After All That

http://www.stickponyrodeo.com/afterthat.htm

Three years after Katrina, a small Gulf Coast town struggles to recuperate from the devastation and three men ask themselves, “What now?”

Hurricane Katrina tore a hole in the heart of Mississippi. The waters retreated, and with them went houses, whole towns, jobs, schools — the latticework of an entire society. After All That tackles the hidden and festering issue of the emotional and psychological destruction found on the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. The idea started when Michael Culpepper listened to his mother talk about the stories she heard while delivering food to people on the devastated Mississippi Coast after Katrina. One story that struck him hard was about an octogenarian couple that tried to commit suicide. Culpepper visited the coast many times in the past 24 months to hear the stories first hand. Culpepper wove the stories into After All That, a screenplay about three fictional characters who rebuild their lives after the hurricane. Financially ruined, Uncle Deacon struggles with the realization that his old life is gone and cannot be rebuilt. To his surprise and dismay, Deacon discovers that his nephew Mike is moving forward in ways he did not anticipate. Deputy Burnett witnesses great tragedy in his small Gulf Coast town; but finds that his personal life is now full of joy and liberation. Three years after Katrina, the wounds are still there. Having survived the storm, what’s next?

Bend It

http://www.myspace.com/bend_it

Bend It is a queer artist activist collective that makes the world a more fabulous place by building welcoming, liberated spaces, strengthening community, and creating meaningful alternatives for queer young people and their friends.

For the past five years, Bend-It has had the exclusive goal of organizing a three-day arts festival during the weekend of the Seattle Pride Parade in June. We designed our festival as a meaningful, non-corporate, proactively inclusive alternative to Pride, hosting community artists-led workshops, concerts, photography exhibits, film festivals, fashion/drag/burlesque shows, and spoken poetry open mic nights. We have encouraged DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIT (do-it-together) mentalities by offering reciprocal skill-building workshops—as opposed to top-down, one-way interactions.

Cine Seattle

http://cineseattle.org/

The Seattle International Latino Film Festival aims to exhibit films that recognize the richness and diversity of Spanish speaking communities worldwide. The broad range of Latino cultural expression cannot be minimized to stereotypes. Instead, our mission is to both educate against and dispel social myths by offering a forum to voices that represent the multiplicity of perspectives in the Latino experience and to bring focus back to common ground of all communities, our humanity.

For My Wife

http://formywife.info/

Very few times in our lives are we presented with an opportunity to change our society for the better and leave a lasting legacy.

For My Wife is exactly that.

This unique documentary film humanizes the struggle for full LGBT marriage equality through the story of Kate Fleming and Charlene Strong. It is a universal story about love, dignity and fighting for what is right - something that any viewer, gay or straight, can relate to.

In a generation, we will have achieved full marriage equality. And this special film will have played a key role in that victory.

Inlaws & Outlaws

http://www.inlawsandoutlawsfilm.com/

Inlaws & Outlaws cleverly weaves together the true stories of couples and singles— both gay and straight — and all into a collective narrative that is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

At the top of the film, you meet real people one on one. You don’t know who’s gay or straight or who’s with whom. As their stories unfold and stereotypes fall by the wayside, you won’t care because you’ll be rooting for everybody. With candor, good humor, great music and real heart, Inlaws & Outlaws gets past all the rhetoric to explore what we all have in common.

We love. We lose. We all want to belong. And we’re all making this up as we go along.

Out for Sustainability

http://www.outsustainability.com/

OUT for Sustainability brings the LGBT community together with social and environmental sustainability, connecting macro issues with individual choices and impact, through partner led events, education, consulting and advocacy.

Tasveer

http://www.tasveer.org/

TASVEER, “picture” in Hindi/Urdu, is a grassroots, community-based organization that is committed to bringing independent progressive films from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora to the Pacific Northwest.

We provide an alternative to the commercial films of South Asia. Many people only know about Bollywood but we explore the vast film expressions that come out of South Asia - experimental shorts films, political documentaries, narrative art films from the subcontinent, indy narratives by Diaspora, classic silent films, music videos, and more. Whether aspiring or a veteran, we support all independent filmmakers working with South Asian themes.

By screening independent films, we engage the community in dialogue and action around sociopolitical and cultural themes that are specific to South Asia - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Travel Queeries

http://travelqueeries.com/

Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. Through personal interviews and documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media visual arts and spaces, Travel Queeries puts an exciting international lens on queer fringe culture. With the aim of building bridges and awareness, Travel Queeries considers the word “queer” and explores the complexities, innovative values and spirit of queer within a progressive social change movement.

Like a Lady: The Fakaleitis of Tonga

“Like a Lady: The Fakaleitis of Tonga” explores the lifestyle and socio-cultural role and impact of a group of men and boys who identify as women in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific. The filmmaker’s two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in this culturally rich Polynesian country, gives the audience the opportunity to discover and meet a majority of the fakaleitis, or transgenders, through his personal journey as a gay volunteer in a conservative Christian island nation.