16th Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Under Way

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Submitted by Ryan on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 2:34am

Think you have to wait for Translations Film Festival to see some quality films about Trans characters? Think again. For It is time for the 16th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Ingersoll is proud to co-sponsor the darling of Sundance Gun Hill Road directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green and starring Esai Morales and Harmony Santana. And not only do we have a touching story about a young woman coming out as Trans, Harmony began her own transition on the set during the making of the movie in a classic case of Life Imitating Art. 

"When Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home after a three-year prison sentence, he finds his family transformed. His wife is hiding an affair, and his teenage son, Michael, has become Vanessa (poignantly played by Harmony Santana, who was undergoing her own gender transition during the filming). Can Enrique find the strength to accept his son for who he has become, or will he cling to his conceptions of masculinity and revert to the patterns of his criminal past? Despite its brutality, this Sundance favorite is a touching story of acceptance in the tough, unforgiving world of the Bronx." - SLGFF

Get your tickets now before they run out!