Film Festival
The Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival seeks to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender lived experience through the visions of innovative film and video makers. We are seeking films and videos that enrich, entertain, and encourage a sense of community. This festival hopes to recognize the diversity of local, regional, national, and international LGBT communities.
About the festival:
The Third Annual Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival is sponsored by the Fargo-Moorhead Pride Collective and Community Center, the MSUM Film Studies Department, and diverse and growing group of academic and community organizations.
Friday, Sept 16th, 8pm
Saturday, Sept 17th, 3pm
Saturday, Sept 17th, 8pm
Fargo Theater, 314 Broadway, Fargo, ND
$5 admission/ screening
3rd ANNUAL FARGO-MOORHEAD LGBT FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM:
Friday 8pm:
Falling for
Christine:
Girl
meets girl in video store. Girl asks girl out. This quirky comedy on Lesbian
romance keeps it light and hilarious.
Spiral
Transition:
This
short explores the filmmaker's relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.
El Abuelo:
This short is a poetic homage by and
to Chicano Gay Men.
Bedfellows:
Do
Gay Male fairytales come true? This romantic short follows fairytale form to a
more realistic happy ending.
I Am:
A personal look at Gay and Lesbian
life in India.
Saturday 3pm:
Alone: Shot and edited entirely on 16mm black and white reversal film, "Alone" presents an experimental look at the connections people form with each other within their relationship to the city. Being Me: A locally-made personal documentary, this short traces the filmmaker's experiences with coming out. Mom's Apple Pie: This feature documentary follows the Lesbian Child Custody Rights Movement.
Saturday 8pm:
Dish: Emo kids Isreal and Louie walk around their East Los Angeles neighborhood dishing and 'sexting' about their high school classmates. After listening to Louie boast about his sexual escapades, Ireal decides he has some catching up to do. Decoding Alan Turing: Known as the father of the computer, Alan Turing was also a Gay Man. This interesting historical documentary comes from the UK. A Drag King Extravaganza: This documentary follows the meteoric rise of the popularity of Drag King performance as well as the variety in the art. Alison, My Love: This short with a punch asks the question: 'who?' Swimming With Lesbians: GLBT people don't grow up immersed in their own history. It's something they must search for. Swimming with Lesbians explores an upstate NY community's effort to create a GLBT historic archive.
