3rd Annual
Toronto International Queer West Film Festival
August 14, 2010

Theme: Queering Boundaries

queering boundaries

Queering Boundaries means going beyond a fixed identity and embracing fluidity. Though situated in the West of Toronto, we see the literal city borders and boundaries as contested and in flux. Through the medium of film, the Toronto International Queer West Film Festival will push for a more inclusive and complex queer identity; a queer identity that is necessarily shaped through interactions with place, space and community. At the same time, the sites, sounds and boundaries of Toronto's "West End" will be (re)claimed, (re)presented and (re)named as "queer".

Toronto is a city where queers come from different spaces, converging and diverging to create their own sense of community, and the Queer West Film Festival emphasizes that sense of connectedness.

Queer West Film Festival - Mission Statement - Our mission is to provide a voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer youth by presenting films and videos that only represent the diversity of the GLBT community. By providing innovative, diverse, accessible, quality screen events, which promote/stimulate, educate, enlighten, support queer cultures and entertain us all.

Saturday August 14th, 2010 — 3rd annual Toronto International Queer West Film Festival

Where: The Revue Cinema (244 Seats)
Address: 400 Roncesvalles Avenue
Start Time: 4 pm
End Time: 6 pm
Impromptu after party at the Local right next to the Revue
Film directors will attend, and a Q & A follows time permitting
Cover $5/PWYC
About Queer West Film Festival

We received submissions from all over the world. We wish we could have shown all of them, but then it would have been a three day festival.

Muchas Gracias to Queen Video paying for the entire cost of the Revue Theatre rental.

QUEER WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – FINAL FILMS SELECTION

DIRECTOR: Pablo Herran de Viu
TITLE: MISUNDERSTOOD 15:53 min
ABOUT: Alvaro understands that in order to project a sincere smile, you must understand and accept yourself first.

DIRECTOR: Ilona Alex Abramovich
WEB SITE www.ilona6.com
TITLE: Where Is The Support? 4 min
ABOUT: A short film that portrays the complexities and painful impact that coming out has.

DIRECTORS: Ilona Alex Abramovich and Amy Siegel
TITLE: Out on the Street 11 min
ABOUT: This short film explores LGBTQ youth homelessness in Toronto and the lack of support available. Several people’s lived experiences are shared.

DIRECTOR: Abby Lambert
WEB SITE vimeo.com/user2499436
TITLE: Confession 1:56 min
ABOUT: Struggling with her gender identity, a female confesses, to herself, a desire to be masculine. This is revealed through grooming routines.

DIRECTOR: Abby Lambert
TITLE: Self Serve 2:09 min
ABOUT: A woman finds power and pleasure in her domestic work comparable to a man in uniform.

DIRECTOR: Francoise Doherty
WEB SITE en.wikipedia.org/Doherty
TITLE: Girl Bunnies. HOCKEY. 5 min
ABOUT: A musically animated stop motion story of a homo-girl-rabbit-world. Coco loves hockey, but she REALLY loves hockey girl.

DIRECTOR: Kyisha Williams
TITLE: Red Lips 10 min
ABOUT: Explores racialized/queer/trans/femme sexualized and criminalized identity. It articulates and challenges interpersonal and systematic violence – while celebrating the ways in which we survive and celebrate ourselves

DIRECTOR: Jakeb Anhvu
TITLE: S.W.A.Y 5 min
ABOUT: This short documentary tells the story of Andie Hider. Andie was born with a condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome or A.I.S, which has been incorrectly labeled “hermaphrodite”.

DIRECTOR: David Aronson
TITLE: Night Nurse 16:10 mins
ABOUT: Night Nurse details the troubled life of a youngster in the throes of depression and the lascivious nurse taking care of him.

Event Description: This year the 3rd annual Queer West Film Festival is Queering Boundaries. We are excited to screen films that question the boundaries of the home, the body and the mind. Films that create a dialogue about racialized/trans/queer identity. Films that rethink and redefine the queer subject on screen. Mostly, the films screened at the Queer West Film Festival strive to broaden the notion of identity through each films narrative (de) construction. The QWFF will also be focusing on the boundary queering work of Toronto’s LGBT Triangle Program through a brief 15 year retrospective. http://triangleprogram.ca/about-2/

Festival Artistic Director

Matthew Drobnich, Artistic Director queerwestartsfestival@gmail.com

Bookings - Event Management - Volunteers

Michael F. Paré, - President of QueerWest.org - Call or Text 416-879-7954 queerwestinfo@gmail.com

Toronto Queer West Arts Centre is now on Facebook - JOIN US: facebook.com/Toronto-Queer-West-Arts-Centre

Queer West Arts Festival Guide 2012:

Queer West Arts Festival: About The Queer Arts Festival? | Arts Festival Official Events 2012 | Smash Words Poetry | Business Partners & Sponsors | Arts Festival 2011

Queer West Film Festival: About Film Festival | Film Festival 2010 | Film Festival 2011

Historical Archive: History Gay Festivals in Toronto 1964-2010 | History of Gay Toronto 1793-2008

Other Festivals: International Queer Arts Festivals | International Queer Film Festivals | Pride Festivals Canada & USA

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