Sydney Gay and Lesbian MardiGras

The 2010 Film Festival will be held on Saturday February 20th 2010 at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, gold coin donation at the door. The program will include:

11:15am L'Ordre Des Mots / Binding Words (75 minutes)

Self-produced by Cynthia Arra and Melissa Arra. In French with Subtitles. This film addresses the gender identity issues head-on by questioning our often unchallenged societal norms and analyzing the nature of the oppression and repression faced by the Trans and Intersex communities

12:45pm Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (57 minutes)

Directed by Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker. Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of transgenders and transvestites fighting police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in New York City

3:00pm Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen (Documentary, 77 minutes)

Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen is brought to life by the stories of six thoughtful, eloquent and diverse transmen.

4:35pm She's a Boy I Knew (Documentary 70 minutes)

Guaranteed to be the most compelling D.I.Y., gender bending, feel good film directed by a transsexual lesbian you've seen all year.

6:00pm Unravelling Michelle (Documentary 83 minutes)

Directed by Dan Shaffer, Unravelling Michelle, this feature-length documentary, delves headfirst into the gender-bending highs and lows of Michelle's male to female metamorphosis through the eyes of Michelle and those who've been closest to her during the process.

7:45pm Trained in the Ways of Men (97 minutes)

Directed by Shelly Prevost. In 2002, transgendered Alameda County teen Gwen Araujo was severely beaten, tied up and strangled to death in the company of four male friends. This eye-opening documentary combines interviews with Araujo family members and legal experts, and footage from both trials (the first resulted in a hung jury)