QueerBee and Sappho Events presents
A curated programme of five queer short films.
Join us for our online film club night on Thursday 21 October 7-8:30pm.
Welcoming LGBTQI+ women, trans and non-binary people, we bring you an evening celebrating a selection of incredible queer short films, followed by a 30 minute Q and A with film curator and Director of QueerBee Films, Angie West.
QueerBee is a platform exclusively for LGBTQI+ shorts, established to help queer filmmakers bring authentic queer stories directly to new audiences. Queer shorts provide an excellent means of connecting with one another, validating our lived experiences, helping to change attitudes, improve confidence in individuals and our communities, and break down barriers.
The selected films include:
Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls Director: Julianna Notten | Canada 2017 | 15 minutes
Erin's Guide to Kissing Girls follows Erin Hallard, a spunky, headstrong twelve year-old girl in her attempt to woo the coolest girl in school, Sydni Hunter. Erin’s plan is to ask Sydni to the annual spring fling with the help of her best friend and partner in crime, Liz Johnson. However as Erin becomes wrapped up in her mission to get Sydni to go to the dance with her, it starts to put a strain on her friendship with Liz as Liz begins to feel less important in Erin's life.
Laissez-moi Danser (Dance with Me) Director: Valérie Leroy | France 2017 | 16 mins
Mylène, 45 years old is a cleaning maid on a ferry boat. Tonight her colleagues are organizing a surprise party for her birthday. But on the gift voucher, Mylène reads her old name, a name that she doesn’t want to see anymore, her male name. Who wants to blackmail her? Whereas the party will increase the claims of those exploited women, Mylène will have to investigate... In French, with English subtitles.
Jess Director: Agnes Koleman | Costa Rica 2019 | 10 minutes
Costa Rica, May 2019. Jess is a trans, bisexual, migrant man, with functional diversity, and diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. In addition to this, he is the first migrant person in Costa Rica who achieved to get his self-proclaimed gender identity on his identity card (April 2019). However, his struggle goes beyond being recognized as a man: Jess lives his gender according to his own terms and claims the right to exist for people living different intersectionalities in a world that forces them to choose a single facet of their identity. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
My Mama, A Man Director: Helena Middleton | UK 2019 | 9 minutes
Julie had a list of sixty things she wanted to do before she turned 60. Top of that list: be a 'man'
for a day...
Her & Her Director: Jade Anouka | UK 2020 | 13 mins
Her & Her have been seeing each other for a few months now and are both very much in love. But they have just moved in to Her small one bedroom flat and of course she’s brought the dog! Suddenly Her home is their home and the realities of their differences come to full view. Different backgrounds, cultures, upbringings, rules. One uses poetry and the other music to tell their stories. Both British. Both women. One black. One white. We follow them on their journey seeing just how their differences can compliment each other, what challenges they will need to overcome and how honest conversation and carefree dancing
will always win in the end. Part Poetry video. Part music video. This experimental short film is a lyrical and musical story told using poetry and beatboxing.
This event is part of Sappho Events' QUEER CONNECT series, running free events throughout October thanks to the support of the National Lottery Community Fund.
About Angie West - Director of QueerBee
Angie West is a life-long LGBTQI+ activist. She combines a finance management career in non-profit organisations with being a director and camera person of award-winning short films.
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Twitter: @QueerBeeFilm
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Website: https://www.queerbee.org/
Cost: free