2023 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival
An “oasis in the desert,” Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival has been pushing boundaries for 20 years! Come celebrate the Festival’s 20th anniversary with us! In person October 12-15, 2023 at the Rose Wagner Theater in downtown Salt Lake City with limited films screening online on October 15-22. For 20 years, Damn These Heels […]
THE SURROGATE
Writer-director Jeremy Hersh conjures a timely ethical drama with vibrant millennial energy in The Surrogate. Star and lead actress Jasmine Batchelor plays the over accommodating, Brooklynite, web designer Jess whose life is completely changed when she is enlisted as a surrogate mother for her two best gay male friends, Josh and Aaron (Chris Perfetti and […]
SONG LANG
Vietnamese-American director Leon Le grew up obsessed with the dream to become a Vietnamese folk opera (cải lương) performer. He and his family moved to the United States when he was 14, and he took his opera memorabilia – cassettes, albums, photos – with him in case he needed to re-create the art form in […]
BIPOC CENTERED SHORTS
This film program is a tribute to the amazing stories and histories of the Black, indigenous, and people of color in our communities. These films are also sprinkled throughout the rest of the shorts programs as well. We wanted to highlight the lives of our BIPOC protagonists and subjects, because their lives don’t only matter, […]
SAME-SEX ATTRACTED
College is a time for exploring who you are and how you’ll fit into the world. But what do you do when you discover that who you are is in contradiction to the values of the institution you are attending? Same-Sex Attracted follows a group of LGBTQ youth over an academic year at Brigham Young […]
WELCOME TO CHECHNYA
Have questions or looking for resources after watching our Damn These Heels screening of Welcome to Chechnya? Here is a list of resources from and about the film: Welcome to Chechnya website Resources from the filmmaker and distributor Missed the film? Welcome to Chechnya is now available to stream: HBO MAX Welcome to Chechnya […]
QUEER JAPAN
On the other side of the globe, an array of artists and activists share their experiences as Queer Japanese People. This documentary examines how a non-Western, non-Christian tradition informs the queer experience of millions of Japanese citizens:from Erotic Mangaka to trailblazing politicians, latex drag queens to lesbian bar owners, craftswomen to historians, pups, G-men and […]
QUEEN OF LAPA
The woman is Luana Muniz, a well-known trans-rights activist as well as a proud trans-sex worker. Luana resides in Lapa, a dangerous neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, especially for trans women. There she owns a hostel which doubles as a safe haven for young trans women of color who are also sex workers. The hostel […]
PIER KIDS
Ballroom culture has hit the mainstream. Hard evidence for this claim exists in the fact that the writer of this review, a white girl from the suburbs, has heard of it. In the documentary Pier Kids, director Elegance Bratton takes us to the piers on the edge of NYC, the same piers portrayed in Paris […]
VARIAÇÕES: GUARDIAN ANGEL
The eccentric rock star Antonio Variações is a queer icon few have heard of. Like his stage name Variações or “variations”, Antonio combined his many different inspirations and in doing so revolutionized contemporary music in his homeland of Portugal.Inspired by the traditional and popular sounds of his country, the film takes a detailed look into […]