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Event: gb Film Festival
- April 2004
- the 10th so far
Date :
Sunday, 18th April 2004
Time: 1:30 pm
Venue:
Conference Room,
National College,
Linking Road,
Bandra West
Mumbai 400 050
Directions
It is about 10 minutes walk from Bandra Station or minimum rickshaw fare. Almost at
the beginning of Linking Road, Opp Pamposh Restaurant.
Contribution
: Entry is free. The event is entirely sponsored by
GayBombay.
FILMS to be SCREENED :
1.
Hit and Runaway : directed by Christopher Livingston / 2001 / 1
hr. 40 min
A dishwasher in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, Alex Andero (Michael
Parducci) loves the movies. He's a big fan of action star Jagger Stevens (Hoyt Richards) and often calls his annoyed uncle in Hollywood to pitch him screenwriting ideas. Alex's script has Jagger discovering a smuggling ring in the fashion industry, then taking out the terrorists in a hail of gunfire and falling bodies, with a gorgeous model at his side. Suddenly, beyond his wildest dreams, Alex gets his shot, but the studio needs writing samples and Alex has never written more than a couple of sentences on a napkin or menu. He begins taking a screenwriting classes, where shy Gwen (Judy Prescott) offers to help. A different kind of help soon arrives through Elliot (Peter Jacobsen), a self-effacing gay playwright who leaves his script at the coffeehouse for waiter Joey (Kerr Smith), a pretty boy with whom Elliot is infatuated. Alex offers to get him a date with Joey if Elliot will help him with his own screenplay, and when Alex comes through on his end of the deal, they begin. Through the ups and downs of several months of life and love, the screenplay and their friendship blossom, and both characters learn to trust the artist within.
2. Lilies
: directed by John Greyson / 1996 /
1 hr. 36 mim.
A surrealistic English-language adaptation of the 1987 Quebec play about men loving men and men betraying the men they love.
An embittered older convict (Aubert Pallascio) leads his fellow prisoners in staging a morality play about his youth. Set up by a ruse, a Roman Catholic bishop (Marcel Sabourin) is forced to watch the rustic play. The twist is that the bishop was involved as a youth in the saga, which was set in 1912.
We see the action in flashbacks intercut into scenes of the play being performed in the prison. The flashbacks involve a complex gay love triangle ending in tragedy and the flames of damnation. The twist of the film itself is that, in the flashbacks, just as in the prison play, all the roles are played by men.
3. Edge of Seventeen : directed by David Moreton / 1998 /
1 hr. 39
min.
The tale of a high school student in the small town of Sandusky, Ohio circa 1984 (a year when 80s pop-culture was in it's prime) who comes to terms with his homosexuality much to the astonishment of his long-time girlfriend. EDGE OF SEVENTEEN presents a sincere look at managing personal relationships as a gay teenager. Winner of the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Feature, Best Actor (Stafford), and Best Screenplay at the 1998 L.A. Outfest, and the Audience Best Feature Award at the 1998 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
NOTE :
- The films are excellent original copies on DVD & VHS.
- The films are NOT pornographic. Only good, clean gay
films.
- GB as a support group, has created this comfort
space/event for gays, many of whom may be "newbies" (those still coming
to terms with their sexuality and who have mustered courage to come for
such a meeting for the first time). So we request you to be sensitive to
the comfort levels of others attending this event and behave and dress
accordingly.
- CHECK this page a couple of day before the event to reconfirm
date, time and other details.
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This is a GayBombay (gb) organized event
Rights of admission reserved.
You have to 18 years and above to participate in this event
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If you have any further queries/questions please
email at: friend@gaybombay.org
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