Cinema Q Film Festival 2009
The Denver Film Society along with The GLBT Community Center of Colorado and OutFront Colorado are proud to present the first annual Cinema Q: A Festival Of Queer Cinema. The festival takes place over four days beginning Thursday, May 28, through Sunday, May 31, 2009; an official kickoff to June Pride Month. Featuring a host of uncompromising documentaries and feature films, the first annual Cinema Q: A Festival of Queer Cinema will premiere SEX POSITIVE, Daryl Wein's urgent plea for sex education and the values of the forgotten heroes who have helped pave the way,as its opening night celebration. SEX POSITIVE will be followed by a reception on May 28th at the Starz FilmCenter.
Tickets on sale
May 6 :: DFS Members, The Center Community and OFC VIP Cardholder
May 8 :: General Public
Films and Events in Program...
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Iceland
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2008
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80 min.
Director:
Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Friday, May 29 - 8:00pm
Digital presentation -
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, is an 85 minute drama which chronicles the story of a naive but street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute named Raquela who decides to travel in order...
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78 min.
Saturday, May 30 - 1pm
Two documentaries focusing on the same issue burning at America's heart: gay marriage. All proceeds from this screening will be donated to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Center of Colorado (The Center) to support their equality initiatives. Screening made p...
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USA
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2008
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85 min.
Director:
Brittany Blockman
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Josephine Decker
Digital presentation -
Bi The Way is a young, hip, sexy documentary that investigates the recent rise in the "whatever" phenomenon. Featuring interviews with Michael Musto, Dan Savage and Jonathan Caouette, the doc explores the changing sexual landscape of America in a bizarre and hila...
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Spain
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2008
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111 min.
Director:
Nacho G. Velilla
Digital presentation - Bright, breezy and briskly directed by Nacho G. Velilla, this Spanish delight was the Opening Night of the Lincoln Center’s Spanish Cinema Now and even had The New York Times declaring it “a raucous comedy.”
Chef Maxi (Camára) has plenty on his plate. Between running a...
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Spain
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2009
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90 min.
Director:
Sonia Sebastian
Digital presentation -
Chica Busca Chica is Spain’s answer to
The L Word. In this sexy and cute show we are introduced to a group of ladies looking for love in all the right and sometimes wrong places as they play musical beds to their hearts’ desire. This episodic series has be...
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Taiwan
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2008
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97 min.
Director:
Zero Chou
35mm presentation - Teddy Award-winning Director Zero Chou (
Spider Lilies) weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in
Drifting Flowers seek their true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band’s tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time a...
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USA
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2008
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90 min.
Director:
Dave O'Brien
Digital presentation -
Equality U is a feature-length documentary following a group of 33 young activists on the Soulforce Equality Ride, a first of its kind, two-month, cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at 19 conservative religious and military colleges. ...
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USA
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2008
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75 min.
Director:
Daryl Wein
Digital presentation - Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz an...
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Hong Kong
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2009
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110 min.
Director:
Kit Hung
Digital presentation -
Soundless Wind Chime is the emotionally rich journey of Ricky, searching for the lost soul and discovering the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Traveling from Hong Kong to Switzerland to help heal his grieving heart, Ricky visits a beautiful thrift store...
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USA
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2008
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77 min.
Director:
Kortney Ryan Ziegler
Digital presentation - A portrait of black transmen,
Still Black is an alternative feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, ...
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USA
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2007
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71 min.
Director:
Michael Jacoby
Digital presentation - Ten More Good Years follows four LGBT elders and explores the reasons why so many in this community age alone, without financial stability and often return to the closet. We meet men and women who work in the field of aging that help to explain why it is that so...
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