FROM THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR

Inside Out Ottawa-Gatineau
Returns

Join us from November 20 to 22 for the third edition of the Inside Out Ottawa-Gatineau LGBT Film and Video Festival. The National Gallery of Canada will radiate in pink with vibrant queer cinema from around the world, under the theme of Love! Drama! Sex! Politics!

Opening Night will feature two gala screenings: the jaw-dropping comedy Drool, featuring Mullholland Drive's Laura Harring, and the international sensation Patrik, Age 1.5 from Sweden. But the fun doesn't stop there: Chef's Special from Spain is a gut-busting good time, An Englishman in New York is a star-studded celebration of a beloved queer icon and I Can't Think Straight proves that entertainment and politics can make good bedfellows. On closing night, we tip our hats (and raise a few glasses) to sexual diversity with Gender Bender at SAW Gallery, which will coincide with the closing of the exhibition of dyke powerhouse artist Allyson Mitchell.

Full programming now online: www.insideout.on.ca/ottawa09 Advance tickets available online or in person at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar)

LATEST NEWS

Coming Out to Inside Out
- A November Double Bill Event!

Inside Out celebrates its upcoming 20th Anniversary Festival by presenting the Toronto premiere of two of the hottest queer flicks from this summer’s festival circuit. Award-winning cinema and raunchy fun - don’t miss your only chance to see them on the big screen!

HANNAH FREE
Starring Sharon Gless

EATING OUT 3: ALL YOU CAN EAT
Featuring Lesley Jordan and Mink Stole

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17
Royal Ontario Museum Theatre (100 Queen’s Park Circle)
7:30 & 9:30PM
(BUY ONE FILM GET THE SECOND HALF PRICE!)

Single film: $10 Inside Out members, students & seniors, $12 general public
Double bill: $15 Inside Out members, students & seniors, $18 general public

HANNAH FREE (7:30PM)
Watch the Trailer

Hannah Free is an award-winning romantic drama about a decades-long affair between adventurous, butch lesbian Hannah (Queer As Folk’s Sharon Gless) and Rachel, a pristine, married homemaker. Together from childhood until they were seniors, their love proves sometimes a lifetime isn’t long enough to be with the person you love.

"Sharon Gless brings grit, authenticity and dimension to the title character. She commands the screen." - San Francisco Chronicle

EATING OUT 3: ALL YOU CAN EAT (9:30PM)
Watch the Trailer

When new boy in town Casey falls for the smoldering Zack, he enlists local slut Tiffani to help land his man. The pair create a fake online profile for Casey using pictures of Tiffani's studly stripper ex, Ryan to lure Zack in. Everything goes according to plan until the real Ryan shows up. What follows is a raunchy comedy of errors as Casey tries to hang onto the man of his dreams.

A fresh cast of hot (and ripped!) openly gay newcomers and a couple of franchise favourites are joined by gay icons Mink Stole and Leslie Jordan (Sordid Lives, Will and Grace).

Tickets available now:
To purchase online tickets click here
By Phone: 416.977.6847
In person: 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 219 (Mon-Fri 12-6PM)
Xtra!:491 Church St., Suite 200 (Mon-Fri 9AM-6PM)
AT the door if available the night of the screening beginning at 7PM.

2009 Inside Out Annual General Meeting

Inside Out members and the general public are invited to attend the 2009 Annual General Meeting of Inside Out.

Wednesday November 18, 2009, 6:30pm
Location: 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 (Trinity Square Video)

Agenda:

Please note, only current members of Inside Out are able to vote on agenda items.

1. Opening Comments from the Chair
2. Executive Director's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of the 2009 Audited Financial Statements
5. Election of the 2009/10 Board of Directors

Slate of nominees:
Gwen Bartleman
Nav Bhatia
Mitzi Reinsilber
Joel Rodrigues
Ab Velasco
David Vella

6. Amendment to the Inside Out bylaws
View the Amendment in a PDF format

In addition to the formal agenda, we will present a sneak peek of a short film from the upcoming 20th anniversary Festival in May 2010. Refreshments will also be served.

