DAMN THESE HEELS! CELEBRATES 10 YEARS WITH EXPANDED PROGRAMMING
AND AN AUDIENCE AWARD JULY 12-14
Salt Lake City, UT
– The Utah Film Center presents the 10th Anniversary of their Damn These Heels!
(DTH!) LGBT Film Festival at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W.
Broadway) the weekend of July 12-14. Recently recognized by IndieWire as one of
the 10 most notable LGBT Film Festivals in the U.S., the annual DTH! LGBT Film
Festival showcases the best
documentary and dramatic LGBT films from around the world. To celebrate DTH!’s 10th birthday, the
festival is offering an expanded program and introducing an audience award. More information about DTH!, including film
descriptions, the screening schedule, and how to buy tickets, is available
at damntheseheels.org or utahfilmcenter.org.
In celebration of
our 10th year, DTH!
features expanded programming with 21 feature films from 9 countries – more
than double the films at last year’s festival – and screenings in both the Jeanné
Wagner and the Black Box theatres . For the first time audience members will vote
for their favorite feature film via balloting after each screening. The winner
will be announced on Monday, July 15 and then screened during the DTH!
year-round slot on Thursday, July 18 at Brewvies Cinema Pub (677 S. 200 W.) at
7:00 PM. DTH! year-round screenings are free and open to the public (21+) and
occur every third Thursday at Brewvies at 7:00 PM.
Individual tickets
for DTH! LGBT Film Festival are $6 and can be purchased online
arttix.org. A limited number of 10 tickets passes will be offered for $30 and
include access to Opening Night celebrations. The pass is the only way to
secure your spot at the Opening Night screening and Gala Celebration. VIP
all-access packages are also available on line.
Below is the complete list of the 10th Annual Damn
These Heels! LGBT Film Festival titles:
ANIMALS
Directed by Marçal
Forés
Not rated | 94 min | 2012 | Spain
Catalan w/English subtitles
This thriller is a very unconventional coming-of-age tale and
an intoxicating blend of fantasy and cold reality as it follows a shy
teenager’s perilous period when exciting but troubling sexuality enters into
his formerly innocent world.
San Sebastian
International Film Festival 2012; BFI London Lesbian + Gay Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8k4zn6GHD8c
BALLROOM
RULES
Directed by Nickolas Bird + Eleanor Sharpe
Not rated | 77 min | 2012 | Australia/Germany
A
passionate group of Australian same-sex ballroom dancers battle homophobia,
injury and personal drama as they pursue their dream of competing at the Gay
Games in Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivoyFOZ1ck
BRUNO
AND EARLENE GO TO VEGAS
Directed by Simon Savory
Not rated | 97 min | 2013 | UK/USA/France
Earlene arrives at Venice Beach after running from a
desperate situation, only to become fast friends with an Australian skater who
is also lost. Together, they set out into the desert to find themselves.
https://vimeo.com/57780763
CHASTITY
BITES
Directed by John V. Knowles
Not rated | 95 min | 2013 | USA
In the early 1600's, Countess Elizabeth Bathory slaughtered
more than 600 young women, believing if she bathed in the blood of virgins that
she would stay young and beautiful forever. Still alive today, she's found a
perfect hunting ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoE2howJPk
CONTINENTAL
Directed by Malcolm Ingram
Not Rated | 95 min | 2013 | USA
The story
of Continental Baths, a well-known New York City establishment for gays during
the late '60 to 1974.
South by Southwest
Film Festival 2013; Frameline Film Festival 2013; BAMcinemaFest 2013
FIVE
DANCES
Directed by Alan Brown
Not rated | 83 min | 2013 | USA
FIVE DANCES is a creatively adventurous narrative feature
film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world.
Opening Night, Dance
On Camera – Film Society of Lincoln Center 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwpI3NzKeZc
FRAUENSEE (Women’s Lake)
Directed by Zoltan Paul
Not rated | 86 min | 2012 | Germany
German w/English subtitles
A middle-aged couple in the German countryside has
unexpected visitors that cause trouble in their already tenuous relationship.
Toronto InsideOut
Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 2012; Frameline San Francisco
International LGBT Film Festival 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO32CRL0iqA
FREE
FALL (Frier Fall)
Directed by Stephen Lacant
Not rated | 100 min | 2013 | Germany
German w/English subtitles
A
promising career with the police, a baby on the way – Marc's life seems to be
right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman, Kay.
Opening Night, New
Film! MOMA 2013; Berlin International Film Festival 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-hQkDIkyA
G.B.F. –
Opening Night
Directed by Darren Stein
Not rated | 92 min | 2013 | USA
What
happens after Tanner is outed by his classmates and becomes the title "gay
best friend" for three high school queen bees?
Tribeca Film Festival 2013; Frameline
Film Festival 2013; Closing Night – Outfest 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6DJSGrfNbk
GOEGRAPHY
CLUB
Directed by Gary Entin
PG-13 | 85 min | 2013 | USA
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying
sexual orientation form an after-school club as a discrete way to share their
feelings and experiences.
