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Homegrown

The Bay Area is known for many things, not the least of which being a proud and vibrant filmmaking community. These queer homegrown shorts touch on every area of Bay Area life, including coming of age in a gentrifying Oakland, caring for partners in their final moments, and creating safe spaces for all. This mix of fiction and doc films highlights the best in the Bay today.

Short films showing in this program:

Aye, Boy

19 mins

In this coming-of-age story inspired by true events, Mads, an exuberant tomboy in the 1990s, struggles to balance relationships with friends, family, and her own sexuality.

Carving Space

16 mins

Unity Skateboarding, founded by Jeffrey Cheung and his partner Gabriel Ramirez in Oakland, seeks to create a safe space and visibility for queer skateboarders within the hetero-masculine mainstream skateboarding culture.

Eleven Weeks

14 mins

Carla Jean Johnson accepts her fast and aggressive cancer diagnosis with clarity and grace while photographer Anna Kuperberg, her long-time wife, documents their final days and weeks together.

I’ll Cry Tomorrow

5 mins

Pieced together through self-shot found footage (which the director found under his bed), I’ll Cry Tomorrow is a personal poem about being 21 in San Francisco in 1986 during the AIDS pandemic.

That Was Ray

18 mins

That Was Ray chronicles the life of Reverend Raymond “Ray” Broshears, who was at the forefront of the San Francisco gay rights movement in the late 1960s-to-mid-70s.

When I Write It

14 mins

Two Oakland teens explore what it means to be young, Black, and committed to making art in their rapidly changing city.

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Running Time
85 mins
Section
Documentary, Shorts Programs
Program Note Writer
Dominique Oneil
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