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Sunday

May 9, 2010

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Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

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A program for those who love sports or those who love watching them!
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This short film program includes the following films:

Les Garcons de la Piscine (The Boys at the Pool)

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Les Garcons de la Piscine (The Boys at the Pool) is a drop-dead gorgeous documentary about a group of out synchronized swimmers in Paris. Supported by the French government and driven by their stern, yet supportive trainer, they work towards their ultimate goal - to compete in the Gay Olympics. Lousi Dupont's film is a well paced and exquisite film that will certainly make you rethink synchronized male swimming. In a good way.
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Training Rules

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No drugs. No drinking. No lesbians. For more than 25 years, Penn State University women’s basketball coach Rene Portland made her training rules eminently clear. While the school administration turned a blind eye to Portland’s homophobic coaching philosophy, talented young players were harassed, threatened and even thrown off the team and stripped of their college scholarships.
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The Owls

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Sat, May 15 @ 7:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Director Cheryl Dunye in person
We celebrate noted filmmaker Cheryl Dunye with the Boston LGBT Film Festival's inaugural Director's award. Ms. Dunye astounded the world with her breakthrough film Watermelon Woman in 1996 and we are honoured to present her latest film The Owls. Please join us in celebrating a filmmaker who has made an amazing contribution to LGBT cinema. About the making of the The Owls: Director Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz, Candi Gutteres and Ernesto Foronda invited a group of lesbian and gay artists with creative links to work on this project. This marked the beginning of the ‘Parliament Collective’, a large multiethnic artists’ collective that developed the story for The Owls.
Ten years ago ‘The Screech’ was the hottest lesbian band around. Iris and Lily were the lead vocalists, MJ the producer, and Carol always went on tour with them. But the days of big dreams and wild nights have long since past. Sexy Iris now drinks too much and fantasises about a comeback that has yet to materialise. She and MJ split up years ago, but just can’t let go. Carol and Lily are so bored by their relationship that they can’t seem to decide on anything, except perhaps to have a child together. And then Cricket enters this Bermuda triangle of fallow desire, disappointment, anger and boredom. This argumentative twenty-year-old is looking for trouble – and finds it. After a pool party awash with cocaine and alcohol, Iris winds up on Cricket’s lap. This makes MJ – to whom Iris has been unfaithful so often before – even more furious. An argument ensues and escalates into a fight during which Cricket is badly injured and dies. The girlfriends decide to overcome their differences, pull together and get rid of the corpse. Their complicity creates a firm bond. But then, a year later, Skye turns up on Lily and Carol’s doorstep. Revenge is her aim and seduction her strategy … (Description courtesy of The Berlinale)
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