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LGBT Toronto Film Festival
18 Feb 2019.  

Photo of Bodies of Water, Directed by David Lykes Keenan

Showcasing the best of short films and screenplays from the LGBT community. Each month a new Screenplay Winner will be selected to be performed by professional actors.

Festival runs at The Carlton Cinemas, located at 20 Carlton Street. The event runs from 7pm to 9:10pm.
Tickets are Pay What You Like:
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/next-film-festival-event/ 
You will be able to buy alcohol (beer, wine, liquor), popcorn, candy, and refreshments before the show.
Here’s this year’s line-up:


FIRST ACT PROGRAM
SHE’S MARRYING STEVE, 22min, USA, LGBT/Comedy
Directed by Erika Kramer
A 20-something woman gets invited to her ex-girlfriend’s wedding to a man and decides to go. Despite her disapproval of the wedding, she travels to Connecticut for the weekend where she reunites with old friends and her ex and gains a new perspective on her past relationship.

EXPIRATION DATE, 7min., USA, LGBT/Romance
Directed by P.J. Norton
Luke and Michael have been dating for three years. In the morning, Luke is moving to San Francisco. Michael is not.
SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, 11min., Philippines, LGBT/Drama, Directed by Carl Chavez

Joshua, a timid teenager, comes home one night after beaten up by the school’s bully. Feeling the urge to avenge himself, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But things don’t go as planned. Now, he is left with no choice but to seek help from his policeman father.
SECOND ACT PROGRAM

T(HE)Y, 11min., USA, LGBT/Documentary
Directed by Caroline Callender, Silver Liftin
T(HE)Y was created with the idea of identity in mind. What we’ve each been through and how we are treated by others and society shapes us in very distinct ways. As a result, the world, especially New York, is filled with a diverse range of people with complex and different identities. Each day, different people experience and view the world through entirely different lenses, based on those identities. Often, we forget that this is the case.

BODIES OF WATER, 14min., USA, LGBT/Drama
Directed by David Lykes Keenan
It’s 1982, Marsh is 24 years old, and he struggles with a tormenting secret. Feeling disconnected human relationships others take for granted, Marsh treads water in the often painful doldrums of everyday life.

BO & MEI, 15min., UK, LGBT/Drama
Directed by Camille Liu Nock
A short film about a Chinese immigrant family who experiences racial prejudice as well as prejudice of a different kind within their own home. This is a story about a young person who with the support of their loving sibling is able to stand up for the things that make them different.

LGBT Film Festival
Friday February 28, 2019
7pm-9:1-PM
Tickets and more info:
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/next-film-festival-event/

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