*Films begin with screening of short film: The Once and Future Me

Come enjoy the Fesitval parties with us!

Opening night:

When: 10PM to 1AM, Saturday 08/21
Where: Station 400
What: Desserts, wine and mixed drinks
Who: Cassolette, a local band will be playing
How: Present a ticket from the film VIOLET TENDENCIES

Closing night:

When: SUNDAY August, 22nd, 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Where: Burns Court Cinemas

What: Open beer and wine bar, hors d'oeuvres by The Drunken Poet

How: FREE! (with valid ticket stub from ANY 2010 LGBT film)

FESTIVAL TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AND AT THE BURNS COURT BOX OFFICE

Individual Festival Tickets: $9.00 (non-member) and $6.00 (member)

These tickets available online and at the Burns Court Box Office

Festival Passes: $45.00 (non-member) and $30.00 (member)

Passes entitle holder to a total of six festival tickets

(one ticket to each show, two tickets to three shows, or three tickets to two shows)

Passes available only at the Burns Court Box Office

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The Films

8: The Mormon Proposition

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Runtime: 80 min.

Synopsis:  8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION is an indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights. The film takes place in California and Utah as Mormons, following their prophet’s call to action, wage spiritual warfare fought with money and lies against US citizens and their fight for marriage equality and the rights that come with marriage.

A Marine Story

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Runtime: 98 minutes

Synopsis: Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.

Eyes Wide Open

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Runtime: 90 min.

Synopsis: Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Jewish community is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he meets Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, and soon falls in love with him. He then starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love and lust for Ezri. But guilt, torment and pressure from the community will catch up with him, leading him to make a radical decision.

On These Shoulders We Stand

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Runtime: 75 min.

Synopsis: Elder members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community in Los Angeles chronicle gay life from from the 1950's to the 1980's. The documentary brings to light Los Angeles' significant, yet hidden, role in U.S. gay history.

Purple Sea

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Runtime: 105 min.

Synopsis: From the novel Minchia di Re by Giacomo Pilati comes a scandal hidden in 19th century Sicily between two young women, Angela and Sara. Angela isn’t like other girls her age, she fears nothing and nobody. She can’t hide her feelings for Sara. To maintain the forbidden relationship, she changes her outward appearance to disguise herself as a man. The chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear and she becomes powerful, but in her heart she never denies her identity as a woman. As intense and compelling as only young love can be, the two women challenge the rules of society in order to be together.

Violet Tendencies

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Runtime: 99 min.

Synopsis: Violet, the last of the fag hags --loved, yet lonely -- endeavors to leave all her friends to find a man of her own. In self-imposed exile, she discovers that you don'’t have to change the person you are to get what you want.  With humor and hysteria, Violet Tendencies tells the true meaning of family.