Author: lgbttorontofilmfestival

Four individuals from the queer community reflect on struggles and personal triumphs that universally translate to open minds and those of a willingness to learn and understand.A visual experience that gives open access to an artistic photoshoot in which the individuals celebrate their queer bodies and complete a journey of expression and self-love. Project Links… Continue reading Short Film: LIBRE – A CELEBRATION OF THE QUEER BODY, 16min., Ireland, Documentary

Shaleece Haas is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and a director based in Los Angeles. TEXAS STRONG, a film she produced in 2018, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary and premiered at SXSW. In 2020, she co-produced the final episode of the Peabody-winning PBS series ASIAN AMERICANS and was a consulting producer on… Continue reading Director BIO: Shaleece Haas (TO THE FUTURE, WITH LOVE)

To the Future, With Love is an animated self-portrait of 19-year-old Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez, a nonbinary trans boy caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living happily ever after with his long-distance boyfriend Damienne. Project Links  Facebook

FEATURE FILM SHOWCASE – Winner BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM for 2021 Toronto LGBTQ+ Film Festival. OUT LOUD, 52min., USA, Documentary Directed by Gail Willumsen OUT LOUD chronicles the first season of the historic Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, the largest group of transgender and gender nonconforming people anywhere in the world who regularly sing together.… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: September Feature 2021 LGBTQ+ FEEDBACK Film Festival

Showcase of the best SHORT FILMS in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Film: UNDETECTABLE Best Cinematography: CHINA DOLL – A MANY SPLENDORED QUEEN! Best Sound & Music: REMEMBERING MARTY CHERNOFF Theme of night: Life Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: UNDETECTABLE, 42min., Canada, Documentary CHINA DOLL – A MANY SPLENDORED QUEEN!, 22min., Canada, Documentary… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: SEPTEMBER DOCUMENTARY 2021 LGBTQ+ FEEDBACK Film Festival

THE ART OF SIN, 58min., Norway, Documentary Directed by Ibrahim Mursal After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and western influences. In 2015, he came out as gay on Facebook, making him the first openly gay man from Sudan, this… Continue reading Feature Film Trailer: THE ART OF SIN, 56min., Documentary, Norway

Short Film: DIARY ROOM, 20min., USA, Comedy/Drama While abroad, Sam encounters a handful of strangers who inadvertently guide him in confronting the deep, dark truths he revealed on the reality show Big Brother. DIARY ROOM: A new dramatic comedy starring & written by award-winning filmmaker Brett Epstein.

DILF is a comedy drama following JACK NOVAC, a 37-year-old father who’s just lost his wife and has been carrying a secret his whole life. He’s gay. CAST LIST: Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Jack: Geoff Mays Diane : Kyana Teresa ——-

An intelligently profound Transgender female, seeks to establish her dominance as one of the top defense attorneys in the Nation’s Capital of Washington, DC, but must face the demons of her troubled past as a male, before setting her sights on a promising future. CAST LIST: Narration: Steve Rizzo Melissa: Hannah Ehman Mrs. King: Kyana… Continue reading LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: Her Defense, by Anthony E. Commodore

In 1885, a lesbian First Lady moves into the White House to support her brother, a conservative president, and finds herself caught between two worlds, both of the ‘old’ and the ‘new’: the old society of white politicians and army heroes, and the new society of feminists, black aristocrats, and the cross-dressing LGBTQ community. (Based… Continue reading LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: Lafayette Square, by Katherine Martinez DeLeon