The former Traveling World Community Film Festival: Peterborough has officially become ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival.
For detailed info on the festival and associated events go to
http://www.quidnovis.com/reframe/#about
In its 5th year the festival will be presenting over 65 films ffrom all over the world!
The 2009 program brings together film screenings, filmmakers’ panels, children’s and high-school programs, workshops, art exhibits, fair trade crafts, international foods, live performances, volunteers, and community partnerships.
There are three films that specifically deal with LGBT and gender ralated themes being sponsored by your community:
S/He
Released: 2007 Taiwan
Film Length: 12 minutes
Directors: Gina Pei Chi Chen
S/He deftly illuminates the struggle of one 12-year-old girl to follow her expected gender and cultural roles and while exploring an emerging masculine nature
Sponsor: Rainbow Service Organization, Affirm United
Searching 4 Sandeep
Released: 2007 Australia
Film Length: 56 minutes
Directors: Poppy Stockell
Love in the digital age is complex: immediate, yet distant, emotionally close, yet physically far. When Sydney-sider Poppy Stockell set out to "research" her light-hearted doc about the online lesbian dating scene, she had no idea that it would launch her on a journey that would change her life forever. Frustrated, lonely and single, 28-year-old Stockell finds more than just research on the Internet. To her surprise and delight she forges a deep online connection with an English woman, Sandeep Virdi. Poppy sends Sandeep a camera and we watch as their virtual long-distance crush blossoms into a very real physical relationship. But they face obstacles greater than the vast oceans that separate them. Sandeep is Sikh, lives at home with her conservative family and, at 31, is still in the closet about her sexuality. Through raw, incredibly frank footage, Searching 4 Sandeep follows Poppy and Sandeep's tumultuous relationship across two years and three continents.
Awards Sydney Film Festival, World Movies Channel Award, WOW (World of Women), Best Documentary and Audience Award
Sponsor: Rainbow Service Organization
She's a Boy I Knew
Released: 2007 Canada
Film Length: 70 minutes
Directors: Gwen Haworth
She's a Boy I Knew is guaranteed, says the filmmaker, to be the most compelling do-it-yourself, gender-bending, feel-good film directed by a transsexual lesbian you've seen all year!
And it's true, but it's faint praise - for this documentary is so much more than that. At 23 years old, Steven Haworth, a married heterosexual man, took the brave decision to tell his wife about his true female gender identity. It was the start of a process that led to Steven becoming Gwen, the director of this movie, which documents her transition and the effect it has on her family with both wit and wisdom.
It's that rare thing - a 'home' movie that manages to be both a narrative work of art and a tool for activists to use in the fight for acceptance.
Awards The Vancity People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film & The Women in Film and Video Vancouver Artistic Merit Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2007.
It's that rare thing - a 'home' movie that manages to be both a narrative work of art and a tool for activists to use in the fight for acceptance.
Sponsor: Peterborough Collegiate Institute Gay Straight Alliance, Peterborough YWCA, Affirm United
Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan / Our Place In the Circle
Released: 2008 Canada
Film Length: 21 minutes
Directors: Lorne Olson
Traditionally, the two-spirited person was one who has been given the gift of having both a female and male soul that would allow the individual the ability to see the world from two perspectives at the same time. This unflinchingly honest documentary profiles two-spirited people united in their experiences of self-discovery and affirmation.