Dancer
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
Gertrude Stein
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.
Mr. Pinky's Customer
Tracy Turnblad, una chica cuya única pasión es el baile, sueña con participar en "El Show de Corny Collins", el programa de baile más importante de Baltimore. El único problema de Tracy es que tiene una figura más bien generosa, cosa que le recuerdan siempre su novio y su dominante madre. Pero nada detendrá a Tracy, pues está segura de que ha nacido para bailar... Remake del musical "underground" de John Waters.