Toronto InsideOut
Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQb2-a685sw
GORE
VIDAL: United States of Amnesia
Directed by Nicholas D. Wrathall
Not rated | 83 min | 2013 | USA/Italy
This is an
unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has
already happened.
Tribeca Film Festival 2013 – Framline
Film Festival 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJlpvPhIPs
Tribeca Film
Festival 2013; Frameline Film Festival 2013
HOT GUYS
WITH GUNS
Directed by Doug Spearman
Not Rated | 103 min | USA | 2013
Imagine
Lethal Weapon if Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were ex-boyfriends.
Frameline Film Festival 2013
I AM A
WOMAN NOW
Directed by Michiel van Erp
Not rated | 80 min | 2011 | Netherlands
Dutch, German, French w/English subtitles
The first generation of transsexuals who had their sex change
in Casablanca back in the mid-1950s to 1960s take stock of their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYs3PFUD9s
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amaterdam
I AM
DIVINE
Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz
Not rated | 90 min | 2013 | USA
How Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead,
became John Waters' cinematic muse and an
international drag icon.
South by Southwest
Film Festival 2013; Frameline Film Festival 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiX5Llrb58
IN BLOOM
Directed by Chris Michael Birkmeier
Not rated | 87 min | 2013 | USA
The relationship of a young couple disintegrates in the
dog days of Chicago summer as the neighborhood is being terrorized by a serial
killer.
Toronto InsideOut
Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOH-JUP4k4Y
LAURENCE
ANYWAYS
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Not rated | 168 min | 2012 | Canada/France
French w/English subtitles
An
astonishingly crafted exploration of the 10-year relationship of a
male-to-female transsexual with her lover.
Opening Night, Un
Certain Regard; Winner, Best Actress; Winner, Queer Palm – Festival De Cannes
2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YjIWEky81M
MARGARITA
Directed by Dominique Cardona + Laurie Colbert
Not rated | 90 min | 2012 | USA
When cash-strapped yuppies fire their teen-aged daughter's
lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita, they set off a chain of events that lead to
her deportation.
PEACHES
DOES HERSELF
Directed by Peaches
Not rated | 80 min | 2012 | Germany
Peaches herself likes to describe it as “The Jukebox
Musical that got a Sex Change!”
Toronto
International Film Festival 2013, Sundance London 2013, BAMcinemaFest 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhNhrKNYvSo
THE
RUGBY PLAYER
Directed by Scott Gracheff
Not rated | 90 min | 2013 | USA
The film
explores the life of Mark Bingham, one of the passengers of United Flight 93 on
9/11.
Winner, HBO Audience
Award Best Documentary - Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2013
Toronto
InsideOut LGBT Film Festival 2013
SUBMERGE
Directed by Sophie O’Connor
Not rated | 97 min | 2013 | USA
A Gen Y
love story presented as a fetish sex drama, submerge explores the need of Gen Y
for constant stimulation and instant gratification underpinned by a sense of
entitlement.
Frameline Film Festival
2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCizTM7bnik
WHO’S
AFRAID OF VAGINA WOLF
Directed by Anna Margarita Albelo
Not rated | 83 min | 2013 | USA
The day after her fortieth birthday, Anna comes to the
conclusion that it’s time for the madness to stop. She lives in her friend’s
back yard tool shed, her career as a filmmaker isn’t paying her bills and worst
of all it’s been ten years since she’s had a girlfriend.
Frameline Film
Festival 2013
Damn These Heels! is the mountain wests only LGBT Film Festival and
year-round, initiative to serve the LGBT community and their friends. DTH! is a
leading organization that promotes LGBT equality by creating, sharing and
protecting LGBT stories on screen. DTH! builds community by connecting diverse
populations to discover, discuss and celebrate stories of LGBT lives and
culture. DTH! programs are
generously supported by the Weinholtz Family Foundation and the Dancing Llama
Foundation. Additional funding provide by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts +
Sciences and the B.W. Bastian Foundation. More details about all of our
upcoming events can be found at DamnTheseHeels.org,
Twitter @DamnTheseHeels and Facebook www.facebook.com/DamnTheseHeels
The Utah Film Center brings the world of film to local audiences
through free community screenings and discussions, outreach programs and
visiting artists and industry professionals. Emphasizing social content and
artistic excellence, we present the best documentary, independent and dramatic
cinema year-round. We collaborate with various organizations to promote a
diversity of ideas to provide forums for underrepresented groups and to develop
new audiences for film.
The Utah Film Center programs are generously supported
by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, Sorenson Legacy
Foundation, Weinholtz Family Foundation, Zions Bank, and Zoo, Arts & Parks.
More details about all of our upcoming events and membership can be found at
UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter
@UtahFilmCenter and Facebook
www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center
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CONTACT:
Levi Elder
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801.746.7000 / lelder@utahfilmcenter.org
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