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Wednesday, September 10 (2 screenings)
 3:30 pm FREE Equality U
(Dave O’Brien, USA, video, 90min., 2008)
Community Co-Sponsor: Cream City Foundation
Campus Co-Sponsors: UWM LGBT Resource Center & UWM LGBT Studies Certificate Program
Community Co-Presenter: Milwaukee LGBT Community Center's Community Organizing
A stirring portrait of the young activists who are fighting to rid campuses of homophobic inequality. Equality U rides the bus with a group of 33 young activists on the landmark Soulforce Equality Ride, a Freedom Riders-inspired, two-month, cross-USA tour to confront antigay discrimination policies at 19 conservative, religious, and military colleges. In the hope of fomenting dialogue with other young people as a way to create safer, more tolerant places, these young people--some seasoned activists, some newbies--struggle with the challenges and personal toll of making change. In the daily confrontations with administrators that don’t want them on their campuses, they risk harassment, violence, and arrest--as well as a sense of failure and resignation. With personal video journals from six of the Riders, Equality U details the alarming situation for LGBT students on many American campuses today while offering an inspiring portrait of the activists who will change it.
Winner:
Outstanding Emerging Talent, OUTFEST 2008, Los Angeles LGBT Film/Video Festival
Film's Official Website: http://equalityu.com/EU_Home.html
7:30 pm Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres)
(Céline Sciamma, France, in French with English subtitles, 35mm, 85min, 2007)
Co-Sponsor: Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Chicago
Community Co-Sponsor: Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Johnson & Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund
Campus Co-Sponsors: UWM Women’s Resource Center & Festival of Films in French
Community Co-Presenter: Lesbian Alliance & Alliance Française
A special presentation of one of the year’s best films--and one of the best films ever about teenage girls. Lesbian filmmaker Céline Sciamma has made a film about synchronized swimmers that has a remarkable gravity. Her three heroines are 15 year olds of differing social standing in the strict hierarchy of high school, each a secret agent working alone on special assignments of desire. Ruthlessly opportunistic, and trying to avoid detection, they juggle loyalties as needed. But, please note, this isn’t Mean Girls--these young women wear the recognizable ache of reality. Presenting: the aloof, single-minded Marie; her object-of-desire, Floriane, the inaccessible beauty (absurdly so) who wears her glamour like a sanctuary, at least until she ascends to heaven; and the shrugged-aside Anne, buffoonish in spite of herself, but possessing many stealth weapons, confidence among them. As Sciamma surveys their assignations and intersecting paths in the tiled corridors of the local swimming pool, she coolly essays the vulnerability and strengths of young women as they negotiate their longing. Or, as the director of this intense, daring, at times shockingly funny, most empathetic, and ultimately quite sweet film says, “For me, the film is about what a tough job it is to be a girl.”
View Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbecCZexpuE
with
No Bikini (Claudia Morgado-Escanilla, Canada, 35mm, 9 min., 2007)
Seven-year-old Robin puts one over on her summer swimming class and has the time of her life.
Winner:
9th Annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards Grand Prize Winner
Best Narrative Short NewFest 2008
JOIN US FOR A POST-SCREENING RECEPTION
Inova/Kenilworth
2155 N. Prospect Ave.
Exhibition on view: Eugenio Espinoza
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