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Armed with a magical love potion and empowered by dazzling musical fantasies, struggling teen Timothy (dreamy Tanner Cohen, As the World Turns) turns his narrow-minded town gay and captures Jonathon (buff Nathaniel David Becker), the rugby jock of his dreams.Also starring Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks), Broadway star Judy McLane (Mamma Mia), Zelda Willaims (House of D and daughter of Robin Williams), and Jill Larson (Opal on All My Children), Were the World Mine uses vibrant imagery, a first-rate cast, and innovative music to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation.Director/writer/producer Tom Gustafson brings us his feature directorial debut in Were The World Mine. This critically acclaimed, multi-award winning film about the truth of love was inspired by his award-winning musical short Fairies, which has screened in over 75 International film festivals. " It made my heart soar." - indieWIRE In Were the World Mine, the lovelorn lunacy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream spreads through an all-boys school and the town beyond when the gay boy playing Puck discovers a love potion just like that of the play. Timothy (Tanner Cohen) resists being cast as the fairy, but the mystical drama teacher Ms. Tebbit (Wendy Robie, Twin Peaks) persists because of his lovely singing voice. The words of Shakespeare seize upon Timothy’s mind and lead him to create a love potion--which he uses to capture the heart of the school’s star rugby player, but also to make everyone see the world through his eyes. Soon the rugby coach is pursuing the school principal, the principal’s wife swoons for Timothy’s mother, and the school jocks are prancing around like ballerinas. Were the World Mine is punctuated here and there with techno ballads and languorous, glittery fantasies, but it’s not exactly a musical--the songs are only vaguely woven into the story, and just when the action should accelerate everything turns a bit ponderous. Nonetheless there’s a great deal of charm (and half-dress...

Manufacturer: WATER BEARER FILMS Brand: Water Bearer Films Model: 14386398

A father and son test the binds of family From ground breaking gay Chinese film maker Cui Zi en (Feeding Boys, Ayaya, Star Appeal) comes a tender and touching tale about a father and son trying to reconcile their separate lives. Ray, a tall, thin and handsome young man returns to live with his father after having grown up with grandfather. He is angry and disconnected over his father s middle class life style and hard line ways. Ray enrolls in art school where he makes a new friends and starts a relationship with a another student. One morning, Dad discovers the two young men naked in bed and, after being surprised, must begin to understand his own feelings toward homosexuality. Then Ray meets Bo, one of his dad s top employees. From the start, sparks fly and Ray falls in love. But Bo is to be married, how will the two connect and what will Ray s father think? Brilliantly shot, this art house film shows gay life in China in a different light than ever before.

Manufacturer: WOLFE VIDEO Brand: Wolfe Video

The true story of Pedro Zamora.Celebrity. Activist. Icon.In 1994, Bunim/Murray Productions made the ground-breaking decision to cast openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban-American Pedro Zamora as part of MTV s The Real World: San Francisco. Zamora s time in The Real World house on Lombard Street brought a face to the AIDS crisis; and U.S. President Bill Clinton credited Zamora with personalizing and humanizing those with the disease. PEDRO celebrates the extraordinary life of Pedro Zamora; a young man who when he found out he was HIV positive at 17, made the courageous decision to dedicate the rest of his life to speaking out about his condition in an attempt to raise awareness about the disease in his community. His appearance on The Real World brought his story and his message to MTV s youthful audience and beyond; and when Zamora s health began to deteriorate in late 1994 (after he left the show), it became front page news nationwide, and his death at age 22 provoked a worldwide outpouring of grief. Stars Alex Loynaz and Justina Machado (Six Feet Under)3 Episodes of THE REAL WORLD SAN FRANCISCO, featuring Pedro Zamora. Also, main feature is CC

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Sex-charged journalist Brian (Matthew Leitch, star of the award-winning, Sundance hit "AKA") is chosen by an online publication to travel to Panama and document one of Latin America s premier festival celebrations Carnaval de Las Tablas. Dangers lurk for foreigners, and caught up in the carnival madness, Brian's outgoing manners suddenly place him in situations of both desperation and violence. Things are not what he expected when Brian sets out to meet his online hook-ups. A surprising relationship ensues and his fluid sexuality flows with a jagged edge in this tropical, rum soaked drama.

