Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: OUTRAGEOUS: THE QUEER HISTORY OF AUSTALIAN TV
Best Short Form Short Film: MY MOTHER, MY SELF
Best Direction: LIKE SON, LIKE FATHER
Best Performances: FIRST POSITION
Best Sound & Music: No One Knows I’m A Dog On The Internet
Best Cinematography: The Art of Making The Simple, Complicated.
Best Documentary: PRONOUNS, LGBTQIA+ AND GENDER IDENTITY
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
PRONOUNS, LGBTQIA+ AND GENDER IDENTITY, 11min., Australia
Directed by Eve Ash, Peter Quarry
Lore Burns and Peter Quarry share their personal gender identity experiences, and recount the challenges presented by traditional binary views. They provide heart warming insights into contemporary ideas and attitudes.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MY MOTHER, MY SELF, 3min., Drama
Directed by Lary Campbell
It’s December 1991 and a man tell his mother he’s been diagnosed with HIV.
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OUTRAGEOUS: THE QUEER HISTORY OF AUSTALIAN TV, 60min., Australia
Directed by Andrew Mercado
Every LGBT milestone happened on Australian TV in the 1970s, years before the rest of the world. And nobody ever saw it, because the nudity, adult stories and queer themes from these TV series could never have been tolerated on commercial TV anywhere outside of Australia. This documentary event, which includes a specially edited episode of Number 96 to highlight several queer stories, will finally set the record straight
https://www.instagram.com/outrageousdoco/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
No One Knows I’m A Dog On The Internet, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by Nate King
“No One Knows I’m A Dog On The Internet” explores digital taboos, kink subculture, and ideas of privacy in an age of twitter porn and onlyfans. Referencing the 1993 New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, King performs and composites an online identity of puppy play, a popular underground kink expression in LGBTQ+ spaces. King questions if we are able to share ourselves online while still retaining a sense of privacy. Despite being out as a gay and queer man over a decade and having explored pup play and other kink for years, King highlights a his own self-consciousness toward others finding out about his sex life. The piece is a way to unabashedly claim that space and recon with his own self judgments.
https://www.instagram.com/king_final.mov
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
FIRST POSITION, 5min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Mallory Clarke
A person who hates all their clothes struggles to decide what to wear to a house party. At the party they see their ex-it’s-complicated with a new partner. A tense interaction sparks a nascent lifestyle change.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
The Art of Making The Simple, Complicated., 15min., Mexico
Directed Karla Enriqueta Noriega, Maria Jose Noriega
Makos, a full grown adult, is visited by her mother from Mexico. She has to decide if is time to come out of the closet, after almost 30 years in secrecy.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LIKE SON, LIKE FATHER, 17min., USA
Directed by Mark Bethea
15-year-old Harry came out as gay via a YouTube video while his Army Ranger father was deployed in Afghanistan. Upon his return, Father and Son have a heart-to-heart talk at the beach where the father reveals a secret of his own…
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LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival 