A Film series focusing on LGBTQ+ stories, voices, issues and creators, in honor of PRIDE MONTH

PROGRAM AND TICKETS FOR 2024 will be announced in early May

See Below for Info on last year’s the 2023 edition

L’IMMENSITA

Saturday, June 10 @ 7:30pm

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Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L’immensita is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.

Followed by a discussion with Katie Perez, a clinician at the Island Counseling Center. Katie earned a Masters in Counseling at the California Institute of Integral Studies with a concentration in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and a licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts. Her primary focus is working with children, adolescents and families. Past pursuits and current passions include the healing arts and dance.

“Crialese intermingles the story’s heavier stuff with a lively sense of childlike wonder … Cruz delivers a powerful performance as the exceptionally kind but increasingly frayed Clara, but the standout is Giuliani.” – Pat Brown, Slant

“L’immensità Is a Trans Coming-of-Age Marvel From 1970s Italy. I have seen several trans coming-of-age films — few with this amount of specificity, nuance, and imagination.” – Drew Burnett Gregory, Autostraddle

“A love letter to its characters and their real-life counterparts, the film is, above all, a witness to the kind of expansive love and kinship that is formed in the margins but nonetheless expansive in its imaginings of the world.”
– Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times


PASSAGES

Wednesday, June 21 @ 7:30pm

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A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them begins a passionate affair with a younger woman.

Passages is a 2023 French romance drama film directed by Ira Sachs starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos. It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

“It’s sexy, sad and so very French” – Time Out

“It’s an extremely European film from the American director Ira Sachs, full of homages to classics of European cinema, and a portrait of a rascal and the helplessness of the human heart.” – Vox


BLUE JEAN

Wednesday, June 28 @ 7:30pm

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England, 1988. In a climate of rampant homophobia, PE teacher Jean is forced to live a double life. A respected member of staff during the week; on the weekend she slips into Newcastle’s gay scene. When a new student threatens to expose her, Jean is caught in a dilemma to protect her job and her integrity.

“Blue Jean is a non-judgmental tale of self-acceptance, intergenerational solidarity and sapphic power.” – Time Out

“It’s as persuasive as it is powerful.” – Observer


Spectrum was the brainchild of Bob Dutton, who sadly is no longer with us in person to enjoy these films, but his spirit is most definitely with us.

Bob was equal parts entertainer and educator, and both simultaneously. The entertainer in him would encourage us to soak in every element of these varied films – the cinematography, the rich settings – allowing ourselves to become immersed in their worlds – these characters, these stories. Then the educator in him would ask us lots of questions – which character did you most identify with? Which would you least want to be, and why? Could you imagine yourself in these situations and what would you do? Did any of your assumptions before the movie change after watching it?

That last question would be most important to him, as his goal for this series was Education through Entertainment. And we leave you with Bob’s favorite parting instruction – Be well, Do well…and enjoy the films.

Lovingly written by Molly Conole, his spouse


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