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TODAY’S SCREENINGS
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Entwined, 7:00 pm (Colony, $8)
• Edge of Seventeen, 9:30 pm (Colony, $8)
Entwined
Directed by Raquel Cecilia Harrington
USA, South Florida Premiere
Related
Panel Discussion: Out of the Celluloid Closet
5:00 pm (Colony, free)
As part of our ongoing commitment to support South
Florida filmmakers, the Festival is pleased to present this first
ever made-in-Miami lesbian feature film. Elena is a young Cuban-American
college student living with her older girlfriend, a professional woman
who offers her security but not the passion that she craves.
Julia is a university professor, one of Elena’s teachers, who
slowly finds herself drawn to the younger woman in spite of herself
and the life she already shares with her partner Andie. Entwined and
entrapped, the two are engaged in a furtive courtship that leads inevitably
to suspicions, recriminations and some explosive decisions.
First time director and the film’s writer Raquel Cecilia Harrington
charts the course of two couples and four very different women who
find their lives drawn together and their relationships torn apart
as love, work and commitment are all called into question.
With a great soundtrack that includes songs from Ani DiFranco, Albita,
k.d. lang, Lissette and Willie Chirino, and Miami-perfect locations
that range from Little Havana to Lincoln Road. Director Raquel Harrington
and producer Jacqueline Frost will attend the screening and discuss
their work with the audience.
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Edge of
Seventeen, 9:30 pm (Colony, $8)
Directed by David Moreton
USA, South Florida Premiere
This crowd-pleasing story of gay teen love has
the twist of being set in small-town Ohio in the age of the Bronski-Beat
early 1980s - with the added attraction of well-known lesbian comic
Lea DeLaria playing mentor to the confused hero!
Perfectly recreating the period in clothing, music, and alienation,
this is the story of handsome Eric and his best friend Maggie, and
the boys Eric desires who eventually come between them. The gay bar
scenes are right on the money for anyone who’s spent much time
outside of America’s big cities. Director Moreton shows us Eric’s
first sexual experience with heady, hard-hitting and at times steamy
complexity.
A musical score by Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins completes the
dead-on portrayal of a gay rite of passage in the eighties. It’s
easy for most of us, of whatever age or background, to identify with
Eric’s adolescent confusion and uncertainty, making this both
a quintessential gay story and a universal coming of age tale. Director
David Moreton will attend the screening and discuss his work with
the audience.
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