Director Paul Hill’s father, Jodie, is a transsexual woman. When she came out to Paul a few years ago, he began a journey to learn about who his father is. This stunning video documentary contrasts Paul’s relationship to his father with the relationship of his father and her own dad. Candid…
Have you ever seen a model with rippling muscles selling the latest fitness craze and thought to yourself….“I want to look like that guy” At 42 years old and a 44 inch waist, film maker Stuart MacDonald takes on the challenge to look like that guy in the ad with the help of professional…
Odd People Out is a documentary about the process of marginalization, repression and denial of the gay community during the first two decades of the Cuban Revolution, through the eyes and voice of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. A counterpoint to the fictional Before Night Falls, Odd People Out constructs…
While the beginnings of the LGBT Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum, the 1970s witnessed horrific custody battles for lesbian mothers. Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers' Custody Movement revisits the early tumultuous years of the lesbian custody movement through the…
Multitalented performance artist Harriet "Harry" Dodge (By Hook or By Crook, Cecil B. Demented) brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover…
Beautifully restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Frameline and Outfest, Gay USA is the first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people. Director Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (best known for his 1985 gay drama Buddies) mobilized camera crews across the…
Sounds Good To Me looks behind the scenes at what it takes to make collegiate a cappella work. With humor and poignancy the Amherst Zumbyes, Columbia's Nonsequitur, Mt. Holyoke's Milk & Cookies, U. of Oregon's Divisi, Boston University's Dear Abbeys, the Skidmore Dynamics, Brown…
There hasn’t been peace in the Congo for 20 years, the army and the various militias are locked in a constant battle over the country’s precious mineral resources. The fighters on both sides have been profiled often but this documentary looks at a group often thought of as merely victims…
The danger and immorality of scientific research being funded by big business. Genetic engineering in the magnetic field of money: In the early 90s the agro-chemicals-multi Monsanto introduced genetically modified plants on to the market, which for some people was an agricultural revolution that would…
Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America. The market for gold is enormous with 70% of global production handled…
‘Unlicensed’ is the real story of the ferocious sport of unlicensed boxing. The film features never-broadcast-before fight action along with frank and candid interviews from its stars, past and present. Promoters and trainers add their views on this much-maligned, but ever popular style of…
In 2001, after years of playing in various bands, living together, and bonding over a mutual desire to continue playing music while peers abandoned rock n' roll to follow more traditional career paths, Jesse Keeler (bass) and Sebastien Grainger (drums), started a band out of boredom and necessity.…
