Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival 2013

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Death To Prom

11 The Little House That Could 13 Gay Shorts 15 Chastity Bites 17 Lunatic from the Gracious

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Days: An Evening with Ruth Dix 19 Lesbian Shorts 21 I Am Divine 22 The Most Divine Movie Star

in the World: Memories of Divine 25 Route of Acceptance 27 Hot Guys with Guns ROUTE OF ACCEPTANCE Page 25

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Film Schedule

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Welcome

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Prizes / Judges / Nominees

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Premiere Night

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SUNDAY FEATURES 30 Doc Shorts 31 The Rugby Player

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32 Southern Baptist Sissies

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Matthew Socey

Host of The Blues House Party and Film Soceyology for NPR - WFYI 90.1 FM. Writer for NUVO Newsweekly.

Director, writer and actor.

JUDGES

Nicole Misencik

SkyTrak Weather Meteorologist at NBC affiliate WTHR, Channel 13 in Indianapolis.

TEENS LIKE PHIL Directors: Dominic Haxton, David Rosler

Michael Barclay

Student, historian, curator and board member of Girls Rock!

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Annie Zoll

Sales specialist and tabletop expert at Downtown Indianapolis business ZESCO.com.

Emmett Cooper and Naieem Abdool Creators of Indianapolis-based salon Emmetts The Studio and the Emmetts Haircare line.

Love, loss, questions of identity and personal freedom: These five films explore those topics in fresh, interesting and provocative ways. These are our nominees for the 2013 Best of Festival Awards. The film winning first place receives an award of $1,000. The second place film is awarded $500. The winners are selected by our panel of judges and announced on Premiere Night.

BARBIE BOY Director: Nick Corporon

CHASER Director: Sal Bardo

POLAROID GIRL Director: April Maxey

THE RUGBY PLAYER Director: Scott Gracheff

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UPCOMING FESTIVAL EVENTS

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• 1/2 Price Martinis • Preview Film Festival Trailers • Special Prize Drawings and more!

PROGRAM EDITOR Courtney Nguyen OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER Eileen Keenan ART DIRECTION / GRAPHIC DESIGN Matthew Mutchmore

LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST

WEBSITE Tracy Robbins Smith SPECIAL THANKS: Petra Fippen Catherine Crouch

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PREMIERE FEATURE

Director: Darren Stein, USA, 94 Minutes There could be no better way to open this year’s festival than with G.B.F., a groundbreaking twist on the classic teen comedy. When closet-case Tanner (Michael J. Willett, United States of Tara) is outed by his high school’s overeager Gay Straight Alliance, he becomes a hot commodity for three teen queens who believe that a G.B.F. – “gay best friend” – is this season’s must-have accessory.

More powerful than any bullies, fashionista Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse, Pretty Little Liars), drama queen Caprice (Xosha Roquemore, Precious) and red-headed ’Shley (Andrea Bowen, Desperate Housewives) stop at nothing to score Tanner as their pet, even if it means driving a wedge between him and his real G.B.F. Brent (Paul Iacono, The Hard Times of RJ Berger).

Director Darren Stein’s flashy, hilarious comedy about the changing landscape of high school acceptance features riotously funny performances by Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black), Will & Grace star Megan Mullally, SNL’s Horatio Sanz and Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch, as the school’s feisty homophobe.

With the most quotable one-liners since Mean Girls, and ingenious references to your favorite teen films and shows, including Sixteen Candles, Carrie and Glee, G.B.F. will leave you feeling gaymazing for weeks.

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SOMETHING REAL

Director: Guy Shalem, USA, 9 Minutes In this celebrity-packed short, with a musical twist, the gay bar scene becomes something to sing about.

A young man decides to leave his lover, and must now wade through a sea of lost souls. This comedic, ultimately romantic film reaffirms our never ending hope that the right guy is out there.

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Directors: Matthew Stenerson and Jeremy Wilker, USA, 94 Minutes Rene and Frankie make the best of going to high school by dreaming up high-fashion photo shoots, and bribing their siblings to model for them. Rene is as gay as the day is long, loves his fashion magazines and designing clothes. Frankie lives for her dark eye shadow, her camera, and punk rock. The drama they dream up in their fashion shoots becomes very real when they end up fighting over their classmate, Sasha.

They quickly become friends with Sasha even though his soccer mates don’t exactly approve. Sasha is a shy soccer player with a soft spot for poetry by Pushkin and a secret dream to ask Frankie to prom. Frankie accepts his invitation despite the fact that she’s already agreed to be Rene’s date.

Death to Prom is a bizarre love triangle loaded with enough glamour and attitude for Project Runway, but with enough heart to make Molly Ringwald bite her lip with anticipation. In a time when the pressures to conform in school can reach tragic consequences, Death to Prom strives to show positive, smart, yet fabulously-flawed characters that teens (and former teens) can relate to.

