Films: Generations: Youth and Elders Making Movies

Generations: Youth and Elders Making Movies

84 Minute Running Time

Come and celebrate youth and elders in this engaging program of shorts, including films from this year's Frameline Generations filmmaking workshops.

First we’ll see Always My Son, a touching documentary on the transformation of one gay son’s self-described macho dad. HIV-positive youth tell us how to stay safe in HIV: Hey, It’s Viral. A mother and son find a moment of beauty in Benji & Mitzi, while a Galileo High School graduate comes out in Everybody Knows “Bam Bam” (or do they). Sex Ed and Jobalicous are two films from the LGBTQ youth of LYRIC.

Youth and elders have been working together from script to screen to bring you intergenerational LGBT voices from the Frameline Generations Workshop. Three films from the workshop include a television parody about being summoned to the Gay People’s Court. In a short about a 1950s housewife, she discovers her husband is gay and starts taking it out on the vegetables. And in our final film, an elder steps in to help a youth who is being bullied.

Text Voting Codes:
Always My Son: S604
HIV: Hey, It’s Viral: S616
Benji and Mitzi: S535
Everybody Knows “Bam Bam” (or do they): S534
Sex Ed: S533
Jobalicious: S554
Gay People’s Court: Fashion Beat Down: S542
My Life...My Wife...My Knife!: S544
Los Ojos del Alma: S543

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  Always My Son

  USA , 2009 , 16 min.
  Director: Vivian Kleiman
  Always My Son chronicles the transformation of Ed from a self-described “macho Mexican” to co-founder of his town’s first LGBT youth support group after his son came out. Text Voting Code: S604... more
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  Benji and Mitzi

  USA , 2009 , 7 min.
  Director: David Cohen
  In this colorful and bittersweet portrait of two outsiders, a mother and son find a moment of beauty amidst their sorrows. Text Voting Code: S535... more
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  Everybody Knows "Bam Bam" (or do they)

  USA , 2008 , 6 min.
  Director: Joe Ladisla
  A Galileo High School graduate comes out in Everybody Knows “Bam Bam” (or do they). Text Voting Code: S534... more
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  Gay People's Court: Fashion Beat Down

  USA , 2010 , 7 min.
  Director: Kevan Arrington , Mark Kliem , Brandin Lakee , David Lynam
  A comedic television parody about being summoned to the Gay People’s Court, for a crime involving a pair of pink suede high top shoes. Text Voting Code: S542... more
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  HIV: Hey, It‘s Viral

  USA , 2009 , 20 min.
  Director: Salome Chasnoff
  The voices of HIV positive urban youth encourage their peers to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS through safer sex. Text Voting Code: S616... more
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  Jobalicious

  USA , 2010 , 8 min.
  Director: Marla Bell , Andy Berlin , Leo Brown , Nathan Espinoza , Carlos Martinez
  An exploration of the goals and challenges facing local LGBTQ youth while in search of “THE” job in today’s world. Text Voting Code: S554... more
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  Los Ojos del Alma

  USA , 2010 , 7 min.
  Director: Ron "Moose" Casey , Henry Pan , Brian Reinhardt , Roger Schachtel
  An older gay man relives his past when he rescues a young gay man from a bashing in the San Francisco’s Mission. Text Voting Code: S543... more
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  My Life...My Wife...My Knife?

  USA , 2010 , 7 min.
  Director: Edward Lim , David MacFarlane , Michael Richards , Kristina Rudzinskaya
  On their fifth anniversary, a couple finds life-changing surprises in store for one another in this satire on social posturing and its potential consequences. Text Voting Code: S544... more
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  Sex Ed

  USA , 2010 , 6 min.
  Director: Ose Hosea , Sam Pollock , Anna Robinson , Jonny Rodriguez , Sky Zans
  Created as an empowerment tool by LYRIC’s Work It! Queer Youth Action Project, this video serves as a model of how queer sex issues can be covered in high school sex education classes. Text Voting Code: S533... more

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  FIT

  UK , 2009 , 108 min. Exploding with infectious energy, colorful characters and the importance of being true to one’s self, hugely entertaining narrative FIT focuses on the lives of six British teenagers struggling with sexual identity, repressed feelings and how to fit into “normal” society. Text Voting Code: F138... more
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  William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

  USA , 2009 , 90 min. This long-awaited documentary follows the life and times of Beat writer, literary outlaw, and ex-junkie William S. Burroughs. Combining never-before-seen footage and interviews with a countercultural who’s who, A Man Within is a revealing portrait of the man behind the icon. Text Voting Code: D332... more

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