Slamdance 2009: Gay Themes

The 15th Slamdance Film Festival will take place in Park City, Utah, from January 15-23. The synopses below are from the Slamdance 2009 website.

Steve M. Kelly's City Rats

City Rats (Feature Narrative Competition)
Steve M. Kelly (Director), Simon Fantauzzo (Writer) World Premiere, Drama, 2008, UK, 96 minutes. Cast: Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, Tamer Hassan.
A modern day Dickensian tale of eight haunted people who meet and fall apart while searching for redemption in each other.

Mississippi Damned (Feature Narrative Competition)
Tina Mabry (Director/Writer) World Premiere, Drama, 2009, USA, 120 minutes. Cast: DB Woodside, Malcolm David Kelly, Malcolm Goodwin, Tessa Thompson, Michael Hyatt.
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.

Drool (Special Screening)
Nancy Kissam (Director/Writer) World Premiere, Drama, 2008, USA, 88 minutes. Cast: Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Oded Fehr.
An abused wife's plan to escape her husband goes awry when she accidentally kills him, causing her to split on a cross-country drive with her best friend and his corpse in tow.

Dish (Short Film Competition)
Brian H. Krinksy, Writer/Director World Premiere / 2008 / USA / 15 Minutes
High school buddies dish about their sex lives, classmates and hair.

Vapid Lovelies (Short Film Competition)
Frank Feldman, Writer/Director; David Luna and Chris Lemon, Writers World Premiere / 2008 / USA / 22 Minutes
Two Middle-American gay fashionistas set out to create the perfect outfit Rock Pockets