Frameline 2010: Our picks for movies you shouldn't miss at S.F.'s LGBT Film Fest

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Frameline 2010: Our picks for movies you shouldn't miss at S.F.'s LGBT Film Festival
By Randy Myers
Bay Area News Group
Posted: 06/03/2010 01:19:26 PM PDT
Updated: 06/04/2010 05:24:06 AM PDT

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15220547?nclick_check=1

Usually, I encounter a dud or two when pre-screening some films that will be showcased in Frameline, San Francisco's annual LGBT film festival.

Not this year.

Only one of the titles mentioned below is a wobbler on my "worth seeing" list. All others I can recommend without any serious reservations.

# "Trans Francisco": Is it necessary to have a big budget in order to make a decent documentary? Certainly not if you're director Glenn Davis. In just over an hour, the KGO-TV producer gives voice to an eclectic, fascinating group of Bay Area transwomen. The candid interviews range from the film's co-producer and her female spouse to an African-American male-to-female transsexual and her female-to-male boyfriend. Davis obviously dedicated a lot of time in gaining his subjects' trust; the audience is the luckier for it. (11 a.m. June 19 at Victoria Theater, 2961 6th St., S.F., )