Admittance is on a first come basis.
Panel discussion after the screening moderated by filmmaker Debra Wilson
Post-event mixer at a nearby location, to be announced
ACCESSIBILITY:
We will have one (1) ASL interpreter during the event, and all the films will be open captioned. The venue is ADA accessible. If you are attending and would like us to know of any accssibility needs, please email our partners at Cinemama: info@cinemamafilm.com
FILMS:
ANTHEM by Marlon Riggs
Created in 1991, Marlon Riggs’ experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African-American men. With sensual, sexual, and defiant images and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the “self-evident right” to life and liberty in an era of pervasive anti-gay and anti-Black backlash and hysterical cultural repression.
FEMME RAGE by Sarah Taborga and Aïma Paule
A rally cry to all QTBIPOC Femmes, across the gender spectrum, to unleash their rage about living, surviving, and thriving within a cishetero-capitalist-white supremacist-patriarchy.
CODE SWITCH by Davis Alexander James and Micha Lyric Borneo
During a trip to the barbershop, a Black trans person navigates the complexity and dynamism of gender expression.
A DIFFERENT DIRECTION by Sampson McCormick
A black gay man struggling to navigate life challenges in dating and career, while leaning on the help of his best friend to make a big decision to severe ties with a toxic parent.
HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS by Nyla Moon
In this dark comedy, Andie searches for romance in a world full of problematic men.
BABY by Jessie Levandov
Ali, a Dominican-American teenager from the Bronx, spends a Saturday afternoon navigating a budding romance.
BLACKNESS IS EVERYTHING by Alba Roland Mejia
Filled with poetry and captivating slice-of-life images, this experimental film celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in The Bay Area.
THE BEAUTY PRESIDENT by Whitney Skauge
Meet America’s First Drag Queen for President
“If a bad actor can be president, why not a good drag queen?” In 1992, Joan Jett Blakk made a historic bid for the White House as one of the first openly queer write-in candidates. Today, Terence Smith, the man behind the persona, reflects back on his place in gay rights history.