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Pride on Film

Presented by Nashville PRIDE at Regal Green Hills Stadium 16

April 14-April 16, 2011

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Pride on Film will feature the following films during the annual Nashville Film Festival.
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (Madeleine Olnek / USA)
If you’ve been wondering what it would be like if Ed Wood lived long enough to direct the lesbian new-wave cinema of the early 1990s, you’ve finally got your answer! “Codependent Lesbian Space Alien” is an homage to hand-held cinema, DIY special effects, and those bad sci-fi movies that would greet us on local TV back before there were 500+ channels to choose from. When three lesbian aliens are sent to earth to have their hearts broken (their emotions are so strong, they’re destroying their home planet’s ozone layer), they find the travails of New York City dating scene to be…well…alien!Starring Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan, Cynthia Kaplan and Alex Karpovsky.

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, United Kingdom)
On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else…something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. “Weekend” is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. SOUTHEAST PREMIERE.

Domaine (Patric Chiha, France)
Named by John Waters as his favorite film of 2010, Patric Chiha’s elliptical and teasing tale of an unusual family relationship. Pierre is a shy good-looking lad who has a decent relationship with his mother. But, as he becomes aware of his homosexuality, he grows close to his free-wheeling, heavy-drinking aunt Nadia (French legend Beatrice Dalle). SOUTHEAST PREMIERE.

In Documentary Competition presented by Documentary Channel:
The Sons of Tennessee Williams (Tim Wolff / USA)
“The Sons of Tennessee Williams” tells the story of the gay men of New Orleans who created a vast and fantastic culture of wildly popular 'drag balls' starting in the late 1950s. These men worked with the traditions of Mardi Gras to bring gay culture into public settings in the early 1960s. By the 1969 Stonewall Riots, there were four gay Mardi Gras clubs legally chartered by the state of Louisiana, throwing yearly extravaganzas at civic venues around the city and bringing down the laws that targeted gay people during this period. They staged a flamboyant, costumed revolution without politics, and won freedoms during a time, as now, when laws and people fought against them.

In New Directors:
Bloomington (Fernanda Cardoso / USA)
“Bloomington” is a coming-of-age drama about Jackie, a former child actress attending a Midwestern college in search of independence away from “Neptune 26”, the show that made her a star. During a mixer, she meets professor Catherine Stark, and over time becomes romantically involved with her. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions. Starring Allison McAtee, Sarah Stouffer, Katherine Ann McGregor.

Dvojka (Twosome) (Jaroslav Fuit / Czech Republic)
A five-year relationship between Michal and Veronika has come to a crossroad. While he is thinking about family life, she feels that she has not yet experienced enough and wants to enjoy herself. Michal comes up with an idea of a mystery holiday in Scandinavia for Veronika. However, from the very beginning everything is completely different than the very thorough Michal had prepared. A run-in with drifter and petty thief, Simon, prompts an unexpected reflection on their lives and their relationship and enables them to move on into directions they never could have predicted.