Documentary

  • Dykes, Camera, Action!

    Caroline Berler

    Lesbians didn’t always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness.

    Genre: Documentary
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  • Call Tony

    Mée Rose

    Wy Joung Kou

    Call Tony is an experimental documentation of our personal kink histories as we relate to the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, one another and community. Our creative process was in part shaped by the pieces of history that we did but mostly did not find at the archives.

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  • Queer Genius

    Chet Pancake

    QUEER GENIUS explores the remarkable lives of five queer female artists: Barbara Hammer, Eileen Myles, Black Quantum Futurism, Moor Mother, and Dynasty Handbag / Jibz Cameron.

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  • Shakedown

    Leila Weinraub

    Shakedown, a series of parties by and for black women, dominated Los Angeles’s underground lesbian strip club scene from the 1990s through the 2000s. This film is equal parts provocative, touching, sexy, and nostalgic for days long gone.

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  • Fluids

    Rob Fatal

    6 years ago two artists attempted to make a queer, sci-fi porno: it failed. What emerged 6 years later out of its campy/tragic/melodramatic ashes is this erotic experimental documentary; a meditation on the intersections of failure and fetish as well the meticulous, accidental processes of constructing of cinema and identity.

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  • Dykes in the Streets

    Almerinda Travassos

    Dykes In The Streets is a documentary that examines the growth of the Toronto Lesbian community over the past 35 years.

    Lesbians Against The Right (LAR) organized the first Toronto dyke march called 'Dykes In The Streets’ in 1981. The filmmaker was present and documented 5 minutes of the historic march on S8 film.

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  • Every Act of Life

    Jeff Kaufman

    The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Frankie and Johnnie): 60 years of ground-breaking plays and musicals, the struggle for LGBT rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration. Rich with rare footage and photos, the film featu

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  • Niagara

    Shelley Niro

    A simple story of love and loss. Niagara originally called Ongniaahra, a Mohawk word, from the Haudenosaunee Nations.

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  • Queer Coolie-tudes

    Michelle Mohabeer

    Queer Coolie-tudes reclaims the slur of “Coolie and compellingly visualizes the inter-generational lives, histories, creole identities, familial relations and sexualities of a diverse range of subjects from the Queer Indo-Caribbean and Black Diasporas in Canada.

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  • Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall

    Katherine Fairfax Wright

    Todrick Hall launches his most ambitious project yet: the full-scale original musical Straight Outta Oz. From a small town in Texas to big-time show business, comes an inspiring documentary of grit, perseverance and the redemptive power of art.

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