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See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film and video art from the Bay Area and beyond! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, and the refreshments are darn good.

$3, FREE admission for exhibitors.
Door, Bar:7:30pm, Projector: 8pm

SUBMISSIONS:

* CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length.
* Mail dubs to: “openscreening” 992 Valencia , SF 94110.
* 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended.
* Email inquiries do not guarantee a space. Tapes do.
* Max trt: 20m
* DVD, miniDV/DVcam, sVHS, sm beta, 8mm and 16mm
* All genres. Student, “in progress”, and segments welcome

Contact openscreening@atasite.org.

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, is a feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.

Dangerous Living opens with one of the Cairo 52 defendant’s, Ashraf Zanati, who was tortured, humiliated, beaten and forced to spend 13 months in prison. His simple, but powerful statement sets out the basic theme for the film: “My sexuality is my own sexuality. It doesn’t belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No.”

Directed by John Scagliotti and Produced by Janet Baus and Dan Hunt. Executive Producer is Reid Williams. Major sponsor includes The H. van Ameringen Foundation.

CINEMATASTIC! is a bi-monthly screening at ATA that focuses on narrative shorts.  There will be five short films and the total running time will be about an hour.  The bar will be open before the show and there will be a Q&A session afterwords. Come down and check it out.

The line-up:

“The Black Beret Duo” by Lev
Their pain is your gain. Funny, funny shit.

“Kebab” by Jamie Leigh Flaxman
Dark Comedy set in London in the year 2075.

“Perfect Heat” by Miska Draskoczy
A surreal, sci-fi short about anxiety.

“Rock Robot: It’s Edutainment” by Carl Diehl
Robots bring rock ‘n roll to an elementary school.

“The Rift” by Timothy Heider
A day in the chaotic life of a homeless vet on the streets of San Francisco.