Pensacola LGBT Film Festival
Recently, gcTIDE was able to host its first, full-fledged LGBT Film Festival in the Spring of 2007, showcasing six, three times, over the course of three days. Learning from user comments and suggestions, the project was put on the board again for another incarnation in 2008. The gcTIDE Pensacola LGBT Film Festival is a great way for you to come and enjoy queer-themed films on the silver screen. In 2007, the festival featured several genres of film from historical documentaries to hilariously funny comedies.
Last year's event, held at the Gulf Breeze Cinema 4 drew close to 300 people in attendance, a successful first-time event. Below you will find the film list from this past Film Festival. gcTIDE would like to invite you to the next event, being held in April. Check back here for updates and a new list of movies!
Imagine Me & You
A lesbian romantic comedy between a bride and her florist. Rachel must decide who she will ultimately find the most happiness with: Her new husband who is adored by her family, or Luce, who has turned her life and everything she thought she new about love upside down.
Saint of 9/11
A documentary about a beloved NYC Fire Department Chaplain, Father Judge, wrestles with his own private demons while touching others in powerful and miraculous ways. Father Judge was a gay man who loved his priestly work. Saint of 9/11 portrays Mychal's life as a spiritual adventure and an honest embrace of life, where alcoholism and sexuality were acknowledged.
C.R.A.Z.Y.
A hilarious funny gay, foreign comedy about Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to love him for who he really is.
TransGeneration
A behind-the-scenes documentary depicting the lives of four transgender college students as they attempt to balance college, their social lives, and their current gender transitions. This film focuses less on the medical side of the experience and more on the people as real human beings.
Cowboys & Angels
A gay coming of age tale about two best friends – one straight, one gay – from their youthful career ambitions to their entanglements with the law. The story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with a gay fashion student and finds himself on the catwalk.
Paragraph 175
A historical documentary about homosexuality and Nazi Germany. By the 1920’s, Berlin had become known as a homosexual eden, with the coming to power of the Nazis, all this changed. Between 1933 and 1945 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code dating back to 1871. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Today, fewer than ten of these men are known to be living. Five of them have now come forward to tell their stories for the first time in this powerful new film.