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UP FRONT

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Film Schedule

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Judges / Prizes

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FEATURE The 10 Year Plan

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Premiere Night

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FEATURE BFFs

FEATURE The Dream Children

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FEATURE Age of Consent

FEATURE

Valley

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of theDolls WITH The Bag Ladies

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FEATURE Masculinity/Femininity

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FEATURE

FEATURE To Be Takei

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GLAD TO BE GAY LADY OF THE NIGHT SUCH GOOD PEOPLE

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SATURDAY / NOVEMBER 8 IMA THE TOBY

IMA DEBOEST LECTURE HALL

12:30

THE TEN YEAR PLAN

12:30

ONLY ALWAYS YOU THE DREAM CHILDREN

2:15

GAY SHORTS

2:30

SHE SAID, SHE SAID BFFS

4:30

GIRL SHORTS

IF WE TOOK A HOLIDAY CHERRY POP: THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S FANCIEST CAT INTO THE STREETS NARCISSIST END OF SEASON SALE OPEN RELATIONSHIP WOOF A LAST FAREWELL

4:30

TIGER ORANGE

SUGARHICCUP GOODNIGHT MY LOVE LOST PINES LUCY, 4:57 PM VOW OF SILENCE ALONE WITH PEOPLE

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VALLEY OF THE DOLLS FEATURING THE BAG LADIES

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GRIND CLUB KING

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AGE OF CONSENT

SUNDAY / NOVEMBER 9 IMA DEBOEST LECTURE HALL

TICKETS

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BRACE MY WOUNDED HEAD MASCULINITY / FEMININITY

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$60 Full Festival Pass............................................................................................. $40 Premiere Night Pass....................................................................................... $8 Individual Film Tickets (Saturday and Sunday).................................................. $15 Premiere Film Ticket (Friday Night)..................................................................

STIGMA WE’LL BE ALL RIGHT MASCULINITY / FEMININITY

STUDENT DISCOUNTS (WITH VALID STUDENT ID)

TO BE TAKEI

IMA PARKING: There is a $5 fee for non-members to park in the underground garage or large surface lot closest to the Museum.

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Individual Films On Saturday and Sunday........................................................$5

Full Festival and Premiere Night Passes available for presale at www.indylgbtfilmfest.com. All other tickets available Festival Weekend at the Box Office inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art, based on availability. Seating for films guaranteed to Full Festival Pass Holders up to 15 minutes before showtime.

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DIRECTOR’S AWARD

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to the 14th Annual Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival! We hope you enjoy the wide variety of feature films, shorts, and documentaries we have chosen this year. You and our sponsors keep us going each year. Without you, we're nothing!

We'd like you to keep our beneficiary, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) in your hearts and minds. Since 1987, IYG has supported thousands of young LGBT individuals. We strongly support their wonderful cause, and hope you do as well. Learn more at IndianaYouthGroup.org.

All of us on the Steering Committee would like to sincerely thank you for coming to the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival.

Enjoy the shows!

Kevin Kelly Festival Director

IN MEMORIAM: LEWIS TICE We were lucky enough to have Lewis Tice be part of our film festival family for the past four years. He worked tirelessly within the LGBT film community for the past 20+ years and we all learned so much from him. His passing has been a tremendous loss for the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. We love you, Lewis.

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JUDGES

DAVID LINDQUIST

ANNE LAKER

David Lindquist has reported on entertainment for The Indianapolis Star since 1998. He ranks Luis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock among his favorite filmmakers. On Twitter, find him at @317Lindquist.

Anne serves as Program Director of Big Car, developing content such as TEDxIndianapolis. She has organized film programming at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. From 1998-2001, she was one of two film critics for NUVO Newsweekly.

NICOLE MISENCIK

DANIEL MILLER

You can currently catch Nicole Misencik on Sunrise weekday mornings with fun topics and her forecast on Eyewitness News at Noon. Nicole has been awarded the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval.

Daniel Miller is an Emmy award winning reporter and weekend evening anchor for WISH-TV's 24-Hour News 8. In 2006, he was recognized by the Indiana Broadcasters Association for Breaking News Coverage during severe weather.

SCOTT BARNES

LINDSAY HAMMAN

Scott Barnes’ work has been featured in magazines and Art galleries across the United States and Canada. He was nominated as “Best Emerging Gay Artist” by GLAAD in 2012; he has led exercises in creativity at the IYG activity center.

Lindsay Hamman has worked in Public Programs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for over 9 years.

