Join Gay West Community Network Inc. (Queer West) who will Hosts and Produce the 8th Annual Queer West Film Festival @ Innis Town Hall Aug 12-14, 2016 with 24 Premier films, never seen in Canada. Our festival is about; glory, shame, distaste, trash and beauty. We enjoy creating a festival by looking at the queer perspective from all corners of the world, perspectives that challenge normative views, propose an alternate way of thinking, and approach life and storytelling from another way. We’re proud to be the Greater Toronto Area second largest LGBTQ film festival. General Admission: $10 each evening. 3 day pass $25.
Tonight’s Theme: Gender is a social construct.
6 shorts & one feature film
Doors 6:30 pm Show 7 pm to 9:45 pm. 15 minute intermission each evening.
Canadian Premier – Genderations;Gender is a social construct, as where sex is what (“the parts”) you are born with. Because gender is how we identify it might not always match the sex we were assigned at birth. – (Directors: Britt McClintock and Melissa Murray both from USA) 31 minutes
Canadian Premier - Flying through our skins (Musical) Directed by - Matthew Boyle, Damon Andrew Embry & Bradley Beesley. an Art / Film / Music Performance Collective from the Bourbon soaked valleys of Louisville, Kentucky, 4.33 Minutes
Canadian Premier - Dawn; Young blind guy meets a transexual victim of domestic violence on a park bench. (Writer & Director Jake Graf, London England) 13:24 Minutes.
Canadian Premier - That's My Boy; a transition documentary by film director Akhil Sathyan from Anthikad India English subtitles - 24:20 Minutes
Canadian Premier - Trade Queen (Secret lives of tradesmen, one trans, one straight, but are they best buddies?) by David Wagner, a film student in Hamburg Germany 7.47 minutes
Canadian Premier - The Owls (Domestic Violence, drunk Father and a son who's a prostitute and supports the family) by film director Natalia Bougadellis from Athens Greece. English Subtitles - 10:12 minutes
Featured Film - Canadian Premier - Gender Troubles: The Butches by Lisa Plourde from Berkeley California. Contrary to popular myth, butch lesbians are not trying to be feminine and failing.54:02 Minutes
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