Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2008

Fagette
The self-proclaimed gender-deviant, spoken word/hip hop extravaganza known as The Athens Boys Choir presents an energetic, queer music video.
Dir: Ali Cotterill, USA, 2008, English, 4min

Members Only
New to Philadelphia, Amy seems to have lost her sex appeal. A local power lesbian helps her turn things around.
Dir: Carolina Roca-Smith, USA, 2008, English, 10min

Poppy’s Foursome
The notorious lesbian comedienne Poppy Champlain goes on a hilarious room by room search for her perfect foursome, trying to bring GOLF back to Dinah.
Dir: Ren Blood, USA, 2007, English, 20min

S/He (Ta)
A young Asian girl struggles between expected gender roles and her boyish inclinations.
Dir: Gina Pei Chi Chen, Canada/Taiwan, 2007, English subtitles, 12min

Tomboy
In this delightful animated film, a young Latina-Canadian tomboy named Alex tries to endure peer mocking as she eschews dolls for science projects.
Dirs: Barb Taylor, Wendy Parkin, Canada, 2008, English, 13min

The Vicious and the Delicious
A hilarious soap opera spoof of the scandals, catfights, affairs, flamboyant fashions and story twists of the powerful Cassamentos.
Dir. Tonnette Stanford, Australia, 2008, English, 12min

Worst Case Scenario: Butch Edition
Mary Guzman ends some questions surrounding butch etiquette in this pithy how-to.
Dir: Mary Guzman, USA, 2007, English, 7min

Casting Pearls
Calpernia Addams, transsexual author, and star of Logo’s Transamerican Love Story, journeys on a hectic series of auditions illustrating casting difficulties facing trans-women in Hollywood.
Dir: Andrea James, USA, 2007, English, 7min

Crafty
An earnest activist looking for signatures for a gay marriage petition happens upon a crafts woman who initially rejects the petition, but may sign up to change teams.
Dir: Erik Gernand, USA, 2008, English, 9min

Berated Woman
An Orthodox Jewish woman falls for her homeowner-rules-enforcing WASP neighbor in a funny look at what is important: a lifelong religion or love.
Dir: Anya Meksin, USA, 2008, English, 14min

Let’s Roll
A lesbian couple attempts to go on vacation, but like many of us keep forgetting to pack stuff. Will they break up before they get on the road?
Dir: Kat-I, USA, 2007, English, 5min