Hi friends,
Please join me at Frameline Film Festival's Bi Request program, which I curated! See fabulous bi shorts from all over the world! It's at the Roxie Theatre, on 16th @ Valencia, on 6/16, at 6 p.m. Details are below. I can't wait to see you there...
xoxo,
Amy
Frameline31
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
June 14-24, 2007
www.frameline.org
BI REQUEST
Saturday June 16 | 6:00 pm | Roxie
$9 members | $10 general | BIRE16R
For our first ever Bi Request shorts program, volunteer guest curator Amy André selected films made by bisexual directors and/or about bisexual subjects. Bi Request was inspired by Frameline’s ongoing commitment to promote bisexual visibility and display bi images in film.
From Jan Krüger, the director of Unterwegs and The Whiz Kids, comes Hotel Paradijs, a film about the magic and darkness of desire. Though happy with his boyfriend Christian, Paul finds himself seduced by Claire. But is it really Claire, or just the idea of falling in love with a woman, that makes Paul turn away from his lover? Less concerned with the external forces that attract, Krüger instead focuses his lens on the unpredictable desires within that can tear a loving couple apart.
In a spoof of the 1950s educational film style, Shady Bi warns of the “dangers” of bisexual women. A bisexual transwoman documents her transition in Whatever Suits You. Single Sexy Bilingual is a short, black comedy about being bilingual, bisexual and bipolar. In Checkout, friends (and ex-lovers) Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. In Lauren’s Call, a Cuban immigrant couple fights to make their relationship work in the midst of a sexual identity crisis. A scorned bisexual goes postal in One Useless Prick, and nature-loving bisexuals go camping in Bi Camp.
Shady Bi dir April Hirschmann 2007 USA 4 min
Bi Camp dir Wayne Bryant 2007 USA 3 min
CHECKOUT dir Jenn Garrison 2006 U S A 9 min
One Useless Prick dir Punkvert Films 2007 USA 6 min
Whatever Suits You dir Ashley Altadonna 2007 USA 7 mn
Lauren’s Call dir Enrica Perez USA 23 min
Single Sexy Bilingual dir Barbara Karpinski 2006 Australia 12 min
Hotel Paradijs dir Jan Krueger 2007 USA 30 min
Total Running Time: 94 mins
Frameline31, the 31st San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, screening June 14-24 at the Castro Theatre, Roxie Film Center the Victoria Theatre, and at the Parkway Theater in Oakland is the oldest and largest event of its kind in the world. Tickets go on sale to Frameline members Friday, May 25. General public ticket sales begin Friday, June 1. Tickets are available at Superstar Satellite video store located at 474 Castro Street (between Market and 18th Street in San Francisco), online at www.frameline.org/festival, and by fax at 415 522 5543.
Please join me at Frameline Film Festival's Bi Request program, which I curated! See fabulous bi shorts from all over the world! It's at the Roxie Theatre, on 16th @ Valencia, on 6/16, at 6 p.m. Details are below. I can't wait to see you there...
xoxo,
Amy
Frameline31
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
June 14-24, 2007
www.frameline.org
BI REQUEST
Saturday June 16 | 6:00 pm | Roxie
$9 members | $10 general | BIRE16R
For our first ever Bi Request shorts program, volunteer guest curator Amy André selected films made by bisexual directors and/or about bisexual subjects. Bi Request was inspired by Frameline’s ongoing commitment to promote bisexual visibility and display bi images in film.
From Jan Krüger, the director of Unterwegs and The Whiz Kids, comes Hotel Paradijs, a film about the magic and darkness of desire. Though happy with his boyfriend Christian, Paul finds himself seduced by Claire. But is it really Claire, or just the idea of falling in love with a woman, that makes Paul turn away from his lover? Less concerned with the external forces that attract, Krüger instead focuses his lens on the unpredictable desires within that can tear a loving couple apart.
In a spoof of the 1950s educational film style, Shady Bi warns of the “dangers” of bisexual women. A bisexual transwoman documents her transition in Whatever Suits You. Single Sexy Bilingual is a short, black comedy about being bilingual, bisexual and bipolar. In Checkout, friends (and ex-lovers) Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. In Lauren’s Call, a Cuban immigrant couple fights to make their relationship work in the midst of a sexual identity crisis. A scorned bisexual goes postal in One Useless Prick, and nature-loving bisexuals go camping in Bi Camp.
Shady Bi dir April Hirschmann 2007 USA 4 min
Bi Camp dir Wayne Bryant 2007 USA 3 min
CHECKOUT dir Jenn Garrison 2006 U S A 9 min
One Useless Prick dir Punkvert Films 2007 USA 6 min
Whatever Suits You dir Ashley Altadonna 2007 USA 7 mn
Lauren’s Call dir Enrica Perez USA 23 min
Single Sexy Bilingual dir Barbara Karpinski 2006 Australia 12 min
Hotel Paradijs dir Jan Krueger 2007 USA 30 min
Total Running Time: 94 mins
Frameline31, the 31st San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, screening June 14-24 at the Castro Theatre, Roxie Film Center the Victoria Theatre, and at the Parkway Theater in Oakland is the oldest and largest event of its kind in the world. Tickets go on sale to Frameline members Friday, May 25. General public ticket sales begin Friday, June 1. Tickets are available at Superstar Satellite video store located at 474 Castro Street (between Market and 18th Street in San Francisco), online at www.frameline.org/festival, and by fax at 415 522 5543.
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Re: Get your flame on at this film showing...
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 6:30 PMhey, for what it's worth, i think that the Bi Request program was a big hit!
it was really well attended, the audience had a nice diversity of demographics, and the films were good too ;-)
well, really, the films were sort of a microcosm of the frameline festival in general - some strong, some weak, some funny for the right reasons, some funny for the wrong reasons.
a handful of the filmmakers were there to take questions, as well as a rep from frameline, which is good cause it improves the chance of them investing in this sort of thing agani!
three cheers, amy, for taking a proactive approach to a lack of representation!
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Re: Get your flame on at this film showing...
Mon, July 9, 2007 - 12:57 PMI just worked on Ashley Altadonna's next film... I'm wondering how Frameline audiences liked it. I absolutely love it, but then I *heart* Ashley, too.
