GAY ORLANDO FILM SERIES

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GAY ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Orlando Gay & Lesbian Film Series, Enzian teamed up with GayOrlando.com to produce the first Gay Orlando Film Festival in 2003. The Film Series has been a Central Florida tradition since 1994 bringing the community GLBT-positive films for exclusive screenings. This year, the Second Annual Gay Orlando Film Festival (August20-22, 2004) will continue the tradition with films that not only portray positive images, but that appeal to film lovers of all kinds. The 2004 schedule is COMING SOON!

Below is the schedule for the 2003 event.

Friends & Family
Stephen and Danny are a charming Manhattan couple who have it all - a fabulous house, good friends, lots of money - and most important, they have each other. But a surprise visit from Stephen's Midwestern parents threatens to blow the boys' big secret. They already know they're gay. What they don't know is that their son and his boyfriend are Mafia hitmen! Called "a cross between La Cage aux Folles and The Sopranos" by David Ehrenstein in Variety, this charming comedy is giddy fun from beginning to end.
USA, 2001, 87 min, Directed by Kristen Courys

The Politics of Fur
Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes for Best Actress and Best American Feature at the 2002 Outfest, Laura Nix's electrifying first feature is based loosely on R. W. Fassbinder's 1973 lesbian grand guignol, The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant. Updated to the contemporary LA music biz, this steamy, wickedly perverse melodrama features a mangled web of domination, jealousy, control, and subservience between Una, a superstar music producer and B., her nihilistic punkette protege.
USA, 2002, 76 min, Directed by Laura Nix

The Cockettes
"A funny, triumphant, and moving documentary." – Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Named "Best Documentary of the Year" by the LA Film Critics Association and winner of the Best Director Award at the 2002 US Comedy Arts Festival, The Cockettes portrays the rise and fall of the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe (1969-1972). Decked out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter, their unique burst of cultural experimentation and artistic outrageousness continues to this day to influence the worlds of theater, music, fashion, gay politics and spirituality, and urban club life.
USA, 2002, 100 min, Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber

The Trip
"Genuinely has its heart in the right place." – Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"One of the best told love stories I've seen in years." – Eric Campos, FILM THREAT

"The gay date movie to beat for 2003! Amazing soundtrack, handsome leads, loads of laughs, dollops of drama!" writes Lawrence Ferber in HX Magazine about this bold and inventive film set during the heady days of early gay liberation. With its good-natured humor and sweet nostalgia, The Trip delivers a powerful love story about a pair of unlikely partners in a tumultuous relationship, beginning in 1973 and spanning two decades.
USA, 2002, 95 min, Directed by Miles Swain

TICKET INFORMATION
Individual film tickets $10-$15
Festival passes start at $60

For tickets or information call 407-896-8431, email
chris@gayorlando.com or visit GayOrlando.com.