Shorts: SHOUT LGBTQ+ Documentary
There Are Things To Do
Directed by Mike Syers
18:00 • United States
Urvashi Vaid, an outspoken immigrant, lesbian and woman of color was an LGBTQ+ superhero helped shape the modern day gay rights movement. Her vision for the movement serves as a roadmap of initiatives & tools for generations of activist as they face anti-LGBTQ+ backlash. The film features Urvashi’s life in Provincetown, MA and 34-year relationship with partner Kate Clinton, and inspires us that the best place to build community & work towards equality starts at home.
Compton’s ’22
Directed by Drew de Pinto
8:00 • United States
Three years before Stonewall, on an unknown date in August 1966, trans sex workers and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria. There was no news coverage, and the arrest records no longer exist. Decades later, trans historian Susan Stryker unearthed the history of the riot and interviewed the surviving Compton’s Queens. Compton’s ’22 creates an intergenerational conversation between these oral histories and trans artists today, using performance to imagine an interpretive archive that stands in for the absence of historical documentation. The film aims to counter the erasure and deradicalization of our history, and underscore the crucial role of intergenerational knowledge and solidarity in the ongoing struggle for queer liberation.”
Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens
Directed by Kristal Sotomayor
9:00 • United States
“Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens” pays homage to the legendary Mother Cavallucci by weaving together the present and past to provide a striking portrait of belonging and memory. Joseph “Josie” Cavallucci (aka Mother Cavallucci) is a legendary New Hope drag queen that would host annual wedding celebrations in the 70s and 80s that served as fundraisers and a community party. Poetically merging archival photographs and present day footage from a community drag show, the film sparks conversation about the modern day issues Mother Cavallucci revolutionized.
Finding Yourself in Community | Zi Donnya Piggott
Directed by Stephen Bradford Bailey
6:22 • United States
Entrepreneur and LGBT advocate, Zi, travels from her home in Barbados to Puerto Rico for the first time, looking for community in places they’ve never been before. Zi knows the unwelcoming situations that many queer travelers may experience, but has also been able to find community in the most unlikely places. Their very own pink coconut. After experiencing the impact community can have, Zi has opened up the world to queer travelers, connecting them with safe spaces in various countries through their platform, Pink Coconuts. In Puerto Rico, Zi is able to find community, showcasing queer Puerto Rican culture, and reflects on what this work and these connections have meant to them in discovering their own identity. Not she or he, Zi. Zi’s story is one of a three-part series about using travel as catalyst for change.
Pride of Texas
Directed by Ashley Seering
7:17 • United States
A look at the Texas Gay Rodeo Association and its participants who prove that rodeo, and Texas, is a place for everyone.
Seahorse Parents
Directed by Miriam Guttmann
17:30 • Netherlands
In the short documentary, “Seahorse Parents” four (soon to be) transgender parents share their personal stories of what carrying their future children as transgender males is like.
Cashing Out
Directed by Matt Nadel
39:28 • United States
At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men—unable to work and with few months to live—sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. CASHING OUT charts the rise and fall of the billion-dollar industry that grew out of their desperation, and spotlights one of its earliest investors: the filmmaker’s father. A gay man, director Matt Nadel reckons with the “AIDS death profiteering” that is his inheritance, connecting with survivors who help him understand why this industry came to be.