Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Boy Shorts

These shorts made a protracted exciting characteristic at this year's Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. They're very effective, compelling, uplifting, and exciting. The shortest time is 8 mins and the longest one is 21 minutes. The Producers, Directors, and Actor have been in attendance and responded questions after the top-quality of this conventional and properly polished shorts that are a welcome inside the homosexual network.

Frequent Traveler
Patricia Bateira; 2007 Portugal eight minutes with subtitles.

Frequent Traveler is a human comedy of errors that simply continues getting worser because the actions become hilarious. A guy is at the Airport Security waiting to get checked via. A hot safety guard is on responsibility with wand in hand. The visitor sets off the alarm of beeps and has a huge grin on his face. The hot guard asks him to step to the aspect which he does all smiles and cooperation. The smiles emerge as a frown while a unpleasant shield takes over for the new one. But now not for long, the visitor enjoys the frisking all over his frame and up and down his legs. He looks at the item of his affection as he goes via the motions. He finally ends up getting stripped searched and has to bend over and count on the placement for a hollow space search all while smiling within the reflect wherein the hot guard is status watching the whole lot. After going through horrors of all of it with a canine of a shield he's released. The hot shield apologizes for making the traveller miss his aircraft. The tourist stomps off in a huff. On listening to the alarm burst off, the handsome guard looks over and sees that it's his friend all yet again. If first you don't be triumphant. . . . Great Short it truly is very enjoyable and humor at its funniest.

Non-Love-Song
Erik Gernand; 2009 U. S . Of A. 8 mins

On the last day of summer time before keeping off to university,  18-12 months-vintage quality pals try to connect as adults, and for the first time of their lives share a "very last" second. In a virtual international one child nevertheless uses his Polaroid camera to take snap shots of the seashore and his best buddy who he has it terrible for. College is across the corner and the two might not see every other until Thanksgiving. In a global of voice messaging and CD's the smitten one tells his bud that he recorded a tape for him on his tape recorder. He wants him to listen to it while he's away at college then he geese and dodges questions about it handiest to say that it is no longer a love music. Their second is interrupted by way of  women who're are friends with the 2. His item of affection asks him to take a photo of him with the ladies. The hurt appearance on his face says all of it. He makes the moment with the aid of pulling the tape categorised Not A Love Song in his back %. The End. In my Arts class we had been requested to provide you with a summary on what befell to the characters? My guess? After being attentive to the non love song he returns home and lays his buddy on his returned and stuffs him like a turkey on Thanksgiving Day.

The Island Trevor Anderson; 2008 Canada five mins

The premise of this film takes on the homophobic comment; "all you faggots must be shipped off to an island someplace in which they could give each other AIDS and die. " Trevor Anderson from Alberta Canada ponders in this as he walks via the snow. As he elaborates on this topic his ideas come to lifestyles in animation it truly is creative snap shots at its high-quality. A tropical "homo utopia" would not sound like a terrible idea as he lays it out in his fantasies. The animation transforms his snowy surroundings into a colourful paradise of sand, sun, and palm bushes in which ape masseurs are usually on name and everyone who dies gets his body shucked right into a volcano and worshiped as a god. The "homo utopia" has high-quality-fancy tree huts and AIDS cocktails served in coconut shells with pineapple wedges gets increasingly more elegant and upscale. The bananas developing at the bushes seem like penises and the coconuts like check-t-cos. Wow! What an creativeness! Sign me up! This is 5 mins of pure-d-enjoyment that makes a negative right into a positive. Right on!

After All That Michael Culpepper; 2009 U. S. Of A. 17 minutes.

After All That takes area inside the Mississippi Gulf Coast, three years after Katrina. The TV frenzy is over with the media packed up and moved on to the subsequent tornado, earthquake, and next tragedy. The damages are nonetheless undone and the opening frames display a tiny, ruined residence that still standing with a signal;"Do Not Demolish. " This screenplay is firsthand accounts from typhoon survivors nevertheless suffering and trying to select up the portions in their shattered lives. Michael Culpepper creates a simple, powerful tale of three guys in a single such small Mississippi city. Deacon (Tom Thon) misplaced almost everything to the hurricane, which includes his house and his commercial enterprise. His heavy ingesting loses him his motive force's license and he spends his days prowling the metropolis on an ATV. Mike (Dale Basescu), Deacon's nephew, is coming out of the shadows of his vintage life. Deputy Burnett (David Chattam) is likewise one of the lucky ones. Mike and Deputy Burnett are in a dating that is a properly guarded secret. Deputy Burnett cuts Deacon some slack for demanding the peace. Life continues to be in ruins and can't be rebuilt like the residence within the establishing. No mild has been forged at the darkness from the storm. Very Moving! I talked to Michael Culpepper who confirmed that things are not any better and there may be a feel of abandonment.

Sombrero Nathaniel Atcheson; 2008 U. S. Of A. 12 mins

Sombrero received the 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest and "Best of the Fest. " It ought to win the favorite awards at this years Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. James and Raymond meet for a blind date in a Mexican eating place. They're each hoping for a connection and hope that things take off for them. James is so nervous and falls aside whilst Raymond remains calm, cool, and amassed. James ends up sporting the purple drink that Raymond ordered for him by a person who bumps into their table. The night takes on the spin of a date from hell with the whole lot that would go incorrect going wrost. Just as the whole thing is ready to move over the waterfall with objects of pending doom falling behind it. James and Raymond discover that neither one is the person whom they idea they have been assembly. Especially after the birthday cake arrives with the waiters serenading Happy Birthday to James. It isn't always his birthday! The thriller is solved in a totally bizarre and extraordinarily bizarre way. Loved It! This have to need to ace the prize.

Transatlantic David Quantic; 2009 U. S. Of A. 12 minutes
Two couples one instantly and one homosexual on both aspect of the Atlantic percentage a mysterious connection. There's track, full frontal male nudity, directly sex and homosexual intercourse! I have yet to discern out the connection nor did the film goers who I asked for their evaluations and comments. I did not get it!

Wig Todd Holland; 2009 U. S. Of A. 21 mins

Kent(Tim Bagley) is in his telling his Therapist Michele (Judy Greer) about how his rock of a partner Jax(Scotch Ellis Loring)has fallen aside after the loss of life of his mother. Jax steals his mom's preferred wig leaving her bald as a plum for the funeral in 3 days. To make manners crazier he's sporting and refuses to take it off. Jax is proven carrying the wig in his undies and walking his fingers through the wig. Jax moves pushes his sister Cacey(Kim Coles) in addition apart and scares the hell out of her husband, and has bells, whistles, alarms, and flares sounding to their caring organization of friends that help them. Including their satisfactory of satisfactory friend Duffy(Jason Dudey). They heard Jax out and help him get through this tragic loss in his life. How they do it's miles natural-d-comedy at its excellent. Great Movie! Scotch Ellis Loring spoke after the film and thanked his lover of nine years for doing the movie for him from a screenplay. His next undertaking is with HBO and his different 1/2 is operating on a alternative show for Fox.

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