SHORTS: TRANS+ MIXTAPE: Award Encore
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A compelling combo of trans+ stories that will make you laugh, cry, and reflect – sometimes all at once
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Streaming Nov 17–23
Featuring audience award and jury prize recipients, this compelling combo of trans+ stories will make you laugh, cry, and reflect – sometimes all at once. Featuring work from shorts programs MAKE ‘EM LAUGH, DRAMA QUEENS, and TRANS+ REALISM, catch up with these festival favorites featuring friendship and romance in one dazzling collection.
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DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS
Dir. Nyala Moon, USA, 2023, 14 min
A whack, irreverent comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.
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THE DALLES
Dir. Angalis Field, USA, 2022, 12 min
Cam is used to seeing the same customers while working at his family’s cherry stand. After a handsome cyclist passes through and asks for directions to a local cruising site, Cam takes it as an invitation to follow him.
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THE YEAR LONG BOULDER
Dir. Brielle LeBlanc, Canada, 2022, 9 min
Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, ‘boulder’).
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GIRL BLUNT
Dir. Clementine Narcisse, USA, 2023, 11 min
Two young women decide to use their newly found drug-dealing business to get revenge against a conniving man of their past.
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T-MINUS
Dir. Emily Lerer, USA, 2022, 12 min
T-Minus tells the story of Andrew, a trans mechanic, and a drag queen named Lex as they road-trip from Ohio to Detroit to obtain an abortion.
NewFest35 Award Encores are presented by Amazon
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