Film Categories: Childhood

  • I’m Just Anneke

    “I’m Just Anneke” is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal…

  • Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children, The

    “The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children” charts the emotional and intellectual transformations parents and siblings must make in order to successfully nurture their gender nonconforming family members. In frank, vulnerable interviews, families from all over the country speak about the power of love and acceptance to help their unusual children thrive. They also come to realize that loving a gender nonconforming child, in the face of ignorance, and sometimes hostility, has turned them into more compassionate human beings.

  • Holding Hands

    Craig and Shane were holding hands when they fell victim to a brutal hate crime. Through speaking out about the lack of police investigation, their courage led to important changes at their local police station. ‘Holding Hands’ follows a challenging year in this inspiring couples’ life: triumphantly leading the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade as community heroes, struggling to recover from the physical, financial and psychological costs of a hate crime, and ultimately revealing the healing power of love. At its heart, Craig and Shane’s story reveals that even in the worst circumstances, we can all create positive change.

  • Fiesta Brava

    A new cameraless animation from a master of the art. A fiesta for the senses!

  • Out on the Street

    This short film explores LGBTQ youth homelessness in Toronto and the lack of support available. Several people’s lived experiences are shared.

  • Swim

    Haunted by his role in the death of his childhood friend, a filmmaker reflects on regret and loss, Animorphs and bjs. Awards: Entertainment Partners Canada / Canada Film Capitol Award for Emerging Canadian Artist, Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, 2011; ‘Best Experimental Narrative’ Award, Couch Fest, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2011.

  • Fish Don’t Talk

    I am sent to camp as a nine year old. I CANNOT SWIM! MY PARENTS HAVE GONE TO EUROPE FOR SIX WEEKS.!! IT IS 1954, and I have not been away from home much … so I refuse to swim and fish off the dock. My mother writes in her trip book. It is the only book she will write. I catch a big fish. The camp director takes my picture… They should have taken me to Europe with them.I would have behaved. (Rick RAXLEN)

  • 33 Teeth

    Eddie is a hormonal 14-year-old boy living alone with his mother in the suburbs. One day after school, he accidentally spies on his attractive older neighbor, Chad, as he steps out of the shower and measures himself with a red comb. Not long afterward, Eddie is the victim of a verbal slur by Chad’s friend Tim. This inspires Eddie to enact some creative retaliation. Winner of the Audience Award at the MiMi LGBT Short Film Festival 2012.

  • Verona

    Inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “Verona” is the story of two young lovers separated by their rival fraternities. Set in a small college town wherein young men are groomed for corporate success in All-American hyper competitive fashion, “Verona” presents the fate of star-crossed lovers in a society that condemns the very nature of their love.

  • Genderbusters

    In their fight for the Gender Evolution Revolution, the Genderbusters drive around resolving the gender-binary dilemmas of folks all over San Francisco. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival 2011.