She helps program performances, speakers and films, including both the Summer Nights and Winter Nights film series

LOST PINES Director: Britta Lundin

JURIED PRIZES

GRIND Director: Zachary Halley

IF WE TOOK A HOLIDAY Director: Glenn Gaylord

LUCY, 4:57 PM Director: Michael Thomas Vassallo Love, loss, questions of identity, loyalty and personal freedom: Approaching their subjects with comedy, irreverence, or emotional sensitivity, these five films explore those topics in fresh, interesting and provocative ways. These are our nominees for the 2014 Best of Festival Awards. The winners are selected by our panel of judges and announced on Premiere Night.

WE’LL BE ALL RIGHT Director: Barton Girdwood

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Michael Urie and Randy Harrison.

A wild, contemporary comedy, Such Good People is about a young gay couple, Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and Randy Harrison (Queer As Folk), who discover a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for wealthy friends...who die while out of the country.

Richard and Alex want what everyone wants: success, family and a fabulous house in LA. Discovering a million dollars in their deceased friend’s home, Richard and Alex take the money to pursue their dreams. But Alex’s sister, her husband, and the police are on to their secret. What follows is an all out war for the house of everyone’s dreams.

Laugh-out-loud moments include a cameo from Lance Bass (of *NSync) as a charity worker and snappy accusations and questioning from Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty) as a detective. Adding to the hilarity are Scott Wolf (Party Of Five), Drew Droege (Chloe) and Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty).

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PREMIERE PARTY Be sure to join us right after the films at Chef Joseph's at The Connoisseur Room (115 E. Ohio St.) for our annual Premiere Party. Food, door prizes and lots of festival fun for our Full Festival and Premiere Party passholders.

GLAD TO BE GAY Directed by H.P. Mendoza, USA, 5 Minutes H.P. Mendoza delivers a rousing gay anthem, first performed by the Tom Robinson Band at London Gay Pride, 1976, with lyrics updated in 1987, 1992 and 2014.

LADY OF THE NIGHT

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Gay Feat e

Directed by JC Calciano USA, 90 Minutes

Myles and Brody are two friends who couldn't be more different. Myles is a hopeless romantic looking for his perfect man while Brody is a player who hooks up nightly in an attempt to avoid a relationship. After one exceedingly bad date, the guys make a pact with each other; to be together if neither finds love in ten years time.

The catch is, time has rapidly progressed and the clock is quickly running out. Furthermore, truth be told, neither really is looking to marry his longtime best friend. Now, it’s two months shy of their deadline, and both friends set off to do whatever it takes to avoid ending up as each other’s last resort. As the fateful date approaches, they must come to terms with the depth of their feelings.

Director JC Calciano (Is It Just Me?, ECupid) whips together a charming romantic comedy that tackles the fine line between settling down and staying single. It doesn’t hurt that the guys are pretty hot, too.

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Directed by Robert Chuter Australia, 98 Minutes

The Dream Children is a haunting and provocative film about a troubled TV personality who struggles to find meaning in his life in the face of the superficial world he has created. Smothered by celebrity and materialism, his only release from his numbed state is through shallow sexual encounters with the acquaintances that orbit his life.

When his long-time partner hurls him headfirst into fatherhood, his initial reluctance is gradually replaced with love, as he discovers in his new family a bond stronger than any he has experienced before. But the return of an unexpected visitor triggers off a series of events that challenges their newfound happiness. The Dream Children is an ambitious film that is at once explicit, intimate, and subtle, casting its gaze across a broad range of themes with sensitivity.

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ONLY ALWAYS YOU Directed by Anthony Aguiar, USA, 9 Minutes Sometimes love can be sketchy. A young man spends his time drawing sketches and daydreaming of a life he wishes to have.

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SHORTS IF WE TOOK A HOLIDAY

Directed by Glenn Gaylord, USA, 18 Minutes A struggling LA actress impersonates Madonna for the day as a birthday gift for her recently dumped gay BFF...but things don't go as planned.

CHERRY POP: THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S FANCIEST CAT

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Rich Yap and David Pevsner in WOOF.

INTO THE STREETS Directed by Logan Mucha, Australia, 6 Minutes In a time when the gay community was in fear of public persecution, partygoers took to the streets to declare they had no reason to hide. It was 1978 in Sydney and Craig was a naïve teenager who became swept up in the birth of a movement. Through a fragmented recollection, he revisits the chaotic events of the first Sydney Gay Mardi Gras.

