Program
Feb 10
Feb 11
Feb 12
5-7 pm
MANUAL FOR BORED GIRLS - Short
Two friends are home alone in a boring summer evening. Director: Jesus Plaza, Spain
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
STRIP - Short
A freshly divorced businessman in a Las Vegas bar gets more than he gambled for when a blonde siren invites him to her hotel suite. Director: Michael Jortner
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
ACID TEST - Short
An unusual event makes two friends decide to take HIV test. A comedic look at HIV testing! Director: Tim Bierbaum
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
RITES OF PASSAGE - Short
Rites of Passage documents the story of Maya (Mohammed) Jafer, a 42-year old Indo-Muslim transsexual female, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in early 2011. This film follows her through the moments leading towards and during her surgery, capturing her in times of utmost vulnerability and ecstasy. Director: Jeff Roy
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
CYCLICITY - Short
Cyclicity is a girl meets girl love story that explores philosophical themes and contemporary romance while showing the life of a relationship, from beginning to end, from the first hopeful spark of attraction to the painful final goodbyes. Director: Jason Knade
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
VESSEL FOR MY HEART - Short
"Vessel For My Heart" explores the lives, perceptions, and experiences of transgender, gender queer, gender-variant, and trans* ally individuals. Director: Ryan Lexi
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
SLATE - Short
Slate is a story of a male hustler who finds love in unusual circumstances. Director: Eric La Barr & Efrem Towns
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
SOY JUANA - Short
Juana goes through decisive moments in his life and wonders how he can be what he really is rather than what other people expect him to be. Director: Laura Bondel, Argentina
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
DONATE BLOOD - Short
A PSA on gay/bisexual men's right to donate blood. Director: Edward Cuddy
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
7-9 pm
MARRIED IN SPANDEX - Feature Documentary
"Married in Spandex" is a love story about Amanda and Rachel, a young lesbian couple who decide to go from Philadelphia to Ames, Iowa to get married by gold lame devotee and lady rapper Leslie Hall. While the couple begins the trip as a wacky adventure for themselves and their friends, it quickly becomes a family affair in an unfamiliar state.
Director will be present for Q & A after the screening.
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
2:30-4 pm
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE - Feature Documentary
"The Doctor's Wife" explores the journey of a gay couple who move from urban Brisbane to Country Queensland, Australia. Director: Jonathan Duffy, Australia
Time: 2:30-4 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
4:30-6 pm
STILL HERE - Short
"New York City native Randy Baron has been infected with HIV for 30 years, making him an inadvertent witness to the AIDS epidemic. Today, he has given his life new meaning by working to help to prevent the spread of the disease that devastated his life and the lives of his friends. Director: Alex Camilleri
Time: 4:30-6 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
HENRY AND ANTHONY - Short
A father and son who cannot quite understand each other must find a way to meet in the middle. Director: Spencer W. Richards
Time: 4:30-6 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
COFFEE & PIE - Short
A couple must come to term with the fact that theirs is a love that could never be. Director: Douglas Horn
Time: 4:30-6 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
BIG DADDY'S GIRL - Short
Overweight and uninspired Millie attempts to finally reconcile with her father, but his half-naked male companions keep getting in the way. Director: Reid Waterer
Time: 4:30-6 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
6-8 pm
RIGHT TO LOVE: AN AMERICAN FAMILY - Feature Documentary
With the majority of Americans voting against the rights of a minority, the issue of Marriage Equality has the country torn apart. One family took action to show the world how normal and loving a gay family can be. Director will be present for Q & A after the screening. Director: Casie Jaye
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
8-10 pm
THE GREEN - Feature
The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a locavore caterer. Michael's world is turned upside-down when he is accused of engaging in "inappropriate behavior" with a male student, who runs away from home leaving behind his financially-strapped mother and her mercenary boyfriend to capitalize on the school's culpability in the alleged affair. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers, the latent homophobia of his friends and neighbors, and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence after the investigation reveals a secret from his past. Director: Steven Williford
Time: 8-10 pm
Location: Jaqua Center
4-5 pm
SOMETHING BLUE - Short
Filmed in UK, Something Blue is a moving and uplifting film that makes its audience reconsider its attitudes to things outside the accepted norms and rejoice in the pain and beauty of a parent that loves its child unconditionally. Director: Rebekah Fortune.
Time: 4-5 pm
Location: Bijou Art Cinemas
Iceberg - Short
Floating icebergs have a significant proportion of their mass below the surface of the water and so does life. Iceberg is a story about being who you truly are and the difficult choices we have to make to succeed on this. Director: Angela Liu.
Time: 4-5 pm
Location: Bijou Art Cinemas
Slant - Short
Slant, set in Palm Springs, California, and inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, tells the story of a gay man in his early 50's looking for romantic connection long after the loss of his partner to AIDS. Director: Stephen Soucy.
Time: 4-5 pm
Location: Bijou Art Cinemas
5-7 pm
Circumstance - Feature Film
Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls -- wealthy Atafeh and orphaned Shireen -- discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls anywhere, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into. Director: Maryam Keshavarz.
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Bijou Art Cinemas
7-9 pm
BALLROOM RULES - Feature Documentary
Ballroom Rules follows Anny and her students through the highs and lows of their training in Melbourne, Australia as they prepare for the 2010 Gay Games in Germany. As they prepare for the biggest event of their lives, Anny and her students must battle injury, personal drama and entrenched homophobia from the mainstream ballroom dancing community and the world in general. Ballroom Rules provides a unique look at people who live proudly outside what society views as the "norm" and the universal passion that drives us all. Director: Eleanor Sharpe.
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: Bijou Art Cinemas
Film Submissions
Submissions for the 2012 Queer Film Festival are closed.
Submissions for 2013 will open in September, 2012.
About
Founded in 1992, this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the University of Oregon Queer Film Festival. One of the first film festivals of its kind in the NorthWest.
The Queer Film Festival aims to support LGBTQ community through films. We are a multicultural, multiethnic festival that is open to many different ways of expression.
The main objectives of the festival are:
- To give a voice to LGBTQ community.
- To bring those voices to a educational setting for exposure and discussion.
- To showcase the talent of our international and domestic filmmakers.
QFF Cultural Forum 1228 University of Oregon, EMU Suite 5, Eugene, OR 97403-1228