Reel Pride Program - 2016

S ViSTA Theatre
9:00 pm | $10

FRONT COVER

Writer & Director: Ray Yeung / 2016 / USA / 87 min.
In English and Chinese with English subtitles.

Front Cover is about handsome, openly gay New York City fashion stylist Ryan, who rejects
his traditional Asian upbringing. Ryan is given an assignment to style Ning, a famous Chinese actor,
for an important photo shoot. After a rocky start, an unlikely friendship develops between them,
leading Ryan to re-examine his roots and consider an enticing new path for his life and career. A
tender, funny look at clashing cultures and love, Front Cover is a delight for the urban fashionista in
us all.

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S Tower Theatre
9:30 pm | $10

LEZBERADOS: LIVE!
COMEDY WITH NO BULL

Lezberados is a fierce and funny, hot and spicy, side splitting comedy show featuring two of
the hottest dykes on the mic working the circuit. From Showtime’s The Latin Divas of Comedy and
Pride: Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam, Sandra Valls brings the talent and the funny to show why she
was voted Top 33 Bad Ass Comics with Latino Roots by Latina Magazine and Go Magazine’s Top
100 Women We Love, as well as one of Curve magazine’s Top 10 Lesbian Comics. She’s joined by
her radically ridiculous sister from a different mister, Mimi Gonzalez of Logo’s, One Night Stand Up.
Both are Olivia Cruise stars with sold-out shows from Provincetown to Los Angeles. Come out and
get your laugh on and find out why these two are the “taco the town.”

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Su Mia Cuppa Caffé
12:15 pm | $10

CLAMBAKE

Director: Andrea Meyerson / 2015 / USA / 94 min.
The year was 1984. A handful of entrepreneurial women innkeepers in Provincetown, Mass.
gathered together with a mission: to figure out how they could entice summer guests back during
the seaside town’s offseason.
Without the luxury of social media, or even email, the women hand-wrote letters to all their
past guests, inviting them to come enjoy the beautiful autumn scenery—with a clambake and
some local entertainment thrown in. They called it “Women’s Weekend,” and during the next three
decades, it spawned numerous other lesbian gatherings in Provincetown, expanding from modest
grassroots beginning to eventually become one of the most popular lesbian events in the world.

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Su ViSTA Theatre
12:20 pm | $10

HEARTLAND

Director: Maura Anderson / 2016 / USA / 98 min.
When young Oklahoma artist, Lauren, finds herself heartbroken and struggling with a recent
death, she finds escape in a reckless affair with her brother’s girlfriend, which goes against her
family’s complacent suburban routine. Heartland explores the shifting nature of sexuality, the
limitations of love, and the definition of family, all driven by denial and unexplored grief at the loss of
a loved one.

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Su Tower Theatre
1:00 pm | $10

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

PRESIDENT’S SPOTLIGHT FILM

POLITICAL ANIMALS

Director: Jonah Markowitz / 2016 / USA / 85 min.
Political Animals tells the story of the civil rights struggle of this century – the gay rights
movement - through the eyes of four elected women - a group often left out of gay histories until
now. Emotionally charged like its subjects, the film follows four ground- breaking lesbians who took
the fight for the causes most personal to them and their communities off the streets and into the
halls of government.
Fierce, determined, focused and passionate, these women had the courage and foresight to
start the work of legal rights of the LGBTQ community, ultimately paving the way for other states
across the nation. Bills they authored included the first domestic partnership registry enacted by
a legislature, the first anti-bullying bill protecting gay students and many more. It was a hard fight
– filled with surprisingly heated debates and hateful insults hurled by opponents. This film shows
how their legislation brought about change in laws and societal acceptance, the strategies behind
this incremental change, and what tough bargains had to be made to get us to where we are today.
While legislators often follow the will of the people, these visionary women were brave pioneers in
creating lasting and significant social change.

