Peccadillo Pictures Brings LGBT Filmmaking To Branchage And Screenplay Film Festival
Love the experience of watching new and intriguing independent films at film festivals but a bit fed up that they all seem to have something of a heterosexual angle to them that leaves you unable to truly connect with them? You need to add the Screenplay Film Festival in the Shetlands and Branchage Film Festival in Jersey into your diary because these two film festivals will be showing six award winning short films. Made up of a mix of past and present films of both fiction and documentary genres, if you can’t relate to the highs, lows and various prejudices experienced by the LGBT people in these six films below then you are one seriously hard to please film watcher.
1. We Once Were Tide – Dir. Jason Bradbury (UK) 2mins – UK Trailer
Shot entirely on the Isle of Wight, this short film sees Anthony torn between his dependent mother and his boyfriend and coming to realise to love something is to give it away.
Breath – Margien Rogaar (Netherlands) 8mins
Finding himself falling for the father of his friend Sophie whilst on a trip to the lake, Breath sees 12 year old Erik hatcha plan to express the extent of his love.
Henna Night – Dir. Sally El Hosaini (UK) 12mins
Based around a British-Arab family, Henna Night takes you on a journey full of food, magic, and manipulation, subtly exploring a darker side of love.
The Island – Dir. Trevor Anderson (Canada) 6mins
Using animation alongside traditional filmmaking method, Trevor Anderson consider a piece of fan mail he received and poses the questions what if all the gays in the world were put on an island?
Latecomers – Dir. Olivia Humphreys (UK) 16mins
What happens when you finally come out during the later stages of life, when you have a spouse and children? Latecomers is a sensitively filmed account of two people’s struggles to reconcile their new found zest for life and the sadness experienced by leaving behind an alternate reality.
Promtroversy – Dir. Leanna Creel (USA) 12mins
Starring Jane Lynch, Promtroversy is set during prom season in Sherman Valley – the biggest night on the town’s social calendar. But this year is different. Cassie, the local high school’s only know lesbian student, wants to run for prom king! The locals aren’t having it.
Trevor – Dir. Peggy Rajski (USA) 23mins
Taking a sensitive yet blunt approach to a young boy’s thoughts about his sexuality at a very important stage of his life, if there’s one film we’re all going to be able to relate to, it’s this one..
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Film, Oscars 1995
The Branchage Film Festival runs from the 23rd – 26th September 2010 and as well as showing these four films combines cutting-edge commissions and creative programming with all that’s charming about Jersey. Specialiseing in one-off cinematic live music and film events, matching each to a complementary and unusual venue on the island, Branchage transforms Jersey’s most iconic landmarks into inspirational screening venues that include everything from a cliff top medieval castle to a barn on a dairy farm.
Running fro the 2nd – 5th September 2010, Screenplay 2010 is Shetland’s fourth annual film festival. Curated by Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams, the festival aims to introduce audiences to a wide range of film genres, to provide a platform for local film makers and to bring film and TV industry professionals of a national and international standard to Shetland. Last year Screenplay welcomed British directors Terence Davies, Douglas Mackinnon and Simon Miller to the islands; this year’s visitors include acclaimed director Julien Temple and star of film and television drama Jason Isaacs.
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