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Guy is trying to live a simple life during World War II. He lives in a small farmhouse outside a sleepy village in France. He has almost no friends, that is until one day when he stumbles across Rolf, an injured German soldier. Guy brings Rolf home and nurses him back to health. While convalescing, a relationship slowly builds between the two men. They frolic naked in the woods and swim in the stream. Thin, boyish Guy is a contrast to the blond, hard bodied Rolf. A passion stirs between to the two young men. Their lives intertwine, each happy to be sheltered, that is until the war asserts itself back into their lives.

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Frank Vitale pushes boundaries in this independent, controversial story from 1974 that exposes two different worlds: the low-rent bohemian areas of Boulevard Saint-Laurent and the middle-class suburbs of Montreal. Frank is a photographer living among the assorted outcasts, junkies, gay/bisexual friends and artists populating Montreal's Main street. Quieter and more introspective than most of his friends, Frank meets Johnny, a twelve-year-old kid looking to escape the boredom of the suburbs. For Frank, this new friendship both renews and confuses him. While for Johnny, it offers the freedom he craves so much. But this relationship is not without perils, and it will be tested, both from within and without. At times disquieting, Montreal Main is a cinéma vérité depiction of an offbeat generation, worlds apart from today. Digitally remastered through the Concordia University's School of Cinema & the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada -- Special Features: Commentary by Director Frank Vitale, Allan Moyle, Steve Lack & Johnny Sutherland, Commentary by queer film historian Prof. Thomas Waugh - Featurette: Remember the Main

Manufacturer: Breaking Glass Pictures, QC Cinema Brand: Breaking Glass Pictures, QC Cinema

SPECIAL FEATURES Behind the Scenes John Hurt as Quentin Crisp Featurette SYNOPSIS Giving possibly the best performance of his distinguished career, two-time Academy Award nominee John Hurt (Midnight Express, The Elephant Man) gives a bravura portrayal of British gay icon Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York, an exhilarating, funny and inspiring story focusing on Crisp s emigration to the United States the final years of his life. After the film version of his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant is released to great acclaim, author, artist and raconteur Crisp moves to New York City to star in a one-man off-Broadway show. What was supposed to be a month turns into decades as Crisp regales and captivates New York audiences with his wit and candor on a lifetime lived as an outsider. The film traces his theatrical successes, many friendships and controversies but always living life on his own terms. Featuring a renowned supporting cast including Tony Award-winning actors Denis O Hare (Milk), Swoosie Kurtz (And the Band Played On, Sisters ) and Cynthia Nixon ( Sex and the City ), An Englishman in New York gives stirring articulation to one of the most unique voices of the 20th century a life befitting the beautiful evocative title song by Sting.

Manufacturer: Embrem Entertainment

SPECIAL FEATURES The Full Musical "Adam & Steve-Just the way God Made 'em!" Including Deleted Scenes Commentary with Directors Casper Andreas, Fred M. Caruso, star Daniel Robinson and editor Alex Hammer Trailers The Making of The Big Gay Musical Featurette Optional English and Spanish Subtitles SYNOPSIS Starring in the Off-Broadway musical comedy, Adam & Steve - Just the way God made'em, aspiring actors Paul and Eddie find their complicated lives mirroring their onstage characters. Though rousing musical numbers that feature scantily clad tap-dancing angels, a clever retelling of Genesis, creepy televangelists, and a camp that attempts tot turn gay kids straight, eveyone realizes that life gets better once they accept who they really are: Just the way God made'em!

Manufacturer: Embrem Entertainment

SPECIAL FEATURES The Full Musical "Adam & Steve-Just the way God Made 'em!" Including Deleted Scenes Commentary with Directors Casper Andreas, Fred M. Caruso, star Daniel Robinson and editor Alex Hammer Trailers The Making of The Big Gay Musical Featurette Optional English and Spanish Subtitles SYNOPSIS Starring in the Off-Broadway musical comedy, Adam & Steve - Just the way God made'em, aspiring actors Paul and Eddie find their complicated lives mirroring their onstage characters. Though rousing musical numbers that feature scantily clad tap-dancing angels, a clever retelling of Genesis, creepy televangelists, and a camp that attempts tot turn gay kids straight, eveyone realizes that life gets better once they accept who they really are: Just the way God made'em!