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Su ViSTA Theatre
2:15 pm | $10

SLASH

Director: Clay Liford / 2016 / USA / 100 min.
Neil is an introverted, questioning high school freshman. Lacking any friend IRL (In Real Life),
his main social outlet is the steamy fan fiction he writes about Vanguard, the brawny, galaxy-hopping
hero of a popular sci-fi franchise.
When his stories are exposed in class Neil is mortified, but the slightly older, effortlessly cool
Julia comes to his defense. An erotic “fan-fic” writer herself, Julia pushes Neil to publish his stories
to an “adult” forum, where they quickly grab the attention of the site moderator, Denis. When Neil is
invited to present his work at a comic con live-read event, he has to face the fact that Denis’ interest
in him may be more than simply professional, perhaps like his own feelings for Julia.

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Su Mia Cuppa Caffé
2:30 pm | $10

THE REVIVAL:
WOMEN AND THE WORD

Director: Sekiya Dorsett / 2016 / USA / 78 min.
Four years ago, 50 friends gathered in a small living room in Washington, D.C. for a poetry
event called The Revival. The host, Jade Foster, dreamed of building a safe space where queer
women and allies could celebrate being black, women, and carriers of the word. In 2012, the event
evolved into a nine-day tour that swept eight cities, touched thousands of lives, and connected five
exceptional women.
The Revival: Women and the Word chronicles the creation of an international salon-styled tour
led and supported by women. It tells the story of how Jade Foster recruited a group of five dynamic
poets and musicians to become stewards of a movement that builds community among queer
women of color, upholds literary arts excellence, and occupies living rooms across the country.

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Su Tower Theatre
3:45 pm | $10
SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE

RAISING ZOEY REAL BOY

Dir: Dante Alencastre / 2016 / USA / 54 min. Dir: Shaleece Haas / 2016 / USA / 72 min.
Affecting the lives of countless kids, Bennett Wallace is a charismatic teenager
teenagers and even adults, 13-year-old trans on the brink of adulthood. As he navigates the ups
activist Zoey Luna wants nothing more than to and downs of gender transition and grapples with
simply go to school, learn, have fun with her a history of substance abuse, Bennett embarks
friends. Unfortunately, ignorance and intolerance on a journey to find his voice - as a musician, a
have not always made this easy. With the help of friend, a son, and a man.
her mother Ofelia, her older sister Leticia and the Filmed throughout four years, Real Boy
ACLU, Zoey fought school officials for her right to follows the evolution of Bennett’s relationship
self-identify in school. Even in the face of bullying with his mother Suzy, who has deep misgivings
and endless teasing from both school officials and about his transition. As Suzy struggles to come
students, Zoey determinedly continues to live her to terms with his decision, Bennett is taken under
life as she is and tells her story in the hopes of the wing of his idol Joe Stevens, a celebrated
helping others persevere in living their authentic transgender musician fighting his own demons.
lives. Through observational storytelling that
is alternately poignant and humorous, Real Boy
explores the complexity of addiction, the healing
power of music, and the importance of family,
both given and chosen.

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Su ViSTA Theatre
4:30 pm | $10

GIRLS LOST

Director: Alexandra-Therese Keining / 2016 / Sweden / 106 min.
In Swedish with English subtitles.
Kim, Bella and Momo, three bullied teenaage girls are going through the throes of finding
themselves. Surrounded by a dark world of teenage violence, marginalization and sexual confusion,
the girls have only each other.
A seismic shift happens when they discover a curious plant in their beloved greenhouse. It
turns out to have mysterious magical qualities that, when consumed, transforms the girls temporarily
into boys. But not only does their gender change, the world around them, and their response to it, is
profoundly altered.

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Su Tower Theatre
7:30 pm | $10

CLOSING
NIGHT FEATURE

OTHER PEOPLE

Director: Chris Kelly / 2016 / USA / 97 min.
A struggling New York City comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves
to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David
feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone
(including himself) he’s “doing okay.”
Other People is a bold and hilarious look of one family’s most trying time featuring breakout
performances by Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights) and the hilarious Molly Shannon (Saturday
Night Live).

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