Winner of the 1998 Los Angeles Outfest's Outstanding Emerging Talent Award, Buck's Out of Season is a touching and subtle love story set in the picturesque seaside resort of Cape May, New Jersey. Micki, a restless, leather-jacketed, and Marlboro-smoking lesbian with loads of attitude, finds herself in a small town, caring for her dying uncle Charlie and running from everything, including her ex and her photography career. She finds a few surprises, one of which is the other lesbian in town, Roberta, a forty-year-old African-American waitress at the local diner and a good friend of her uncle. Jealousy, fear, and love all play a part in the story that ensues as both women struggle to find a way to trust. Buck has created a feature that is at once engaging, credible, and satisfying.

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East by Shamiran Samano (1998, 9 min.) is a sensual, erotic depiction of Middle Eastern queer identity. Dance With Me by Cassandra Nicolau (Canada, 1997, 9 min.) brings us into a Macedonian dance between a lesbian daughter, her disabled mother, and her loving grandmother. In Meninas by Paula Alves (Brazil, 1997, 17 min.), two girls' feelings for each other are discovered in a small conservative Christian town in Brazil. Tomboy by Donna Carter (1998, 5 min.) documents an African American tomboy's childhood experiences. I/Yo by Adriana Pacheco (1997, 13 min) meditates on Pachecho's childhood growing up in Colombia. Sambal Belacan in San Francisco by Madeleine Lim (1997, 26 min.) takes a poetic look at three Singaporean lesbians' search for "home."

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The Real Ellen Story by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (1998, 52 min.) tells the behind-the-scenes story of the outing of Ellen DeGeneres. It traces the famous coming-out episode that 42 million Americans tuned in to. Candid interviews with Ellen, her partner, Anne Heche; her mother Betty; her brother; the show's writers; a former Disney executive; and gay and lesbian activists emphasize the impact this show had on people around the world. Find out, among other things, why the episode was code-named by the network The Puppy Episode. Off the Straight and Narrow by Katherine Sender (1998, 63 min.) is a comprehensive history of gay, lesbian, and bisexual representation on American television. It travels from the near invisibili- ty of gays and lesbians before the '70's to the reportage of AIDS in the '90's. Clips from famous gay and lesbian moments in television history are used in this intriguing documentary to investigate media representations and to challenge stereotypes.

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