Wednesday, September 3, 2008
8:15 - 10:00 pm
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About This Event
The contest is a nationwide competition where filmmaking teams composed of one filmmaker, one poet and a crew have 72 hours to write, shoot and edit a five minute short film inspired by original Black LGBTQ erotica poetry that promotes HIV/AIDS awareness/prevention. Featured film being premiered is Morty Diamond's Trans Entities. Q&A and entertainment to follow.
More About the Event-----
The intention of QBC's Just|BE: 2nd Annual Black LGBTQ Erotica Poetry & Film Competition is to create opportunities for Black LGBTQ filmmakers, artists and their allies to demonstrate their talent and increase the visibility of erotic films that promote HIV/AIDS and STI prevention. In 2007, Queer Black Cinema® exhibited LaJon Daniels’ soft-core film, Fluidity, to promote the socially-conscious and sexy venture akin to BET’s Rap-It-Up Competition. This year QBC introduces audiences to the newly acclaim genre of doc-porn with Morty Diamond’s Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi’ and Wil.
“I believe showing a person how to use a condom and dental dams are more effective then telling them to use it…Going to a sex shop with your partner can be a great date. With this screening, I hope that people get that safer-sex can be fun. I would like to see more couples get tested for HIV/AIDS and STI’s together”, states Angel L. Brown, Executive Producer of Queer Black Cinema.
Trans Entities, is a sexy, thought-provoking and above all touching portrait of a real loving, polyamorous couple who identify as Trans-Entities- a word they have coined to describe their gender identity. The cinéma vérité film allows the viewer to engagingly look into the uninhibited exploration of stigmatized topics that are particularly taboo in LGBTQ communities of color: polyamory, role-playing, BDSM and gender fluidity. Diamond and Trans Entities co-stars, Khane Morris and Ignacio Rivera, join the legacy of directors, performance artists and sex educators & workers such as Tristan Taormino, The Punany Poets, Annie Sprinkle, John Cameron Mitchell and Katherine Linton, director of HereTV’s Lesbian Sex & Sexuality Series; who use film and media to explore candid issues about sex and sexuality.
