Open Submissions for 2009 Festival

We are now accepting submissions for 2009 Stony Brook Queer film festival.

After party - April 11th - 10:00 pm

There’s going to be an after party at the University Cafe located in the Student Union, in the same building as the screening of “Brokeback Mountain”.

Come down, have a drink and say hello to other queer cinephiles!

Online map - http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/map/onlinemap.html

21 and older, please.

 

University cafe - http://www.universitycafe.org/theUC.html

“The Hours” - Sunday, April 13th - 8:00 pm

THE HOURS

Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris

Paramount Pictures; Directed by Stephen Daldry

Rated PG-13; 120 minutes; 2002

The lives of two different women are affected across the time continuum via a Virginia Woolf novel. Clarissa Vaughn (Streep) is a book editor in modern day New York who is throwing a party for a friend of hers who is dying of AIDS. Laura Brown is a housewife in 1949 who is planning a party for her husband but cannot put down Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Both women are connected to the brilliant but depressed author who is shown during the writing of her famous tome. The three stories are interwoven to show how the modern woman is intimately connected to her past.

Watch the trailer here -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UzzdkjRJXik

“Killing of Sister George” (1968) - Sunday, April 13 - 5:15 pm

Alice: Not all women are raving bloody lesbians, you know.
George: That is a misfortune I am perfectly well aware of!

It’s an overlooked piece of cinematic history I’m glad we were able to offer. Of course the film is dated, but it was groundbreaking for it’s time and certainly received the “X” rating intitally because of the subject matter and brief sex scene.

 Here’s the short review on IMDB -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063185/

& another synopsis here -

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/28/sistergeorge1.html

Watch the trailer here -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7E3NnaDq5b0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6O7C1UMYees&feature=related

“Laramie Project” - Sunday, April 13 - 3:15 pm

The Laramie Project

Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi,
Janeane Garofalo, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix
HBO Pictures; Directed by Moises Kaufman
97 minutes; 2002

This film portrays the true story of the murder of Matthew Shepherd, a young gay man growing up on Laramie Wyoming. This brutal killing brought a wave of media attention on the issue of hate crimes against gays and lesbians. This film portrays all of the individuals involved in the case including Matthew’s family and the family of his murderer.

Watch the trailer here -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=phwP8qc9MLU

“But I’m a Cheerleader” - Sunday, April 13 - 1:30 pm

 See the Trailer -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-MihKLBP4DQ

“Paris is Burning” - Sunday, April 13 - 12:00 pm

 

PARIS IS BURNING

Feature Length Documentary

Miramax Films; Directed by Jennie Livingston

Rated R; 78 minutes; 1990

Jennie Livingston enters the once secret world of Harlem drag balls where gay, black, and Hispanic men vogue and stage elaborate costume competitions in which they dress like, and parody, society’s mainstream ways. PARIS IS BURNING is truly a dynamic perspective of a repressed culture and the society that excludes them.

Watch the trailer here -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0wFG8WsJQvA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKprNqL_8j4

“High Art” - Saturday, April 12 - 8:00 pm

 Amazon.com
Syd (Radha Mitchell) is an editor at a painfully pretentious art magazine; by chance, she becomes acquainted with lesbian photographer Lucy (Ally Sheedy) and her weirdo German girlfriend (Patricia Clarkson, in a strange Dietrich-like role). Syd becomes captivated with Lucy and her work and, smelling a career move, offers to feature her in the next issue of the magazine. The two become attracted, but their relationship is fraught with perils–Syd loses her rather square boyfriend, Lucy’s girlfriend takes a hike, the avaricious management at the magazine pressures Syd, and, most importantly, the pair begins to travel down the road of heroin addiction. Besides the lesbian theme, High Art addresses such subtexts as what an artist will (or won’t) be willing to do for recognition, and what price that recognition carries. High Art is a remarkably honest work, painful at times but understated and thoughtful. It does an excellent job of portraying the heroin-induced torpor of Lucy and her bohemian friends as they lie around and become consumed with the stuff. It’s a cautionary tale, a sincere love story, a reflection on the nature of art, and a “lesbian film” for which the lesbianism is integral but not part of an overriding agenda. Sheedy is excellent, as is Mitchell in a very expressive role. It’s far from being a feel-good movie, but High Art undeniably has some power behind it that will stick with you past the closing credits. –Jerry Renshaw

Watch the trailer here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MQDdU3EzU

Special guest - Lucy Winer, April 12 - 4pm Wang Center

Join us Apr.12th for a discussion with Lucy Winer after showing one of her films, “Golden Threads”.

Film will be shown at 4pm, Wang Center Theater.

Q&A to follow.

“LUCY WINER, Producer/Director/Writer, has focused on issues of lesbian and gay rights, gender, aging and the rights of women throughout her career. Her credits include the first of its kind, Emmy nominated documentary about lesbian and gay seniors, Silent Pioneers, the critically acclaimed documentary feature about sexism in America, Rate it X, and the ground-breaking, four part public television series, Positive: Life with HIV. Winer’s work has been called “warm, witty and genuinely touching” by the L.A Times; “immensely affecting” by the Village Voice; “hilarious” by the Hollywood Reporter; ” intriguing, often hair-raising” by The New York Times; “produced with humor, insight and irony” by Variety. “

“Brokeback Mountain” - Friday, April 11 - 7:30 pm

Jack Twist: I wish I knew how to quit you.

Brokeback Mountain

 Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
Focus Features; Directed by Ang Lee
Rated R; 134 minutes; 2005

This epic love story is set against the sweeping backdrop of the American West in the 1960s. Two young cowboys, Ennis and Jack, meet at a Wyoming ranch and form a passionate and totally unexpected relationship. Not able to deal with their feelings, they go their separate ways and marry but their attraction brings them back together years later.

Watch the trailer here -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3YkFGN9M6tQ