Dancing in Tomorrow Land

Director: Jakob Roston

2024 • USA • 16 min. • English

In this fantasia of a 1980s gay rights theme park documentary an unsung teen activist fights to overturn Disneyland’s ban on same-sex dancing.

Plenum

Director: Charlene A. Carruthers

2025 • USA • 26 min. • English

An experimental reconstruction of the 1995 Black Nations?/Queer Nations? Conference, PLENUM follows the experience of siblings Ajani and Tracy, as they make their way from Chicago to New York City. While Tracy is worried that Ajani’s recent HIV positive diagnosis will drive him into isolation, Ajani fears the consequences of telling their father as he enters a new community and phase of life.

Trigger Warning: Discussions of racism and homophobia, death related to AIDS epidemic.

Silence=death

Director: Trace Pope

2025 • USA • 16 min. • English

On May 21, 1990, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) storms the DC campus of the National Institutes of Health to protest the lack of available drugs to treat AIDS. From his office, Dr. Anthony Fauci watches as the activists march around his building, chanting and shouting for his resignation. Meanwhile, a young gay filmmaker captures the events of the protest while attempting to deliver an important package to Fauci. As tensions rise and the demonstrations threaten to upend the scientists’ work, Dr. Fauci is forced to reckon with his power and privilege.

Trigger Warning: Discussions of homophobia, and death related to AIDS epidemic.

The Last Story on Earth

Director: Aaron Immediato

2024 • USA • 18 min. • English

Facing angry protesters, a determined drag queen does her best to finish a fairy tale reading at the local library. But when an alien invasion upends Earth’s existence, the queen encounters new challenges that carry terrifying outcomes for humanity. Trapped within the library, her storytelling skills are suddenly put to extraordinary tests, jeopardizing the lives of the last humans on Earth — the families who’ve cherished her stories and the protesters who’ve scorned them. Ultimately, it is the supreme power of imagination that holds the key to both the queen’s survival and the invaders’ domination.