Ferror: Girls on a Road

posted: October 5, 2009 

Documentary- Women 73 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions She has been compared to everyone from Johnny Cash to Bruce Springsteen. A music critic famously wrote of her “What if Bob Dylan had been born a Canadian lesbian?” She once hired an unknown songwriter named Tori Amos as a backup singer, and she...

Best of Fest – Shorts

posted: October 5, 2009 

Shorts 77 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions A Day at the Beach 2 min. Two heterosexual couples have electric revelations when they spy each other at the beach. Boycrazy 25 min. A classic tale of boy meets boy neatly packed into a lighthearted musical. Don’t Mess with Texas 7 min. Roaming the Texas countryside,...

Pornography

posted: October 5, 2009 

Drama-Men 113 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions In this sexy, psychological creep-show, a gay porn star named Mark Anton mysteriously disappears after he decides to leave the business at the height of his fame. Rumors about murder and blackmail swirl for 14 years, until Michael, a young New York writer researching...

Love of Siam

posted: October 5, 2009 

Drama-Men 157 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions Thailand’s 2008 Best Picture submission to the Academy Awards, and winner of more than 20 major international awards, Love of Siam is a powerful tale of young love, the enduring strength of familial ties and the desperate belief that love can cure all. Tong...

Men’s Shorts

posted: October 5, 2009 

Men 100 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Boycrazy 25 min. A classic tale of boy meets boy neatly packed into a lighthearted musical that includes all the usual characters and landscapes of the urban gay life. Dish 15 min. Two young teens, Israel and Louie, walk around their east Los Angeles neighborhood...

Redwoods

posted: October 4, 2009 

Drama- Men 90 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Everett (Brendan Bradley) and Miles (Tad Coughenour) have a comfortable, non-passionate relationship. Together they are raising Billy, a learning disabled boy, whose constant care takes up much of the love and attention in their home. Miles and Billy go off...

We Are the Mods

posted: October 4, 2009 

Drama- Women 80 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Named one of 2008’s 25 New Faces of Independent film by Filmmaker Magazine, EE Cassidy has crafted a love letter to the decadence of the 60s, with a touch of innocence lost thrown in. Sadie’s art is her photography and her life, which, let’s face...

Family

posted: October 4, 2009 

Women 109 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Closeted life can be pretty cramped with all the hangers hitting your head. Not being able to live out in the open is sometimes a small price to pay compared to the fear of familial and professional backlash. But the price becomes too high for thirtysomething...

Rivers Wash Over Me

posted: October 4, 2009 

Drama-Men, People of Color 89 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions Sequan Green, 15 and gay, is shipped to the rural south, leaving the sophistication of Manhattan behind him. For a young man well-versed in Baldwin and other artists, the folks he meets in North Carolina aren’t an easy fit, including his abusive...

Little Ashes

posted: October 4, 2009 

Drama-Men 112 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí, deliciously played by Twilight’s Robert Pattison and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic and sexual freedom. Dalí...

Chica Busca Chica

posted: October 4, 2009 

Women 80 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions The Spanish L-Word hits the States! Chica Busca Chica is the sensation of Spanish TV, depicting the intertwining tale of four women’s lives. Follow these chic chicas in Madrid as they look for love, usually in the wrong places, hop-scotching from one bed to another. Meet...

St Trinian’s

posted: October 4, 2009 

Comedy- All 97 minutes Tampa Theater 711 Franklin Street, downtown Tampa map & directions St. Trinian’s, once a bastion of upper class education and erudition, now faces foreclosure and a visit from the reform-minded Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth). This might be the time to buckle down and right the ship, but not if you’re...

Outrage

posted: October 4, 2009 

Documentary- All 90 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Do Ask! Do Tell! From Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick comes OUTRAGE, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians. These aren’t just your garden variety closeted politicians, however – these are the...

Her Name Was Steven

posted: October 4, 2009 

Documentary- Transgender 90 minutes Muvico Baywalk 151 2nd Ave N, downtown St Petersburg map & directions Florida once again takes center stage in this compelling CNN documentary about Steve Stanton, the Largo City Manager fired after a St. Petersburg Times article cited his plans to undergo sexual-reassignment surgery. His lucrative career, and...