| Fact
sheet |
| Festival
Length: |
10 days |
| Budget: |
$600,000 |
| Total
Films: |
60+ |
| Audience
Capacity: |
15,000 |
| Number of
Programs: |
36 |
| Number of
Guests: |
40+ |
| Number of
Panels: |
3 |
| Number of
Parties: |
12 |
Other Festival Facts:
• Out of the Festival's 60-plus films, 30 are world, U.S.,
North American and East Coast premieres. The rest are Florida and
South Florida premieres.
• More than half of the Festival's films are international
fare from such countries as Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada,
Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, Spain and South
Africa.
• Seven of the Festival's programs are Spanish-language
works, including the Festival opening night film Sagitario
(Sagitarius) and I Love You Baby, both from Spain; an episode from
the groundbreaking Nicaraguan telenovela Sexto Sentido (Sixth
Sense), with the preceding U.S. documentary Nada de Pobrecito;
Vagón fumador (Smokers Only) and Historia de Amor en Baño
Publico (Love in a Public Restroom), both from Argentina. In
addition, two English-language shorts, Misguided Piss and Coffee,
Desserts, Light Fare, and the documentary De Colores are by U.S.
Hispanic directors, while Food of Love is the first
English-language feature from Spanish filmmaker Ventura Pons.
• Twenty-three of the Festival's films are works by, for and
about women, including Guardian of the Frontier (Varuh Meje), the
first female-directed feature from Slovenia; Sugar Sweet and
Love/Juice, both from Japan; Germany's Journey to Kafiristan,; and
Treading Water by U.S. director Lauren Himmel.
• Seven of the Festival's films are documentaries on
pioneering heroes and heroines, including Hope Along the Wind: The
Life of Harry Hay; Hand on the Pulse, about lesbian bad girl and
Festival guest Joan Nestle; Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's
Adventures in Plastics, featuring the iconic
American-punkster-turned-Tupperware lady; The Cockettes, about the
legendary gender-bending theater company; and Simon and I, filmed
by lesbian folksinger Bev Ditsie on her restless relationship with
anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli and their fight to include
sexual orientation in South Africa's new constitution.
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