FABIFF FILM PASSThese badges give you access to the Fabulous IFF from September 24-October 3, 2020. 11 Films+ 10shorts.
Drive-in is not included.
Please note all films are geo-blocked to be available in Florida only. You will have access to the film 48 hour period from the date specified on your ticket. | |
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Sept. 24th Opening Night :PIER KIDS Q&A w/ (short film) HONOR BLACK TRANS WOMXN! Access to film 9/24-9/267 pm | 2019 | USA | 84 MIN
The film interrogates the meaning of community within at risk LGBT youth of color and also the larger gay community. Casper, a trans attracted young black man, is left vulnerable in his pursuit for true love while navigating homelessness. Desean is at a critical point in that he is navigating a reality where committing a crime or getting HIV is might be the best alternative to escape homelessness. Krystal utilizes the ballroom scene as a way to survive but is forced to go back to her blood family for support when her gay family proves unable to help her. Face to face, Krystal and her birth mother realize that their mutual love of gospel is the only thing they can agree on when it comes to Krystal’s identity. The film wants to put the viewer in the skin of the pier kids because it hopes to show what happens to gay youth when they are kicked out. The film follows these youth over the course of five years to understand what it means to be black and queer 50 years after Stonewall…
8:30pm a Q&A with Elegance Bratton & Producer: Chester Algernal Gordon via zoom!
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Sept 25-27th DEEP IN VOGUE w/ (short) #recognizemyhumanity (short) DW McCraven7 pm | 2020 | UK | 62 min
Deep In Vogue celebrates the colourful, queer, emotional and political stories of Northern Vogue and its people. Synonymous with the black, gay ballrooms of 1980s New York this documentary asks why we need Vogue in Manchester now more than ever.
Over the course of a year we developed a relationship with the House Mothers and members and charted the build up to the Manchester ICONS Vogue Ball. We’ve explored themes from the internal politics of Vogue to its external politics like disenfranchisement of black youth, LGBT issues, a shrinking welfare state, a dearth of art spaces and modes of expression, a reductive and commercialized gay scene and a lack of safe spaces for the truly different.
We also looked at personal stories; people coming to love and accept themselves, young mothers gaining back their sense of self, people receiving applause, adulation and respect for the first times in their lives after years of bullying and abuse from their peers, people abandoned by their families finding a new family through Vogue. We discovered that a lot of the reasons that gay black men were seeking an aspirational artistic outlet through Vogue in the 1980s, were the same reasons that Northern youth was seeking Vogue now; social persecution for their sexuality and way of life, rejection from their family and a need for a safe space in which to express themselves as LGBT and POC people.
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Sept 25-27th FALL BACK DOWN w/ (short) Video VengeanceFALL BACK DOWN
9 pm | 2020 | CANADA |1 hour 44 minutes 7 seconds
Nick Colby, once a fearless and passionate activist, is now a shadow of his former self. Ever since the radical love of his life – Lizzie Reardon – went on a humanitarian mission to Nigeria and never bothered to talk to him again, leaving Nick’s heart and idealism in ruins. A fact he masks by championing the slacker lifestyle and perfecting an epic “Who gives a shit” attitude. It can’t hurt if you don’t care anyway.
Nick’s jaded antics and brutal sarcasm may be funny, but the misery behind his bravado is painfully transparent to his sister Althea and her girlfriend Seb – the only people still close to Nick. Nick’s long run of getting (himself) fired from tedious, dead-end jobs leads to employment in a sweatshop – raising fears about how much lower he’ll sink and what they can possibly do to restore him to the anarchist royalty he once was.
At the Everly garment factory, Nick meets Reena – an uptight, young South Asian woman who takes an immediate dislike to his presence. Retaliating against Reena’s ongoing hostility ignites a spark of engagement that slowly rekindles Nick’s blackened soul.
When Reena and Nick witness what she suspects is murder disguised as a workplace accident, she begs Nick not to tell anyone what they’ve seen. They are both disposible in the eyes of their bosses and the textile mafia. Forced together through this shared secret, Nick and Reena embark on an odyssey of investigation and survival, ultimately realizing they are not so incompatible after all.
Their feelings for each other grow in step with the threat of being assassinated – and then Lizzie shows up. Now Nick doesn’t know who or what he wants. His indecisiveness lays the groundwork for a series of misunderstandings and misadventures that crush the fragile new romance with Reena. And to make matters worse, Lizzie is going to blow their cover to serve her own sense of justice.
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Sept. 26-28th CICADA w/ (short) Mask Off6 pm | 2020 | USA | 94 MIN
New York City, 2013. Somethings are worth waiting seventeen years for, others should have come out sooner.
After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” CICADA follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls to the surface. Notable
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Set. 26-28th NO HARD FEELINGS w/ (short) I Am! We Are Here!9pm | 2020 | Germany | 92 MIN
A story about re-discovering one’s past and building a future together
Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to a test. They find and lose each other throughout a summer of fleeting youth, an intense first love, an attempt at a joint future, as well as the stark realisation that, in Germany, they are not equal.
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Sept. 27-29th AHEAD OF THE CURVE w/ (short) Boy Before4:30 pm | 2020 | USA | 97 MIN
AHEAD OF THE CURVE is the story of one of the most influential women in lesbian history you’ve never heard of and the impact her work continues to have today. Growing up, Franco Stevens never saw any representation of queer women—she didn’t even know it was possible for a woman to be gay. When she realized she was a lesbian, it changed the course of her life.
In 1990, Franco created a safe place for lesbians in the form of Curve magazine. Her approach to threats and erasure in the ”90s was to lift all kinds of lesbians up and make them beautifully visible. The magazine helped build a foundation for many intersectional movements being led by today’s activists in the face of accelerating threats to the LGBTQ community. Decades later, as her legacy faces extinction and she reassesses her life after a disabling injury, she sets out to understand visibility work being led by an intersection of queer women today. Featuring Andrea Pino-Silva, Kim Katrin, Denice Frohman, Amber Hikes, Jewelle Gomez, Melissa Etheridge, and Lea DeLaria, and a score composed by the legendary Meshell Ndegeocello, AHEAD OF THE CURVE celebrates the legacy of a movement while considering the agenda of its future.
Please note all films are geo-blocked to be available in Florida only. You will have access to the film 48 hour period from the date specified on your ticket. | |
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Sept. 27-29th STONE | FRUIT w/ (short) Blue SuitSTONE | FRUIT Director Brandon Krajewski
7pm | 2020 | USA | 1 hour 35 minutes
Russ and Manny are an interracial couple that have been together for a while. Russ will tell you it’s been seven years. Manny will clarify they spent two years dating and have been married for five. The two have drifted apart in the marriage and have seemingly come to terms with their decision to divorce at the start of their final trip together to Paso Robles, CA. After a wine-fueled threesome with a former friend, the two reignite their passions and animosities toward one another and ultimately reach the conclusion that divorce is the only way to salvage a friendship.
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October 1-3rd OUT LOUD w/ (short) Finally Leon7 pm
Out Loud chronicles the ups and downs of the first season of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles -- the largest group of transgender and gender non-conforming people anywhere in the world who come together regularly to sing. As the choristers gear up for their 2016 public concert debut, they share their inspiring life stories and reveal what it means to be trans in America. This extraordinary chorus makes more than music. It’s making history.
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October 1st VENUS w/ (short) RoadkillVENUS
9pm | 2018 | USA |95 MIN
SID (Debargo Sanyal) is under pressure to marry a nice Indian girl and raise a family. Sid’s “Mamaji” (Zena Daruwalla) yearns to have grandchildren. Her dreams are about to come true, but not in the way she could’ve ever imagined…
When Sid comes out as a woman, a fourteen year old boy named RALPH (Jamie Mayers) shows up at her door announcing that Sid is his dad. Ralph, surprised to discover that his biological father is now a woman, thinks having a transgender parent is “pretty cool”. But Ralph hasn’t told his mother and stepfather that he’s tracked her down. And then there is Sid’s boyfriend DANIEL (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) who has yet to tell his family of his relationship with Sid. Daniel is nowhere near ready to accept Ralph as a step son and complicate his life further.
Sid’s coming out has a snowball effect that forces everyone out of the closet and to get real. What happens when gender, generations and cultures collide to create a truly modern family?
Please note all films are geo-blocked to be available in Florida only. You will have access to the film 48 hour period from the date specified on your ticket. | |
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October 3-5th THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE w/ (short) Take Me To The Prom4:30pm | 2020 | USA | 108 MIN
Entertaining, thrilling and radical, THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE explores the work of four women who are shattering myths and lies about female sexual desire, bodies and – ultimately – power.
