{"id":68,"date":"2011-06-21T14:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cineslam.com\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2017-05-11T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:22:52","slug":"cineslam-2010-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"CineSLAM 2010 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shorts from the 2010 CineSLAM LGBTQ Short Film Festival<\/h2>\n<p>Opening Night | Hooker-Dunham Theater @ 7PM | Friday, June 18th<\/p>\n<p>MISTRESS BUTTERFINGER<br \/>\ndirected by Jennifer Howd<br \/>\n&#8220;A playful satire of those classic candy commercials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER TOO LATE<br \/>\ndirected by Wendy L Weinberg<br \/>\n&#8220;Using old Hollywood footage, somehow Wendy Weinberg<br \/>\ncreates a contemporary look at gay marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DYKE DOLLAR<br \/>\ndirected by Laura Terruso<br \/>\n&#8220;American economic angst and gay panic explode in suburban<br \/>\nNew Jersey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>QUEER PETS ADVENTURES<br \/>\ndirected by Veronique Courtois<br \/>\n&#8220;From butch kitties to accessory-obsessed doggies, this series<br \/>\nof delightful animated shorts shines a spotlight on some<br \/>\nadorably queer pets and their queer owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WIDE \u2018N\u2019 FURRY | Winner 2009 PAW AWARD<br \/>\n[Best Short at Vermont Bear Film Festival]<br \/>\ndirected by Rob Sherman and Dan Dowling Jr.<br \/>\n&#8220;A furry spoof on Weird Al Yankovic\u2019s <em>White and Nerdy<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CHAINED!<br \/>\ndirected by Betsy Kalin<br \/>\n&#8220;Why are lesbians literally attached to their wallet chains?<br \/>\nChained! is a quirky look into the lives of women who define<br \/>\nthemselves through their chains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TWO LADIES<br \/>\ndirected by Cubby<br \/>\n&#8220;Follow Liza as she prepares for a performance on the<br \/>\nNorwegian Dawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GET HAPPY<br \/>\ndirected by Mark Payne<br \/>\n&#8220;A coming of age musical extravaganza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us, after the screening, for the Pride Dance, hosted by the Men&#8217;s Program with help from the Queer Community Project and the Active Lesbians of Monadnock Area, at the Brattleboro American Legion Hall! | 9PM to 1AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday Sessions | Session One | Tree Frog Farm @ 1PM | Saturday, June 19th<\/p>\n<p>NO MORE LIES<br \/>\ndirected by Sam Feder<br \/>\n&#8220;This experimental documentary short viscerally depicts<br \/>\nthe mainstream media\u2019s attempts to classify transgender<br \/>\npeople.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DEAR EDWARD<br \/>\ndirected by Richard Ballon and Matt Bucy<br \/>\n&#8220;Why is that the new apple in our hand only reminds us of<br \/>\nthe orchard we walked away from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OUT IN ROMANIA<br \/>\ndirected by Richard Davis<br \/>\n&#8220;Richard Davis travels the world to find gay experiences in<br \/>\nplaces we don\u2019t often see. Here we have a glimpse of GLBT<br \/>\nlife in Romania through a visit to an underground club in<br \/>\nTransylvania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE<br \/>\ndirected by Alison Segar<br \/>\n&#8220;Gays and Lesbians know what it means to be different in<br \/>\nsociety. Alison shows us how the many Somali Bantu refugees<br \/>\nin Vermont face a new world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE ULTIMATE PENALTY<br \/>\ndirected by Christopher Dawes<br \/>\n&#8220;What goes into a painting when a gay artist confronts<br \/>\nthe ultimate penalty of execution for the \u201ccrime\u201d of<br \/>\nhomosexuality?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LONG NIGHT&#8217;S JOURNEY INTO DAY<br \/>\ndirected by Christopher Dawes<br \/>\n&#8220;In the city that never sleeps, what&#8217;s going through the head of an insomniac wandering the streets of Brooklyn while the rest of the city sleeps?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TREMBLE AND SPARK<br \/>\ndirected by Kelly Burkhardt<br \/>\n&#8220;Lesbian film noir of sex and murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Sessions | Session Two | Tree Frog Farm @ 2:40PM | Saturday, June 19th<\/p>\n<p>NUMEROLOGY<br \/>\ndirected by Paula Durette<br \/>\n&#8220;Director Paula Durette, originally from South Windsor,<br \/>\nConnecticut, unveils the mysteries of lesbians through the<br \/>\noccult arts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SON OF THE PREACHER<br \/>\ndirected by Jasmine Gervais<br \/>\n&#8220;Billy, the son of a preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty<br \/>\nnew parishioner. Constrained only to be able to look at her<br \/>\nduring Mass, he slowly lets himself punctuate the ceremonies<br \/>\nwith bits of his fantasies, giving