My Queer Career 2008

My Queer Career 2008

 

Print guide text: Australia’s premiere celebration of locally produced film sets the fest in motion in a grand and glamorous style. Join our host Bernie Hobbs at The City Recital Hall, Angel Place, for the country’s queerest film industry awards night. Ticket price includes films, awards ceremony and gala opening party over three levels.

 Title  Director  Runtime  Synopsis
Love Bite Craig Boreham 3 Noah and Gus hang out and smoke weed after school. As the munchies kick in Noah feels compelled to share a secret desire that has been tormenting him.
Mirror Mirror John Winter 10 After so many years together, Joe faces life without Jana. Saying goodbye to yourself is never easy.
Sexy Thing Denie Pentecost 15 Sexy Thing is the story of a young boy who escapes his reality by immersing himself in a watery version of the world. With no dialogue apart from an opening line heavy with subtext, it is also an example of how one can tell a story through images alone.
Paradise Mark Robinson 9 About how two mates come to terms with entering a new world, about re-imaging what their paradise looks like
Love is Love Anne Renton 7 A parody short on a homosexual marriage ban
Single Sexy Bilingual Barbara Karpinski 14 Love is always chaos, especially when you’re bisexual, bilingual and bipolar.
Everything We Are Mark Robinson 8 A twelve-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection
My Last 10 Hours With You Sophie Hyde 15 The final night of Mark and Jeremy’s relationship, they wait it out, trying to find the way to say goodbye.
Ascension Stephen Irwin 14 Searching for the cause of a blackout late one night, exhausted trainspotter Tim mistakenly enters a neighbour’s apartment, blundering into a group of cultists desperate to escape earth… unfortunately they need a sacrifice!