If only Charlie weren’t secretly in love with his own manipulative best friend, SEBASTIAN (Jason Ralph), who is embroiled in a financial scandal. On Manhattan’s gilded Upper East Side, a young painter, CHARLIE (Jonathan Gordon), finds the man of his dreams in an older pianist from across the globe, TIM (Haaz Sleiman). Kaleidoscope continues today with films at two different venues.Īt 5pm, the film Those People will be shown at The Studio Theatre. Starting at 10pm, House of Avalon Hosts the Official Kaleidoscope After Party at Club Sway.
The movie also stars Antonio Biaggi as Bryson Colon, a man with a troubled past who frequently hires Elijah as an escort, but wants much more. Takeshi’s obsession culminates in a violation of boundaries that brings the two together for a moment of intimacy that neither will soon forget. Takeshi, who feels completely invisible in the United States, becomes obsessed with his extremely visible flatmate. His new roommate, Takeshi, played by Tokio Sasaki, is a Japanese immigrant who is looking for a new start in the information technology field. Chasing Pavement stars Remy Mars as Elijah Young, an ‘urban’ porn star who is preparing to leave the adult entertainment industry and start a new career as a chef. The World premiere of the film Chasing Pavement will be at 8pm in the Studio Theatre. Included are “A Mississippi Love Story,” “And Counting,” Purpose in the Pulpit,” “Born Wrong,” “First Clue,” and “Stella Walsh.” Paralleling the stories is the biography of Miami-Dade educator Robert Loupo, whose own experiences with suicide and assault led him to create the “Safe Schools South Florida” to train teachers to recognize and intervene in anti-gay bullying.įrom 8pm to 9:30 in the Lobby Bar, “Reel Journeys: Documentary Shorts” block will be shown.
Director Laura D’Antoni examines bullying, coming out, history, religion and suicide through a series of interviews of LGBT people sharing their own experiences.
Many more wait to be discovered in people’s closets but are being thrown out- sometimes on purpose.Īt 6pm, there will be a free screening of “Not Safe to be Me” in the Lobby Bar. A bird’s eye view of the issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from the early 20th century to the present. Many of the moving images in this film are shown for the first time. Reel In The Closet is a feature-length documentary that transports us into LGBT life of the past through rare home movies of the people who lived it. Prior to the start of the film, the short “The Damn Deal” will be shown. The Studio Theatre will show Reel in the Closet at 5:30.
Pierce Best Film Made in Arkansas and was nominated for Best Director and Best Actor (Quinn Gassaway).Īt 5:30pm Club Sway will be the site for the screening of Club King. DOCUMENTARY – For the past 20 years, Mario Diaz has crafted his own iconic image as the premier LGBT nightlife king, throwing some of the sexiest and wildest parties from New York to LA, including the insanely appealing Hot Dog, BFD and Full Frontal Disco. At the 2014 Little Rock Film Festival the film won the Charles B. Including the full 40 min award winning short film SACRED HEARTS, HOLY SOULS. UCA Professor Bruce Hutchinson moderates the discussion as the audience watches clips of Thiedeman’s work over the last several years. It includes “hopefulROMANTIC,” “Caged,” “Dos Almas,” “Tomorrow,” ‘A Little Bit Country,” and “Carpe Jugular.”Īt 3:30pm in The Studio Theatre, Director Mark Thiedeman discusses making LGBT movies in the South. Love/Lust: Narrative Shorts 4 includes “Pretty Boy” and “Perpetual.”Īt 3:15 at The Lobby Bar, the Adventurous Natures: Narrative Shorts 2 block will be shown. Altered Realities: Narrative Shorts 1 will include “Zac and Luc,” “Camouflage,” “Warpaint,” “Midnight,” “Brace,” “Good Morning,” and “Waiting Room.”Īt 2:15 at The Studio Theatre, another block of shorts will be shown. Next door at the Lobby Bar, also at 12:30, there will be a block of short-films. Features, shorts and parties make up day 3 of Kaleidscope.Īt 12:30 the feature film Naz & Maalik plays at The Studio Theatre.