Continuing a thread tradition started by JockGirl's thread about this event back in 09:



Here's a sampling of movie descriptions:

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"CIRCUMSTANCE (Iran, 107 min) Winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: Dramatic category! In a vibrant contemporary Tehran, two beautiful teenage girls struggle for their personal freedom. Atafeh and her best friend Shireen are full of youthful exuberance and a healthy streak of rebellion as they drink, smoke and go dancing at underground parties. When Atafeh’s brother Mehran returns from drug rehab, he embraces a new way of life and joins the Morality Police---much to the surprise of his affluent and liberal parents---and becomes increasingly obsessed with Atafeh and Shireen’s intimate relationship. In Persian with English subtitles"

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"I WANT TO GET MARRIED (US, 118 min) Can Paul get married in just 6 days? Paul Roll is a lovable nerd who’s achieved everything he’s set his mind to, except…he’s never been successful at finding a man. After witnessing the marriage of his best friends---6 days before Election Day 2008---he realizes he desperately wants to get married. Forced by the current economy to take on an ultra-conservative (and antigay) conglomerate known as The Family as a new client, Paul must now tangle head-to-head with its Disney-like villain, Miss Deborah Anderson. Through a series of comedic mishaps that include a crusty old lounge singer named Miss Piggy B, Paul finally meets the man of his dreams. But is true love meant to be? Starring Matthew Montgomery, Ashleigh Sumner, Peter Stickles, Dylan Vox and Vincent De Paul."

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"JAMIE AND JESSIE ARE NOT TOGETHER (US, 96 min) From writer/director Wendy Jo Carlton (Hannah Free) comes a lesbian romantic comedy with musical numbers! Jamie is moving from Chicago to New York to become a Broadway actress. Her best friend and roommate, Jessica, is bummed, because she’s in love with Jamie. Jamie just doesn’t get it. She thinks the biggest problem with moving is who’s going to pay the bills if she goes early. If only it were that easy. As moving day gets closer, Jessie tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other women. But as the pair struggles with the grey area between lust and love, Jessie’s plan backfires, in a way she could never imagine."

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"WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (US, 98 min) Paul Greco seems to have it all. He’s a straight philanthropist from an elite world of socialites and black-tie benefits who’s just sold his lucrative business for a fortune and has more time and money than he could have possibly imagined. When his overbearing (but well-meaning) sister decides to give Paul a dog, he now finds himself assuming the daily dog-walking routine in the park. There he encounters Andy Chance, a young, gay, self-employed advertising whiz who happens to walk his own dog on the very same schedule. What starts as a casual daily meeting in the park soon develops into something a bit more questionable. At least that’s what the women in each man’s life seem to think! Now, Andy and Paul find themselves in a series of hilarious situations as they struggle with the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ages. But most important of all, what happens next in their undefined relationship?"

7/18/2011 11:31:27 PM

ONWARD, TO THE LOUNGE

7/18/2011 11:32:56 PM

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"ONWARD, TO THE LOUNGE"

This has gone in chit chat for 3 years now.

Also, I should probably include the link http://www.festivals.carolinatheatre.org/ncglff/

Here's another one of the movies out of a collection of short films:

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"Selena and Jane are caught in a web of desire, deception and untruths in Slip Away."

7/18/2011 11:35:26 PM

I always mean to go check these movies out and then forget the week it's actually happening

7/18/2011 11:38:29 PM

That's 16 too many.

[Edited on July 18, 2011 at 11:46 PM. Reason : fags]

7/18/2011 11:41:54 PM

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"TO MANY ????"

7/18/2011 11:43:07 PM

You people don't need to be recognized for your faggotry. If you are a talented actor than so be it.

