ASK NOT, WERE THE WORLD MINE, THE LOST COAST at Outfest 2008, Sunday, July 20
July 20th, 2008 by Andre Soares
Synopses from the 26th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival website.
SUN 7/20 Noon
Fairfax 1
A Place to Live
(USA, 2007, 70 mins)
Directed By: Carolyn Coal
A Place to Live chronicles the journey of seven brave individuals as they attempt to secure a home in Triangle Square, Hollywood, the nation’s first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. Since demand far exceeds the number of available apartments, a lottery system was set up to determine who would be selected. This film is a moving exploration of the applicants’ personal stories and the journey that brought them to the lottery and what the future might hold.
SUN 7/20 12:15pm
DGA 2
The New Twenty (The New Twenty info)
(USA, 2008, 92 mins)
SUN 7/20 2:15pm
Fairfax 2
Girls’ Shorts (Girls’ Shorts info)
SUN 7/20 4:30pm
DGA 2
The Lost Coast (The Lost Coast info)
(USA, 2008, 74 mins)
SUN 7/20 4:30pm
Fairfax 2
Ask Not
(USA, 2008, 73 mins)
In Arabic, English with English subtitles
Directed By: Johnny Symons
More than 12,000 military service members have been discharged since "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" was enacted in 1993. Ask Not examines the impact of this law on the U.S. and the ensuing fight Americans have waged in response. Some have chosen to speak on conservative college campuses nationwide while others are arrested at Army recruitment centers. To serve in Iraq, one brave man has chosen to go back into the closet. Ask Not takes audiences to the frontline of this intensely personal battle.
SUN 7/20 7:30pm
Ford Amphitheatre
Were the World Mine
(USA, 2008, 96 mins)
Directed By: Tom Gustafson
SCR: Tom Gustafson & Cory James Krueckeberg
If you thought star-crossed lovers and love potions created confusion in the forest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wait until you see what they do to an all-boys high school putting on a production of that Shakespearean classic.
Handsome and imaginative Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is the class outsider, a student who mentally escapes his surroundings by imagining a row of dodgeball-wielding jocks as a corps de ballet. When he gets cast as Puck opposite his secret crush, dreamy jock Jonathon (Nathaniel David Becker), things get amorously complicated — Puck, after all, has a gift for creating mischief and for making the unlikeliest of people besotted with each other. Even the Neanderthal coach, who wants to shut down the production to spare his athletes from playing women’s roles, isn’t safe.
From chorus lines of rugby players to musical numbers built around the Bard, the sweet and sexy Were the World Mine (adapted by writer-director Tom Gustafson from his acclaimed short film Fairies) is a delightful and exhilarating blend of theatrical fantasy and adolescent reality.
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THE NEW TWENTY, WHIRLWIND: Outfest 2008
TWO LOOKS, International Girls Shorts: Outfest 2008
Derek Jarman, Peter Berlin: Outfest 2008
Donna Deitch, Dan Butler: Outfest 2008
Ferzan Ozpetek, Bruce LaBruce: Outfest 2008
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