Documentary Stories
Sunday, October 6 – 2:00pm – UNCSA ACE Theatre Complex
Runtime: 91 minutes
Queer New Orleans: A Journey Beyond Bourbon Street
Directed by Zoe Ariella Lang
USA / English / Documentary Short / 12 min.
Queer New Orleans: A Journey Beyond Bourbon Street seeks to celebrate the amazing people and spaces that make the queer community in New Orleans so special. It explores three locations: Alma Cafe, The Allways Lounge and Cabaret, and Grrl Spot.
*First-Time Filmmaker / Student Film – Tulane University
How to Carry Water
Directed by Sasha Wortzel
USA / English / Documentary Short / 15 min.
This punk rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel—a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water.
Pup Perfect (Director’s Cut)
Directed and written by Henry Baker
USA / English / Documentary Short / 17 min.
Explore the world of gay/queer human Pups, a subculture that evolved from the gay leather community and now thrives in tandem.
The Callers
Directed by Lindsey Dryden
UK/USA / English / Documentary Short / 20 min.
Since 1974, listening volunteers at LGBT Switchboard have been taking anonymous calls and messages from queer people across Britain, on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family, or mend a broken heart.
WHO AM I BECOMING
Directed by Payton Royce & Odu Adamu / Written by Payton Royce
USA / English / Documentary Short / 12 min.
WHO AM I BECOMING is a visual journal chronicling Payton Royce’s early stages of gender transition through to gender affirming surgery.
*First-Time Filmmaker
MnM
Directed by Twiggy Pucci Garçon
USA / English / Documentary Short / 15 min.
MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community.
*First-Time Filmmaker