The Wise Kids

Puberty, sibling rivalry, and school crushes make up the small world that 10-year-old Vicky lives in. But the memories of birthday cakes and carefree days begin to get muddled when persistent anxieties set in to haunt the past. The clutter, clash, and recollection of her mistakes, insecurities, and triumphs reconstruct the ever-changing phases of Vicky's tween life. A stranger to her own self, director Vicky Lee reflects on the naive girl that she once was.

Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. Manuel’s plans get ruined when his boyfriend dumps him.

Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of a friendship into a romance between two women when their rapport would have been unlikely.

Lonely and bored, two boys attempt to establish some sort of intimacy with one another in the East Bay hills.

This animated coming-of-age story explores the familial, societal, and religious challenges a boy faces because of his sexual orientation.

This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.

Gay Rights is an issue heard around the world, including Cuba. Free Havana paints a vivid picture of what it has been like to be gay in Cuba through the candid stories of six gay and lesbian individuals. From the Batista era to the Revolution to the Mariel Boatlift to present-day Cuba, Free Havana exposes the evolution of gay life from a time when homosexuality was considered a punishable crime to current efforts to promote a greater acceptance of freedom of sexual orientation. Honest in approach and poignant in content, the stories of the six Cubans will inform and inspire as they touch your heart.

Chicago filmmaker Jeffrey Maccubbin's newest work looks deeply into how two men strive to find peace with their innermost demons. Simon is a hustler caught in the underbelly of queer culture. Late one night Simon slips on the ice that throws him into the arms of Evan, the host of a cable show who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome. After a night of unbridled sex, Simon realizes that Evan's ticks have subsided. He believes that he is meant to save Evan from his afflictions, leading them to unabashedly dive into a sado-masochistic relationship. Simon basks in a world where sadness and depression have become his new turn on and where his emotional destruction is the only true way to give Evan his soul.

Kiss The Boys is a story about Sam (Kurt Sinclair) who starts off as a very successful plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills but after his wife finds out a dark secret about his past, strange things begin to happen to him. Sam's world gets turned upside down when Scott, a teenager he fell in love with and then killed in 1986 comes back from the dead and begins to take full control over Sam's body, mind and soul. Sam quickly finds himself involved in Satanic rituals that eventually lead him straight to death row for killing off some of LA s most beautiful male escorts. Sam uses Scott as an elaborate excuse for freedom, while Jackie (Bethany Marie Wilson), a special investigative reporter finds the clues, alongside the FBI that will save the fifth one Tony before it s too late. Sam's life as a serial killer gets revealed to the world along with some very strange, dark secrets from his past.

A lesbian couple of fifteen years lives with the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. With no legal way to protect their relationship, the couple lives in fear of deportation. After an innocent visit to the Statue of Liberty, the girls return home to Los Angeles; unaware that this icon of freedom, was about to strip them of their own.

One boy, one bike, one day.