Sarah Schulman

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another. Visually, this documentary comes to life on screen through compelling and intimate original interviews, intercut with emotionally-charged archival footage, photographs, ephemera, inspired music, and film clips.

Based on a true story, Jason and Shirley recreates the 1966 power struggle between Jewish, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke and her subject, Jason Holiday, a fierce black gay queen over a 12-hour marathon filming session which gave rise to Clarke's iconic documentary Portrait of Jason.

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP es un documental inspirador sobre el nacimiento y la vida del movimiento activista contra el SIDA desde la perspectiva de las personas en las trincheras que luchan contra la epidemia. Utilizando historias orales de miembros de ACT UP, así como material de archivo raro, la película describe los esfuerzos de ACT UP mientras lucha contra la avaricia corporativa, la indiferencia social y la negligencia del gobierno.

With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club, while Claudia, in drag as Claude, finds a surprising partner

“Hooters!” explores lesbian culture, with humor, insight, and artistry, through the collaborative film making process used in Cheryl Dunye’s new seminal film, “The Owls”.

Two middle-aged lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger girl and decide to cover it up. But their crime comes back to haunt them when an unexpected stranger appears in their lives, bringing tension and discord.

Two middle-aged lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger girl and decide to cover it up. But their crime comes back to haunt them when an unexpected stranger appears in their lives, bringing tension and discord.

Cheryl es una joven, negra y lesbiana, que trabaja en Filadelfia con su mejor amiga Tamara consumida por un proyecto de película: hacer un video sobre la búsqueda de una actriz negra de Filadelfia que apareció en películas en los años 30 y fue conocida como Watermelon Woman. Después de varios pistas, Cheryl descubre el nombre real de la actriz y conjeturas de que tuvo un largo romance con Martha Page, una mujer blanca y una de las pocas directoras de Hollywood. A medida que va descubriendo estos detalles, Cheryl se enamora de Diana, que también es blanca.

Winner of the Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995, Hubbard’s highly personal experimental work, Memento Mori, is a moving, queer meditation that individualizes the immeasurable collective trauma left in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. Stylistically, Hubbard powerfully departs from the small film gauge formats that dominate his documentary work, instead utilizing widescreen Cinemascope that serves to illuminate the enormous scale of loss for each individual that has perished. Through the artful juxtaposition of universal imagery of death and ritual, deliberate close-ups of a human skull to the scattering of ashes, Hubbard’s dream-like elegy transports the viewer to a deep, universal state-of-consciousness that anyone that has lost a loved one will instantly recognize. The resulting depth of emotion and empathy serves as both a mournful prayer and an indelible filmic monument to the dead.