Forati, Anahita

1997

A short about a pickpocket whose pocket gets picked.

MacIvor, Daniel

1997

Hegner, Isabel

1997

During the interrogation concerning the theftof Lena's 257 Peppermills, true victims and perpetrators are exposed.

Müller, Matthais

1997

A man facing his approaching death takes what is perhaps his last journey.

Meltzer, Jamie

1997

Pegasus is an eight minute documentary which follows the Pegasus Motorcycle Owner's Club on a dry run, along the way the film explores issues of identity, masculinity, and community.

Bailey, Fenton

1997

Party Monster recounts the chilling tale of the rise and fall of Michael Aliq, king of the New York club kids.

Party Monster recounts the story of real-life clubmeister Michael Alig’s rapid rise and dramatic fall. A brash young wannabe-hipster from the backwaters of small-town America, Alig established himself as the #1 party promoter in New York during the mid-eighties and became a leader of the so-called Club Kids. Club Kids were infamous for their outrageous looks and flamboyant behavior and their constant quest for newer, more intense highs. Trapped in an out-of-control spiral of drugs and violence, Alig murdered his roommate Angel Melendez by smashing his skull, pouring drain cleaner down his throat, and dismembering his body. Incredibly, instead of trying to keep the crime a secret, Alig called friends to boast about it. More incredible still, none of them went to the police, and he wasn’t arrested for nine months. Party Monster offers up a chilling morality tale which indicts Alig’s personal excessiveness even as it recognizes the social milieu which helped create him. This program opens with Close To, a short film about an anonymous sexual encounter in a New York subway.

1997

Garingan, Cahl

1997

A gay college student explores the sexuality of love the first time by resisting conformity and falling for a handsome bisexual.

Dupre, Jeff

1997

Griffith, C. A.

1997

The story of a gay couple in Mexico City.

Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro (Gustavo Cravioto) is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto (Mario Callitzin), that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, split up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally. This first feature from director C. A. Griffith is a look at the grim reality faced by many HIV+ men and women in developing countries. It explores homophobia, economic disparities, and the love of family and friends in times of pressure. The Other Side is the film debut of both Cravioto and Callitzin, and contains as a supporting cast the accomplished, award-winning duo of Eduardo Lopez Rojas (Mi Familia) and Patricia Reyes Spindola (La Riena de la Noche).