Queer Lounge

8:30 AM Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

A Very British Gangster

Director: Donal MacIntyre
(UK; 2006; 97 min.; color/b&w; Sony HD Cam)
World Cinema Documentary Competition/World Premiere
Celebrated undercover journalist Donal MacIntyre explores the intriguing and contradictory life of Dominic Noonan, considered one of Britain's biggest mob bosses, who also happens to be gay.

10:00 AM Main Screening Room, Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City

The Mallorys Go Black Market

Directors: JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees
(USA; 2007; 13 min.)
Opening night short
World Premiere
Three Big Apple fashionistas ship two suitcases worth of vintage clothing to fashion hungry Russian teens in a scheme to save them from fashionable ruin.
Precedes feature film Weirdsville

12:00 PM Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Protagonist

Director: Jessica Yu
Writer: Jessica Yu
(USA; 2006; 90 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
Documentary Competition/World Premiere
Filmmaker Jessica Yu (In the Realms of the Unreal) unites the seemingly unrelated lives of four very distinctive men, including a German terrorist, a bank robber, a martial arts student, and an "ex-gay" evangelist

2:30 PM Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Doorman

Director: Etienne Kallos
(USA; 2006; 17 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
A Latino doorman of a New York apartment building begins to unravel emotionally when he is seduced and then dumped by a privileged college kid who lives in the building.
Shown as part of Shorts Program II

Graceland

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
(Thailand; 2006; 17 min.; color; 35mm)
One night in Bangkok, Jon and a mysterious woman embark on a journey to a foreign land - the human heart.
Shown as part of Shorts Program II

3:15 PM Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

The Last Dining Table

Director: Gyeong-Tae Roh
Writer: Gyeong-Tae Roh
(South Korea; 2006; 91 min.; color/b&w; 35mm)
New Frontier/North American Premiere
A minimalist, surreal, ironic and poetic exploration film explores modern social problems including pollution and environmental concerns, and the collapse of "family values."

Ask the Insects

Director: Steve Reinke
(Canada; 2006; 20 Minutes; color; Sony HD Cam)
Part homemade science (before it became doctrine and law), part animated video reverie, Reinke's brief and episodic compression is an incendiary release which opens by announcing the death of the reader, and ends with the death of the author.
Precedes feature film Last Dining Table

4:00 PM Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Girl 27

Director: David Stenn
Writer: David Stenn
Cast: Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard, Laura Dern
(USA; 2006; 86 min.; color/b&w; Sony HD Cam)
Documentary Competition/World Premiere
Author and Hollywood multi-hyphenate David Stenn (The L Word) digs deep into Hollywood's seedy past to reveal the story of Patricia Douglas, an underage dancer raped at a stag party thrown by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Instead of heeding the studio's advice and stay silent, she went public and filed a landmark lawsuit. The resulting scandal and studio cover-up drove Douglas into hiding. Now, 65 years later, Patricia Douglas emerges to tell her story.

Scaredycat

Director: Andy Blubaugh
(USA; 2006; 13 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
This film examines the inevitable and justifiable fear the filmmaker experiences following a physical assault at the hands of five young men.
Precedes feature film Girl 27

6:15pm Eccles Theatre, Park City

Trade

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Writers: Jose Rivera, Peter Landesman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos Ceballos, Paulina Gaiton
(USA; 2006; 113 min.; color; 35mm)
Premiere Section/World Premiere
A young Mexican national and an American cop team up on a desperate mission to find two young women kidnapped and sold into sex slavery. From the director of Summer Storm.

6:30 PM Peery's Egyptian Theatre, Ogden

Year of the Dog

Director: Mike White
Writer: Mike White
Cast: Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard, Laura Dern
(USA: 2006; 98 min.; color; 35mm)
Premiere Section/World Premiere
A happy-go-lucky secretary's life changes in unexpected ways when her dog dies. From the screenwriter of Chuck and Buck.

6:45 PM Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC

For the Bible Tells Me So

Director: Daniel Karslake
Writers: Daniel Karslake, Nancy Kennedy
(USA; 2006; 95 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
Documentary Competition/World Premiere
Five conservative Christian families are at the center of director Daniel Karslake's exploration of the Religious Right's impact on gay rights through its own interpretation of Biblical teachings.

I Just Wanted to be Somebody

Director: Jay Rosenblatt
(USA; 2006; 10 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
Part document and part poem, this film brings us back to the late 1970s and reflects on Anita Bryant's life and the impact she had.
Precedes feature film For the Bible Tells Me So

8:30 PM Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

Freeheld

Director: Cynthia Wade
(USA; 2006; 40 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
In the last weeks of her life, Lieutenant Laurel Hester has one goal - to leave her hard-earned pension to her life partner Stacie.
Shown as part of Documentary Spotlight

To Whom It May Concern

Director: Mitch McCabe
(USA; 2006; 13 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
A photographer chronicles her life over five years of political events, comically interweaving protest footage with her photographic diary of self-portraits to tell a modern tale about art, change, hope, and futility.
Shown as part of Documentary Spotlight

9:00 PM Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

Make a Wish

Director: Cherien Dabis
(Palestinian Territories; 2006; 12 min.; color; 35mm)
A young Palestinian girl will do anything it takes to buy a birthday cake.
Precedes feature film Enemies of Happiness

9:00 PM Screening Room, Sundance Resort

The Nines

Director: John August
Writer: John August
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy, Elle Fanning
(USA; 2006; 102 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
Premiere Section/World Premiere
Acclaimed screenwriter John August's (Go, Big Fish) directorial debuts centers on a troubled actor, a television showrunner, and an acclaimed videogame designer who discover their lives are intertwined in unsettling ways.

9:00 PM Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Infinite Delay

Director: Kadet Kuhne
(USA; 2006; 9 min.; color; Sony HD Cam)
A restrained subject surrenders herself to a sublime state of waiting in a mysterious underwater world.
Precedes feature film Strange Culture

9:30 PM Gallery Screening Room, Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City

Red Without Blue

Directors: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills
Writers: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills
(USA; 2007; 74 min.)
World Premiere
Filmmaker Jessica Yu (In the Realms of the Unreal) unites the seemingly unrelated lives of four very distinctive men, including a German terrorist, a bank robber, a martial arts student, and an "ex-gay" evangelist

12:00 AM Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

How She Move

Directors: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Writers: Annmarie Morais
Cast: Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tracey Armstrong
(Canada; 2006; 98 min.; color; 35mm)
World Cinema Dramatic Competition/World Premiere
Following the tragic death of her sister, gifted student Raya is forced to leave her prestigious private school and return to her old neighborhood. Raya endures life at the local high school, and soon finds herself drawn back into a world she knows well—the world of Step dancing. From the director and writer of Touch of Pink.