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6th Annual Oakland International
Black LGBT Film Festival
Parkway Theater
1834 Park Blvd
Oakland, California
AUGUST 14 - 17, 2008
(All Screenings $10)
NOTE: The Parkway Theater sells beer and wine every day and offers a menu of good things to eat. You must be at least 21 years old (except during matinees and on Sunday. You will need to bring a valid photo I.D. Tickets for all shows go on sale 45 minutes before showtime. For other Frequently Asked Questions, Click here! |
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Shirts & Skins
FRIDAY, August 15 - 9:15pm
Director: Leola Westbrook
TRT 6O minutes
Logo (MTV-Networks) presents a ground-breaking reality show, "Shirts & Skins," which follows the true-life story of the San Francisco Rockdogs, a young all-star basketball team who must reunite to uphold their city's three-generation legacy of international gay games gold medal, and national tournament wins. After their last gold in 2006, the team fell apart, only to be rallied back together by their founders to defend their title at the upcoming National Gay Basketball Championship in Chicago. When the Rockdogs join together as family, they win. So will this new generation of talented players be able to put aside their interpersonal differences, love lives, and late night rumbles in time to get their game on and bring home the championship?
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Sponsor THE HARRISON TEAM |
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MAHOGANY - Opening Night!
Tribute To Joseph Ware (BATES HOUSE)
THURSDAY, August 14 / 6:30pm
35mm, USA:109 min
Come with your best Diana Ross or Billy Dee Fit!
The Oakland International Black LGBT Film Festival started a new tradition last year of screening one opening-night film, that has been deemed "Classic" by Black Americans and particularly by LGBT people of African descent. In 2007, we chose "THE WIZ" (starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson) because the film is analagous with the many challenges that black LGBT people face on the road to self acceptance and self love.
For 2008, we have selected another film starring Miss Diana Ross - MAHOGANY! This Oscar nominated musical was produced and directed by Motown founder and legend Barry Gordy. Mahogany was harshly criticized by white film critics when it was released in 1975. But the African American community saw Mahogany as a cinematic celebration of Black beauty, Black struggle, Black success and Black Love.
Add the drama of high fashion and the sexy Billy Dee Williams and you have a film that was destined for gayness...we mean greatness.
The poignant words to Mahogany's theme song asked us the question - Do You Know Where You're Going To? Which is the question that we ask the Black LGBT community with this year's slate of films. Do You Know?
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Sponsor EAST BAY EXPRESS
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Friends and Lovers: Ski Trip 2
SUNDAY, August 17 / 5:00pm
Directed By: Maurice Jamal
USA - TRT: 90 mins
We proudly conclude the festival with a film by (Oakland Homeboy) Award winning Director, Maurice Jamal returns to Oakland with the Bay Area premiere of his new film FRIENDS AND LOVERS: SKI TRIP 2. Part romantic comedy, part drama, part Hollywood spoof and all signature Jamal, the story follows the lives, loves and mishaps of three diverse couples living in Los Angeles, and their eccentric circle of friends.Featuring a multiracial cast that crosses orientation and gender, FRIENDS AND LOVERS is a bold, brazen and totally outrageous look at life in LA.
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Sponsors: OAA / BBITL /
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U People
Friday, August 15 / 6:30pm
Directed By: Hanifah Walidah, and Olive Demetrius
USA - TRT: 77 min.
In a brownstone in Brooklyn, a film about a film unfolds, and not just any film...but a documentary steeped with sexy, intelligent women who have gathered together to make a unique music video. The talented filmmakers capture what happens when 30 hot and sharp women of color convene, revealing a blend of experiences and perspectives that are rarely voiced. U PEOPLE is a powerful and engaging romp that enters a world seldom represented - and you¢re invited to the party.
