During Oakland Pride week, we presented a free public screening of queer films from the Bay Area with guest MC Michelle Meow. The event was produce in partnership with the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, support from Grand Lake Theater and funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and Footprint Foundation.
THE FILMS:
LOOKING FOR JIRO by TT Takemoto
A tribute to Jiro Onuma, a gay Japanese American incarcerated during WWII. This queer fantasy features a mash up of drag king performance, US propaganda footage, muscle building, and homoerotic bread making.
THE GIRL THAT GOT AWAY by Ephi Stempler and Lauren Veen
After four decades playing tough guy roles, a Mexican-American actor in San Francisco must choose whether to continue presenting as male or come out as female and risk losing job security and family acceptance.
DO DIGITAL CUARANDERAS USE EGGS IN THEIR LIMPIAS? by Roberto Fatal
A struggling Latinx healer considers abandoning the physical world for promises of a digital utopia.
FROM X TO Z by Florencia Manóvil
A cranky Gen X butch is forced to spend time with a disaffected Zennial who seems to represent everything that bugs her about “kids today.”
CITY FOLX WEBSERIES - EPISODE 1 by Rae Dawn
Two best friends, Raq and Cin, are drag king performers who are forced to go to extreme measures to survive in San Francisco's bloated housing market.
100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE - (THE DEMO) - by Brontez Purnell
DeShawn is smack dabbing in the middle of a peculiar crossroads, haunted by the ghosts of 100 men (ex-"boyfriends" for one and also the ghosts of everyone they dated too.) In this particular sketch he is relating his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his land line telephone whilst magically shrink fitting his new jeans that he recently shoplifted from Levi's.
FUCK MY LIFE by Xandra Ibarra
Name after Ibarra’s full-length performance work of the same name, this short follows a sordid and fatigued showgirl as she sluggishly awakes to make up with yet another day.
HOLDING MOSES by Rivkah Beth Medow and Jen Rainin
A Broadway performer becomes a mother, braiding rhythm, grief and time with joy on her path to connect with her profoundly disabled son.
KINGS by Detour (Kat Gorospe Cole, Eric Garcia, Syd Franz)
Two drag kings fall in love in a bar bathroom.
MEDIAN by Matthew Riutta
A gay activist rallies the queer community after he and a trans activist are assaulted by a group of religious extremists.