NARCISSIST Directed by Eric Casaccio, USA, 17 Minutes A writer discovers the painful truth of a handsome and charming, yet manipulative and toxic, love interest.

Sometimes you have go through darkness to find a true, authentic light.

END OF SEASON SALE Directed by Eli Glazer, Israel, 35 Minutes Late at night, two aging strangers fail to obtain Viagra for a one night stand. The shortage of the desired blue pill turns out to be a blessing in disguise as the two strangers get a chance to exchange the pleasures of the flesh with the pleasures of the heart.

OPEN RELATIONSHIP Directed by Carlos Ocho, Spain, 13 Minutes Oscar and Sergio have very different personalities. Oscar is passionate and emotional, while Sergio is cool and philosophical. Five years into their monogamous cohabitation, the idea of an open relationship is brought into play.

WOOF Directed by Rich Yap, USA, 4 Minutes On a late night walk through the woods, a young man takes a detour for an illicit rendezvous and finds that there’s a monster lurking in the dark.

A LAST FAREWELL Directed by Casper Andreas, Sweden, 13 Minutes A Last Farewell is both a calm and an upsetting portrait of an aging author’s sorrow over the death of his long-term partner. Haunted by visions of his late husband, and in conflict with his daughter who is trying to renew the ties between them, he must tackle the impossible task of moving on and finding peace in the wake of a devastating loss.

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BFFS Directed by Andrew Putschoegl USA, 95 Minutes

Director Andrew Putschoegl brings a funny and fresh perspective to the female buddy comedy genre. After receiving a gift of a getaway weekend at a couple's retreat, Samantha and Kat go through the motions of repairing their relationship, and in doing so discover that they might just be more than BFFs. When Kat is given a couples weekend workshop as a birthday gift from her mother – despite the fact she never plans to reignite relations with her ex – she declines the invitation with her usual sarcasm and pessimism. Later that night, as Sam opens Kat’s gifts, the two drink tequila and argue over who gets what present. Then Sam has an idea: what if they went to the couples workshop together? What begins as a joke soon escalates into a plan to pose as a couple, relishing the free weekend retreat, all the while secretly mocking the other struggling relationships.

But as soon as they arrive, the weekend brings a different kind of amusement. The more Kat and Sam plunge into the activities, the more they find themselves working on a relationship that doesn’t even exist, raising emotions neither anticipated nor bargained for.

Held at the core by the strength of the leads (Tara Karsian and Andrea Grano), BFFs is propelled forward by the hilarious combinations of supporting couples, sharp dialogue, and weekend shenanigans. Always remaining full of heart, BFFs never strays into cliché, successfully satisfying and surprising us by the time the credits roll.

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SHE SAID, SHE SAID Directed by Stuart Blumberg, USA, 7 Minutes Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouchez let their claws out as two lesbians on the brink of a nasty divorce. Naughty car-washing and a leather-clad Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) make matters all the more hilarious.

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IMA THE TOBY SATURDAY 4:30PM

Gay Feat e

Directed by Wade Gasque USA, 76 Minutes

Tiger Orange introduces us to Chet (Mark Strano, 2014 Outfest Best Actor) and Todd (Frankie Valenti aka Johnny Hazzard), estranged gay brothers who grew up in a small town in Central California to a homophobic, working class single father. Now adults, the two could not have turned out more differently.

Chet, the older brother, runs the family hardware store and still lives in their childhood home where he's cared for their ailing father until his recent death.

Todd ran off to LA at eighteen and never looked back.

He's burned the candle at both ends his entire life and now homeless, with no cash, he heads back up the coast to the home and the brother he left behind. The surprise visit shakes up Chet’s safe and guarded life and the two of them living under one roof becomes a recipe for disaster.

Soon Todd is stirring up trouble in town with his sexual misadventures and in-your-face bravado and Chet struggles to keep him in check while slowly unraveling himself. But when Todd makes a move on Brandon, a secret high school flame of Chet’s, all of their long-simmering resentments quickly boil to the surface.

Chet has all but abandoned his own life to care for their father and keep any semblance of the family together while Todd has lived an open life, bearing the brunt of their father's rage. Now, without Dad to blame, the brothers are forced to not only hash out their differences but begin to examine the common bond they never truly acknowledged.

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IMA DEBOEST HALL SATURDAY 4:30PM

Fawzia Fawzia Mirza Mirza in in SUGARHICCUP SUGARHICCUP..