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Sponsor Sistahs Steppin In Pride
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BLUEPRINT
Thursday, August 14 / 9:15pm
Directed by Kirk Shannon-Butts
USA, 2007 / TRT 75 Min
Out 100 honoree Director Kirk Shannon-Butts tells the story of Keith who is a reserved, straitlaced transplant to New York City from Los Angeles; Nathan is a street-smart, potsmoking Brooklynite who lives on the edge — or so he’d like Keith to believe. At first glance, nothing about these two young African American college students suggests romantic compatibility. But a casual courtship gradually develops amidst minor bickering and disagreements — those familiar interstices inside which nascent love restlessly takes shape.
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Sponsor FLYLIFE
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The Incredibly True Adventures of Sistas of the Canyon
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: Jasmyne Cannick and Ellene Miles
TRT: 23 min
Voices of mothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends, and lesbian women spanning different generations, shapes and sizes redefine unity and sisterhood by testing their physical and emotional boundaries that begin at the mountaintop.
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Sponsor THE HARRISON TEAM
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Pariah
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: Dee Rees
TRT: 27 min
Pariah is a coming-of-age drama about a lesbian teenager who unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family.
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Sponsor The Harrison Team
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The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Sunday, August 17 - 2pm
Directed By: Chas Brack
TRT: 55 min
The Sakia Gunn Project is a documentary that tells the story of Sakia, a 15 year old charismatic, dynamic young woman who was out and proud about being an 'aggressive' – (a homosexual woman) who dresses in masculine attire but does not necessarily identify as either lesbian or female-to-male transgender.Sakia held promise as a basketball player and was looking forward to becoming an upperclassman at Newark’s West Side High.
She and her friends were returning from socializing at NYC’s Greenwich Village piers. The 'piers' is a popular spot for lesbian, gay, and transgendered (LGBT) youth.On the night Sakia was murdered, two men targeted them and wanted to instigate trouble. First flirting with and propositioning the 'femmes' in their group. The girls rebuffed the sexual advances of the much older assailants. Words were exchanged, a fight ensued, and Sakia was stabbed. She died in the arms of her best friend, Valencia. Several rallies and vigils have subsequently been held, galvanizing the Newark community and prompting several LGBT organizations to form The Newark Pride Alliance and Sakia Gunn Aggressives & Femmes, as well as a scholarship fund in her name established by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Join us at Sunday Service @ First Congregation in honor of Sakia Gunn & Joe Ware- Click here!
.Sponsor - ButterflyProductions
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The Young And Evil
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: Julian Breece
USA TRT 15min., 35mm
Shot in South Central Los Angeles, Writer-Director Julian Breece makes a striking debut with THE YOUNG & EVIL, a dramatic short about a defiantly promiscuous young man (Vaughn Lowery) who finds eros in self-destruction. Referencing the controversial 1930s novel of the same title, THE YOUNG & EVIL provides a chilling lens into how homophobia, faithlessness and longing miscolor the need for human connection.
An official program of The Brotherhood Crusade of Los Angeles (501c-3) and its arts against AIDS initiative.
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Insomniacs
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: K. Chisolm
USA 2008 /TRT 11min
Bell has insomnia. So one restless night, she decides to go to the local Insomniac's Anonymous 3 a.m. meeting, and there she meets Helena, the girl of her waking dreams. After the meeting, Bell and Helena explore their connection back at Bell's apartment, where they crawl into bed and sleep together as the sun begins to rise.
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Sponsor- Harrison Team |
SOULJAH
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: Rikki Beadle-Blair
UK 2007 / TRT 10min.
An effiminate African school boy is bullied by neighborhood thugs who don't know that he has a dark secret.
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Sponsor FRAMELINE |
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Christian True
Saturday, August 16 / 3pm
Directed By: Raymond Clark
USA 2008 / TRT 4min.
First-time Bay Area based filmmaker Raymond Clark pondors the always controversial subject of being black, gay and christian in his thought provoking short.
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Outlaw Culture
Sunday, August 17/ 2pm
South Africa, 2005
15 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects:
Language: English
DIRECTOR: Phybia Dlamini
This documentary accuses South Africa’s media of repeatedly and consciously delivering gay issues and stories in a negative fashion and explores instances in which media has shaped events involving LGBT issues.
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Sponsor- FRAMELINE |
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