Reel Queer Youth

In addition to Fiscal Sponsorship, Three Dollar Bill Cinema needs help to support another unique project: Reel Queer Youth.
A special program of Three Dollar Bill Cinema that teaches filmmaking and media literacy to LGBTQ identified young people, and allies, between the ages of 13 and 21. The films made during this intensive learning experience are shown at a special screening during the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

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/

The award-winning documentary Inlaws & Outlaws cleverly weaves together the true stories of couples and singles— gay and straight — into a collective narrative that is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

Now the film is being distributed through the grassroots via the Hearts + Minds Campaign. The Campaign partners with equality organizations, faith communities, schools and community groups to present the film throughout the country and help create change.

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.

Remember His Name

http://www.lizardproductions.com/RememberHisName.html

The documentary film “Remember His Name” focuses on how the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. opened the eyes of the Texas Legislature to hate crimes which ultimately led to the passage of The James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of Texas in 2001.  In October of 2010, President Barak Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act into law which the filmmaker, Liz Latham captured and can be seen in this trailer.

The film will have a two-part curriculum which will be designed as an educational tool to promote much needed dialogue around issues of violence and hate crimes in the U.S., who is targeted and what can be done to change it.  The curriculum will be developed for middle and high school students.

The second and concluding part of the curriculum will be developed specifically for all age groups, and will include a wellness perspective that incorporates recent research findings from such fields as the brain sciences, positive psychology and the scientific study of altruism and compassion. Liz’s mission with this project is to begin a much needed paradigm shift in the educational system that proactively supports a student’s whole being, mind, body and spirit.

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.

Ebony Chunky Love: Hardons and Heartaches

Ebony Chunky Love Story. This is the filming of the follow up to Keith’s one man show “Bitch Can’t Get a Date!” In this installment we learn about what happens when Keith gets some air time, how he deals with his Afro-latino identity at present, how he handles the loss of his parents and how the freaks come out of the woodwork to try to follow on his coattails. The show is unapologetic, endearing and most of all a call to arms to feel good to be yourself and be FABULOUS! All this to produce, Ebony Chunky Love: “Hardons and Heartaches.”

heart breaks open

http://www.heartbreaksopen.com

‘heart breaks open’ is a feature-length narrative film about public health and community accountability. It follows our main character, Jesus, as he attempts to find his new voice after one unhealthy decision leads to an HIV+ status. The film features the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as well as a cast of local queer actors. It is being filmed in a documentary style where actors are put in real places to improv each scene, while 3-cameras (operated by award- winning doc filmmakers) follow the action using a cinema verité style. We’re using real Seattle locations and real experiences to tell a story that needs to be told.

Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America

http://www.EmbodimentUSA.com

Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America is the first ever comprehensive photographic, video + web based archive to explore the GLBTQ community in America as a whole. This project seeks to profile individuals from urban and rural areas and highlight a national experience in its many diverse, overlapping and even conflicting parts. As an exploration of the multi faceted communities, cultures, labels, cliques and stereotypes that define us, Embodiment takes the viewer on a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be “Queer” in America today. Embodiment will culminate in a dynamic interactive website-archive that enables these stories to be free and accessible to an audience beyond the gallery or the film-festival circuit. We also will create a book of portraits + stories from the road, with introductory essays from seminal queer scholars and a series of short episodic films to be seen on DVD, online, and at international film festivals. The coupling of traditional photographic portraiture & episodic digital film making is intended to fully engage our audience in the unique personalities and experiences of each individual we encounter on our travels.

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.

PUT THIS ON THE {MAP}

http://www.putthisonthemap.org/

PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is a new documentary from east King County featuring 26 young people re-teaching gender and sexual identity through groundbreaking narratives. The project is both a participatory video documentary and a community development tool to strengthen communities for LGBTQ youth. PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} garners the expertise of young people in addressing youth issues and creates relevant and sustainable resources for educators, service providers, young people, families, and communities.

Boys on the Inside

http://elliatcreative.com/?page_id=89

Boys on the Inside is a short documentary film about masculine presenting ‘boy’ culture in US women’s prisons. The documentary focuses on a small group of individuals formerly incarcerated in Washington State who speak about the affects of having been in prison, both positive and negative, and the role prison had for some in becoming ‘boys’ on the inside. Boys on the Inside follows the often silenced stories of prison culture and being gay inside, addressing the complexities of institutionalization, drugs and addiction, gender expression and living as an ex-felon in US society.