Just a note: In the US and other western countries (Canada, etc), film production companies do have to show that actors who appear in "adult"-themed films are actually 18 or older (Wiki source).
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Reel Affirmations in DC announces 2015 film festival; two more gay short films
On Saturday, March 28, 2015, The DC Center sponsored a reception for Reel Affirmations ,
Washington DC’s International LGBT Film festival, in a private condominium in
the Adams-Morgan area of Washington DC. The food was right out of a future sci-fi fantasy (maybe "Imajica").
The “Fall” festival will take place Aug. 28-30 at the Tivoli
Theater in Washington DC. Reel
Affirmations is seeking individual and corporate sponsorships ranging from “writer”
($1000) to “Executive producer” ($10000).
A major contact point is Kimberley Bush (email Kimberley at thedccenter). Kimbeley said that many films have been chosen already.
To that news, I can add a couple of LGBT short films from
YouTube now, from “Outlicious TV”.
Brian Pelletier offers
the 18-minute “Monster in the Closet” (2013), with Trevor Allen (Jackson, the
street hustler) and David Boettcher (Gene, the right wing closeted married man
with a family).
Yup, you got it. Gene
visits a male prostitute, apparently under legal age (according to what Gene says in the script) and just too “smooth”. They have two rounds of play, the second one
getting kinkier. Gene says he wonders
how something that feels so good could be sinful or evil. But unfortunately there are weapons, like a Taser
and pistol around. That’s an invitation to tragedy. The filmmaking style of Jorge Ameer comes to mind.
Dominic Haxton directs the 13-minute “We Are Animals” (2013),
set in the mid 1980s and showing what could have happened if the extreme right
wing (represented by the ilk of psychologist Paul Cameron) had gotten its way
during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, quarantining not only “AIDS
patients” (before there was a test for HIV) but even “all gay men”. Not only is there quarantine, but chemical
and physical castration. A young “straight”
man but all too “attractive” works in a quarantine center and is about to
perform the operation on a particularly aggressive (and attractive)
prisoner. Instead, they escape into
chaos. The “straight” man will get it,
all right. Daniel Landroche and Clint
Napier star. The link is here. It's important to remember that in 1983, a very draconian anti-gay law was proposed in Texas, HR 2138, by a state representative from Amarillo, that would have prevented gays from working in occupations, and that would have strengthened the state sodomy law (2106) which was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas. Furthermore, in California, a right wing attorney introduced an anti-gay bill legalizing vigilantism to a ballot, obviously unconstitutional, and the California courts have been asked to disallow its being voted on. Here's the news story on KQED.
Just a note: In the US and other western countries (Canada, etc), film production companies do have to show that actors who appear in "adult"-themed films are actually 18 or older (Wiki source).
Just a note: In the US and other western countries (Canada, etc), film production companies do have to show that actors who appear in "adult"-themed films are actually 18 or older (Wiki source).
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