2010 Frontera Pride Film Festival Schedule

Thursday June 17, 2010

Join the Frontera Pride Film Festival Board and volunteers as we start off the Festival with our "Un-Official" Kick Off Party at The Toolbox! Meet the FPFF Board and volunteers as well as other film lovers just like yourself.

Gathering begins at 8:30

Friday, June 18, 2010

ALL MOVIES SHOWING TODAY WILL BE AT THE PLAZA'S PHILANTHROPY THEATRE

ALL MOVIES ARE FREE WITH YOUR VIP FESTIVAL PASS

$5 without VIP PASS unless otherwise noted

4pm Laramie Inside Out

56 Minutes

Directed By Beverly Seckinger

Sponsored by Rio Grande Adelante

In October 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. The horror of this murder pushed Laramie into the media spotlight and sparked a nationwide debate about homophobia, gay-bashing and hate crimes. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger returns to her hometown to see how this event had affected the site of her own closeted adolescence. Along the way she meets "God-hates-fags" Westboro Baptist Church Reverend Fred Phelps, who condemns Shepard and all homosexuals to an eternal hell. But Seckinger meets many more—parents, teachers, clergy and students—telling their stories, speaking out and taking action.

7pm Honorary Guest Sidebar I: Follow Me Home

Directed by Peter Bratt & Starring Jesse Borrego (special Love & Monster Trucks celebrity guest)

Sponsored by UTEP Humanities Program

Followed by a Q&A with Jesse Borrego

10pm Short Film Program I

79 Minutes

Sponsored by Border AIDS Partnership

• El Hilo De Oro (20 minutes, directed by Diego Sanchidrian)

        Sometimes, mystifying bonds are set up between people. Bonds which overcome distance, oblivion and unawareness.  And when those bonds are created, they can become what we need to survive.

• Breaking Borders: Cross-Dressers & Drag Queens of El Paso, TX (13 minutes, directed by Diana Cordova)

        Every Thursday night at a local Taco Cabana in El Paso, TX, Manuel Nunez and friends put on a cross dressing drag show titles 'Samantha's Travesti Show'. Through the use of comedy and entertainment, Samantha, Viviana & Zayda break the borders of transsexual identity and acceptance.

• Amateur (15 minutes, directed by Daniel Trevino)

        Michael goes on a camping trip and becomes interested with a confident gender-bending girl named Sam. When she forces him to question his true feelings towards her, Michael's over reaction threatens to push her away forever. Michael must now confront his own insecurities before he can accept Sam and himself.

• Cassandro El Exotico (23 minutes, directed by Michael Ramos Araizaga)

        A lucid view of an extrodinary character as recognized and loved or reviled by many wrestling fans.

• Tengo Algo Que Decirte (8 minutes, directed by Ana Torres-Alvarez)

        Susana is Pablo's girlfriend but Pablo's just realized he's gay and he's in love with Javi, his best friend who, at the same time, is going out with Susana. How are they going to tell each other? How are theygoing to react? And how will this all end?

After the Movies continue the party at The OP!

Free admission with your VIP Festival Pass

Saturday, June 19, 2010

ALL FILMS SHOWING TODAY WILL BE AT THE PLAZA'S PHILANTHROPY THEATRE
ALL MOVIES ARE FREE WITH YOUR VIP FESTIVAL PASS

$5 without VIP PASS unless otherwise noted

10am Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up

67 Minutes

Directed by Debra Chasnoff

Sponored by El Paso PFLAG

A powerful documentary about the lives of teens and young adults as seen through the gender lens. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses the complexities of conceptions of masculinity and femininity for Generation Z.

Preceded by the short film ¿Iguales? (14 minutes, directed by Javier de la Torre)

1pm Out in the Silence

65 Minutes

Directed by Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer

Sponsored by UTEP Woman's Studies Program

Out in the Silence captures the remarkable chain of events that unfold when the announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small Pennsylvania hometown. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school, Wilson’s journey dramatically illustrates the universal challenges of being an outsider in a conservative environment and the transformation that is possible when those who have long been constrained by a traditional code of silence summon the courage to break it.

