Gay, transgender films shown at Sundance get funding
QSaltLake Staff | Feb 04, 2011
http://qsaltlake.com/2011/02/04/gay-transgender-films-shown-at-sundance-get-funding/Frameline, the nation's only non-profit organization solely dedicated to the funding, exhibition, distribution and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media arts has announced the recipients of its annual Frameline Completion Fund. Three of the films premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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Call Me Kuchu directed by Malika Worrall
Call Me Kuchu tells the story — at once tragic and hopeful — of a community of gay and transgender Ugandans fighting on the frontlines of Africa's gay rights movement. Alongside other activists fighting Parliament's new "Anti-Homosexuality Bill", the film tells the story of David Kato, known as the "grandfather of the kuchus" (the preferred term for LGBT people), who was recently murdered in his home just weeks after winning a major court battle for LGBT rights.
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Gun Hill Road directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green
After serving three years in prison, Enrique comes home to find that his son is not the same boy he left behind. Michael, now Vanessa, is beginning to explore a sexual transformation that tears at the very core of who Enrique believes himself to be. His wife Angela finds herself caught in the middle: she desperately clings to the love she once had for her husband while trying to protect her child from being forced into the kind of man she is "supposed" to be. Premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition.
