Shropshire LGBT Film Festival
(Saturday Shorts-Fiction-Poland) – In the form of a trailer for a thriller movie about a man living in danger and stress, which eventually leads him to catastrophe. Saturday 18th October 2014 @ 10:00 at The Gateway.
WORLD PREMIERE (Sunday Shorts-Documentaries-Canada) – An anagram of “napkins”, SPANKIN transposes the gay hanky code of the 70s onto contemporary coffee culture. Sunday 19th October 2014 @ 11:00 at The Hive.
Short Film – Co-founder of the Pink Singers, Mark Bunyan spent the 70s and 80s performing his original songs at almost every pivotal event in UK gay history. In the words of a fan, he was “The First Gay Superstar”! Screening as part of Rainbow Shorts at the Ludlow Fringe Arts Festival.
UK PREMIERE (Sunday Shorts-Documentaries-USA) – An animated, experimental, personal documentary about the filmmaker’s first year on testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective. Sunday 19th October 2014 @ 11:00 at The Hive.
UK PREMIERE (Sunday Shorts-Documentaries-Canada) – Three generations of LGBT Canadians talk about their life journeys – being bullied, coming out, and coming into their own. Sunday 19th October 2014 @ 11:00 at The Hive.
(Sunday Shorts-Documentaries-Australia) – It was 1978, the violent beginning of Sydney’s Gay Mardi Gras. In a time of public persecution, the gay community took to the streets. Sunday 19th October 2014 @ 11:00 at The Hive.
(Sunday Shorts-Documentaries-USA) The Cost of Gender shares the stories of transgender Americans faced with health care discrimination at home, who look to Thailand for better options. Sunday 19th October 2014 @ 11:00 at The Hive.
This compelling documentary tells the life story of Blue Lunden, a working class lesbian activist whose odyssey of personal transformation parallels lesbians’ changing roles over the past 40 years. Saturday 18th October 2014 @ 16:30 at the Old Market Hall.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were partners in love and political struggle for over fifty years. With incisive interviews, rare archival images and warmhearted humor. Followed by Q&A with Jane Traies and film “Some Ground To Stand On”. Saturday 18th October 2014 @ 16:30 at the Old Market Hall.
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