LGBTQ
![Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury [30min version]](images/products/product_info/Bobby.jpg "Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury [30min version]")
Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury [30min version]
Sharon McGowan salutes the work of Vancouver artist Rosamond Norbury in this edgy and humorous documentary exploring notions of gender and identity.
Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury [53min version]
Sharon McGowan salutes the work of Vancouver artist Rosamond Norbury in this edgy and humorous documentary exploring notions of gender and identity.
Between You and Me (Tangled Garden, Act III, Scene I)
Between You and Me (Tangled Garden, Act III, Scene I) looks at the internalization of homophobia and fatalism present in mainstream representations of the AIDS pandemic, as it reflects on the conflict between grief and desire in a gay man's psyche.
The Commitment
This quietly eloquent narrative film is rooted in real life experience. Robert and Ethan are an interracial gay couple who long to adopt a child.
![Drawing Out the Demons: A Film about the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs [48 min version]](images/products/product_info/dotd.jpg "Drawing Out the Demons: A Film about the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs [48 min version]")
Drawing Out the Demons: A Film about the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs [48 min version]
Drawing Out the Demons profiles the notorious bad-boy painter, Attila Richard Lukacs.
Drawing Out the Demons: A Film about the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs [78 min version]
Drawing Out the Demons profiles the notorious bad-boy painter, Attila Richard Lukacs.
![Ferron: girl on a road [48 min version]](images/products/product_info/vlcsnap-00004.jpg "Ferron: girl on a road [48 min version]")
Ferron: girl on a road [48 min version]
Part performance film, part biopic, Ferron: girl on a road traces, the life, the songs, the loves, the heartbreaks, and the pioneering path carved by a true folk legend.
Ferron: girl on a road [73 min festival version]
Part performance film, part biopic, Ferron: girl on a road traces, the life, the songs, the loves, the heartbreaks, and the pioneering path carved by a true folk legend.
Fighting for the Family
Fighting for the Family profiles a number of cohabitation and parental arrangements to show that it is love and respect, and not preconceived notions, that make a family work.
FLESH and BLOOD: a journey between east and west
What's the Ukrainian word for sex? Filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw explores this question in the humorous and provocative Flesh and Blood, the first-ever Canadian film about East European queer sexualities.
Gay Spirit
Followers of different religions, six courageous individuals faced similar issues when they "came out". Gay Spirit reveals how they struggled to embrace their sexuality alongside their spirituality. They share their stories with candour and honesty.
Gender Blender: Dialogues of Hope
In this youth-driven documentary, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students at a high school in the town of Hope, British Columbia explore issues they face at their high school. The film project created a dialogue among students and the community as a step toward eliminating bullying.
GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS, and the fin de siècle
A documentary tracing the prolific career and impact on contemporary art by three young, gay artists who formed the General Idea collective in Toronto in 1969.
the gesture
In this short drama, a young lesbian woman and an unforgiving grandmother are brought face to face when the grandmother suddenly shows up, hoping to make amends.
i see the fear
In 2004, visual artists joe average & jamie griffiths entered into a creative therapeutic photography process, to allow joe to explore his experience of living and coping with Lipoatrophy caused by antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS.
In Black and White
This work asks the viewer to re-examine the right of the police to harass adults because of their sexual preferences. A careful, precise film which raises the question in a reserved and understated style.
![Little Sisters vs. Big Brother [47 min version]](images/products/product_info/littlesistersNW.jpg "Little Sisters vs. Big Brother [47 min version]")
Little Sister's vs. Big Brother [47 min version]
This documentary centers on the debate over censorship as it follows Vancouver's Little Sister's Bookstore and its 20-year struggle with Canada Customs over the seizure of books.
Little Sister's vs. Big Brother [71 min version]
This documentary centers on the debate over censorship as it follows Vancouver's Little Sister's Bookstore and its 20-year struggle with Canada Customs over the seizure of books.
Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues
This documentary celebrates Long John Baldry's long and influential career and features footage of early performances and commentary from a number of musicians for whom he was a great influence.
My Name Was January
When a trans sister, January Marie Lapuz, is brutally murdered in her own home, a community reacts. Her friends and other trans women of colour come to voice their issues, concerns, and challenges.
Relatively Speaking
A candid and often humorous monologue creates an off-beat portrait of a young woman who speaks about the evolution of her lesbian identity, homophobia, her first relationship and grief.
She's a Boy I Knew
Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife.
Tangled Garden, Act I, Scene II
Tangled Garden, Act I, Scene II begins the filmmaker's journey by exploring the history of the purebred Jersey cow, and suggesting that when we look at the "other" it is often ourselves we see reflected back.
Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II
Through a queer reading of the male nude in Western art, a gay white filmmaker explores masculinity and desire, confirming Tom Kalin's assertion that "our flesh comes to us in history" in Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II.
Too Close for Comfort
Too Close…for Comfort is a short drama, the first film to tackle homophobia as it affects people with HIV infection and AIDS.
