TIGLFF 34 - St. Petersburg, FL
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UNCLE GLORIA: ONE HELLUVA RIDE!
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesUncle Gloria is a darkly funny film full of drama and family fireworks about the macho owner of an auto wrecking company in Florida who goes into hiding from the law as a woman setting off a bizarre journey of self discovery.
CLOSE KNIT (Karera ga honki de amu toki wa)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesAfter being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.
JUST CHARLIE (Queer Youth Celebration! – FREE!)
Tampa Museum of Art 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesA teen football star who is being courted by a top club is torn between wanting to live up to his father's expectations or shedding his ill-fitting skin.
Drama In Your Shorts
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of seven short films that celebrate queer and trans people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Call Her Ganda
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesWhen 26-year old Filipina transgender woman and alleged sex worker, Jennifer Laude, is found dead with her head plunged into a motel room toilet, the perpetrator is quickly identified as 19-year-old U.S. marine Joseph Scott Pemberton. A military recruit in an unfamiliar land, Pemberton was on “liberty leave” when he solicited Jennifer at a disco.
Paternal Rites – DOCUMENTARY CENTERPIECE
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesPaternal Rites is an extraordinary first-person essay film that examines the secret underbelly of a contemporary Jewish American family as they grapple with the aftereffects of physical and sexual abuse on their present-day lives. It is also a groundbreaking film about the nature of trauma and memory itself.
Transgeek
freeFall Theatre 6099 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesQueer folks in general found an unprecedented freedom with the advent of the internet. TransGeek shines a bright light on the profound impact that the internet had on transgender people. The anonymity and flexibility around gender identity that is available on the web gave voices to the most isolated parts of our queer family.
Fun In Your Shorts
freeFall Theatre 6099 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesLighten your mood with this quirky collection of seven short films.
BIT
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesBIT is the lesbian vampire film everyone has been waiting for – campy, fresh, aggressive, provocative and sexy. On her first night in LA, Laurel, a transgender teenage girl on vacation falls in with four queer feminist vampires.
Queering The Script
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesQueer nerd alert! This fascinating documentary is a fun and informative look at the subculture of queer fandom. Hear from fans at conventions like ClexaCon, as well as Pose actress Angelica Ross, The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken, and Xena: Warrior Princess herself, Lucy Lawless.
Zen In The Ice Rift (Zen sul ghiaccio sottile)
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesMaia (who prefers to go by Zen) is a walking cube of ice, freezing out the world. Zen plays hockey on the high school boys’ team to hone the skills needed to land a place on the national women’s team. She is constantly bullied by her teammates.
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesIn this powerful documentary, renowned filmmaker, Tom Shepherd follows the intense struggles of four LGBT+ refugees from Africa and the Middle East. Cheyenne and Mari (Angolan), Subhi (Syrian), and Junior (Congolese) have fled homophobic violence and are starting over in San Francisco.
Something to Cry About: Drama In Your Shorts
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of eight dramatic short films that celebrate queer people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Adam
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesIn the summer of 2006, Adam escapes another boring family vacation to stay with his cool older sister Casey in NYC. Adam's horizons rapidly expand as he follows Casey to lesbian bars and gay marriage rallies, but it isn't until he is mistaken for a trans guy that he really gets a crash course in LGBT vocabulary.
For They Know Not What They Do
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesFrom The Director of "For The Bible Tells Me So" This new documentary takes us on a journey of understanding and sheds light on religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation in America. At the core of the story are four families whose faith is their source of strength and, sometimes, a source of pain.
Seahorse
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThis thoughtful documentary about a transgender man named Freddy who undertakes to start a family by becoming pregnant. Though Freddy yearns to raise his own child, pregnancy challenges his understanding of masculinity, gender, and parenthood more than he could have ever imagined.
Changing The Game
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesFor young transgender athletes, the sport they love often turns into a minefield of controversy. Decried as cheaters if they excel or barred from competing among the gender they identify with; positive outcomes are rare. But when a sport is a lifeline, what is fair?
History Lessons (Shorts)
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of six short films that celebrate the history of queer people from long before Stonewall to the present day.
TIGLFF: Next Scene – FREE!
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesA new initiative to offer viewing and filmmaking experiences to our younger audience members who live their lives online and stream On Demand. We are offering opportunities for these young filmmakers, activists, and audience members.
SHORTS PROGRAM #6: ROLE REVERSAL
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIn these inspiring documentaries, change-making role models use their ingenuity and integrity to disrupt the status quo and help define a “new normal.”
SHORTS PROGRAM #5: IDENTITY CRISIS
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIt’s not me…it’s YOU. These perceptive shorts show that sometimes the only identity crisis that’s going on is the one that’s happening in someone else’s judgmental mind.
ALICE JÚNIOR
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIn this uber hip, pop culture film laced with electrifying emojis, the stunningly gorgeous Anna Celestino Mota stars as Alice Junior - a high octane social influencer and Teen Top Model trans girl – who panics when she finds she must move to the Brazilian hinterlands to attend a Catholic school.
UNSOUND
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEThere’s a silent synchronicity on the screen when Noah, a disillusioned musician, returns home to Australia for some soul searching and falls for Finn, a deaf trans DJ.
Life’s a Drag – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEDrag Life Documentary Shorts
Activist Heroes Double Feature:
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEAIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman and Yes I Am – The Ric Weiland Story
Portraits of two activist heroes.
33rd ANNUAL TAMPA BAY INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Documentary Shorts Program
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesA series of six documentary shorts.
Framing Agnes
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEAfter discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of trans actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
Documentary Shorts Program (ReDux – St. Pete)
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA series of six documentary shorts.
Paris Is Burning
Screen Door: An Ybor City Microcinema 1624 E 7th Ave #228, Tampa, FL, United StatesA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
At the End of the Day
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA conservative, Christian professor experiences a profound change when he finds himself planted in a gay support group to stop their plans to open an LGBTQ youth shelter in their small town.
Mutt
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesMutt follows Feña (Lio Mehiel) through a stress-filled New York City day, as he anticipates his estranged Chilean father’s visit. In his feature debut, Vuk Lugulov-Klotz, who is also trans, builds the story by consistently adding unfair burdens onto Feña’s shoulders.
Before I Change My Mind
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIt’s 1987, and while the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.
Peafowl
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesMyung is a transgender woman who cut ties with her family and hometown because she needs to live authentically. Now, all she wants is gender affirmation surgery, but the only way to earn money is by winning the Waacking dance competition, which was a disaster.
SPONSORED BY: Creative Loafing
Greetings from Queertown: Orlando
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn the aftermath of the Pulse horror, Rick Todd (Watermark) watched the Orlando community coalesce around the outpouring of grief and deepening sadness. Those reflections led to a sense of pride and homage for his beloved Orlando, and for those who paved the way toward a thriving LGBT community, even in the face of tragedy.
SPONSORED BY: Watermark Publishing Group