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Sunday, September 21

The Voice Shop Born to Fly
4:30 p.m.
$10 Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

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RP2014_GUTS.indd 50 Driven, passionate, and fully engaged, STREB Extreme Action Company
founder Elizabeth Streb takes us on a wild ride from her home base in
Brooklyn, where she lives with her partner Laura, to her daily work making
her dancers “fly.” As one of her devoted company members explains, their
performances have “more force, more velocity, more risk.” With strong
bodies and a fierce determination to defy age and gender expectations,
STREB members, trained in ballet, modern dance, martial arts, acrobatics,
and circus skills, perform their art, including “One Extraordinary Day” at
the Millennium Bridge, Trafalgar Square, London Eye, and other landmarks
during the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Sunday, September 21

CENTERPIECE
SCREENING

Blackbird Tower Theatre
5:00 p.m.
Director: Patrik-Ian Polk | 2014 | USA | 99 min.
$10

Director Patrik-Ian Polk, who has thrilled packed houses at our festival with premieres of NOAH’S ARC and

NOAH’S ARC: JUMPING THE BROOM, returns with a heartfelt and hopeful drama that boasts a vibrant

soundtrack and a gifted cast, including newcomer Julian Walker and Academy Award–winner Mo’nique.

Randy (Walker) is a model high school student and a dutiful son who prays, behaves, and sings in the choir. But he’s

unable to abate his frequent and increasingly sexy fantasies about other boys. However, he soon realizes he isn’t the

only one of his friends struggling against the restrictive norms of their Southern Baptist community. Through various

means, he becomes intimately aware of the pressures and challenges they each face around love, sex, and coming of

age.
On top of his personal crisis, Randy also deals with a trying family situation that obliges him to take care

of his distressed and devout mother (the incomparable Mo’nique) and reconnect with his estranged father

(Isaiah Washington). Sparks fly when he meets hunky Marshall, but will this new relationship provide a

welcome escape…or make matters worse?

Based on the book by Larry Duplechan and adapted by Polk and Rikki Beadle-Blair (FIT, Reel Pride

2011), BLACKBIRD sings with emotional lows and infectiously joyful highs, creating an exquisite and

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feel free to sell your Starbucks stock.”

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CEO, Starbucks

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Sunday, September 21

Transcendent: Trans Shorts

Severance Dance Butterfly 100 Crushes: Chapter 6: They
Studio
5:30 p.m. Stuart McLaughlin | 2014 | UK | 14 min. Elisha Lim | 2014 | Canada | 2 min.
$10 This intimate portrait explores the daily
challenges faced by Adrianne and Karl, a When Hari declares “they” as their
Teagan transgender couple, both diagnosed with pronoun, their friend’s feelings of envy
Asperger’s syndrome. and resentment evolve into a deeper
Igor Coric & Sheldon Lieberman appreciation of the freedom of language
2014 | Australia | 3 min. and the expansive possibilities of gender.

The transition from male to female is full of Tip Toe MYMY
discoveries in this animated depiction.
Raquel Bordin | 2014 | USA | 10 min. Anna Helme | 2014 | Australia | 15 min.
Flying Solo: A Transgender
Widow Fights Discrimination Veronica, a trans woman, remembers In a mythic cyberfeminist universe, a
her past when she was Daniel and was frustrated young man who yearns for affinity
Leslie Von Pless | 2014 | USA | 8 min.
At 92, Robina Asti, a World War II veteran dreaming of being a ballerina. and connection creates a cyborg twin.
When a techno-magick virus corrupts the
and pilot, tells her story of living as a clone, he realizes that there are parts of
transgender woman since 1976 and her fight
to be treated like any other widow. Winner ourselves beyond our control.

of the Grand Jury Award for Short You’re Dead To Me Black is Blue
Documentary at Outfest 2014.
Wu Tsang | 2013 | USA | 12 min. Cheryl Dunye | 2014 | USA | 21 min.
54 In Spanish and English with English subtitles
Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, hosts This provocative short tells the story of
RP2014_GUTS.indd 54 a Día de los Muertos celebration when an Black, an African-American stealth trans man
unexpected guest pays her a visit. By night’s working as a security guard, who struggles to
reconcile his past with his present. Winner of
end, death offers her a choice that she the Audience Award for Best Short Film, San
couldn’t make in life. Francisco International LGBT Film Festival

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Sunday, September 21

Life Partners Tower Theatre
7:30 p.m.

Director: Susanna Fogel | 2014 | USA | 95 min. $10

Sasha (Leighton Meester) and her straight friend Paige (Gillian Jacobs) share everything. Being BFFs includes
texting all day, talking every evening, a weekly date to watch Top Model, and a sleepover to gossip through the night.
They even hang out on a regular basis with Sasha’s assortment of gay friends at the local bar. Both date now and then,
with little luck—until Paige meets Tim (Adam Brody) and starts to fall for him. Soon Sasha finds that she has no best
friend, no life, and no love. That’s when the trouble begins: she goes for late-night snacks at the local drive-through and
starts dating a collection of girls still living at home, including the quirky Trace (Kate McKinnon). Meanwhile, Paige has
her own worries as she falls deeper into a more serious relationship for the first time. A barbecue with friends heats up
the tension, and soon Paige and Sasha have to accept the new terms of their friendship—or not.

Best friends Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz teamed up to write this delightfully likeable buddy film, costarring
Gabourey Sidibe, that has a far-reaching appeal for anyone who has had a best friend.

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Thank You For Your Support

STELLA ARTOIS REEL LOUNGE

(21 and over)
The Fresno Reel Pride Lounge is located adjacent to the
lobby, inside The Painted Table, near the entrance of the
Tower Theatre. It is open daily during the festival. The
Stella Artois Reel Pride Lounge offers cocktails and daily
drink specials. All proceeds and tips go directly toward
outreach programs.

CONCESSIONS

The Fresno Reel Pride Concession Stand is
staffed by volunteers from Gay Central Valley.
These volunteers work solely for your tips, which

benefit their local programs and events. The
concession stand is open daily during the festival

beginning 30 minutes prior to the first film
screening of the day and until 15 minutes after the

last film program begins.

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Our Cultural Arts Partners

As a part of the greater cultural community of the Central Valley, Fresno Reel Pride would like
to acknowledge these cultural partners for their collaboration and sponsorship.

Media Partners

Community Link
Gay Central Valley

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