13 Dec My Queer Career 1994
Print guide text: Queer Screen presents the inaugural Australian Queer Film & Video Awards. In keeping with Queer Screen’s initiatives, this section of the festival focuses on the promotion, nurturing and development of an Australian Queer Film & Video culture.
Winner Best Film 1994
Jackie O is Speaking
Directed by Tim Slade
| Title | Director | Runtime | Synopsis |
| Genderfuck | Svetlana Gilerman | 4 | Does gender fuck or do we fuck gender? |
| Projection | Martina Palombi | 5 | A swan song for Valentine’s Day. |
| Wax Me | Kelly Simpson | 6 | A story of lust, jealousy and hair removal. |
| Shoe | Rueben Le Smith | 3 | Soft core porn for shoe fanciers. |
| I/Not I | Maria Rita Barba-gallo | 5 | A ‘good’ Italian girl’s confession! |
| My Freedom Rings | Groovii Biscuit | 16 | Spy on moments in the lives of some very special Sydney queers |
| Sex Fish | Jane Castle | 6 | Sex & Fish & Sex & Fish |
| None of the Above | Penny Fowler-Smith | 13 | Pure, disciplined, adult, old fashioned glamour. |
| Sexual Liberation | Haikam Sihapanyaxay | 4 | Front-room sexual explorations |
| On Becoming | Teresa Rizzo | 26 | An exploration of gender & visual fluidity |
| I’ll Show You | Matthew Jones; Linda Sproul; Stephen Jones | 3 | Witty hit list of ‘community’ archetypes |
| Mimi Pulka | Ruth Carr; Catherine Adams | 24 | An Aboriginal initiative to provide culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS education |
| The Circle Closes | Cezary Prokopiuk | 6 | Lethal cocktail of religion, sex and needles |
| A Sunday Soiree | Cayte Latta | 10 | Non stop visual talking as lovers reminisce |
| Aids: A Fighting Chance | Kevin Cotter | 1 | Cinematic commercial which packs a punch |
| In Bed With Your Neighbours | Doerthe Jansen | 52 | In the ‘Year of the Family’ this juicy sexual liberation movie confronts with brutal honesty issues often conveniently omitted from the safe sex debate. |
| Ophelia | Christopher Ryan | 2 | A woman speaks her unrepresented resistance to history |
| Body Corpoate | Stephen Cummins & Mathew Bergan | 9 | Construction camp! Daily routines and fantasies on the site. |
| Liquor, Guns and Ammo | Barbara Karpinski | 7 | Diabolical combinations of all sorts. A subtle and unusual tale of femme/butch love. |
| Into the Light | James Whitington | 24 | Combining theatre, dance and music with Fellini-esque characters, this surreal film deals with sexual identity and transformation. |
| Jackie O is Speaking | Tim Slade | 3 | Yet another look inside J.F.K’s head. |
| X Dress | Amanda Walliss | 8 | Mass culture girls at their X-iest in a female dick video tract. A veritable perv fest of female virility. |
| Luv & Oleh | Penny McDowell | 10 | They’re putting on a show. They have the song. They have the venue. They have the lamé. But something is very wrong. |
| The Pink | Katherine Fry | 8 | Re-tells a fairy tale of a princess married to an inadequate prince. |
| Jumping the Gun | Jane Schneider | 10 | After a one night stand, a woman imagines a rosy future. |
| A Midnight Farewell | David Varga | 3 | A story of a body ‘in extremis’ told via 20’s horror recording and excerpts from the writing of Antonin Artaud. |
My Queer Career in the 1994 Mardi Gras Film Festival program guide:
