Showcasing the best of short films and screenplays from the LGBTQ+ community. Screenplay Winner every single month performed by professional actors. Film Festival occurs 21 times a year!
Short Film: TRASHED, 13min., Canada, Drama
With nowhere to go after a vicious homophobic attack, Jay finds their way to an abandoned house they once lived in as a teenager. Project Links Website Twitter Instagram
Director Biography – Kate Johnston
Kate Johnston is an award-winning Indie filmmaker and founder of TomGirl Films. She is best known for Stormcloud, Margarita, Click and Slow Burn, and her feature film TRU LOVE which was the recipient of 15 international film festival awards including the audience award for Best Feature Film at Inside Out 2014. Both Tru Love and her award-winning short film STORMCLOUD are distributed worldwide.
Director Statement Jo Vannicola’s powerful story Trashed speaks to those who live, and sometimes die, outside the margins of society; queer, homeless, those who have been forgotten. These queer stories are real and common, and need to be told with a clear eye in the hopes that perhaps we see ourselves in the suffering of others.
Festival occurring twice a year. In Toronto in June. And in Los Angeles in September. Showcasing the best of LGBT Short Films and Screenplays from around the world.
LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival 