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LECTURE HALL SATURDAY 12:30PM

Director: Mars Roberge, USA, 100 Minutes Patricia Field’s six seasons as costume designer on Sex and the City earned her several Emmys and widespread acclaim in the fashion industry, and the distinction—which she only grudgingly acknowledges—of setting sartorial trends ranging from rosettes to nameplate necklaces. But this flamboyant tribute to Field focuses instead on the relationships she cultivated with the people she employed, collaborated with, and mentored at her iconoclastic boutique, The House of Field in downtown NYC. Field served as a den mother to a sprawling community of queer and trans artists, performers, and club kids throughout much of the ’80s and ’90s.

In a series of interviews, dozens of members of this generation offer testimonials to the designer’s influence on their lives and on American culture at large. Basquiat, Warhol, Bowie, Haring, Boy George, Bette Midler, Lady Bunny, Kenny Kenny, Juliette Lewis—who hasn’t passed through Field’s world? Coupled with appearances by icons such as Amanda Lepore and World Famous Bob, as well as archival footage of drag balls and reminiscences from the chain-smoking Field herself, the film is a testament to a time, a place, a community, and one woman’s influence on it all.

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BARBIE BOY

Director: Nick Corporon, USA, 14 Minutes Bobby is an imaginative 7-year-old whose favorite toy is the classic Barbie doll. His father’s disapproval sends Bobby on an emotional search to find what he should be playing with and the ultimate choice between identities: the quirky boy who plays with dolls; or the boy his father wants him to be.

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THE DIVINE DECADENCE OF CHEESECAKE Director: Peter Savieri, Australia, 14 Minutes Ash is sent a highly erotic piece of Golden Girls fan-fiction. As he’s drawn into their hilariously lusty world, his masculine and feminine sides split, gorgeously.

LUCA Director: Roger Scott, Australia, 8 Minutes Luca takes his long-term relationship with Felix for granted until a freak accident changes everything.

Waking up from a coma, Luca experiences a dramatic change. Alone in a strange world, he must fight to reclaim his identity and relationship.

WE ARE ANIMALS Director: Dominic Haxton, USA, 13 Minutes In a dystopian timeline, the government carries out a barrage of frightening regulations; enforcing quarantines, reinstating sodomy laws, and encouraging gay men to take a prescription drug that suppresses their libido.

TEENS LIKE PHIL Directors: Dominic Haxton, David Rosler, USA, 20 Minutes Phil, a shy, insecure teenager growing up in a affluent suburb, is trapped in the painful throes of adolescence. Phil is picked on by his former friend, and love interest, Adam. Adam frequently lashes out with violence against Phil and enjoys humiliating him in the locker room.

As the bullying intensifies, both at school and at home, the surprising back story of Phil and Adam's ill-fated relationship is revealed.

HUMAN WARMTH Director: Christophe Predari, Belgium, 11 Minutes Antoine loves being close to Bruno. He loves his warmth. He needs it.

What happens when the body stops responding?

ALASKA IS A DRAG Director: Shaz Bennett, USA, 14 Minutes Leo stands out in a crowd. That’s not always a good thing working in a fish cannery in Alaska. His dreams of leaving his small town are hard fought, until a new boy moves to town and sees him for who he really is—an international superstar.

MEET ANNA Director: Robert L. Goodman, USA, 2 Minutes Anna Phylaxis comes to America and dances to the music of the streets.

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LECTURE HALL SATURDAY 2:45PM

Director: John V. Knowles, USA, 95 Minutes Mean Girls meets Vincent Price in this campy horror flick that is fabulously filled with lesbian eroticism, witty feminism and virginal blood.

Taking its cue from the popular horror-comedy films of the 1950s, Chastity Bites centers around a small-town high school whose new abstinence-only Sex Education teacher Liz Batho (Louise Griffiths) is actually the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, countess from the 16th century who bathed in the blood of virgins in order to stay young and beautiful forever. The treatment apparently works, because she's still at in 21st century America, only virgins are a lot harder to come by. Fortunately, a group of the school's rich, shallow, popular girls, dubbed "the Hiltons" by those not in the clique, are eager to join Ms. Batho's exclusive chastity club–not from any actual desire to protect their virtue, but in the hope that it will lead to a possible deal for a reality series.

More skeptical of their teacher's intentions is Leah (Allison Scagliotti, Warehouse 13), social outcast, staunch feminist, and hard-hitting reporter for the school paper. Can she finally put an end to the “Blood Countess’s” reign of terror, and save her best friend from becoming the next victim? Director John V. Knowles has served up a film destined to be a camp classic, one that is genuinely funny, scary and clearly celebratory of Girl Power!

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CANDY

Director: Mark Bessenger, USA, 8 Minutes Handy trolls the 976 sex chat lines looking for someone to hook up with.

When college student Vic gets cold feet and bails, Handy takes matters into his own hands, in this lesson about the dangers of sharing a bed.

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Director: Kent J. Henry, USA, 60 Minutes This heartfelt, hilarious comedy showcases the journey of legendary Indianapolis entertainer and entrepreneur, Ruth Dix (a.k.a. Gary Ooley). The film includes interviews with Ruth and many previously never-before-shown performances from the 1980s. Ruth shares a multitude of stories, from his birth in Indianapolis, his first time performing and many more, all told with his signature wit and humor. The performances highlight his talent and reconfirm his legendary status.

