GAYORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday and Sunday
AUGUST 20-21, 2005

For tickets call 407-896-8431, email
chris@gayorlando.com or click here to purchase tickets online.

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 Third Annual GayOrlando Film Festival (Saturday and Sunday, August 20-21, 2005) will continue the tradition with films that not only portray positive images, but that appeal to all film enthusiasts. Below is the schedule for the 2005 event.

Click here to see the schedule for the 2004 event.

Click here to see the schedule for the 2003 event.

ADAM & STEVE Saturday, August 20 11:00 am

Adam & Steve

"A wise, hilarious gay-marital romp...the entire cast is perfection!"— Michael Musto, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"[A] warm--and often hysterically funny--comedy about two decent guys who endure some really humiliating complications on the way to love."— Anne Stockwell, THE ADVOCATE

Inhabiting a post 9/11 New York, ADAM & STEVE follows the romantic trajectory of two people struggling to make love work in spite of overwhelming odds. Having met in the 80's after a disastrous one night stand, Adam (Craig Chester, Kiss Me Guido) & Steve (Malcolm Gets, Caroline in the City) don't recognize each other when they meet again fifteen years later. With the help of their best friends, formerly obese stand up comic Rhonda (Parker Posey, Waiting for Guffman), and straight guy ladies man Michael (Chris Kattan, Saturday Night Live), our protagonists fall in love only to realize, a year into their relationship, that they met before and unwittingly changed the course of each other's lives that fatefull night in the 80's. Now the question is: can they accept this and incorporate it into their current understanding of each other? Or more importantly, can they hold hands on the street without being beaten up?

Sponsored by FULL MOON SALOON

TRANSGENERATION Saturday, August 20 2:00 pm

TransGeneration

Meet the Filmmaker: Join us immediately after the screening for a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Southeast Premiere!

Sundance Channel's eight-part original documentary series "TransGeneration" goes inside the daily lives of four transgender college students at campuses across the United States. Directed by Jeremy Simmons and Executive Produced by award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Inside Deep Throat), this special feature-length festival version follows its subjects over the course of a school year, capturing their triumphs and struggles as they juggle the challenges of academia with their commitment to transitioning from their birth sex. Like college students everywhere, Gabbie and Raci (male-to-female) and Lucas and T.J. (female-to-male) are in the process of defining who they are, and taking control of their gender identity is a fundamental part of that process. The students are from different parts of the world as well as different social and economic backgrounds, and each is at a different stage of transition. As TRANSGENERATION joins the students in class and at play, with their friends and with their families, in private and in their communities, we come to know Gabbie, Lucas, Raci and T.J. as individuals, with unique experiences and outlooks.

USA, 2005, 83 min, Not Rated, Directed by Jeremy Simmons

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Jeremy Simmons, Director of TRANSGENERATION is a director and editor at World of Wonder. His directing credits include the television documentaries "School's Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas" (a GLAAD Award nominee for Outstanding Documentary) and "Gay Hollywood." An emerging talent who won several awards as a student filmmaker, Simmons has worked extensively as a film and television editor, and his credits include the recent feature documentary Inside Deep Throat and the drama Party Monster.

Sponsored by GARY LAMBERT SALON

EL FAVOR Sunday, August 21 11:00 am

El Favor

Southeast Premiere!

"Lively and hilarious, with very colorful, likeable characters as well as a refreshingly original plot that is full of pleasant surprises!"— Avi Offer, THE NYC MOVIE GURU

An Argentinean lesbian couple, Mora (Bernarda Pages) and Roberta (Victoria Onetto), urgently wants to have a child. But where will they get what's, um, needed to do so? A plan is hatched: Roberta will seduce and have sex with Felipe (Javier Lombardo), Mora's brother (coincidentally enough, Felipe artificially inseminates turkeys for a living). Sure enough, things won't go so smoothly. Felipe isn't easy to seduce, and when an unexpected visitor turns up with surprising news, everyone will get more than what they bargained for. Colorful and wacky, with non-stop demented twists and turns, EL FAVOR is as giddy and delightful as Almodovar's omnisexual comedy classics such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Do yourself a favor and join us for this muy funny delight. Adapted from Lawrence Ferber 's review for the Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Argentina, 2003, 85 min, Not Rated, Directed by Pablo Sofovich. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Sponsored by INDUSTRY MAGAZINE.

STRANGE FRUIT Sunday, August 21 1:30 pm

Strange Fruit

Meet the Filmmaker: Join us immediately after the screening for a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Winner - Best US Narrative Feature, 2005 NewFest New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

"Intriguing… notable for bringing a gay slant to Southern racist, lynching investigation-mode thrillers..."— Dennis Harvey, VARIETY

Set in contemporary rural Louisiana, STRANGE FRUIT explores the tribulations of William Boyals (hunky Kent Faulcon, Gabrielle), a successful New York lawyer and gay African-American who comes home to the life from which he escaped to investigate the lynching of his also-gay childhood friend, Kelvin. Amidst the sultry beauty of the bayou, William is forced to wade through a bog of conspiracy involving an insidious network of local law and a dangerously entrenched subculture. At the same time, he finds himself having to confront the reasons he left in the first place. The harder he looks, the deeper he gets, until the veil is pulled back to reveal a quagmire of racism and homophobia that threatens his life.

USA, 2004, 115 min, Not Rated, Written, Directed, & Produced by Kyle Schickner

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Kyle Schickner, (Writer, Director, Producer) of STRANGE FRUIT, has written, directed, and produced the first two productions of Fencesitter Films, Full Frontal and Rose by Any Other Name, which was adapted from his off-Broadway play by the same name. His work has been critically acclaimed for exploring heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian relationships openly and directly. He started his career writing and producing plays off-Broadway in the early 90's while he supported himself as a taxi driver in his native New Jersey. He is well-known in the bisexual community for both his films and his activism, is involved in the national organization of Bi-Net, and is a sought-after speaker on bisexuality and films. Mr. Schickner is the driving creative force behind Fencesitter Films. He is proud and honored to be able to present this third and most powerful work, the feature film STRANGE FRUIT.

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Sponsored by JOHN MICHAEL CATERING.

TICKET INFORMATION

Festival Passes are $60 and include reserved seating for all four films. Individual film tickets are $10 open seating or $15 reserved or day of show. A silent auction and champagne reception begins one hour before each film. Advertising, sponsorship, and auction donation opportunities still available.

For more information:
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Phone 407.896.8431 chris@gayorlando.comEmail Chris@GayOrlando.com
OR Purchase Passes or Tickets Online HERE

The Gay Orlando Film Festival is a project of Enzian Theater and GayOrlando.com. This project is supported by United Arts of Central Florida with funds from the United Arts Campaign and by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.