7/18/2011 11:43:26 PM

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"! In a vibrant contemporary Tehran, two beautiful teenage girls struggle for their personal freedom. Atafeh and her best friend Shireen are full of youthful exuberance and a healthy streak of rebellion as they drink, smoke and go dancing at underground parties. When Atafeh’s brother Mehran returns from drug rehab, he embraces a new way of life and joins the Morality Police---much to the surprise of his affluent and liberal parents---and becomes increasingly obsessed with Atafeh and Shireen’s intimate relationship. In Persian with English subtitles""

This sure puts a good light on gay culture AMIRITE?

7/18/2011 11:43:42 PM

Because heterosexual teens never do that stuff.

7/18/2011 11:45:04 PM

This should be moved to Entertainment. Circumstance looks really interesting.

My take on the GLFF: Gay films, much like Christian films and, to a lesser extent these days, black films, are by and large terrible. The ghettoization of gay cinema (i.e. the public perception that a movie is either "gay" or "regular", "regular" meaning white heteronormative blah blah blah) leads to small successes for gay films due to their niche appeal despite a lack of actual quality filmmaking. This is more a product of economics than anything, but what it pans out to is that most of the stuff at genre/niche festivals like this (I realize it's kind of stupid to refer to something targeting 10% of the US as "niche", but, you know, whatever) is below average cinema that panders to its audience like crazy.

Please don't read this as a condemnation of all gay films or gay cinema as a whole. It's like science fiction novels. Not that many people are into sci-fi, but there's still more than enough audience to devote a few aisles to it at Barnes and Noble. Do you ever read that shit? Holy fuck, it's terrible. I love reading science fiction, but the standards for "good" sci-fi/fantasy are low as hell. I love Isaac Asimov to death. He had, to me, some of the most interesting ideas and stories I've ever read. His actual writing is TERRIBLE. And yet I own and have read a solid 20 pounds of books about robot detectives in the future. There's still amazingly written sci-fi. Oryx and Crake? Are you fucking kidding me? That shit completely changed my view of the world. But still, I read the average stuff too, because I just gotta have it.


That being said, I used to work at the Carolina and working the NCGLFF is probably the most fun I've ever had at work in my life. Made a shitload in tips, too (if you know what I mean).

7/19/2011 12:38:51 AM

The new run lola run came out of this bs a few years ago. It sucked HARD. I doubt there is little worth watching herr and if there is something standout they would have already taken it to a real film festival.

7/19/2011 12:43:41 AM

is this the kind of festival that I can submit short films or no?

cause if it is, I'm totally going to make a gay short and submit it for 2012.

i'm currently a bit addicted to the film fest circuit after my short got into two so far.

[Edited on July 19, 2011 at 4:39 AM. Reason : .]

7/19/2011 4:35:12 AM

To spookyjon's point, everything in this plot summary

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"Can Paul get married in just 6 days? Paul Roll is a lovable nerd who’s achieved everything he’s set his mind to, except…he’s never been successful at finding a man. After witnessing the marriage of his best friends---6 days before Election Day 2008---he realizes he desperately wants to get married. Forced by the current economy to take on an ultra-conservative (and antigay) conglomerate known as The Family as a new client, Paul must now tangle head-to-head with its Disney-like villain, Miss Deborah Anderson. Through a series of comedic mishaps that include a crusty old lounge singer named Miss Piggy B, Paul finally meets the man of his dreams. But is true love meant to be? Starring Matthew Montgomery, Ashleigh Sumner, Peter Stickles, Dylan Vox and Vincent De Paul."

is just awful. I can go with a lounge singer who goes by "Miss" as part of her stage name, but if the villain is Disney-like, why not give her a Disney-like villain name (Cruella de Vil, etc.) instead of needlessly and pointlessly camping up a regular name? It's not funny, it's not cute, and it reinforces the idea that a bad movie that shamelessly panders to its target audience can go somewhere on absolutely no merit.

7/19/2011 4:49:33 AM

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"is this the kind of festival that I can submit short films or no?"

They seem to proudly highlight the local aspect of several movies that had North Carolinian involvement, so my guess would be yes.

Here's the movie schedule: http://www.carolinatheatre.org/ncglff/schedule

Here are a few previews:

7/19/2011 11:18:51 AM