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Beach Q film festival
October 12 - 14, 2007
TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR PRIOR TO THE VIP PARTIES AND PRIOR TO THE SHOWING OF THE FILMS YOU WANT TO SEE! (Based on space availability)
This page has all the info on the individual films we'll be showing. At the end of each segment, you'll have the opportunity to purchase tickets for that set of films...
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The Films: Line-up and synopsis |
Friday Night VIP Party ~ 5:00 - 6:30
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Women's Themed Films |
7:00 – 10: 00 pm |
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| Melange Lavonne's Gay Bash |
Camrin Pitts |
 Mélange Lavonne’s best friend Kevin, was a young effeminate male who was killed for being gay. Challenging the views of political and religious leaders, Mélange takes a stand for her friend and all who have been victimized by hate. |
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| Touching |
J.R. Hardman |
| In the near future, a deadly virus passed through skin-to-skin contact has wreaked havoc on the world, causing its governments to outlaw human touch. A woman working for the goverment center in charge of controlling this disease is plagued by the decision to obey the law and protect her own health, or to try to make a real connection to another human being. |
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| Poppy's Foursome |
All Mine Production |
 Comedian Poppy Champlin is on a mission to find the perfect foursome and bring GOLF back to Dinah. Today, very few of the half naked lesbians gone wild remember it began as a golf tournament. Poppy is on a quest to find the perfect foursome and put the lesbian back into LPGA, to put the Dikes back on Spikes and restore the heart and soul of Dinah Shore. Each morning, club in hand she walks the halls looking for women to play golf. Although she finds twosomes, threesomes, ends up in bunkers on the back nine, she never quite makes it out to the golf course. Will Poppy find her perfect foursome. Can she bring golf back to Dinah. Four! |
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| Kate Clinton |
Andrea Meyerson |
With a quarter century of stand-up under her belt, Kate Clinton calls herself “the last lesbian comic standing.” But where Kate really stands is as at the forefront of the lesbian movement, where her sharp, politically charged humor has made her a celebrated voice of enlightenment and empowerment. Since quitting her day job as a high school English teacher in 1981, she has spread her comic gospel, helping us laugh our way “through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.”
In 2006, to mark her silver anniversary as a performer, Kate embarked on a 50-city “It’s Come to This!” tour, sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights. With a sassy new platinum blonde coif (so she can “look more like Brad Pitt” and, thus, get that much closer to Angelina Jolie), Kate takes the stage in Long Beach, riffing on everything from menstruation to gay cruises, the need to dress well for surveillance cameras to the passing of the Pope.
Her hilarious performance is interspersed with a variety of personal moments along the tour route, including backstage banter with her 18-year partner Urvashi Vaid, a public reading from her new book What the L?, a Curve magazine interview at the Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs, and a brief tribute to “the mother of comedy” by today’s up-and-coming young lesbian comics. For a woman who has successfully changed people’s lives and minds through her smart style of lesbian humor, it’s a tribute well earned. |
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| Ashley and Keshia: Finding the Right Fit |
COMSTOCK FILMS |
 The first time Ashley saw Kisha's bare bottom, Ashley was making out with an ex-girlfriend. So begins the story of two women who seemed destined not to be together. Ashley was a lady-killer and proud of it; Kisha was sexually conservative, and straight. Intrigued, Ashley's doggy ways turned to dogged determination as she watched one after another of her sure-fire moves fail to get her into Kisha's pants. Finally, Ashley's persistence paid off: Kisha's ambivalence gave way to curiousity, her curiousity gave way to desire, and ultimately desire blossomed into love. |
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Gay Themed Documentaries |
12pm -3:00 pm |
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| Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women's Project |
Jennifer Abod |
 The Old Women's Project in San Diego, Cynthia Rich, Mannie Garza and Janice Keaffaber, use a multitude of strategies to combat the patronizing, the contempt and the invisibility that old women meet every day of their lives, even within progressive movements. Wearing brilliant t-shirts that declare 'Old Women Are Your Future,' Keaffaber, Rich and Garza create engaging and dramatic protests--sometimes comic, sometimes deeply serious--that bring hundreds of women of all ages out into the streets of San Diego. The Old Women's Project bring their voices and their giant, multi-ethnic old woman puppet POWER (Pissed Old Woman Engaged in Revolution) to other social justice protests in the city. 'We connect our issues with everyone else's issues, and that's what makes us unique.' |
