Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Letters

    “Letters” is a poetic, reflective expression of the filmmaker’s rediscovery of her roots and coming out later in life as a Jewish lesbian. Although this is one person’s story, it poignantly touches the heart of what it means to be Jewish and gay. “Letters” was created as part of the Legacy Video Project, a special multi-generational mentoring program in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival. Three seniors and four youth journeyed together for five months, learning the skills to create short videos that would both challenge and touch us. Selected Screenings:…

  • Olivia

    Two girls, four strings and a bathroom are all it takes for a seduction. Official Selection Frameline LGBT Film Festival (2010)

  • ABSTRACT RANDOM “COWBOY” feat. ILL NANA DiverseCity Dance Company

    “Without girls there’d be no world!” “COWBOY” is about gender bending, questioning authority, and challenging the norm. The film is an Abstract Random Production featuring the amazing and beautiful, Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company. Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. Abstract Random is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.

  • ABSTRACT RANDOM “NEW WORLD ORDER” feat. AYO LEILANI!

    Abstract Random’s response to the G20, Toronto, featuring Ayo Leilani! “All who were affected by the terror of the G20, and all who continue to live life in hardship throughout the world, NEVER GIVE UP! May we continue to spread the truth and awaken minds through love.” – AR Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. AR is usually found in bright face paint and under video projections. AR is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.

  • TWO BEDS

    A queer doppelganger couple fights the age-old battle between poly-amorous adventure and hetero-normative monogamy. Winner of the Best Low Budget Film Award, Sicilia Queer Film Festival (Italy, 2011)

  • Billy and Aaron

    A short drama about African-American composer Billy Strayhorn and the personal and professional consequences of his decision to live as an openly gay man within the homophobic jazz milieu of the 1940s. Filmed on location in Amsterdam. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival (2010), Outfest (2010).

  • Cinco Minutos (Five Minutes)

    When you spend your entire life next to someone, all the time in the world isn’t enough to say goodbye.

  • A mais forte (The Strongest)

    Will the apartment that put two sons together push two mothers apart?

  • Domestic Shorthair Underground

    A seemingly normal subway ride across Manhattan transforms into a comic anthropological study of the local and exotic species of New York City’s gay “wildlife.” On this romp through the underground, filmed in mock National Geographic style, viewers will get to know such fabulous species as the Tiny Exotic, the Chelsea Thoroughbred, and the Upper Westsidus Reform Judaicus, among many others. A witty observation of the fascinating and diverse breeds that co-exist within one great city, “Domestic Shorthair Underground” brings a new definition to ‘underground’ guerrilla filmmaking.

  • Torten im Sand (Cakes and Sand)

    Tim and Julian are deeply in love, but they can’t find happiness between the sheets. When you can’t sexually satisfy the person you love, do you call it quits…? Nomination: Iris Prize, UK Official Selections: Hamburg International Queer Film Festival (Germany), Mix Brasil Festival (Brazil), Frameline San Francisco (USA), Verzaubert Festival (Germany), Festival de la Luna Valencia (Spain), GLBT La Paz Film Festival (Bolivia).