This is Kent J. Henry's third film to premiere at the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival.

In 2009 his film Union County was shown and in 2010, Talbott Street 1980-1986 won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and set attendance records. Don’t miss this chance to experience (or re-experience) Hoosier nightlife in the eighties.

Rated "R" for Ruth!

Talbott Street, 1982.

Left: Kent J. Henry presents Ruth with the Miss Entertainer Award.

Right: Vintage Ruth Dix at Talbott Street Performance Flyer.

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(A)TYPICAL COUPLE

Directors: Masa Zia Lenardic, Anja Wutej, UK, 6 Minutes A typical day in a typical life of a typical couple trying to communicate their way through their typical relationship.

2ND BEST

Directors: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, USA, 8 Minutes A pesky set of IKEA furniture and an empty fridge test the patience of one couple.

IT GETS BITTER

Director: Laura Terruso, USA, 1 Minute It Gets Bitter is a hilariously refreshing, albeit cynical, take on Dan Savage’s online video campaign.

SAM Director: Sal Bardo, USA, 11 Minutes After being bullied and beaten at school for pretending to be a boy, Sam escapes into the fields surrounding her house, to think.

FINISH LINE Director: Gina Pei Chi Chen, Canada, 13 Minutes Angeni, a young female track star, who dreams of becoming the fastest runner in the world, is forced to undergo the sex verification test due to her ultra masculine appearance and exceptional performance.

A WORD TO YOUNG LADIES Director: M. Catherine Jonet, USA, 5 Minutes Mixing ephemeral films with a 1942 Superman cartoon, A Word to Young Ladies lightheartedly disrupts "puberty films" by letting loose the irresponsible presence of same-sex desire and resistance to gender norms.

LIE TO YOU Director: Adam Newell, USA, 6 Minutes Dana Fox must sacrifice her greatest possession in order to survive an unwanted future.

Only when a person has no choices do they realize a lie is more important than the truth.

This film was created as part of the 48 Hour Film Project, a wild and sleepless weekend in which a team has only 48 hours to write, produce and edit a short film.

POLAROID GIRL Director: April Maxey, USA, 17 Minutes Sofie is a shy and timid aspiring photographer when she meets June, who runs a vintage camera shop. Something clicks, and as the two take off on a photography mission, Sofie learns a thing or two about standing up for herself.

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Director: Jeffrey Schwarz USA, 85 Minutes Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz (director of Vito and Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story) celebrates the life and legendary career of Harris Glenn Milstead, known as Divine—John Waters’s fearless muse and an international drag icon.

Divine’s triumphant ascent is the ultimate underdog story, as he transformed himself from a bullied fat kid in working-class Baltimore to a larger-than-life celebrity, starring in the notorious trash classics Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, rubbing elbows with Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol and ultimately conquering Hollywood in the beloved cult hit, Hairspray. Schwarz honors Divine as a serious character actor and immortal star through film clips, rare archival footage, music videos, television interviews, and personal recollections from those who knew and loved him best, including Waters, Mink Stole, Ricki Lake, Tab Hunter, Holly Woodlawn, members of The Cockettes, and his mother, Frances (who passed away in 2009). Divine was a true force of nature who continues to inspire misfits, punks, and drag queens 25 years after his untimely death at the age of 42.

Largely crowdfunded via Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns and through the power of social media, I Am Divine is a loving and definitive biographical portrait, made by and for fans, who will be inspired by this film and be sent into fits of uproarious laughter. This one is not to be missed.

Lifetime Achievement Award In honor of his cinematic achievements, The Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival is thrilled to award Divine with our very first Lifetime Achievement Award.

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LECTURE HALL SUNDAY 12:30PM

GAY4PAY Director: Austin Vuz, USA, 7 Minutes An exploration into the porn industry’s “Gay-for-Pay” performers and culture.

DARREN OCKERT: A MINI DOCUMENTARY Director: Hector M. Sanchez, Jr., USA, 10 Minutes British-born singer, songwriter and producer Darren Ockert shows us the struggles of making music and the tolls of being an openly gay artist in the industry.

THE BLACKS OF THEIR EYES Director: Robert Philipson, USA, 41 Minutes Are you a white guy attracted to Black black guys? Discover the mysteries of the 'dinge queen' and 'Mandingo fantasy,' in this personal documentary that explores the filmmaker’s attraction to Black black men, through autobiographical narration and interviews with other like-minded men, revealing the stereotypes with which such interracial desire must contend.

CHANGE OVER TIME Director: Ewan Duarte, USA, 7 Minutes This experimental, animated, personal documentary chronicles the filmmaker’s first year on testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective.

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QUEEN OF THE DESERT Director: Alex Kelly, Australia, 28 Minutes With her pink hair extensions, painted-on eyebrows, glitter stockings, and Superman hotpants, Starlady is a unique hairstylist, working in some of Australia’s most remote places. This film follows her to Areyonga, an indigenous community in Central Australia, as she single-handedly brings some glamour to the youth of the outback.