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ReelHeART July 03-09, 2023
Live Online!

Theme: Filmed With Pride

Please join us on ZOOM for Post-Screening Q&A with the Filmmakers

The Q&A is scheduled for 2:00PM EST
Please click on the image or the links below

Note: If you are having trouble joining the meeting above, enter Meeting ID: 87400843807 and join via Zoom App.

703 – Short, Gay And Delicious
Short Film | Duration: 00:08:03 |
Dir. Tom McIntire, United States
Language: English
*Nominated For Best Short Film, Best LGBTQ Film, Best Alumni Film

Synopsis: Claire is concerned when a long-term customer calls to place an unlikely order.

Keywords: #customer #callcenter #customercare #pizza #LGBTQ

Lolo
Short Film | Duration: 00:13:40 |
Dir. Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes, Berlin, Germany
Language: English
*Nominated For Best Short Film, Best LGBTQ Film, Best Editing, Best Actor – Zav Starett as “Lolo”

Synopsis: Lolo is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to finally convince Max, his first love, to go public with their relationship at the school party. GERMAN: Lolo ist 11 Jahre alt und offen schwul. Er will Max, seine erste große Liebe, davon überzeugen ihre Beziehung bei der anstehenden Schul-Party öffentlich zu machen. Max möchte auch eine Beziehung, aber ist sich nicht sicher ob Lolo der Richtige ist. Lolos beste Freunde Elena und Toby stehen ihm in dieser Situation bei und geben ihm die Unterstützung, die er braucht.

Keywords: #gay #teenlove #relationship #school #adolescence #LGBTQ

What If
Short Film | Duration: 00:19:45 |
Dir. Francisco Fuertes, Westbury, NY, United States
Language: English
*Nominated For Best LGBTQ Film

Synopsis: David is forced to face his own prejudices and fears when he falls for another man who is not who he thinks he is.

Keywords: #desire #prejudice #fear #LGBTQ

Chinx
Short Film | Duration: 00:05:00 |
Dir. James Quedado, San Francisco, CA, United States
Language: English
*Nominated For Best LGBTQ Film

Synopsis: Chinx is a journey into the strange, challenging, and often discriminatory world of online hookup culture. Our guide is Del, a 40-something Filipino, stepping out into an unfamiliar dating landscape after years of singlehood and “self-discovery” to find gay hookup apps a place readily designed to exclude people like himself. Largely silent throughout the film, Del’s experience will make manifest the ways in which modern app culture repudiates those who do not conform to the narrow biases the dating world upholds. Facing racially-charged messaging from a variety of men, and seeking solace and encouragement from a friend, Del is faced with an urgent question: Is there a place for me here, or will I always be seen as the other?

Keywords: #onlinedating #culturaldifferences #gay #lgbt #biais #asian #masculinity #racism

Reshaping Beauty: Round In All The Right Places
Short Film | Duration: 00:07:15 |
Dir. Tom Goss, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Language: English
*Nominated For Best LGBTQ Film

Synopsis: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But we live in a world that is obsessed with one specific, narrow type of beauty. How would our perceptions of beauty change if we dared to idealize other types of beauty?

Keywords: #gaymenbodytype #gayculture #bodyimage #sensuality #bodypositive #alternativebeauty #eyeofthebeholder #LGBTQ

‘Berta Boys
Short Film | Duration: 00:20:00 |
Dir. Kyle Terrence, Canada
Language: English
*Nominated For Best LGBTQ Film, Best Short Film, Best Experimental Film

Synopsis: ‘Berta Boys is a short film that contemplates the instability of Alberta’s (Canada) hyper masculine identity. In a region whose history and economy is rooted in colonialism, the cowboy mythos, and resource extraction, the landscape itself is not simply a background for events to unfurl. It is instead a primary character in the narrative of identity, an entity cyclically exploited by the desires of men. The landscape has been personified in the film as a sentient truck: a powerful organism fleeing from constant pursuit within the invisible borders of the hunting grounds.

Keywords:  #gaymenbodytype #gayculture #bodyimage #sensuality #bodypositive #LGBTQ