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| Out of the South |
Jason Ball |
 Out of the South explores the lives of six gay men who grew up in the Rural South and now live in Los Angeles. They come together to share a traditional Southern Sunday Dinner and end up learning a lot about each other and themselves. They share stories about their love for flawed Souther Culture, their sense of loss of culture, family and religion. Most importantly they share their stories of how they worked to makes new homes in a land as strange as Los Angeles. Southern culture has three primary aspects: family, faith, and food. Sunday dinner is the culmination of the 3 F's. It's when the entire family gets together after church to eat. This projects centers on a southern Sunday dinner in Los Angeles where six gay men from different rural southern town come together to share the stories of their struggles against religious persecution, feelings of isolation, and even violence. The stories of struggle against religious dogma and family intolerance are real and heart felt...so are the stories of love for southern family, faith, and food. In the end, what we realized was that we brought the south with us to a new home in Los Angeles. |
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| Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School |
Bonnie Rosenbaum |
 Hineini (Hebrew for ‘Here I am’) chronicles the story of one student’s courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on everyone involved. Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context. Shulamit Izen enters 9th grade at The New Jewish High School (now Gann Academy) longing to connect more deeply with her Jewish faith. She also starts school as an out lesbian. Using interviews with Shulamit, her family, teachers, and other students – both those who support her campaign and those who oppose it – the film allows the members of this community to tell their own story as it unfolds. What emerges is a potent story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of Jewish tradition and social change. From sanctifying same-sex marriages to ordaining gay rabbis, discussions of GLBT identity and inclusion are taking place across the Jewish religious spectrum. Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School offers a vital new framework to understand these issues and a powerful impetus to participate in the discussion. |
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Transgender Themed Films |
3:30 – 6:30 pm |
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| Melange Lavonne's Gay Bash |
Camrin Pitts |
| Mélange Lavonne’s best friend Kevin, was a young effeminate male who was killed for being gay. Challenging the views of political and religious leaders, Mélange takes a stand for her friend and all who have been victimized by hate. |
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| en el fuego |
Dante Alencastre |
 Transphobia is an every day day problem around the world and in a religious and conservative city like lima, peru where their transgender citizens are not protected by any law it can be downright dangerous. Transgender people from lima, peru open their lives and hearts and tell their stories about fear, hate, descrimination, abuse,hopes and dreams in a society that has openly turned its back to them |
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| Trantasia |
Jeremy Stanford |
| TRANTASIA is a no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes look at the first-ever ‘World’s Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant.' With a starring role in a sensational new Vegas Revue as a high-stakes backdrop, TRANTASIA explores the intensely private and moving stories of its extraordinary contestants. Told through provocative hometown profiles and heartbreaking one-on-one interviews, the film documents the sometimes humorous, always personal journeys of these true survivors. United by common histories of hardship and persecution, these women will finally realize their diva dreams. Their ultimate triumph is a moving celebration of the human spirit. |
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 ~ 5:30 – 7:00 pm
VIP Party - $15.00 |
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Men's Themed Films |
7:30 – 10:30 pm |
| Title |
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| Melange Lavonne's Gay Bash |
Camrin Pitts |
| Mélange Lavonne’s best friend Kevin, was a young effeminate male who was killed for being gay. Challenging the views of political and religious leaders, Mélange takes a stand for her friend and all who have been victimized by hate. |
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| A Trip to Prague |
Neil I. Needleman |
