Announcing 2021/22 Completion Fund Recipients

Frameline announces six awardees of the Frameline Completion Fund: Flamingo Camp, Golden Delicious, Mineshaft, Playland, Code Switch, and Lucky Fish. 

The six projects — each receiving between $2,500 and $5,000 — were chosen out of 175 submissions that included feature films and shorts in documentary, narrative, experimental, and episodic forms.

Completion Jury was comprised of filmmakers, and industry professionals: StormMiguel Florez (The Whistle), Edward Gunawan (How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) and Frameline Alumnus), Andria Wilson (Director of ReFrame, an initiative of Sundance Institute and Women in Film).

FLAMINGO CAMP
Directed by Chris Coats | Documentary Feature | USA

Flamingo Camp chronicles a queer community on the fringe of society whose idyllic dream of a safe space is shattered when one of their own is brutally murdered.

GOLDEN DELICIOUS
Directed by Jason Karman | Narrative Feature | Canada

Golden Delicious is a modern coming of age drama about a Vancouver-based, Asian Canadian teen caught between his father’s dreams, his girlfriend’s expectations and his growing same-sex attraction. Despite infidelity, cyber-shaming, and homophobia from role models and peers, Jake realizes his sense of self while admitting to his self-sabotaging ways to those who love him the most.

MINESHAFT
Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz | Documentary Feature | USA

A serial killer is preying on gay men in 1970s New York … a crusading gay journalist is desperate to warn his readers … a famous Hollywood director is looking to make his next thriller. This is the true story behind the controversial film Cruising, which ignited furious protests by gay activists and yet is now considered a classic by many who once despised it. But few realize that behind the film lay a true crime far darker, more fascinating—and more revealing—than any Hollywood screenplay.

PLAYLAND
Directed by Georden West | Experimental Narrative Feature | USA

Playland is a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, narrative feature film following the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café. Highlighting the service-industry labor of the LGBTQ+ community and, specifically, the women who maintained queer space in Boston, the film centers around Lady, the bar’s leatherdyke owner, as she conjures the ghosts of the past in the midst of opening on a Friday night.

CODE SWITCH
Directed by Davis Alexander James & Micha Lyric Borneo | Narrative Short | USA

Code Switch follows a Black Nonbinary person throughout their day. Watch as they code switch from one environment to another.

LUCKY FISH
Directed by Emily May Jampel | Narrative Short | USA

Lucky Fish is a coming-of-age romance between two teenage girls who meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.

About the  Frameline Completion Fund:

Since 1990, Frameline has awarded $617,500 to 174 projects to help ensure LGBTQ+ film/video projects are completed and viewed by wider audiences. Other projects finished with assistance from the Frameline Completion Fund include: Dee Rees’ Pariah, Jeffrey Schwarz’s Vito, Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior, Cynthia Wade’s Oscar-winning Freeheld, David Weissman’s We Were Here, and Yen Tan’s 1985.

Submissions are accepted for documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, and episodic projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities. The Fund also seeks to bring new work to under-served audiences; with this in mind, we especially encourage applications by women, people of color, transgender people, intersex people, asexual people, non-binary people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities. See full list of past winners here.

The Frameline Completion Fund is supported by The Williams & Hart Rainbow Fund of Horizons Foundation.

About Frameline:

Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s integrated programs connect filmmakers and audiences in San Francisco and around the globe. Frameline provides critical funding for emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers, reaches hundreds of thousands with a collection of over 250 films distributed worldwide, inspires thousands of students in schools across the nation with free films and curricula through Youth in Motion, and creates an international stage for the world’s best LGBTQ+ film through the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival and additional year-round screenings and cinematic events.