Wow. It’s pride and I just saw my first Frameline movie last night. The National Queer Arts Festival is happening. Queer art and film and love every where. It’s overwhelming, yet fun and inspiring.
I saw the acclaimed film from Argentina XXY last night at the Castro and it was packed. Coming of age meets gender politics meets sweet adolescent sex (I’m not a pervert, it was an empowering scene!) The main character Alex is adorable and gives a very real performance of an adolescent struggling with her inter sexed body and the ramifications that exist with in her family and the community. Overall, the film did a great job of showing how young people and the parents are faced with making decisions and that allowing the inter sexed person to make their own choice about what to do with their bodies is best. Or really what not to do! You don’t need “corrective surgery,” your body is beautiful. The film shared that sentiment many times though out, but my favorite was the sex scene between Alex and her 17 year old boy crush - they make out, she flips him over and does him up the butt. It’s radical!
Argentina keeps them coming. This is the third amazing film to come out of there in the last few festivals. Last year I saw Glue, another coming of age cute gay boy movie, and the year before I saw Suddenly, about lesbians who take a road trip down the coast. I recommend them both.
I’ve mentioned her before, she’s been in Curve magazine, Arlan is a fan, her web banner is right above us staring you in the face, and she produces the hottest lesbian erotica around. Shine Louise Houston just wrapped her fourth feature film on Sunday starring a real MMA fighter who happens to also be the champion wrestler on the popular site Ultimate Surrender under the name of Syd Blackovich.
Champion is a queer boxing movie packed with 20 minutes of tightly crafted drama woven into hot sex scenes to make it an hour long feature film. It is not due to be released until January 2009, but you can check out the film rushes and photos at the film’s official blog site.
5 Fun Facts about Pink and White
1. About 50% of the couples that star in the movies are real couples.
2. All the crew are queer folks from the community.
3. Shine snort laughs while she directs.
4. The main videographer has been female ejaculated (squirted) on 4 times in 4 years. Once a year baby!
5. More than half of the models are doing porn for the first time and only do it with Pink and White.
Uh uh, (clears throat). Ahem, so if you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that I’m the co-producer of this Rhapsody series called “Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy”. Uh huh. Well, so we’re in LA to work with this particular band that for the moment shall remain nameless. Uh huh. Anyway, it’s nice and hot, like LA should be, and we’re in the green room at the Roxy and who walks in?! Clea Duvall. Uh huh.
I’ve been working with a lot of talent lately and I’m always calm, cool and professional. But a shout out back to my regulars – you’ve heard me mention before that Clea is one of my favorite actresses – right up there with Winona Ryder.. Uh huh. So pardon me while I take a moment to recount the story for you all.
Part 1: Clea walks in and stands in a corner (the corner that I’m standing in holding my video camera); she then turns to me, puts her hand out and says, “Hi, I’m Clea. You look familiar.” Uh huh. Turning red, eyes blinking, jaw dropping. I remember my name and introduce myself “We’re from San Francisco, so…uh..I don’t know where we would have met. But, well, you obviously look familiar.”
Part 2: The VIP area of the Roxy. It’s the end of the show and I have to remind myself to breath due to so many hot situations already. Deep slow breaths. Clea turns around and asks me, “is life that hard?” At that point, I just crack up laughing. We start chatting and at some point we get on the subject of smoking cigarettes and I share my theory, that “half of the addiction to smoking is not just the nicotine, but the deep rhythmic breaths you take while you smoke.” WTF is that!? Who says that? I do a lot of yoga.
Part 3: Inspiration. I finally come out to Clea that I’ve a big fan of hers since I was 16. Then I get worried that maybe I should check my facts before I open my big mouth, but before I can find my way through the space-time continuum she just asks me my age and it turns out she started acting when she was 18 (that means I was 15, so we’re all good). Then she shares that some things she saw while growing up influenced what she does now. I thought that was so sweet, that I got lost in my thoughts, and forgot to ask her what it was that influenced her!
Clea, if you read this blog, we all want to know what it was that influenced you while you were growing up. You have obviously been an inspiration and have influenced a lot of folks from my generation and younger.
So, um, will you be in my movie Licorice? I’m writing a coming of age drama that you would be perfect to play the role of the older sister. I already produced a short scene from it and gave a copy to one of your friends in that band we all know and love, (uh huh, just clearing my throat again in case you aren’t getting the hint).
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with CSS.
Here’s a sneak peak to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with Uh Huh Her coming this August.
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