Please RSVP to winnie@insideout.ca by Tuesday November 17 if you plan to attend the AGM.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Inside Out is hiring for the following positions to work on The Legacy Video Project:

• Lead Facilitator
• Assistant Facilitator
• Video Editor
• Counselor/Community Developer/Art Therapist

In celebration of Inside Out's 20th Anniversary, the Legacy Video Project is a special edition of our Queer Youth Digital Video Project. This year we will choose 4 youth and 4 seniors who identify as LGBTTI2QQ to each make a short video (7 to 10 minutes each) for the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival.

Lead Facilitator and Assistant Facilitator
The Lead Facilitator (Download PDF) and Assistant Facilitator (Download PDF) work directly with the youth and senior participants, teaching the hands-on workshops and providing one-on-one mentorship and are also responsible for the coordination of all aspects of the project including administration, scheduling, developing workshop content and liaising with our technical partner Charles Street Video.

Video Editor
The Video Editor works with project facilitators to deliver editing workshops for project participants. Download PDF

Counselor/Community Developer/Art Therapist
The Counselor/Community Developer/Art Therapist will provide confidential individual counseling, group facilitation and promote and maintain a supportive and anti-oppressive environment for project participants. Download PDF

For complete details and job descriptions for all positions, click here.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

A multi-generational video mentorship program

In celebration of Inside Out's 20th Anniversary, the Legacy Video Project is a special edition of our Queer Youth Digital Video Project. This year we will choose 4 youth and 4 seniors who identify as LGBTTI2QQ to each make a short video (7 to 10 minutes each) for the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival.

The Project provides a unique opportunity to learn video production on high definition camera equipment by professional artists and editors, in a queer positive, supportive environment. Participants are guided through a series of workshops by Inside Out and Charles Street Video that teach all aspects of video production - from script development to camera operation to editing and final post-production. The completed videos are premiered at the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival in May.

Inside Out's 20th Anniversary theme:
Scenes from the past two decades: what the last 20 years mean to you

Examples:
• Capturing a memory/moment/significant event from the past 20 years
• Being 20 years-old / Celebrating a 20th anniversary
• History
• Gay icons
• 20 years of Inside Out

Eligibility Requirements:
• Applicants must be between the ages of 17 and 24 years old or 55 years or older
• Applicants must have little to no experience making films or videos
• Selected participants must be able to commit to 16 hours/week over 4 months starting in January 2010. This commitment includes approximately six weekend-long intensive workshops.

Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2009

For applications and guidelines click here

For more information please contact Winnie Luk, Manager of Operations at (416) 977-6847 or winnie@insideout.ca.

CO-PRESENTATIONS

Rendezvous with Madness

Inside Out Co-presents at Regent Park Film Festival

www.regentparkfilmfestival.com

REX VS. SINGH
Saturday, November 7, 2009
5:00pm
Nelson Mandela Public School,
440 Shuter St.
Part of the Unknown Histories Program
Free

Directed by: John Greyson, Richard Fung & Ali Kazimi
Co-Presented by Inside Out Filmmaker in attendance
Experimental • 29 min • Canada • 2008

This experimental video stages scenes from the 1915 trial of two Sikh mill-workers arrested by Vancouver police for sodomy. Told four ways - as period drama, as a documentary investigation, as an agit-prop musical and as a deconstruction of the actual court transcript, "Rex vs. Singh" is an exploration of the interplay between homophobia and racism in this little-known chapter of Canadian history.

Bio: John Greyson
John Greyson's films and videos include "Fig Trees" (2009), Best Documentary/Essay Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival, "Proteus" (2003), Best Actor at the Sithenghi Film Festival, "Lilies" (1996), Best Film Genie. He is a professor at York University and won the Bell Canada Video Art Award, 2007.

Bio: Richard Fung
Richard Fung is an award winning video artist and writer. His videos include "My Mother's Place" (1990), "Sea in the Blood" (2000), which have been screened widely across Canada, the United States, and around the world. He was awarded the Bell Canada Video Art Award in 2000. He teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Bio: Ali Kazimi
Ali Kazimi's films have received over thirty national and international awards including a Gemini and two Genie nominations. His work has been screened in dozens of festivals and broadcast on many networks. His films include "Runaway Grooms" (2005), "Continuous Journey" (2004), "Shooting Indians" (1998) and "Narmada: A Valley Rises" (1994). He teaches at York University.