4pm Honorary Guest Sidebar II: A Selection of films by Cristina Ibarra (director/co-writer, Love & Monster Trucks) and Erin Ploss-Campoamor (producer/co-writer, Love & Monster Trucks)

Sponsored by Jose Alejandro Torres, M.D.

• Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela (15 minutes)

• Grandma's Hip Hop (1 minute)

• Latino Plastic Cover (1 minute)

• Lupe & JuanDi From the Block (5 minutes)

• Amnezac (1 minute)

• Tercer Impacto (5 minutes)

• Wheels of Change (1 minute)

• CineDulce interview with Cristina Ibarra (4 minutes)
• Urban Latino TV interview with Cristina Ibarra (3 minutes)
• La Americanita by Erin Ploss-Campoamor (20 minutes)

• The Last Conquistador by Cristina Ibarra (70 minutes)

Followed by a Q&A with Cristina Ibarra and Erin Ploss-Campoamor

Cristinna Ibarra

Erin Ploss-Campoamor

Preceded by the short film ¿Iguales? (14 minutes, directed by Javier de la Torre)

7pm "Love & Monster Trucks" LIVE Script Reading featuring Special Guest Jesse Borrego (Fame, 24, Dexter), local actors and Love & Monster Trucks writer-director Cristinna Ibarra and writer-producer Erin Ploss Campoamor.

FREE with your VIP FESTIVAL PASS

$10 without pass

Event Sponsored by Bill Ellis

  Jesse Borrego

Also Starring the local El Paso talents of...

Mandy Shantyne Lopez as Impala

Maribel Rubio as Letty

Griselda Liz Munoz as Mrs. Mata

Judith Knight as Tia Kika

Sonny Huitron as Carlos

Austion Savage as Lalo

Maya Linney as Mercedes

Adrian Gutierrez as Background Male

Karla Enriquez Gonzales as Background Female

10pm Gala Party at the Camino Real Hotel

Featuring the sounds of DJ Mano Sol and the live music of The DA

FREE with your VIP FESTIVAL PASS

$10 without pass

After the party continue the action at The OP!

Free admission with your VIP Festival Pass

 Sunday, June 29, 2010

Special Sunday Showing at The El Paso Holocaust Museum

Screened in collaboration with Rio iGrande Adelante and The El Paso Holocaust Museum

1:30pm Paragraph 175

81 minutes

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman

Written by Sharon Wood

By the 1920's, Berlin had become known as a homosexual eden, where gay men and lesbians lived relatively open lives amidst an exciting subculture of artists and intellectuals. With the coming to power of the Nazis, all this changed. Between 1933 and 1945 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code dating back to 1871. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Of the latter, only about 4,000 survived. Today, fewer than ten of these men are known to be living. Five of them have now come forward to tell their stories for the first time in this powerful new film. The Nazi persecution of homosexuals may be the last untold story of the Third Reich. Paragraph 175 fills a crucial gap in the historical record, and reveals the lasting consequences of this hidden chapter of 20th century history, as told through personal stories of men and women who lived through it: the half Jewish gay resistance fighter who spent the war helping refugees in Berlin; the Jewish lesbian who escaped to England with the help of a woman she had a crush on; the German Christian photographer who was arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality, then joined the army on his release because he "wanted to be with men"; the French Alsatian teenager who watched as his lover was tortured and murdered in the camps. These are stories of survivors -- sometimes bitter, but just as often filled with irony and humor; tortured by their memories, yet infused with a powerful will to endure. Their moving testimonies, rendered with evocative images of their lives and times, tell a haunting, compelling story of human resilience in the face of unspeakable cruelty. Intimate in its portrayals, sweeping in its implications, Paragraph 175 raises provocative questions about memory, history, and identity.

Immedietly following the movie there will be a guided tour of the Museum by Jan H. Wolfe 

El Paso Holocaust Museum

715 N. Oregon

VIP Festival Pass $50.00

Individual Screening Tickets $5.00

Love & Monster Trucks Live Script Reading $10.00

Camino Real Gala $10.00