Queens of Stonewall

Director: Jean Sonderand, Nick Tyson

2025 • USA • 20 min. • English

This film chronicles the lives of Simone and her fellow LGBTQIA community members in NYC, spanning decades of adversity and resilience. Survivors of the AIDS epidemic and enduring transphobia, they navigate life as women, performers, drag queens, and dancers. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts city life, Simone starts putting on outdoor drag performances at the Stonewall National Monument. Their story, both remarkable and humbling, reflects a universal desire to live authentically despite adversity.

We are not Unicorns

Director: Valentina Quintero

2026 • USA • 14 min. • English

Five queer woman, tied together by the only open lesbian bar above New York City, show the outside world what a lesbian space looks like and how it can change your life.

From Illinois, with Love

Director: Talia Sprague

2025 • USA • 27 min. • English

During the Spring of 2025, as queer communities face attacks under the second Trump Administration, various queer communities carve out their own space in Central Illinois. From a local drag show in Champaign-Urbana, a pair of drag queens in Bloomington, a queer musician in Peoria to the founders of a High School Gay Straight Alliance in Tuscola, hear how their struggles have shaped what community looks like under the political climate of the 2020’s.