Welcome to the 2nd Annual Toronto Queer West Film Festival 2009
Program Guide - Saturday June 20, 2009
Our Mission - Our mission is to provide a voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer youth by presenting films and videos that not only represent the diversity of the GLBT community. But provide innovative, diverse, accessible, quality screen events which promote/stimulate, educate, enlighten, support queer cultures and entertain us all.
Artistic and Corporate Objectives - Our artistic and corporate objectives are:
•To continue to improve the quality of films shown at the Festival.
•To provide a unique and innovative environment for screen culture.
•To increase the diversity of film content.
•To include foreign language films.
•To continue to increase audience size to the full capacity of our venues.
•To increase the diversity and age range of our audience.
•To make the Festival more accessible.
•To create a Festival that is exciting, intellectual and populist.
About Toronto's annual International Queer West Fest - Film Festival
With over 150 queer-themed film and video festivals happening around the world, Canada boasts a diverse crop of its own, including Toronto's Inside Out in May. And with movie events throughout the year from sea to sea in a country renowned for its queer-friendliness, LGBT festivals spotlight innovative work by new directors and rediscover the classics. Metropolitan Toronto’s large, thriving lesbian and gay community and the city’s festival-friendliness, make it a natural fit for a new film festival in the city's Queer West Village.
Each summer, this celebrated event will brings people together to watch incredible films, talk to filmmakers and artists, engage in scintillating discussions, experience unexpected performances and paint the town pink! The Festival is produced by Queer West Arts and Culture Centre. A not-for-profit centre, that produces performing arts festivals and outreach programming for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, questioning and two-spirited (queer community). Connecting queer residents, business and community groups in High Park, Liberty-Parkdale, Davenport, Trinity Bellwoods neighbourhoods in Toronto, Ontario since 2001
About Fixt Point Theatre – 1550 Queen St. W.
FIXT POINT THEATRE is an international professional touring company committed to creating entertaining, original theatrical productions that inspire audiences to imagine change.Lisa Marie DiLiberto is the Artistic Director of FIXT POINT THEATRE and the Artistic Coordinator of Arts4All with Jumblies Theatre at The Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Center in Toronto. Lisa Marie’s most recent training has been in Paris, France at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, an international school of physical theatre. Her work in Paris includes mask, vaudeville, character and clown. Lisa Marie is an alumnus of the acclaimed improv comedy club Second City in Toronto and a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. FIXT POINT’s newest piece THE TALE OF A TOWN is currently in development and will be produced in August 2009 in the Studio. http://www.fixtpoint.com/
Films shorts to be shown tonight ( and maybe a few surprise videos, time permitting)
1 - Brown Like Me (27 min), short documentary of the journeys of queer South Asian youth. from Rahim Thawer and Ms Mohini Datta-Ray from ASAAP Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention. http://www.asaap.ca/
2.If Tomorrow Comes (7 min) , a tongue-in-cheek chick-flick of a love story about two boys breaking up and getting back together, Danielle Steele style. From irondvds.com
3. Pedro Levantate ( 14 min) - Director Jose Sunsin brings us into the lives of a Spanish Father and his son, only this time the Father is matchmaker, setting up his son with the local mechanic -- that way his boy can get a date and a job! But there is trouble in auto paradise with Loan Sharks threatening the lovebirds in this action- comedy. From irondvds.com
4. Don't Show This Film! (16 min) Two gay characters from an erotic book are stuck in a box at the border --what's a couple of guys to do? Enjoy this hilarious, informative take on the history of Canadian censorship, by award winning writer Rosemary Doyle. Actors Ami Heller, Trevor Covelli, Joanna Swan and Mark Purvis ensure you'll never cross the boarder the same way. From irondvds.com
5. Katrina del Mar's - A Beautiful Death (6 min) Lesbian vampires play rock ‘n’ roll and board games before devouring their latest virginal victim; a rockstar. By New York Director: Katrina del Mar. www.myspace.com/katrinadelmar http://www.katrinadelmar.com/
5. Katrina del Mar's Gang Girls 2000 ( 27 min.) The celebrated photographer of New York’s underground freaks and rockers brings her aggressively sexual images to life on screen, presenting a lesbian rumble in the tradition of Hollywood’s best b-movie bad girls. In Glorious GlitterVision! In Luxurious Leatherama! What these girls do, you will Not Believe! Bike riding ChicKettes! Truck driving Sluts! ! Yes, ladies and gentlemen this is IT! The Cinematic Triumph of Katrina del Mar's unfettered imagination! Shot in glorious super 8mm on the rough streets of New York City! A cast of 30 beautiful women driving fast cars, wearing tight pants, eating candy, fighting, kissing and riding horses! The girl gang movie that started it all! Four foxy girl gangs tear it up on the streets of the Lower East Side, and rumble on the beach at Coney Island." By legendary New York City lesbian filmmaker, Katrina del Mar. www.myspace.com/katrinadelmar www.katrinadelmar.com
We would like to thank ASAAP (Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention) for loaning us their DVD Projector. We really appreciate their kind offer. Good Catch General Store, for the intermission raffles and the many dedicated neighbourhood Volunteers that worked, so tirelessly to put the The Queer West Arts Festival together this year, the Filmmakers for their art, and YOU OUR Audience for supporting us!
Our Sponsors: PROUD FM, XTRA NEWSPAPER, WEST SIDE VIDEO STORES, THE DRAKE HOTEL, INSIDE STORY NEWSPAPER, THATCHANNEL.COM, BARTON HILL HOTEL AND SPA, NIGHT AT THE INDIES.
CONTACT INFORMATION
queerwestartsfestival@gmail.com Office Hours - 416-879-7954 http://www.queerwest.org/
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