Centerpiece Film! Austin Premiere! Director H.P. Mendoza and Lead Actress L.A. Renigen in attendance!
H.P. Mendoza, screenwriter of the audience favorite COLMA: THE MUSICAL, is back with another film brimming with song, dance and lighthearted fun.
Filipina performance artist, Bethesda, is searching for her biological parents while living in a colorful artist commune in San Francisco’s Castro district. Through song and dance we learn about the fears, hopes and dreams of Bethesda and her roommates as well as the fact that Bethesda just might be a closet “fag-hag.”
Wildly inventive, highly entertaining and at-times irresistibly raunchy, Fruit Fly will be sure to carry you away on its melodious wings. This screening will be accompanied by a surprise that you won’t want to miss!
Thank you for helping make aGLIFF 22 one of the most successful festivals in recent memory! Despite pouring rains and power outages, we still managed to pull off a great festival with your support. Thank you.
Now, as we already begin planning for our Oscar Party, aGLIFF 23 and other events throughout the coming year, we would like to hear from you regarding your thoughts on aGLIFF 22 as well as how we might make aGLIFF even better for 2010.
The survey (link to the right) will take approximately 5 minutes and all of you that complete the survey will be entered to win one of several great prizes including an all-access pass to aGLIFF 23, $50 gift certificate to Kerbey Lane as well as film passes to both the Paramount and our monthly brunch screenings currently being held at the Alamo Ritz.
Your opinions are important to us not only for planning 2010, but also for the grants we apply to throughout the year to keep the festival running.So, PLEASE, take a few minutes and share your feedback with us.
We cannot thank everyone enough that came out and made AGLIFF 2009 the biggest and best AGLIFF to date! Be sure to check back to the website when we announce the results of the MY QUEER MOVIE competition. Coming soon!
After the longest, hottest summer in Texas history, aGLIFF movie-goers experienced torrential rainstorms late Saturday evening. Due to the severe weather, electricity was lost at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.
REMAINING SATURDAY SCREENINGS ARE RUNNING 30-45 minutes behind, but will go on screen as programmed. All online ticket purchases will be honored.
In order to bring the festival back online and preserve the integrity of our programming for aGLIFF22, we have canceled Sens Interdits (Forbidden Paths) which was scheduled to premiere at 12:00pm on Sunday, September 13th.
In its place, we are programming Swimming with Lesbians, one of the films cancelled because of the severe weather. This rescheduled screening will begin at 11:45am, and feature two of the subjects of the film in attendance.
All online ticket holders for Sens Interdits will have the choice to enter this new screening, or exchange their tickets for a refund or complimentary ticket to another aGLIFF22 film.
We apologize for the inconvenience. See you at the movies!
We now have a flickr account! See what’s going on during the festival and at the exclusive parties HERE.
I hope everyone is enjoying the festival so far! There have been some great films (and shorts) this year. See you all at the centerpiece film ANTIQUE tonight at 6:30pm. See the trailer HERE.
DEAR DAD, LOVE MARIA will screen before the centerpiece film with Director Vince Mascoli in attendance!
And don’t forget about our fabulous Centerpiece Party at Franks (located downtown at 407 Colorado) following the screening (9-11pm).
The forecast calls for rain all weekend, so why not spend the day watching some quality queer cinema? Screenings start at noon on Saturday and Sunday.
First-time filmmaker Kate Turinski had her AGLIFF premiere tonight with her documentary SISSYBOY after receiving much attention after her SXSW screening. The film follows the outrageous gender-bending performance art/drag troupe in their last year of existence. Founded by Mark “Zebra” Thomas, the troupe held monthly shows in Portland, exposing the monsters in society by becoming the monsters themselves in their own performances. Each of the twelve members created their own eccentric personas. It’s hairspray, glamour, tattoos, bad makeup, and booze all in the name of satire and bad taste. John Waters would be proud.
See the TRAILER, and get a glimpse into a different style of drag that would make Liza (with a Z!) faint and make Courtney Love blush.
I was watching some of the press screeners of some of the shorts that will be playing at the festival, and I am so excited for everyone to see these films! Don’t forget about the shorts that will be playing before some of the movies (see your AGLIFF festival guide for details! Don’t have one? Get out of the house and get one! They’re all over town!). Everyone knows the big feature films playing (don’t you?), but don’t forget about the shorts! They play before each feature. But never fear! I am here to enlighten you all about some of the highlights for the upcoming festival (ahem, in 6 days).
The short film called Four Steps made me gasp with delight as actress Thea Gill nonchalantly appears reading in a cafe. Don’t recognize the name? How about Lindsay Peterson from the loved/hated Showtime series Queer as Folk.
Thea Gill in Four Steps
It always excites me to see actors/actresses the cast out and about in post-QAF life (like seeing Gale Harold/Brian Kinney on Desperate Housewives).
I don’t want to reveal too much of the film (as it is a 15 minute short), but it is about a listless lesbian going through gaydar bootcamp. It’s campy. It’s cute. Go see it. I (and the programmers) recommend it!
Four Steps will be playing before Hannah Free on Saturday, September 12th at 4:55 pm (both are Programmer’s Pick!).
Launch Party with the film’s Director Sebastian Cordoba to Follow
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: Screening 7pm, Launch Party 8:30pm Place: The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Spirit Theatre Admission: $5
This screening is free for Members of aGLIFF, AFF, AFS, Cine las Americas, and TSHM.
aGLIFF will begin its Monthly Screening series with THROUGH THICK AND THIN, a documentary by filmmaker Sebastian Cordoba, who will be in attendance. This screening is also a collaboration with the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Altered Lives: An Immigration Film Series.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN follows the extraordinary stories of seven bi-national gay and lesbian couples whose lives are dramatically affected by the current state of immigration laws in the United States. Cordoba intimately captures integral moments of each of the couples as they struggle to stay together at whatever cost, sometimes demonstrating that love does not conquer all.
For some couples, this means immigrating to a different country, while others try to maintain a semblance of normalcy by commuting between distant places overseas. And, for some of them, in which the foreign partner is already illegal, they try to keep things as they are while avoiding the scrutiny of immigration enforcement.
The immigration rights issue is a sensitive and personal one to the director, Sebastian Cordoba, who will join us to discuss the film and his own experience as he was in a binational relationship with an American citizen and has struggled with this very issue first-hand. In fact, he was able to maintain a working visa status by producing this documentary.
aGLIFF will host a launch party for its Monthly Screening Series as well as the launch of the Texas State History Museum’s Immigration Film Series outside the Spirit Theatre following the screening.
