Giusti, Stephane

1997

[From IMDB]: "This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto 'Live each day of your life as if it were your last.'"

Bedogne, Martin

1997

Making Babies is a sweet and touching look at four gay and lesbian couples as they create their families through foster parenting, adoption, and artificial insemination.

Fischer, Liz

1997

A doll discovers a new world under the cushions of the couch.

Pantaleo, Jeff

1997

A metaphor for growing up gay, "loose Composure" traces the tragic and hilarious experiences of 4 young women as they desperately tryy to 'fit in'.

Cottis, Jane

1997

A music video made in San Francisco about "not looking for New Lesbos... just looking for another girl..." Local Bay Area filmmaker.

Churchill, Della

1997

Coming out is hard to do - but is procrastinating any easier?

Levin, Melissa

1997

A mockumentary that interviews 22 women who have and have not gone out with a woman named Lisa.

Oremland, Paul

1997

A fast-paced, gritty and humorous love story set against the backdrop of the London club scene, a candid look at gay life.

Craig (Steve Bell) is a twentysomething bare-knuckle boxer from working-class Blackpool. He lives in a violent, macho world of illegal prizefights, where winning and survival are two words for the same thing. Pop music producer Matt (Ian Rose) is a successful gay man who is cynical about love and driven by financial ambition. A chance meeting outside a nightclub leads to a brief and clumsy encounter between the two men. When Craig escapes the mean streets of Blackpool and turns up on Matt’s doorstep in London, the two embark on a relationship that will irrevocably change both their lives. Craig is quickly introduced to the freedom of Soho and an openly-gay world he never imagined existed. Matt’s crowd, however, is determined to break the couple up. Legendary rocker Roger Daltrey of The Who is delicious as Matt’s wolfish gay boss, Kelvin. Set amidst London’s cutting-edge club scene, Like It Is offers a fast-paced, gritty look at modern urban gay life and romance.

Kakati, Buboo

1997

An Indian woman in America reminisces about her childhood days in India.

DeCoteau, David

1997

A sexy romantic comedy about the beginnings of a relationship between an eighteen year-old guy and a thirty year-old man.

Leather Jacket Love Story is a perfect date movie, with its romantic sensibility, playful humor, and raw sensuality. Kyle, a frustrated teenage poet from the Valley, moves to the sun-drenched urban jungle of the Silverlake district of Los Angeles. There he meets Mike, a tough-but-tender construction worker nearing his 30th birthday, and falls in love. Mike introduces Kyle to the gay bars, sex clubs, and coffee houses of the City of Angels. Kyle buys his first leather jacket and plans his first poetry reading, but trouble ensues when he discovers that Mike might be unfaithful. A coming-of-age romantic comedy, Leather Jacket Love Story is especially notable for its boldly explicit sex scenes and its fresh, funny dialogue, courtesy of acclaimed poet Rondo Mieczkowski’s screenplay. Mink Stole from the early John Waters films makes a rare screen appearance, along with gay rights activist Morris Knight, model Geoffrey Moody and a bevy of bad-ass L.A. drag queens.