OUTakes by Harrah’s Come out and enjoy “OUTakes,” a new feature of the Film Festival made possible by Harrah’s New Orleans. In this sidebar, we proudly feature LGBT-related films from around the world that range from narrative shorts to documentary features.
USA / 2011 / 43 min
USA / 2011 / 74 min
(A)sexual
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Noah’s Canoe
Sunday, October 16 at 2:20 p.m. Theatres at Canal Place
Monday, October 17, at 9:00 p.m. Harrah’s Theater
DIR: Angela Tucker PROD: Katy Chevigny, Beth Davenport, Jolene Pinder CAM: Jolene Pinder, Jason Blalock ED: Michelle Chang
DIR/PROD/CAM: Juliet Brown ED: Katherine Lee
*Filmmakers scheduled to attend.
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DIR: Nancy Schwartzman USA / 2010 / 11 min
Two awkward American teenagers fall in love via Skype.
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Brookton Hollow
DIR: Joshua Smith
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(A)sexual follows the growth of a community that experiences no sexual attraction. In 2000, David Jay came out to his parents. He was asexual and was fine with it. And he was not alone. Studies show that 1% of the population is asexual. But in a society obsessed with sex, how do you deal with life as an outsider? Combining intimate interviews, vérité footage, and animation with fearless humor and pop culture imagery, David and our four other characters grapple with this universal question, and the outcomes might surprise you.
Noah’s dream has always been to move back home to the North Woods of Maine and work with his father building wooden canoes. But every time he tries to return to his father’s canoe shop he is overcome with fear. The mystery of the film unfolds as Noah and his mother talk of the decade that Noah lived with physical illness. Noah’s voice is heard reading a letter to friends and family as we see shots of an icy northern lake. “10 years ago I awoke to sickness...recently I have discovered how and why my body has spent a decade in this turmoil. The truth that has been so long hidden from even my own consciousness is that I am transgender... The parts of me that are surfacing have been suffocated and tortured...I will now be going by the name Noah. I have been waiting years for this.” The film follows Noah as he finds the courage to go home. There he confronts the ghosts within himself and the constant reflection of ‘Holly,’ the person he used to be. A healing that he never expected begins as Noah finds his place as a man in a family of his own.
USA / 2010 / 11 min
*Filmmaker scheduled to attend. A farm boy learns that his cow and only friend must be killed because meat is running low. As night falls, a mysterious young man draws the boy deep into the forest who holds a secret that could save his cow and change the boy’s life forever.
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