 There aren’t enough happy endings in the world, so I decided to create my own. This story was inspired by my friend Herb Rogoff's wonderful sketches of this trip to Prague. His sketch books were filled with the most incredible illustrations of the places he saw, the events he participated in, and the people he met. Herb’s sketches of Prague put me in a good mood, which may explain this story’s happy ending. |
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| Thanksgiving |
Joe LaRue |
 When his boyfriend leaves him to his own devices on Thanksgiving, Tom finds himself overtaken by a different kind of hunger. Consumed with lust, he prowls the internet until he finds Tucker. Tucker, a beautiful piece of manmeat, seems too good to be true…and maybe he is. Cooked up to a simmering boil by director by Joe LaRue, Thanksgiving is a psycho-sexual, thriller, comedy….um, romance, maybe…that explores how we all can fall victim to our various appetites. With a screenplay by playwright Neal Utterback, the story is an easily digestible dark comedy that may leave audiences a little queasy. Vincent De Paul is buttery golden as Tucker at once exuding sexual prowess coupled with sinister simplicity. |
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| Availible Men |
David Dean Bottrell |
 Rob, a harried Hollywood agent on the verge of losing his job is dispatched to a trendy L.A. bar with strict orders to sign a hot new writer he has never met. On the same night, a sensitive gay man (with same first name as the writer) arrives at the bar to meet a blind date. Hilarity ensues when these two men mistake each other for the man they were supposed to meet. |
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| Gay Zombie |
Michael Simon |
 Miles is a zombie dealing with multiple issues. His therapist points out that his obsession with Hugh Jackman is a surefire sign that he may be gay. Miles is taken aback by her observation, but eager to discover his true self. Miles goes to West Hollywood and bravely enters the TRUNKS bar. He meets a disillusioned guy named Todd. Despite some apparent decomposition, Todd is taken with Miles and introduces him to his sassy friend, Greg. The three of them strut through the bar, get a booth and start bonding. They are cut short by the bartender who points out 'the mob' who is ready to attack Miles. After a raucous car ride to Todd's house, they check out his impressive digs and get ready to jacuzzi. When Miles appears in a yellow speedo, the boys stare at him with jaws agape. Miles is embarrased by his skin and exposed ribcage only to realize they are staring at his abundant package, not his veiny appearance. They cover him up and wisk him upstairs for the quintissential zombie make over. Feeling confident with himself and connecting with Todd in a deep romantic way, the two guys go to yoga class only to confront Scorpio, a goth yoga thug, who insults Miles. Miles proclaims his new found sexuality which disgust Scorpio. In response, Miles eats Scorpio. Todd is appalled and runs from Miles who stops him and pleads for his forgiveness and love. This may be their final encounter. |
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| Glorious Mail |
JD Evermore |
 New York filmmaker, Morris Farbstein II, travels to the town of Sinnaville, Mississippi to shoot his graduate thesis documentary about a flamboyantly gay antique dealer and community theatre actor named Cesar Nutley Willingham IV who’s causing a local and federal controversy with his new mailbox, made and given to him for his 33rd birthday by his childhood lesbian artist friend, Kymeleon Cockerham. Some see the mailbox as beautiful art. Others see it as pure evil, such as Brother Oral Buchanan, pastor of The First Church of Divine Righteousness, who spearheads a campaign against the mailbox, Cesar, and all people like him. In the end, the filmmaker discovers more than intended. (Comedy - Mockumentary) |
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Short Films |
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm |
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| Melange Lavonne's Gay Bash |
Camrin Pitts |
| Mélange Lavonne’s best friend Kevin, was a young effeminate male who was killed for being gay. Challenging the views of political and religious leaders, Mélange takes a stand for her friend and all who have been victimized by hate. |
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| The Storm |
Paris Pickard |
 Lo, a young woman sits in her bedroom. She hears the sound of rain and finds herself becoming aroused. As she navigates her apartment she realizes that water has begun to seep in and fill her sinks, toilets, and even the closet. This water does not just inhabit the apartment it attacks its integrity rotting the wood down to the foundation. It is a living force. Signs of a storm are seen and heard, not outside but in the apartment itself.
Lo ties herself to her bed so as to not to be carried away by the force that is coming. Curtains and sheet blow furiously. All movement and sound stops and a seducing female voice is heard.