rise to a succession of eclectic,<br \/>\noften romantic, but sometimes naughty thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LOVE AND OTHER RED SPOT SPECIALS<br \/>\ndirected by Lauren Anderson<br \/>\n&#8220;In the universe, on Earth, in Australia, there is a small town. In<br \/>\nthe small town there are: 9,684 residents, one supermarket,<br \/>\nsix sets of traffic lights, and one shoplifting transvestite on an<br \/>\nextravagant quest for love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE GOLDEN PIN<br \/>\ndirected by Cuong Ngo<br \/>\n&#8220;Long, a young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer, finds himself<br \/>\nstruggling between the expectations of his family and the<br \/>\ndemands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon,<br \/>\nbut his mother, haunted by a past romance, hopes her son<br \/>\nwill stand up for what he believes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>25 THINGS I DID DURING MY BIG FAT<br \/>\nLESBIAN DEPRESSION<br \/>\ndirected by Chris Russo<br \/>\n&#8220;After getting the shaft in an unbelievable break up, a lesbian<br \/>\nreveals her enlightened, yet hysterical road to recovery. 25<br \/>\nRandom Things uses the framework of social media to poke<br \/>\nfun at some of the crazy, yet personal things we do in life to<br \/>\nget through our darkest moments in order to move on from<br \/>\nthe past and emerge into a lighter state of being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DECODING ALAN TURING<br \/>\ndirected by Christopher Racster<br \/>\n&#8220;Uncovers Alan Turing, British WW II hero at the center of<br \/>\nUS\/UK Intelligence, now hailed as the father of the modern<br \/>\ncomputer. His mysterious suicide in 1954 (by eating a cyanide<br \/>\nlaced apple) has gained him cult status, and spawned an<br \/>\nurban legend that the Apple Computer logo is a nod to his<br \/>\ngenius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE ROE EFFECT | Winner of the 2010 Chessie Award!<br \/>\ndirected by Kiel Adrian Scott<br \/>\n&#8220;In a world frighteningly similar to our own, Dawn, a high<br \/>\nschool girl, and Sam, her girlfriend, are madly in love. But<br \/>\nwhen Dawn falls victim to an unwanted pregnancy, a chain<br \/>\nof events are set in motion that would reveal a secret so<br \/>\npowerful that it could destroy all she holds dear. In the face<br \/>\nof considerable challenges, Dawn must choose between<br \/>\nexposing a painful truth and losing the girl she loves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Sessions | Session Three | Tree Frog Farm @ 4PM | Saturday, June 19th<\/p>\n<p>A DAY AT THE BEACH<br \/>\ndirected by Veronique Courtois<br \/>\n&#8220;Fun animation of finding love at the beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SOMETHING 4 THE GAY BOYS<br \/>\ndirected by Timothy McCarthy<br \/>\n\u201cThe title is an homage to Carmen Miranda\u2019s film of the same<br \/>\nname without the word gay. She was an original drag queen<br \/>\nfrom Rio. The film is about what was on my mind and what my<br \/>\nmind was on that Carnival Day in Rio, Brazil, 02.16.2010. We all<br \/>\nhave our targeting systems for our sexual interests and gauges<br \/>\nfor altered consciousness; I use dashboard gadgets to give<br \/>\nyou a look into mine and my altered state of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019M JUST ANNEKE<br \/>\ndirected by Jonathan Skurnik<br \/>\n&#8220;Anneke, a gender fluid 12 year old girl, has just started taking<br \/>\na hormone blocker so she can decide if she wants to be a boy<br \/>\nor a girl before entering puberty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE SHEEP AND THE RANCH HAND<br \/>\ndirected by Loretta Hintz<br \/>\n&#8220;A yiffing good time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BEYOND BOUNDARIES<br \/>\ndirected by Betsy Jose<br \/>\n&#8220;Experiences of immigrants with diverse sexuality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YES AND NO<br \/>\ndirected by Kelsy Chauvin<br \/>\n&#8220;When a painting becomes the dividing line between two<br \/>\nfriends, a choice has to be made about what to salvage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COUNTERTRANSFERENCE<br \/>\ndirected by Madeleine Olnek<br \/>\n&#8220;A comedy about therapy and its discontents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss the delicious barbecue and the announcing of the audience awards after the final screening!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorts from the 2010 CineSLAM LGBTQ Short Film Festival Opening Night | Hooker-Dunham Theater @ 7PM | Friday, June 18th MISTRESS BUTTERFINGER directed by Jennifer Howd &#8220;A playful satire of those classic candy commercials.&#8221; NEVER TOO LATE directed by Wendy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/?page_id=68\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/1630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cineslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}