Love! Valour! Compassion!
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesTerrence McNally adaptation his Tony-winning Broadway play about the lives and loves of eight gay friends who gather at a vacation home.
Lianna
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
The Empress of Vancouver
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA cinematic and intimate collision of drag, queer history, and performance art.
Short Films Program
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesSeven (7) Trans+ Short Films
You’re Loved – OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION & FILM
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesTransgender youths boldly share their stories of resilience to ignite action and give trans kids hope to survive in an era of increasing bigotry and injustice.
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.
Desert Hearts
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesWhile waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
Mambo Italiano
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
For the Bible Tells Me So
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesAn exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community.
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Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way (St. Petersburg)
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe story of Pedro Zamora, the charming young activist who transformed the face of AIDS in America by allowing MTV's REAL WORLD to chronicle his joy, his influence, and his journey with a disease that would ultimately kill him.
Jimmy in Saigon
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesJimmy in Saigon is a documentary exploring the mysterious death of Peter McDowell's eldest brother, James, who died age 24 in Saigon. The film explores unspoken grief and family secrets, while honoring those lost long ago.
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesNo Straight Lines chronicles the journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance.
Pat Rocco Dared
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn this colorful trip back in time, filmmaker and activist Pat Rocco shares his incredible life story as one of Hollywood's original boundary pushing gay pioneers.
BMP (Beats Per Minute)
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesMembers of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
Kinky Boots – Added Screening
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Kinky Boots
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United States17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's has shown up as a "Fairy Godmother" to dish out advice, whether Ellie wants it or not.
Saturday Church
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesWorking single mother, Amara, leaves her two boys at home with their domineering Aunt Rose. Rose has her eyes on the older son Ulysses as he steals nylons and wears his mother’s shoes. Ulysses is just beginning to explore his identity and sexuality. When Rose demands an end to it, the boy escapes to the Village and discovers both supportive friends and the inspiration to become exactly what he is feeling inside. A musical coming-of-age story is all the better for tackling multiple sides of the young LGBTQ experience, with compassion and heart combined.
D.E.B.S.
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesSultry crime boss Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster, The Fast and the Furious) is back in the states and the D.E.B.S.- an elite team of paramilitary college co-ed superspies- are hot on her trail. But when their top agent, gorgeous Amy Bradshaw (Sara Foster, The Big Bounce), mysteriously disappears after coming face to face with the attractive young villainess, the D.E.B.S. begin a full-scale search for Lucy's secret lair, never suspecting that Amy may not want to be rescued after all, in this smart and sexy spy spoof about love at first gun sight.
Carol
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesDuring a Christmas season in 1950s, Therese Belivet, a shopgirl with photography hobby works at a Department Store in Manhattan named Frankenberg's, the place she met Carol Aird, a semi-divorced woman. Carol's loveless relationship with her former husband, Harge Aird took both Therese and Carol into an unexpected relationship. While Therese had to stop her relationship with her boyfriend, Richard, Carol has to face new problem- the morality clause from her own husband. This relationship can be unstable, and their own reliance to make the continuity of their relationship are tested.
Framing Agnes
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn 1958, a young trans woman named Agnes entered a study about sex disorders at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she needed, by any means necessary. Her story was long considered to be exceptional until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Directed by Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and featuring an all-star cast of transgender artists and performers, Framing Agnes uses re-enactment and genre-blurring storytelling techniques to breathe new life into previously unknown people who redefined gender in the midcentury. Featuring Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard, Max Wolf Valerio, and Stephen Ira.
The Incredibly True Adventures of 2 Girls in Love
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe story of two girls. Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with her aunt and other lesbians. Evie is a wealthy popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she's never felt before. What follows is a sweet, tender romance between the two while Evie is cast away by her friends and Randy is chided by her family. The two don't care, though, because they are in love.