sat 8/11/08, 8.15- 9.40pm - shorts program 2
Session 3: shorts program two
Are You A Girl Or What?, Fagette, The Missing Colour, Envisioning Justice
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 8.15- 9.40pm Duration 85min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE: From Africa and India to the Astroturf wonderland in USA. From the funniest and the queerest to the spiritual and the important. Documentary, music video, Fiction. Activism, drag, lesbian men and artists. These shorts are sure to excite, educate and entertain.
- Are You A Girl Or What?
AFRICA 2007. Dir : Mathilda Piehl. 30mins
In a backyard in the township of Katlehong a group of young lesbian guys let us ask questions about their lives and how they survive in a sexist, homophobic and often violent surrounding. Through adversities and hardship these young South Africans bear an immense amount of hope and courage. - Fagette
USA 2008. Dir: Ali Cotterill. 4min. music video
Fagette is a trans-fabulous Sunday in the park. It’s croquet gone gay, drag-tastic cheerleaders, and synchronized dance, all in an Astroturf wonderland. - The Missing Colour
INDIA 2008 Dir: Prasanth Kanathur. 24minA journey into the world of a transgender, who lived for colours, her only love. Though strangers always stole the colours of her life, she kept her first love by working with paint and brush to convert her thoughts to colourful images. Rejected by family, dejected over the society around her, she tries to keep her love alive. But how long can she hang on to her love for colours? - Envisioning Justice
USA 2007. Dir:Larry Tung. 32minThis documentary is about the life and work of Pauline Park. As an orphan born in Korea in a year of revolution, Pauline Park was adopted and raised in the Midwest. Park. She came out as an openly transgendered woman after moving to New York City in 1997. In June 1998, Park co-founded the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in New York.