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The Frameline Distribution Dispatch
News from Frameline's Educational Distribution Program
May 2008
In This Issue
Festival wins in Nashville & Toronto
From Russia, Without Love
New Review: Call Me Troy
Fresh from Frameline
Screenings Far & Wide
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In this Dispatch, we also bring you festival wins for Frameline shorts, news and films on homophobia in Russia, new Frameline short films, a review of award-winning documentary Call Me Troy, and screenings of Frameline releases all over the globe.

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 Frameline films win in Nashville and Toronto!

Frameline short The Manual tied for "Best LGBT Film" at the Nashville Film Festival last week.  Congratulations to filmmaker Sarah Spillane!
The Manual imageThe Manual
Sarah Spillane  2006  15 min.  Australia
After twenty four years of treatment and psychiatric institutions, Sonny returns home for a funeral, and attempts to save his seven year old niece from experiencing a similar fate.  Read more...
 


Frameline short Legacy was named "Best Short Film" at Mpenzi: Black Women's International Film and Video Festival in Toronto.  This is director Campbell Blackman's first festival win for Legacy.
Legacy imageLegacy
Inge "Campbell" Blackman  2006  17 min.  United Kingdom
The filmmaker and her mother confront and question the lasting effects that 400 years of slavery has had on the traditions and intimate relationships of people of African descent in the Americas.  Read more...
 Featured Films of the Month:
To My Women Friends and Rainbow's End

Although the Cold War has been over for a while, life is still pretty chilly for the LGBT community in eastern Europe's former Soviet countries.  Behind the pink curtain, Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has banned the city's gay pride parade for the third year in a row.  In response, a group of Swedish politicians has invited Moscow's mayor to Stockholm's gay pride parade in August, to "feel the love". 

You can also "feel the love" with these two Frameline films about LGBT life in Europe:

To My Women Friends imageTo My Women Friends
Natasha Sharandak  1993  64 min.  Russia/Germany
Revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians highlight the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the former Soviet Union.  Under article 121 (which criminalized homosexuality) lesbians and gay men in the former Soviet Union faced the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, government harassment and family rejection.  Read more...


Rainbow's End imageRainbow's End
Jochen Hick & Christian Jentzsch  2006  75 min.  Germany
English, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish w/English subtitles

"A focused, insightful film ... recommended."
- P. Hall, Video Librarian

From parades and protests in Warsaw and Krakow to touching personal stories with social, religious and political insights, Rainbow's End moves from street activism to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.  A starting point for any timely and relevant discussion regarding the future of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people within Europe and throughout the world.  Read more...
Extra!  Extra!  New review of Call Me Troy

Sarah Boslaugh, film critic for PLAYBACK:stl, recently reviewed new Frameline release Call Me Troy:

Call Me Troy image"It's a big enthusiastic film, as befits its subject, and adds yet another element to the ever-growing picture of diversity within America's gay community." - Sarah Boslaugh, PLAYBACK:stl (Check out the rest of the review)



Call Me Troy
Scott Bloom  2007  100 min.  USA
Profiling the life and times of one of the gay community's most visible and tenacious advocates for change, Rev. Troy Perry, Call Me Troy is a truly inspirational story about a remarkable and dynamic individual whose activism was decades ahead of its time.
Read more...
Watch the trailer...

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Fresh from Frameline

These four great new shorts are the newest films in Frameline's collection! 

Vicious & the Delicious imageThe Vicious and the Delicious
Tonnette Stanford  2008  12 min.  Australia
Nail-scratching catfights, countless illicit affairs, double identities, mistrustful motives, dubious dealings, fabulous fashion statements, and bizarre story twists - all this and more in...The Vicious and the Delicious! Read more...


Alonso's Deadline imageAlonso's Deadline
Mario Galarreta  2007  6 min.  USA
A recently widowed professor, Dr. Alonso, finds new hope in an unlikely connection with a young school janitor.  Read more...




Just Me imageJust Me?
 Amy Neil  2007  22 min.  USA
When the only lesbian in a large extended family discovers a stockpile of vintage photographs revealing the hidden life of her great grandmother, she begins to suspect she is not alone.  Read more...



Crafty imageCrafty
 Erik Gernand 2008 9 min. USA
A crafty activist collecting signatures for a gay marriage petition encounters a craft-loving housewife who refuses to sign on for the cause.  Read more...
Frameline Screenings Far & Wide

Check out our list of April film screenings:
  • Athens International Film & Video Festival screens Trans-Neptune (or, The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut), Prada Handbag, Members Only, Frontbum Dancin', and Casting Pearls
    5.1.08     (check festival guide for specific times) (Athens, OH)

  • Pink Apple Gay & Lesbian Film Festival screens Frontbum Dancin'
    5.1.08 - 5.7.08     (check festival guide for specific dates & times) (Zurich, Switzerland)

  • Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival screens eddie
    5.3.08     (check festival guide for specific dates & times) (Miami Beach, FL)

  • Chicago History Museum screens Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
    5.4.08     (Chicago, IL)

  • Syracuse University screens transparent, Milind Soman Made Me Gay, and Legacy
    5.4.08 - 5.14.08     (check website for specific dates & times) (Syracuse, NY)

  • Museum of Fine Arts screens eddie
    5.7.08 - 5.18.08     (check website for specific dates & times) (Boston, MA)

  • Oregon State University screens The Believers, Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement, Harsh Beauty, and transparent
    5.7.08 - 5.8.08     (Corvallis, OR)

  • Translations Film Festival screens Trans-Neptune (or, The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut), Love Man Love Woman, The Salt Mines, and The Transformation
    5.8.08 - 5.11.08     (check festival guide for specific dates & times) (Seattle, WA)

  • National Gallery of Art screens Surviving Sabu
    5.10.08     (Washington, DC)

  • Inside Out, Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival screens Trans-Neptune (or, The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut), Frontbum Dancin', Filled With Water, The Best Men, Members Only, The Manual, eddie, Prada Handbag, Casting Pearls, Do the Math, F. Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here, The Police Box, and The Believers
    5.15.08 - 5.25.08     (check festival guide for specific dates & times) (Toronto, Ontario)

  • Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival screens Prada Handbag
    5.23.08     (Honolulu, HI)

  • Cinepride screens FtF: Female to Femme
    5.24.08     (check festival guide for specific dates & times) (Nantes, France)
 About Frameline

Frameline is the nation's leading nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the exhibition, distribution, promotion and funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media arts. Frameline's integrated programs provide critical funding for emerging LGBT filmmakers, reach hundreds of thousands with a collection of more than 200 films distributed nationally, and create an international stage for the world's best queer film through the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and additional year-round screenings.

Since 1981, Frameline's distribution program has been providing groundbreaking lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video that can be used in a variety of academic, professional and community settings. Frameline's collection includes documentary, feature-length and short fiction, experimental and animation titles representing LGBT filmmaking from around the world.

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