When someone is about to leave, what can you talk about with out saying what you really feel? Daylight Savings has always proved an interesting topic, sure to cause confusion.
Through candid interviews and humorous real life stories, Families Like Yours demystifies LGBT families and their lives, showcasing that they are just as loving, busy, and complicated as any other family.The film follows six families as they attempt to balance work and school, rush kids to sports practice, and deal with diaper duty. From across the nation and in all different stages of family life, from conception to grandchildren, these families represent a cross-section of the modern American family -- the only difference is that they are LGBT families.
Documentary following David Akinsanya as he attends a controversial treatment center in America that promises 'freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ'. David has been living as a gay man for 20 years, but if he could take a pill to make him heterosexual he'd pop it without a second thought. He believes his homosexuality is learned behavior but will it be something he can unlearn?
A young hustler tells the story of his dark journey from an upper middle-class home to living and working on the streets...and why he can't stop.
One summer day, close to the swimming pool, Carlos and Alex comment on Alex's difficulty to explain to his father, who is gay, while Carlos imagines awkward situations in which Alex would meet his father, while it is with his boyfriend in his house.
A gay, closet screenwriter, Darrel, is forced to collaborate on a project with another writer, Ryan. As the partnership grinds on, Darrel is forced to confront and accept himself for who he is deep down inside.
In 2000, the Vatican prepares to hold its first Jubilee year in 50 years, a celebration of the Catholic faith. Meanwhile, gay rights organizers prepare for a simultaneous parade in Rome -- alarming the church, which views the event as a threat. Documentarian Joe Balass interviews activists on both sides as preparations for the dual festivities advance. When Rome's mayor, Francesco Rutelli, withdraws his support for the gay event, the organizers worry their parade will be derailed.
Arthur and Alexandre are childhood friends. While one feels pressured to give the first kiss, the other wants to become a great rapper and record his first clip. By helping each other, they start new discoveries.
Lucas, an unlucky romantic is approacched by a serial seducer named Victor who promises him the moon. Disappointed and having been cheated on once again, Lucas decides to take revenge.
Elliott is growing up and discovering his sexuality. He is coming out of the closet and he is about to shock everyone by telling them that he is straight.
The spark has gone out of their marriage. That's when the butler might come in handy.
This short documentary film is a poetic and intimate portrait of two drag queens in Mexico City, Bárbara Durango & Tiresias , who narrate their story of coming into themselves and how their families and friends reacted.
Short film shot by Todd Verow and later edited into Frisk.
An insecure gay brooder puts his lack of social charm to the test with the support of a pizza man turned therapist and his two best friends.
A tragic story about a gay man torn between his lover and his grandmother.
Matt's idea seemed simple enough: document the contradictory attraction and detraction of a modern city on the eve of the new millennium. His plan seemed foolproof: throw 20 darts at a map of Los Angeles and conduct an interview wherever they land. Matt didn't anticipate the security guards, Mexican gangs and traffic jams that thwart his every move. In the zero hour, his project gets a second chance when two eccentric interviewees hijack the film and introduce Matt to the handgun and narcotics school of flow-budget filmmaking. During the drug fueled, soul-searching journey into the apocalyptic underworld of Los Angeles that follows, the unlikely group begins to realize that it's not just a film but also their survival that's at stake. With desperation mounting, the foursome rushes towards the end of the millennium and an ending that none of them could have scripted.
Tom is a teenager born and raise in Germany. He represents an actual queer archetype dealing with daily issues and through different mirrored characters - from different backgrounds and countries - we follow his quest towards self-acceptance and troubled identity.
This short film recounts Santiago's conflict in wanting to reveal something personal to his best friends and discovers that they themselves carry a lot of discrimination towards people with HIV. Between being able to accept his diagnosis and seek the acceptance of people around him, Santiago will challenge the prejudices of his friends and the audience.
Maximo (Roseller Kempis), a fatherless adolescent, who nurtures whimsical attraction with Joewel (Joeffrey Javier), a kanto boy who’s the object of affection of the neighborhood’s fledgling prepubescent gay boys. Maxin and his friends spy on the amused Joe even when he’s bathing. One day, Maxin gets word that Joe is holding a contest (a really ludicrous, albeit campy one involving “long hair” and money) and whoever wins gets to spend a night with Joe. But a gang war erupts and Joe finds himself running for cover – straight into Maxin’s house. Will Maxin find the courage to speak his mind? Will Joe be the accommodating Romeo?