SHORTS SUGARHICCUP

Directed by Lisa Donato, USA, 18 Minutes When Marie’s girlfriend suddenly vanishes off the grid and out of Marie’s life, she coerces her best friend, Jesse, to help investigate clues and answers across social media channels. Jesse supports her friend, but seems to be hiding something that could get Marie on the right track before everything spirals out of control.

All evidence links them to disconnected stories that have both women questioning each other’s motives. As the film winds its way through dead-end hashtags and digital facades, we begin to question the stories we make up in our heads and the realities we manifest when we start to believe them.

Equal parts dark comedy and noir mystery, Sugarhiccup features music by Cocteau Twins.

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Dylan Gelula as the title character in LUCY, 4:57 PM.

GOODNIGHT MY LOVE Directed by Kellee Terrell, USA, 11 Minutes In an apartment building overrun by zombies, Aimee and Cynthia, a black lesbian couple, hide in a laundry room to figure out their next move. They spend what may be their final moments hashing out the issues that plagued their seven-year relationship.

LOST PINES Directed by Britta Lundin, USA, 16 Minutes A dark detective thriller about love and betrayal. After the Texas wildfires, a lesbian teen delinquent works undercover with police to catch a drug dealer. But she's forced to choose between her loyalties when all clues lead back to the ex-best friend she's still in love with.

LUCY, 4:57 PM Directed by Michael Thomas Vassallo, USA, 10 Minutes Lucy, a self-styled teenage rebel, wants to leave the painful, boring world of her high school and suburb behind. She decides to run away with Sheila, her photography teacher, with whom she has a secret relationship - without realizing that Sheila might not share her vision of this perfect escape.

VOW OF SILENCE Directed Be Steadwell, USA, 30 Minutes Vow of Silence tells the story of Jade, a heartbroken composer who takes a vow of silence to win back the heart of Isis, her true love. In her struggle to reconnect with Isis, she meets Jaxson, an outgoing musician.

Utilizing music, magic, and silence, Jade finds her voice in the place she least expects it. An original score

by Be Steadwell narrates Jade's journey.

ALONE WITH PEOPLE Directed Drew Van Steenbergen, USA, 29 Minutes A high school girl from the South seeks the help of a therapist to come out to her family and friends in this hilarious and touching coming-of-age tale.

The film follows Andie, a high school girl growing up gay in Georgia. Andie handles being a lesbian in the south the only way she can: secretly being in love with all of her sister’s friends, having a boyfriend so no one suspects her of being gay, and watching The L Word on low volume. She’s not ready to talk about it with her family and friends, who she worries would disown her if they found out. Too afraid to confide in anyone she knows, Andie finds comfort in a therapist who helps her to realize that she has to first accept herself before she can expect anyone else to.

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Directed by Mark Robson 1967, USA, 123 Minutes

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Straight from the best-selling pages of Jacqueline Susann’s audacious novel comes the unforgettable tale of three glamorous women who will stop at nothing to get to the top. Oscar® winners Patty Duke, Lee Grant and Susan Hayward team with Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins for this spectacular, satisfying and well-before-its-time tale of hedonism and one-upmanship on the road to fame.

Well-bred, small-town Anne Welles (Parkins) arrives in New York eager for fame but settles for a job assisting a theatrical attorney. The job leads her to cross paths with Helen Lawson (Hayward), the grand dame of Broadway musicals, and Neely O'Hara (Duke), an up-and-coming performer whom Lawson unceremoniously boots from her latest show. Neely lands on her feet thanks to a series of nightclub gigs, and soon she and Anne befriend Jennifer North (Tate), a buxom starlet. As Neely becomes a huge star of stage and screen and Jennifer appears topless in a string of European "art" films, Anne becomes a wealthy cosmetics spokeswoman and suffers though a passionate but failed affair with an aspiring writer.

As the pressures of fame and failed romance take their toll on all three women, they take refuge in food, sex, liquor, and pills that they call “dolls.” As they careen down the path to superstardom, one of them may face more self-destructive behavior than she can handle in this riveting and acclaimed film.

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Directed by Todd Verow & Charles Lum USA, 88 Minutes

Age of Consent follow the history of The Hoist, London’s first and only gay sex fetish bar, as it explores the cultural evolution of gay life and sex in modern London through AIDS, gentrification, and the ongoing political struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity in the UK. Age of Consent is not for the faint of heart. To be straightforward (so to speak) it is explicit and leaves little to the imagination. The documentary opens with the line "The story of The Hoist is the story of gay sex.” From there, a journey into a safe space where the libido reigns and judgment is nonexistent and fully exposed on the big screen.

