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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Program of shorts about gay and lesbian parents and their children including Letter to Maya (22 min), 1-800-Yer-Mama (6 min), Camp Lavender Hill (28 min), and Making Babies: The Gay & Lesbian Baby Boom (26 min).

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Set in the nightclub scene of London's Soho and the working-class neighborhood of Blackpool, Like It Is offers a fast-paced, gritty look at modern urban gay life. Craig, a scrappy, bare-knuckled fighter from Blackpool who is struggling with his sexual identity, meets Matt, an ambitious young record promoter, outside a gay nightclub. Even though their one-night stand goes awry, Craig eventually shows up on Matt's doorstep. Kelvin, the charming but sleazy record company owner (played impressively by Roger Daltrey of the Who), acts as Matt's mentor, whose role in his life seems to get more and more complicated. While dealing with their own demons, Matt and Craig, form a relationship that drastically changes both their lives.

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