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Jessie follows the haunting of a ghost girl who visits her great great niece and starts cause chaos in their lives. CAST LIST: Narrator: Shawn Devlin Anna: Hannah Ehman Susie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

A queer Iranian woman in Toronto becomes haunted by a malevolent jinn, unleashed through her devout mother’s supernatural attempts to ‘heal’ her, forcing her to confront deep-seated familial trauma and an ancient force threatening to consume her identity and life. https://www.instagram.com/TALAMOTAZEDI CAST LIST: Narrator: Shawn Devlin Aunt: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Zahra: Hannah Ehman

A highly sensitive, two-spirit person living above their adopted parent’s appliance store has their life turned upside down when they learn their two “stillborn” babies may still be alive (now teens) and that their recurring childhood nightmare of the alien abduction of their birth parents may have truth to it. CAST LIST: Narrator: Shawn Devlin… Continue reading LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: Pocketful of Mondays, by Lindsey Morrison Grant

When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that a year later the President of Harvard will summon him to an interrogation threatening his business, his friends faced with expulsion, after his lover is found dead. Inspired by true events. CAST LIST: Narrator:… Continue reading LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: HARVARD V DREYFUS, by Connor Harrington-Brandt

A criminal gang of Drag Queens gets more than they bargained for in the pursuit of stolen royal jewels. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Lips: Shawn Devlin Ruthless Ruth: Hannah Ehman

Summary: Teo is a straight man who has a hard time settling down, on the other end, Zan is a gay man who doesn’t know how to casually date. The two of them end up helping each other out with their dating issues, until it’s quite clear that they are in love with each other.… Continue reading LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: CAN I KEEP YOU?, by Xavion Niles