Annual Film Series - fall film screening schedule

Fall 2009 Film Screening Schedule
Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen Film Series
LGBT Lives & Stories from around the world
All screenings at 7 pm in Textor 101

Monday August 31
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World
In some countries, being thought to be LGBT can result in imprisonment, deportation, or even the death
penalty. The struggle of LGBT people worldwide for basic human rights in the face of severe oppression.

Double Feature Thursday September 3
7:00 Sex and the Sandinistas
How gay and lesbian people in Nicaragua battled for their own space inside the Sandinista Revolution.
7:30 Gay Cuba
Gay Cuba casts a colorful and hopeful light on efforts to reform and to humanize a society often maligned
for its calcified rigidity.

Wednesday September 30
Out in Africa Filmmaker Workshop Shorts Collection: Telling Tales and Happy Snaps
A collection of short narrative films produced by Out In Africa's 2007 and 2005 Filmmaker Workshops.

Thursday October 1
To My Women Friends
Revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the
former Soviet Union.

Double Feature Thursday November 5
Two very different films about the themes of family and home
7:00 Mother/Country
During the cultural revolution, six-year-old Gharavi was sent from Iran to live with her father. She visits her
mother and her birth country of Iran for the first time in 23 years.
7:30 Black Sheep
Lou Glover grew up in New South Wales repeating the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard
around her. It wasn't until she came out as a lesbian that she began to explore her ancestry. Her story as a lesbian, one-time police officer, and recently-discovered Aboriginal woman.

Tuesday December 1
In commemoration of World AIDS Day
A Closer Walk
The first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic, with profiles in Uganda,
South Africa, Haiti, Switzerland, India, Nepal, Ukraine, and Cambodia.