Opening Night Screening

Finger Sucking Good  (Explicit content)

From smoldering glances on the train, to sizzling mixes in a stranger's kitchen, to hot house party hookups, this spicy blend of films will engage all of your senses and leave you craving more.

A Vietnamese mother's rigid expectations engulf her daughter and LE PETITE SALON. There is a seat in RANIA'S KITCHEN, where childhood memories and global travel intermix with tasty dishes. A young Latina starts COOKING CURIOSITIES and chiles rellenos in her tia's kitchen. Two women flush with self-discovery and love of food create a new RECIPE FOR LOVE. A day at the lake and a moment of fantasy make CANTALOUPE drip with desire. Anything can happen when two Butches are READY to make a house party combust. THE SUN STAINS after a night of suspicious text messages and video betrayal. A grieving woman comes BACK TO LIFE after a friend helps to jump-start her heart. After a shy girl catches a stranger's eye, THE BUS PASS glows with potential.

FREE
Films Running Time: 90 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers
Explicit Content

FILMS

La Petite Salon (Caroline Le, 2010)

Rania's Kitchen (Rania Long, 2011)

Cooking Curiosities (Lourdes Rivas, 2011)

Recipe For Love (Chauncey Wales, 2011)

Cantaloupe (Meja Tyehimba, 2009)

Ready (Michele Randleston, 2011)

The Sun Stains (Marlene Legaspi, 2011)

Back to Life (Desi del Valle, 2009)

The Bus Pass (Narissa Lee, 2010)

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

PANEL DISCUSSION:

THINKERS & TROUBLEMAKERS

Join us for our Festival Focus Panel Discussion with deep thinkers, take-charge doers and long-time troublemakers. A roundtable discussion with queer women of color activists who have taught us what it means to stand at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality and culture. This panel illustrates the paths that have led to our current crossroads and illuminates our way forward through social justice feminism.

PANELISTS

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Featured Screening

Igniting the Intersections

From the sultry lacing of Femme identity and voluptuous proportions, to the scorching juncture where jazz talent converges with gender expectations, to the fiery combination of joy and healing for transmen of color, these films reflect the blistering fusion of glitter, passion and resilience that our communities of color have always embodied.

In the heat of desperate times, HELP WANTED doesn't apply to a genderqueer Asian looking for employment. A smoking talented jazz trumpeter sets it off IN THE KEY OF D when she makes a decision that will change her life forever. AIN'T I A WOMAN celebrates the luminous enduring beauty of Black Femmes and Black transgender women. Queering sex and resilience, Fat Femmes seduce you WITH CONVICTION. Queer artists celebrate the sassy legacy of THAT'S SO GAY! A Femme welds together her strengths and identities in the process of LEARNING AND UNLEARNING INVISIBILITY. Witnessing the death of his father ignites the transition and spiritual journey for a transsexual man whose top surgery leaves behind 36A. For a Chinese transman, balmy pleasures, music and joy intermingle in life just LIKE THIS.

FREE
Films Running Time: 100 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

FILMS

Help Wanted (Truc Thanh Nguyen, 2011)

In the Key of D (Meja Tyehimba, 2011)

Ain't I A Woman (Kebo Drew, 2011)

With Conviction (Dulce Annel Garcia, 2011)

That's So GAY! (Kali Boyce, 2010)

Learning and Unlearning Invisibility (Sarah Hark Sun Hamburger, 2011)

36A (Alejandro Gabriel Cruz Gonzalez, 2011)

Like This (Alexander Lee, 2011)

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Centerpiece Screening

Homegrown Gifts

From the blazing links between drumming and spirituality, to the searing mix of culture and tradition, to the fierce bonds of chosen family, these films reveal that our devotion sparks our strength.

Spiritual activist Afia Walking Tree drums a rhythmic path with GRACE AND FIERCENESS. The POCAT collective was a steaming synthesis of anti-authoritarian-guerilla street theater. With hiss and sizzle, AVOTCJA traverses poetry, music and performance. A GYPSY TALE traces a Romani woman's passionate quest for love, family and acceptance. Through softball, the LGBTQ community is MAKING IT HOME. A couple's 7-year adventure in QUEER SPAWNING makes them a part of the Gayby Boom. Black lesbians raising children reveal THE GIFT OF FAMILY.

Closing Night Party ($5 - $20)