Age of Consent is informative and eye-opening – did you know more gay men were arrested and convicted of gross indecency in 1989 than in 1966? – while being playful, funny and downright filthy. Described by the barman as a ‘sneaky, sexy, dirty wee hole’, The Hoist and its patrons could be seen as representing the antithesis of the recent trend in mainstream gay politics towards assimilation. But, with encroaching gentrification and more people using the internet to hook up, what does the future hold?

This film contain sexually explicit material. Absolutely no one under 18 admitted.

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MY WOUNDED HEAD

IMA DEBOEST HALL SUNDAY 12:15PM

Doc t Feat e

Directed by Russell Scheaffer USA, 88 Minutes

Directed by Stephen Chen, USA, 13 Minutes A trans woman's makeup is a metaphor for the simultaneous concealment and revealing of societal representation.

BRACE Alicya Eyo, Sophy Holland. UK, 25 Minutes In this gritty drama, Adam meets Rocky, a handsome and mysterious drifter. As the pair get closer, Rocky seems eager to reveal a secret that Adam is not ready to hear. Silence abounds until one explosive night changes everything about the way they feel about themselves and each other.

Experimental filmmaker Russell Sheaffer's Masculinity/Femininity takes over where his short film starring James Franco left off.

Shot mainly on super8 film, this is not a typical documentary. Sheaffer asks filmmakers, academics, gender theorists, and artists to present their concepts of gender construction in what works as a sort of performance piece rather than as full-on narrative. In fact, the filmmakers themselves question whether Masculinity/Femininity is scripted or not.

Whether through monologue, visual art, performance art, or storytelling, individuals including B. Ruby Rich, Susan Stryker, Barbara Hammer, John Greyson, Chris Vargas and Yvonne Tasker represent the personal experiences they have had with gender-normative societal constructs. Each performance is unique, but somehow viewers will be able to see something of themselves in each one.

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When a person goes to a blood donation center, they are handed a list of questions. These include questions about whether or not they've gotten a piercing or tattoo recently, been ill, or if you are a man who has been sexually active with another man since 1977. If you answer yes to the last, you will be placed on a lifetime ban list and forbidden from donating blood again.

Directed by Jeff Mattioli USA, 53 Minutes

Gay+ (Positive) is a ground-breaking documentary addressing, challenging and raising awareness regarding the current ban on Gay men from donating blood. The team studies the blood donation process and conducts interviews with prominent political and social figures such as Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Lisa Lampanelli (comedian), Blanche Baker (Sixteen Candles, Emmy Winner), Frank DeCaro (national talk show host), and Rutanya Alda (Mommie Dearest) as well as citizens from a wide range of social, economic and religious backgrounds in order to analyze the relevance of this antiquated law. You might be surprised by people's reactions.

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STIGMA Directed by Dillan Forsey, USA, 4 Minutes There are an estimated 33 million people living with HIV today.

Despite their need for love and care, they are often met with the stigma of the past--a fear of a disease that once meant almost certain death. However, things have changed.

WE’LL BE ALL RIGHT Directed by Barton Girdwood, USA, 11 Minutes Indiana does not legally recognize Frankie and his partner's family. Regardless, his mother Mimsie guaranteed that the two dads and their eight adopted children stuck thicker than blood. Her life story inaugurated this family, but as she always taught, 'another story continues after.'

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Directed by Jennifer M. Kroot USA, 93 Minutes

A hilarious and moving new documentary takes us into the life of legendary actor, activist and pop culture icon George Takei, who has conquered new frontiers from outer space to Capitol Hill with his trademark grin. Oh, my!

Over the past seven decades, actor and activist George Takei has boldly journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise to the daily news feeds of Facebook fans.

Best known for playing Sulu on the original Star Trek TV series and in the six movies that followed, Takei has become social-media royalty.

Unofficially dubbed the King of Facebook, he counts more than 5 million fans in his online empire – including Trekkies, Howard Stern listeners, and the LGBTQ community – who devour his quirky mix of kitten jokes, Star Trek references, heartfelt messages, and sci-fi/fantasy memes. An outspoken advocate for civil rights, Takei has used his unmistakable baritone in several satiric PSAs, including one in response to Tennessee’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill that encourages viewers to say, “It’s OK to be Takei.”

Join George and his husband, Brad, on this star’s playful and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.

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