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| Signage |
Rick Hammerly |
 Lex, a forty-one year old man, struggles to maintain his marketability in today's gay world. Will his encounter with Jonathan, a young deaf man, at a local gay bar, help to relieve or merely reinforce his fear of growing older in this youth and beauty-obsessed culture? In English and American Sign Language (ASL) with subtitles. |
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| The Offering |
Paul Lee |
| The Offering is a colour, 35mm, 10-minute short dramatic film about the progression and the passing of life. Without dialogue and music, the story centers on the evolution of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the young novice who has come into his life, from their initial encounter to their final parting. In rejecting his own faith and drowning in self-doubts, the novice leaves his life of unfulfilled potentials. The passing of life is demarcated by the progression of seasons. The offering that passes repeatedly between the two men is metaphorical for love and affection, which, like life itself, are the most fragile yet powerful and tenuous link between any two human beings, at any point in any lifetime. |
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| Through the Woods |
Malic Amalya |
| Through The Woods is a queer adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. In the original story, the wolf is a transgendered monster disguising himself as an elderly woman in order to lure Red to his side and eat her. In this version, Red becomes Ryan, a female to male transsexual, who tries to disguise himself as the girl his family wants him to be in order to visit his dying grandmother. Fairy tales are fantastical stories, where morality and perversity mingle, that act as cultural foundations for whole societies. By reclaiming this traditional genre, Through The Woods challenges constructions of monstrosity and 'otherness,' and outlines a radical queer ethic. |
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| Two Men in Shoulder Stand |
Paul Knox |
| On a beach in South India, a male couple, Sarath and Hassan, one HIV+ and one negative, do yoga together as a means of maintaining health in the absence of medical treatments. Their yoga becomes a means of expression of their love for each other as they search for a moment of transcendence. |
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| Reckoning |
Bruce Hart |
 A Director of a (fictitious) Gay and Lesbian Center is abducted by two thugs with intent to harass and humiliate him. He is bound in a chair in a darkened warehouse. As they continue their taunting of the gay man their harassment escalates and quickly turns into a hate crime. This tale of gay bashing and murder turns the corner with a surprise macabre revenge twist as the film takes on the elements of a “gay themed Twilight Zone episode”. Contains strong language and violence. |
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| A Lesson in Biology |
Keno Rider |
| The Deep South. Prom night, 1968. High school biology teacher, Mr. Williams, becomes distraught watching his star student, Tom, dance the night away, and suddenly disappears. When Tom finds his mentor hiding behind the bleachers, he shepherds him off into the mossy woods, confronts him about the secret relationship they've had and forces him to admit his true feelings. |
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| Cooking With Kay |
Andrew Klayman |
 Kay Sedia, a former Miss Teen Tijuana, left her eight year run as Anita in West Side Story at the Tijuana Tea Light Lounge to deliver groceries in Hollywood…just until she gets her big break. On a routine delivery to the Now We’re Cooking TV set, Kay is mistaken for a production assistant. And when Hillary James, the show’s callous, cooking show diva, fires her assistant during a live show, she proclaims that anyone can do the job. This is Kay’s moment! Kay squeezes into her pageant dress and races to Hillary’s side as her new assistant. While preparing a margarita, Hillary pours a shot of tequila and gets the worm. Kay insists that Hillary shoot it to honor Mexican tradition. She does and chokes…violently! Fortunately for Hillary, Kay was an avid Bay Watch fan and knew exactly what to do. Just a couple quick thrusts and Hillary spits out the worm like a Mentos in a Diet Coke. With Hillary out of breath and unable to finish the show, Kay enthusiastically takes her place. Kay steals the show. Hillary, outraged and drunk, calls Kay a crazy Mexican cha cha and fires her, igniting a firestorm in the tabloids. Hillary’s reputation and ratings plummet. There’s one way to redeem herself and the show’s ratings. Hire Kay back as her assistant and, at the same time, get the Hispanic viewing audience. Hillary knows that her future depends on Cooking With Kay. |
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 ~ 6:30 pm
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