Before Stonewall

Saturday, October 5, 1:30pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director:  Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg | USA | 1985 | 87 minutes | English In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by...

Rafiki (A Friend)

Saturday, October 5, 3:00pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director: Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya | 2019 | 83 mins | English and Swahili Bursting with the colorful street style and music of Nairobi’s vibrant youth culture, Rafiki is a tender love story between two young women...

Sell by

Saturday, October 5, 3:45pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director:  Mike Doyle | USA | 2019 | 94 minutes | English Does every relationship have an expiration date? Adam and Marklin are about to find out. Their 5-year relationship has gone from a passionate flame to a...

Tongues Untied

Saturday, October 5, 4:00pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director: Marlon Riggs | USA | 1989 | 55 minutes | English Tongues Untied is a 1989 experimental documentary film that seeks, in its author’s words to, “…shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of...

The Garden Left Behind

Saturday, October 5, 5:00pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director:  Flavio Alves | USA | 2019 | 88 minutes | English and Spanish The Garden Left Behind traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate...

The Queen

Saturday, October 5, 5:30pm; UNCSA’S ACE Theatre Complex Director: Frank Simon | USA | 1968 | 68 minutes | English At age 24, sometimes Jack is drag queen Sabrina. It’s 1967, and Sabrina is mistress of ceremonies at a national drag pageant in New York City. Jack’s...

Gay Chorus Deep South

Screening presented by Triad Pride Performing Arts: “The TPPA consist of LGBTQ members and their allies, who perform to entertain, enlighten and enrich while promoting equality and social justice for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity –...

Six Characters in Search of a Play

Saturday, October 5, 7:15pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director:  Emerson Collins | USA | 2019 | 89 minutes | English Sordid Lives creator Del Shores’ new film of his one-man show, directed by Emerson Collins, proves once and for all that he is not a writer, he’s a...

Where Justice Ends

Sunday, October 6, 12:00pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director: George Zuber | USA | 2019 | 51 minutes | English, Spanish Where Justice Ends highlights the intersection of two important and timely topics of social justice: conditions within the U.S. prison system...

To the Stars

Sunday, October 6, 12:30pm; UNCSA’s ACE Theatre Complex Director:  Martha Stephens | USA | 2019 | 109 Mins | English In the early 1960s in small-town Oklahoma, mousy Iris is the high-school pariah and the target of bullies. When edgy, confident Maggie moves to town,...