Monthly Film Schedule
Holding Trevor Friday, April 10 2009, 7:00pm
Genre: Drama, Romance
United States, 2007, 88min
Holding Trevor Official Website
Synopsis: Everybody’s looking for something. This much is true. And Trevor Holden (Brent Gorski) is desperately looking for himself in all the wrong places… Or maybe just in all the wrong people. It’s pretty safe to say that he won’t find enlightenment in his strung-out boyfriend Darrell. And despite the well-meaning advice offered by his sexually pervasive best friend and his self-righteous roommate Andie, Trevor still seems to come up short. Almost ready to throw in the towel, Trevor meets the ever so charming Ephram. Simply being everything that Darrell is not wins Ephram a number of points up-front.
Trevor’s relationship with Ephram progresses rather quickly, and it starts to put a strain on his friendships with Jake and Andie, both of whom feel Trevor could stand to be a little more in tune with their feelings.
HOLDING TREVOR is a sometimes funny, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends and lovers that offers a prescient and biting analysis of men and women struggling to make sense of their lives and relationships, all the while reaching every which way but into their own hearts to do so.
Cast: Brent Gorski, Jay Brannan, Melissa Searing, Eli Kranski
Director: Rosser Goodman
The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela Friday, March 13 2009, 7:00pm
Genre: Biography, Drama Iceland, Philippines, France, Thailand, 2008, 80min Queen Raquela Official Website
Synopsis: Raquela is a transsexual-or "ladyboy"-from the Philippines who dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris. In order to make her dreams come true, she turns from prostitution toward the more lucrative business of Internet porn. Her success as a porn star brings new friends, including Valerie, a ladyboy in Iceland, and Michael, the owner of the website Raquela works for. Valerie helps Raquela get as far as Iceland. From there, Michael offers her a rendezvous in Paris. Will Paris be everything she dreamed of? And will Michael turn out to be her Prince Charming?
Cast: Raquela Rios, Stefan C. Schaefer, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa, Valerie Grand Einarsson
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Cut Sleeve Boys Friday, February 13 2009, 7:00pm
Genre: Comedy, Romance UK / Hong Kong, 2006, 86min Cut Sleeve Boys Official Website
Synopsis: MEL and ASH are two british chinese gay men who studied and drink lychee martinis together. After attending the funeral of GAVIN, a closet case from their university days, they start examining the crow's feet on their faces and questioning the meaning of the labels in their wardrobes.
Mel, an aging scene queen with the ego of Norma Desmond, believes life is a beauty pageant with him always the winner. He rejects the love of Todd, a provincial boy from the Welsh valleys who moves to London to be with him, in favour of quick-fix Botox sex to fight his insecurities. But how long can he sashay down the catwalk when his eye bags are bigger than his Gucci bags? And who is going to be waiting at the end of the rainbow when there is no place like home?
Ash is tired of the jaded gay scene where steroid bodies and the Atkin's diet are the only offerings on the menu and all the macho posing only reveals a Farah Fawcett in the bedroom. He meets Diane (a.k.a Dan) a transexual from their college days with a butch, sexy and straight looking ex army boyfriend, Ross. Ash decides the only way for him to find a real man is to click on those Jimmy Choo's. Will his foray into the wonderland of tranny burrows and tranny chasers bring him his dream man?
Cast: Chowee Leow, Steven Lim, Gareth Rhys Davies, Neil Collie, John Ebb-On-Knee Campbell, Mark Hampton
Director: Ray Yeung
Breakfast with Scot January 9 2009, 7:00pm
Genre: Comedy Canada, 2007, 90min Breakfast with Scot Official Website
Synopsis: Eric (Tom Cavanagh) lives for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he’s managed to turn his stint as an ex-Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as commentator for sports TV. He's living the dream! He and his partner Sam (Ben Shenkman), a lawyer, live discreetly on a tree-lined street in Toronto.
All their tranquility is disrupted when they receive news that Sam's brother Billy's ex-girlfriend has died, leaving custody of her son Scot (Noah Bernett) to Billy. But adventure-seeking Billy is somewhere in South America, and that leaves Scot without a guardian. Much to Eric's disapproval, Sam agrees to take Scot in. Enter Scot, budding queen of an 11 year old, who is Eric's mirror opposite. Dressed in vibrant colors, his mother's charm bracelet and with a penchant for musicals and Christmas carols, he's not quite the 'boy' they expected.
Cast: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett
Director: Laurie Lynd
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