navigating a relationship with a closeted girlfriend, a young woman has to side-step Mitchell, her cruel brother in-law to be reconciled with the person who really means home to her.

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    This Evenings Films Sponsored by Fairvilla

        Thursday September 6th 2007 show time 6:30PM

                                                    "Boy I AM" Directed by Sam Feder & Julie Hollar

An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender experiences. In the course of the film, three young transitioning FTM's in New York City Nicco, Norie & Keegan- go through major junctures in their transitions, discussing everything from their relationships with their bodies, feminism and the intersection of race and class with their transgender identity.

Their stories are interspersed with interviews with lesbians, activists and theorists who engage with the often contentious questions and issues that are raised within the queer and feminists struggles, BOY I AM presents an empowering chronicle of queer resistance that challenges all viewers to rethink their concepts of activism and identity.

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   Thursday September 6th 2007 show time 6:45PM                                                

SHORTS PROGRAM

"Airplanes" Directed by Jen Heck

Two teenage girls secretly hook up at a traveling carnival fair. Though the attraction takes flight, their tryst is

slightly bound by time constraints on Earth. 1st runner up at this years MGLFF Planetout Best Shorts Awards                  

"Damage" Directed by Allie Sulatan

A quiet high-school student takes matters into her own hands to get the girl she wants.

"Everything Good" Directed by Caren Block & Paula Dowd

In Everything Good, middle-aged, Midwestern Lila confronts the convention of her ordinary life. She travels to Amsterdam where she seizes the opportunity to express herself sexually in a way that most women wouldn’t dare. Risking the security of the life she has known, Lila goes after what she thinks she wants but ends up getting just what she needs.

One evening in an Amsterdam hotel, Lila keeps a commitment to herself and hires a sex worker to pay her a visit. Intent on making a human connection, she summons the courage to order her “perfect” woman. Magda, the madam, coaxes Lila through a trying phone ordeal with quintessential customer service and efficiency.

While preparing for her “date” Lila sees herself for the first time in many years and realizes she has gone to pot. Hastily, she grooms herself to decency by plucking stray hairs, clipping toenails and applying makeup. What follows is a glimpse into a life replete with self-loathing, acceptance and transformation.

Ivana, a 40-something knockout arrives. An experienced lady of the evening armed with class and heart, Ivana eventually quells Lila’s nerves and fears through humor and touch. Comedic moments yield to poignant realities where risk is rewarded with one morsel of truth.

"Gueule De Princesse" Directed by Pepita Mars

French w/ English subtitles

Julie and Sandra leave a party, they are completely drunk and giggle in the street. Julie is disappointed , she still hasn’t found prince charming. On the staircase she finds herself face to face with a toad, maybe "Prince Charming" wasn't what she desired after all...

"Lezploitation" Directed by Triple X a.k.a. Michelle Johnson

Its time to revisit the early disco era, so glue on those acrylic nails, slap on some blue eye-shadow and take a trip down memory lane with Triple X’s selection of some classic made-for-straight-men movies that have been reclaimed for the ladies featuring Swedish wildcats, frisky inmates, sinning nuns, lesbian vampires and a whole array of astonishingly sexed-up and fabulously big-haired women. Compiled from nearly 20 different sexploitation films spanning the years of 1965 through the early 1980s this hot presentation is guaranteed to make you want to explore your own role-playing adventure with your girl.

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