Inside Out Co-presents at International Diaspora Film Festival

www.diasporafilmfest.com

Shelter Me
Director: Marco Simon Puccioni
Italy/France 2007

Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:00pm
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.
General public: $10
Students and Seniors: $8

Upon their return home from a North African vacation, Italian lesbian couple Anna and Mara discover that they've inadvertently smuggled home with them Anis, a Morrocan stowaway. Anna's nurturing and altruistic side refuses to abandon the youth, inviting him to live in their home and arranging a job for him as stockboy at her brother's shoe warehouse. The idyllic sense of family is short-lived. Anis struggles to comprehend the lifestyle and values embraced by Anna and Mara as the couple is compelled to deal with familial disapproval, factory cutbacks and the death of a family member. Emotional, sexual and socio-economic tensions mount between the three characters, ultimately upsetting the balance in each of their lives.

Delving into issues raised by immigration, adolescence, sexual orientation, and financial security, Shelter Me locates the sources of solace we all seek.

Nominations and Awards:
Winner, Best Actress: Antonia Liskova, Annecy Italian Film Festival 2007
Winner, Grand Prize, Annecy Italian Film Festival 2007
Winner, Best Actress: Maria de Medeiros, Antonia Liskova, Lecce Festival of European Cinema 2007
Winner, European Silver Ribbon, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2008
Nominated, David Award for Best Actress: Antonia Liskova, David di Donatello Awards 2008

Inside Out co-presents at
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

www.reelasian.com

Fruit Fly
by H.P. Mendoza
USA, 2009, 94 min, English & Tagalog with English subtitles
Director in Attendance!

Thursday, November 12
at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Ave.) at 7:30pm
Tickets: Inside Out members $10/ Regular $12

The team that brought you the surprise indie hit Colma: The Musical (Reel Asian and Inside Out, 2006) has returned with another raucous and raunchy musical, Fruit Fly. In this go-round, Colma's naive teen angst has given way to 20s malaise—that dark, moody place where life has seemingly left you with nothing but lovers you hate, friends you hardly know and text messages you don't remember sending. Fruit Fly follows Bethesda, a Filipino adoptee and performance artist who moves to San Francisco to workshop and perform her show about the search for her birth parents. She finds herself moving into a commune of transient artists who help her navigate the art scene of her new home and quickly anoint her the unwanted label of "fag hag."

Writer/director H.P. Mendoza (who also wrote and starred in Colma) has penned an epic 19-song soundtrack of pandemically catchy synth-pop/electro/house/showtune numbers that take us along Bethesda's adventures through San Francisco's public transit, gay clubs, fringe theatres and morning-after regrets. Songs like "Fag Hag," "We Are the Hag" and "We Have So Much in Common" are sure to bring the house down and make a censor's ears bleed!

AROUND TOWN
Third Annual CLGA Fowl Supper

November 14, 2009
St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto
Doors Open at 5:30
Tickets are $50.00. Advance tickets only.


The Event
Returning for a third year in Toronto the Fowl Supper is a casual and accessible community event, to be held at St. Lawrence Hall. The evening will feature a traditional fowl supper with all the trimmings (vegetarians, don't despair, we have something for everyone!), great entertainment, "best dressed of the west" contest, surprise guests, a cash bar, a silent auction, dancing and, most important, an opportunity to interact and socialize. Host Deb Pearce of Proud FM.


The Need
Now that the CLGA has completed the renovation of its permanent home at 34 Isabella Street, the Archives is planning future public programming. Meanwhile, our operating costs have more than doubled and the collection continues to expand at an even greater rate. We need your help to keep our stories alive. It's so easy to forget a quiet archive, but we are all vital to the community, and we need your support as much as ever.

For more information about the CLGA, please visit our website at www.clga.ca.

To learn more about the event, or to find out how to get tickets, contact Jennifer Coffey, event co-chair, directly at jacoffey@rogers.com.