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Damn These Heels Film Festival
2023 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival
October 12 to October 22, 2023
In Person | Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Damn These Heels Film Festival, Through the Lens
A Run for More
Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter, but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.
2023 Damn These Heels Opening Night Film
Featuring an in-person Q&A with the film’s subject, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, and local candidate, Sophia Hawes-Tingey, and Max Green from Equality Utah’s Political Action Committee, moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.
October 12, 2023 at 7:00 pm
In Person | Jeanné Wagner Theatre
Black, Bold & Brilliant, Damn These Heels Film Festival
Kokomo City
In the wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary KOKOMO CITY, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City.
Featuring a Q&A by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team with director D. Smith.
October 14, 2023 at 5:30 pm
In Person | Jeanné Wagner Theatre
Black, Bold & Brilliant
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
After a man is killed by a zombie, his sister runs into an isolated house, where a group of people are holed up trying to figure out their escape from the flesh eaters.
Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team with Jose Manzo, Spy Hop’s Lead Film Mentor, and other cult film lovers and media historians to celebrate Halloween and Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead.
November 1, 2023 at 7:00 pm
In Person | The City Library
Through the Lens
Body Parts
Body Parts traces the evolution of “sex” on-screen from a woman’s perspective, exposing the uncomfortable realities behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes and celebrating the bold creators leading the way for change.
Featuring a Q&A moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer.
November 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm
In Person | The City Library
Black, Bold & Brilliant
Blurring the Color Line
Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the Black and White narrative of America’s racial history
Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and members of our community who can speak to the history of Asian experiences regarding integration, immigration, and assimilation.
December 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm
In Person | The City Library
Through the Lens
Subject
Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented “golden era,” the film urges audiences to consider the impact on documentary participants – the good, the bad, and the complicated.
Featuring a Q&A moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio with film subject and producer Margaret Ratliff.
December 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm
In Person | The City Library
