Lily Festival (Yurisai)
Su nday J une 20 I 1 : 3 0 p m I Roxie
Liberty: 3 Stories About Life & Death
S unday June 20 I 4:00 pm I Castro
$6 members I $7 general I LETS20R
Thursday June 24 I 6:00 pm I Roxie
$6 members I $7 general I LlLY20C
Let's Get Real
In 2002, the National Mental Health Association asserted
$8 members I $9 general I Ll BE24R
that gay, lesbian, bisexu a l , and transgender stude nts
Acclaimed local fi lmmaker Pam Walton (OUT IN SUBUR
hear anti-gay slurs roughly twenty-six times a day.
BIA, Best Documentary SFILGFF 1986) returns with an
It's a topic many queer kids avoid talking about
intimate documentary centering on her own "family" of
but today, bullying has escalated to epidemic proportions
lesbian friends who, since the 1 970s, have shared love,
in middle schools nationwide. LET'S GET REAL, the latest
relationships, Pride parades, births, sorrows, and joys.
documentary by Academy Awa rd-wi n n i ng fi l m m a ke r
Only recently have they also begun to deal with losing
Debra Chasnoff, addresses t h e de leterious effects of
their sisters. Walton weaves together a trio of touching
both short- and long-term physical and emotional intim
portraits of remarka ble women battling ill ness and deal
idation of one student by a nother.
ing with mortality and loss.
LET'S GET REAL is being used by The Respect for All
"Death to Life" traces the struggles of a woman with
Project (a Women's Educational Media program), which
a life-threatening brain tu mor, and the rallying support
trains and educates school leaders about diversity issues.
of her immediate com munity. A self-described "strong
The film neither recommends a zero-tolerance policy nor
woman" to her core, Joyce Walton had a zest for life .
provides educators with suggested-only remedies. The
Walton starts with Joyce's last days and works backward
students provide the lessons themselves, ta lking in real
in time, showing how illness robbed her of her spirited
terms about real abuse, courageously demonstrating the pain of being branded a "fag," "geek," "nigger," "slut," or other defaming epithet. Chasnoff also presents bull ies attempting to con
essence and took her well before her time. Friends say that Mary Bell Wilson "danced through life . " A Bi rkenstock- c l a d , cat- doti ng, wo man- loving woman, Mary Bell vowed to ride on the back of a Dykes
front their own prejud ices. The collective testi monials
on Bikes motorcycle before her death. " Life to Death" is
are brave, honest, ignorant, fearfu l, i n nocent, challeng
a tribute to her courageous fight with lymphoma.
ing, and real .
Mond ay June 21 I 9:1 5 pm
I
Parkway
$8 members I $9 general I LlLY2lP
With as much bravado as the bustling NYC subway
Frameline i nvites viewers t o j o i n a special Q&A
cars she rides upon, Nan Golu b's dynamic personal ity
discussion following the screening, featuring LET'S GET
fi lls the screen with a charged energy of excitement and
REAL producers Helen S. Cohen and Kate Sti lley. Learn
LI LY FESTIVAL is what ha ppens' when a fi lmmaker who specializes in "pink eiga" soft-core Japanese erotic films takes on the task of dramatizing the sexual lives of post menopausal women. Director Sachi Hamano released over 300 low-budget, adult-themed films in Japan, all from an unapologetic female perspective. LI LY FESTIVAL, funded in part by individual donations from over 12,000 Japanese women, is a lush celebration of sex and romance after sixty, poetic and lyrical in its storytelling, yet explosive and radical in its politics. Mr. Miyoshi, sti ll a player at 75 years old, moves into an apartment building where seven "golden girls" have been l iving in senior citizen sisterhood. He brazenly romances each one, awakening their dormant sensuality. The blo o m i ng l i ly beco mes the visual m eta p h o r for orgasm, and soon the li lies are everywhere. Suddenly, the courtyard is full of lusty women breaking out of their shells of repressed desire, all emerging from a real-life makeover guided by this mysterious, beret-wearing Casanova. Fear not, the lesbian pay-off is worth waiting for. A sake-laden dinner pa rty for M iyoshi bri ngs the women closer than they ever i magined . Ultimately, they realize that the best sex after sixty is with each other.
end less possibilities. " Life" i ntroduces this vivacious
- WENDY LEVY
how The Respect for All Project is i m pacting schools
painter as a survivor of child hood abuse who overcomes
across the country.
loss and sadness with humor and intense artistic vigor.
LILY F� STIVAL dir Sachi Hamano 2001 Japan 100 min 35mm in Japanese with English subtitles
LET'S GET REAL
- JIM NORRENA
dir Debra Chasnoff 2003 USA 3 5 min video
TOTAL P R O G RAM T I M E :
75 min
LIBERTY: 3 STOR I ES ABOUT LIFE & Carranza 2003 USA 55 min video
DEATH
dirs Pam Walton & Ruth
New Leaf: Services For Our Com munity and Lesbian & Gay Agi ng Issues Network of the American Society of Aging
C O - P R ES ENTED B Y
SPONSO R E D BY
C O - P R ESENTED BY
Japan Society of Northern California
SPONSORED BY
T H E S A N F R A N C I S C O F O U N D AT I O N The Commun(ry Foundation of the B� Area
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