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Burning with stories that must be told, LGBT filmmakers craft award winning documentaries that help educate the public, fan the flames of social change and spark inspiration in a new generation of young activists.

From Word Is Out to The Times Of Harvey Milk to Choosing Children, LGBT filmmakers have been on the forefront of creating films that advance the LGBT community into theaters, into homes, and across the globe.

Join Glenne McElhinney and fellow LGBT documentarians, who will show clips from their docs and share stories of how their films have helped to create social change.

Moderator/Organizer: Glenne McElhinney is a LGBT Historian and award winning documentary filmmaker of On These Shoulders We Stand, which is screening in Frameline34 in SF this June.

A series of odd, innovative and funny short films about the intricacies of love.

Then a Year by Kelly Reichardt uses a collage of sound from sensationalized TV “true” crime shows and eerily beautiful Super 8 footage to create a narrative of love and betrayal. Amy Taubin of the Village Voice calls Then a Year “lyrical, ominous, and evocative of how horribly love can hurt.” Local filmmaker Zoey Kroll will present the World Premiere of Fingers, Mouth. With wonderfully sly interview techniques this film reveals how boys find their way through the female anatomy. Structured as a language lesson, Making Out in Japan (US Premiere) by Janet Merewether lists five easy steps to attain intimacy in Japanese. The subtleties of love are humorously regimented into dry language drills. Student Academy Award Winner The Velvet Tigress by Jen Sachs is a highly stylized animated drama that uses recreated newspaper headlines and narrative sequences to tell the bizarre story of the 1931 Winnie Ruth Judd “Trunk Murders.” Was it a crime of passion or just cold-blooded murder?

For more info,
MadCat Film Festival
www.somaglow.com/madcat
415 436-9523

Musical mayhem at your place for chaos, featuring:

* Coachwhips
* Gang Way!
* K.I.T.
* Coolies (from new zealand)
* Water Wolves (former black eyes kids)

Don’t be late!!! This is an early show.