Groundbreaking artist Sophia Wallace challenges long-held ideas of women with her “cliteracy” project, putting front and center the clitoris as fundamental to female orgasm. Dr. Stacey Dutton, a neuroscientist who realized she had never seen a drawing of the clitoris until she discovered Wallace’s work, is now committed to studying its biology and pushing the publishing industry to correct the deliberate omissions of the clitoris in major anatomy textbooks. With 20 years of research, Dr. Lisa Diamond is dismantling outdated notions about women’s arousal. And industrial designer Ti Chang heads CRAVE, a company dedicated to designing and manufacturing elegant vibrators for women.
Providing the embodiment of this work are the personal stories of Umnia, Becca, Jasmine, Sunny, and Coriama – five young women discovering and owning their sexuality.
THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE is a powerful reminder that true equality will come only when we all arrive at a place of understanding and acknowledgement that women are sexual beings, entitled to live their lives fully within the expression of their desire.
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October 3-4th BREAKING FAST7 pm | 2020 | USA | 92 MIN
Mo Hamoud (Haaz Sleiman), a mid-30s doctor living in West Hollywood, is full of passion and optimism which shows in every interaction he has. We meet him as he prepares to host dinner for his family on the first night of Ramadan, the holiest time of year for Mo, when Muslims fast from food, water, and impure thoughts and activities from sunrise to sunset.
Controlled, stable, and decisive, Mo is thrown off track when he finds his boyfriend, Hassan, in their bedroom, anxious and worried that he is about to be “out”-ed to his conservative, less-accepting family. Mo’s happy night is over, as Hassan makes a culturally-influenced decision to end their relationship.
Jumping forward a year, Mo is still reeling and alone, as Ramadan begins. It’s the first night of Ramadan, when Mo’s best friend, Sam, forces him to come out to his birthday party, in an effort to help him escape his own head. There, Mo meets Kal, an all-American white guy—and Mo’s opposite in every way. The two have an unlikely spark, which leads to a nightlong walk through the streets of West Hollywood.
What seems like a one-night stand becomes something more as Kal continues showing up in Mo’s life, insisting on cooking for him, and breaking fast with him each night. Familiar with Muslim customs from his childhood as a military kid, Kal was raised knowing that “those who fast, should not cook.”
Mo and Kal’s Iftar (the fast-breaking sunset meal) discussions navigate life, loss, family, and faith, and they learn more about each other (and themselves) than they ever expected, and possibly more than they bargained for.
At first glance Kal seems to accept Mo for who he is, but does Mo? While the relationship seems charmed on the surface, they will (as with most budding relationships) reach a point of reckoning, as more about each other’s beliefs and priorities are revealed.
Mo, a character very much rooted in habit, falls back on old patterns, and it looks like he may run from what he has. But in the end, he goes to surprising lengths, with Sam’s help, to win Kal back, and allows himself to be embraced by love, and family
Please note all films are geo-blocked to be available in Florida only. You will have access to the film 48 hour period from the date specified on your ticket. | |
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Scholarship FundOUR YOUTH OUTREACH PROGRAM
The HMF Youth Outreach program provides the opportunity to get youth more involved with the organization. The HMF Youth Outreach Program began in 2014 with the launch of our youth scholarship program. This opportunity is open to all LGBTQ+ students in Sarasota County between the ages of 13 and 25.
Youth internship positions for graphic design, videography, community outreach, and nonprofit development.
Two internships and two scholarships are available per year.
Applications will be released six months prior to the main festival and submissions will be accepted until three months prior to the festival. Programming will run throughout the year and culminate in Harvey Milk Festival programming in May.
This project directly impacts the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth by offering preparedness for college through fellowship and community service experience.
The most significant benefit to participants in the HMF Youth Outreach Program is the encouragement and financial support that youth are given to continue their education. The
program provides a creative outlet for LGBTQ+ youth to cultivate their artistic process and connect with others in the community. Many of our youth have experienced alienation and
discrimination from family, friends and schoolmates and lack the essential network of support they need when they are in school.
The HMF Scholarship and HMF Internship programs offer
participating youth opportunities to connect with the LGBTQ+ community through their work, receive feedback from youth, artists, mentors and allies, and further their professional
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