Film Categories: Politics + Policy

  • Gendercator, The

    “The Gendercator” is a satirical take on surgical body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip van Winkle” model to extrapolate from the feminist 1970s to a frightening 2048, where politics and technology have conspired to mandate two gender “choices”: macho male or Barbie babe. In this dystopian future, those whose gender presentation does not comply will be GENDERCATED.

  • Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue

    “Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue” is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing filmed documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. “Out & About with Brewer & Berg” is where Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell meet Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It’s where “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” meets Carlos Castaneda and David Attenborough. It’s where “My Dinner with André” meets the “On the Road” films with Crosby and Hope. Replete with riveting graphics, insightful quotations and a…

  • Kali Ma

    When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. Starring popular Bollywood star Kamini Khanna (Monsoon Wedding), and the follow-up to director Soman Chainani’s acclaimed 2006 short “Davy & Stu”, “Kali Ma” plunges us into a battle of mythic proportions, where we discover the secrets that divide mothers and sons and the love that binds them together.

  • Rainbow Crossing – Out & About with Brewer & Berg in Hawaii

    Come trip through time and space with gay gurus Michael Brewer and Thomas Alan Berg in a multi-dimensional travelogue that explores the beauty, culture and spirituality of the Island of Hawaii from a fresh new perspective. Tom and Michael travel through the enchantig Hawaiian scenery while foloowing a trail of rainbows through realms of philosophy, spirituality, history, art, psychology and politics with an entertaining and often irreverent dialogue, featuring entertaining cameos with people met along the way, and perhaps even the ancient Gods of Hawaii themselves. Fascinating, uplifting and very entertaining, Brewer and Berg take you one a journey that…

  • Turumba

    “Set in a tiny Phillipine village, ‘Turumba’ focues on one family who traditionally made papier-mache animals to sell during the Turumba religious festivities. One year, a German department store buyer shows up and purchases all their stock. When she returns with an order for 500 more (this time with the word ‘Oktoberfest’ painted on them), the family’s seasonal occupation becomes year-round alienated labor. Increased production, however, creates inflated needs. Soon, virtually the entire village has gone to work on a jungle assembly line, turning out papier-maches mascots for the Munich Olympics. “Long before the town band learns to play ‘Deutschland…

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Rubb My Chubb

    If you’re a Torontonian, and hip to the fat revolution, you can’t have missed the recent explosion of the Fat Femme Mafia. Call them what you want. Large and in charge. Larger than life. These women have been hitting the city with the strong words of politics of size. During the inception of the Mafia, we could only gossip with possibilities. Soon there were rumours, whispers, and boisterous claims about the phenomenal event that was to be Chubb Rubb: A Fat Cabaret. This short documentary follows the Fat Femme Mafia, their fat co-conspirators and allies in the days leading up…

  • Not That Kind of Christian!!

    “Not That Kind of Christian!!” is a feature documentary that explores gay and lesbian Christians’ struggle for acceptance in the Episcopal Church, the “schism” their activism threatens to bring to worldwide Anglicanism, and the ways in which activists such as these can shape our personal liberties at the highest institutional levels. While the film celebrates the achievements made by queer Anglicans as they fight to transform an oppressive Christian tradition into a modern force of liberation, it never excuses the prejudices and abuses of organized religion, particularly in an era when the word “faith” is merely code for the nationalistic…

  • Cut

    “Cut” is a short animated film about a woman who gets a haircut on lunch and gets more than she bargained for.

  • Four Genderfilms

    These four award-winning films by Catherine Crouch explore gender issues from a feminist perspective with humour and sensitivity. Vanilla Lament (6 min. 16mm 1997) Utilizing a mix of live-action, scratch and stop-motion animation techniques, “Vanilla Lament” is a humorous fantasy rendering of a sudden romantic break-up and its aftermath. This hand-crafted film, inspired by the experimental filmmakers of 1960s, won numerous awards, including a silver plaque at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival. One Small Step (30 min. 16mm 1999) Set in South Carolina on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon walk, “One Small Step” is a dramatic…