Valencia
Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.
Jill Soloway
Cheryl Dunye
Silas Howard
Sara St. Martin Lynne
Michelle Lawler
Cary Cronenwett
Aubree Bernier-Clarke
Peter Anthony
Sharon Barnes
Bug Davidson
Lares Feliciano
Dia Felix
Hilary Goldberg
Alexa Inkeles
Jerry Lee
Olivia Parriott
Samuel Topiary
Courtney Trouble
Chris Vargas
Greg Youmans
Casts & Crew
Shawna Elizabeth
Annie Danger
Tanya Wischerath
Allison Jones
Morgan Bassichis
Heather Acs
Stephany Joy Ashley
Lil Miss Hot Mess
T.E. Clough
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Sarah Manuwal
Quinn Valentine
Kimberly Bainum
Christina Coupal
Michelle Tea
Haley Koch
Jadeyn Madsen
Terra Naomi
Autumn Lily
Also Directed by Jill Soloway
A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.
A woman hires a day laborer for an hour and gets more than she bargained for.
The life of Sally Ride,the first female American astronaut
Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lacklustre sex life and career that's gone kaput, she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.
Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.
Also Directed by Cheryl Dunye
After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned. Before long, Treasure encounters Brownie, a lifer and gang leader. Brownie reveals that she is Treasure's mother, and takes the girl under her wing, protecting her from the dangers of hardcore prison life. But some women in Brownie's gang resent Treasure's presence, leading to violent conflict.
Four "Owls" (older, wiser lesbians) who are living in the faded aftermath of their glory days as a once-famous rock group, are all implicated in a crime.
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
Black - once Blue - is now a trans man who works as a security guard in an apartment complex in Oakland. One night, Black notices an ex- girlfriend partying with some other women in one of the buildings. As none of the other security guards want to watch 'the lezzie party', Black volunteers to, thinking he may resolve some inner conflicts from the past. However, things take a turn for the worse.
Cheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the '90s.
Over twists, presses, and wash-and-goes, filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins other clients and hairstylist DiAna DiAna in her South Carolina salon to discuss the current impact of AIDS on Blacks in the south, and what has changed and stayed the same since DiAna was featured in a seminal short video by Ellen Spiro thirty years ago.
Short film created for the 2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival's Co-Laboratory project. Choreographed and performed by Jocquese Whitfield.
Is it who you do, or what you do?
The story of a black lesbian's relationship with a white, upper middle class high school girl.
Also Directed by Silas Howard
"The Golden Age of Hustlers" captures the 1970's gay hustler scenes of pre-HIV/AIDS era on Polk St in San Francisco from an insider's experience.
A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other -- in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.
At 83, Madelynn Von Ritz is doing what she loves, making music. This is a film about hard luck, perseverance, loss and hope. About almosts and nevers and keeping on.
Twins Tal and Janelle relocate from Ohio to Atlanta, where at their new school High Water is always a beat.
A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends.
Bambi Lake, a notorious San Francisco transgender performer and entertainer, takes us on a stroll down Polk Street, sharing anecdotes and the history behind her song Golden Age of Hustlers, which was written about her time as a street hustler in the mid-70’s.
By Hook or by Crook chronicles the tale of two unlikely friends who commit petty crimes as they search for a path to understanding themselves and the outside world. Silas Howard plays Shy (a transgender man), who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime. Suffering money troubles, emotional problems, and physical confrontations, the duo face their issues head on and learn to trust each other and support each other in pursuit of their goals.
A transgender teen is sent to a science-based conversion camp by his family and quickly learns that the youth there are being converted into something less than human.
Also Directed by Sara St. Martin Lynne
A story about the transformative friendship between four young kids experiencing the fun and torment of living in a rural town, while questioning and exploring their sexual identities.
Also Directed by Michelle Lawler
The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It explores the theme that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles -- social, biological, economic and personal.
Also Directed by Cary Cronenwett
Eisha Loves shares the daily struggles Black trans women face in Chicago and across America.
Restless schoolboys in class have daydreams that are sweet and romantic, hot and raunchy, and disturbingly violent.
A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
Life of American artist, Flo McGarrell's, in Haiti prior to his untimely death in the 2010 Earthquake.
Also Directed by Aubree Bernier-Clarke
Tomboy Morgan is tortured by the sudden death of her best friend Olivia. At her wake, Olivia mysteriously comes back to life, and the two escape on a reckless road trip that takes them past the boundaries of friendship and into a dark and uncertain future.
Pidgeon Pagonis, a lead activist and educator from the intersex community, crusades for body autonomy and the freedom to choose one’s own path.
Also Directed by Hilary Goldberg
Ani DiFranco's music blends the intimacy and personal expression of folk music with the passion and energy of punk rock, and her songs (which often embrace political themes when not exploring personal issues) have won her a devoted following who've made her one of the most successful independent artists of recent memory. Render: Spanning Time With Ani DiFranco is a documentary which follows DiFranco on the road during her world tours of 2000 and 2001 (while also incorporating performance footage dating back as far as 1997). Observing both her performances on-stage as well as her interactions with friends, associates, and fellow musicians off-stage, the film offers an insight into how DiFranco's songs take shape in performance, as well as documenting her gifts as a singer and guitarist.
Also Directed by Courtney Trouble
An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.
Also Directed by Chris Vargas
Falling in Love… is a situation comedy about a gay odd couple, one liberal, one radical; one transgender, one not. They don’t have a whole lot in common, but somehow they manage. In this episode, Chris and Greg compete on a reality television show to be “The Next Great Artist.” The challenge: “Create a successful piece of queer art about failure.” Can they make it through a double elimination?
Extraordinary Pregnancies revisits the "First" Pregnant Man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, rescripting their vulnerable yet guarded interviews with the big shots of tabloid media.
Homotopia chronicles a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce.