Table of Contents Festival Schedule 2 Venues, Accessibility and Tickets 6 Staff and Board Listing 8 About Inside Out 9 Welcome Letters 14 Funders and Sponsors 20 Members and Donors 24 Galas and Special Presentations 30 Premieres 38 Episodic 52 Icons 62 Spotlight on Canada 74 International Showcase 84 Shorts 104 Industry and Special Events 122 Awards and Jury 124 Festival Lounge 126 Parties 130 Thank You 139 Film Index 140 Festival Schedule Festival Schedule 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm Opening Night Film: Rocketman Thurs. 7:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 30 May 23 Opening Night Film: Rocketman 7:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 30 Fri. Shorts: Top of the Billie and Emma Bit Special Presentation: Sell By May World 4:45pm | TBLB 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 41 9:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 34 24 1:00pm | TBLB 1 | 1 | p 85 p 114 Drag Kids Circus of Books Before You Know It 5:00pm | TBLB 2 | 6:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 63 9:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 40 p 74 Sat. Shorts: Give It Up or Gay Chorus Deep South Scream, Queen: My Good Kisser The Blonde One May Let Me Go 2:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 64 Nightmare on Elm 7:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 31 9:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 42 25 12:00pm | TBLB 1 | Street p 107 5:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 66 Dykes in the Shorts: Not Ready to Shorts: Wide EastSiders: Season 4 Zen in the Ice Rift Streets Make Nice Open Spaces 7:00pm | TBLB 2 | 9:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 99 12:15pm | TBLB 2 | 2:00pm | TBLB 2 | p 109 4:45pm | p 54 p 75 TBLB 2 | p 115 Sun. Queering the Script ANNE+ May 12:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 77 2:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 52 Cubby The Ground Beneath From Zero to I Love You 26 4:30pm | TBLB 1 | My Feet 9:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 43 p 88 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 44 Shorts: Daddy Lessons The Filth Solace The Garden Left Behind Shorts: There’s Your 12:00pm | TBLB 2 | 2:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 55 5:15pm | TBLB 2 | 7:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 90 Trouble p 106 p 95 9:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 112 Mon. Vision Portraits Saint Frances May 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 97 9:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 46 27 Fabiana Second Star on the Right A Dog Barking at the Moon 5:00pm | TBLB 2 | 7:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 47 9:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 38 p 89 Tues. Jack & Yaya José Tales of the City May 4:30pm | TBLB 1 | 6:45pm | TBLB 1 | p 92 9:00pm | TBLB 1 | 28 p 91 p 32 Shorts: Stories We Vita and Virginia Brief Story from the Tell 7:00pm | TBLB 2 | p 98 Green Planet 4:45pm | TBLB 2 | 9:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 79 p 86 Galas / Special Presentations / Industry / Special Events Premieres Icons Spotlight on Canada International Showcase Shorts Episodic 2 3 Festival Schedule Festival Schedule 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm Papi Chulo Halston Wed. 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 94 9:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 65 May 29 Shorts: Real and Vida Knives and Skin Spectacular 7:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 57 9:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 60 5:00pm | TBLB 2 | p 111 Thurs. Shorts: Local Heroes Adam May 6:45pm | TBLB 1 | p 78 9:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 39 30 Queer Coolie-tudes We are the Radical Shorts: Cowboy Take Me 4:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 76 Monarchs Away 7:00pm | TBLB 2 | p 67 9:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 105 Fri. Shorts: BOLD Catamaran You Don’t Nomi May 5:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 104 7:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 87 9:15pm | TBLB 1 | p 35 31 Being Impossible Shorts: Thrive Camp Chaos 5:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 84 7:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 113 9:45pm | TBLB 2 | p 53 Sat. Shorts: Ready to Run Memories of My Body Shorts: I Can Love Closing Gala: Late Night June 12:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 110 2:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 93 You Better 7:00pm | TBLB 1 | p 33 1 4:45pm | TBLB 1 | p 108 Shorts: You Can’t A Night at Switch n’ Transfinite Hurry Love Play 4:30pm | 12:15pm | TBLB 2 | p 116 2:30pm | TBLB 2 | p 62 TBLB 2 | p 96 Silence = Death Coming Out 12:30pm | TBLB 3 | 2:15pm | TBLB 3 | p 132 p 132 Sun. Westler Mixed Episodic Razor Best Of June 12:30pm | TBLB 3 | p 132 2:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 58 Tongue 6:30pm | TBLB 1 2 4:30pm | TBLB 1 | p 56 Ticket of No Return 2:30pm | TBLB 3 | p 132 Galas / Special Presentations / Industry / Special Events Premieres Icons Spotlight on Canada International Showcase Shorts Episodic 4 5 Venues, Accessibility and Tickets Venues, Accessibility and Tickets SIMCOE ST Regular Screenings Box Office Info QUEEN ST W JOHN ST Purchase your ticket WIDMER ST MEMBERS PUBLIC RICHMOND ST W packages, tickets and GENERAL STUDENT/ GENERAL STUDENT/ memberships through 2 SENIOR SENIOR our virtual box office at ADELAIDE ST W 1 Single $11 $9 $14 $10 insideout.ca! Tickets During the festival, visit the KING ST W BAY ST 4-Pack $38 $48 Inside Out Festival Box Office in the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 UNIVERSITY AVE 6-Pack $54 $74 King Street West. The box LOWER SIMCOE ST WELLINGTON ST W office opens each day of the 10-Pack $90 $126 festival, two hours before 20-Pack $180 $252 the first screening of the day. FRONT ST SPADINA AVE You can also visit our satellite Gala Screenings and box office at the STARZ Festival Lounge, located at BATHURST ST 3 Special Presentations the Artscape Sandbox BREMNER BLVD at 301 Adelaide Street West, MEMBERS PUBLIC each day of the festival ALL GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS from 10:00am - 7:00pm. Contact GARDINER EXPWY Film & Party $25 $32 [email protected] for QUEENS QUAY W Film Only $20 $25 ticketing assistance. Gala 4-Pack* $75 $96 OPENING NIGHT GALA Rush and Latecomers Policy Party Only $15 $15 All Inside Out screenings are subject to our Rush Policy. Festival Venues This Land Accessibility WOMEN’S GALA If a screening is sold out, we will release any unoccupied seats to 1 All of our venues are TIFF Bell Lightbox We wish to acknowledge this Party Only $12 $15 the Rush Line 15 minutes before 350 King Street West land on which the Inside Out wheelchair accessible. CLOSING NIGHT GALA the screening begins. As (at John Street) Toronto LGBT Film Festival such, we request that all advance • Cinemas – 2nd Floor is held. For thousands of years All of our venues welcome Party Only $8 $10 ticket holders arrive a • Malaparte – 6th Floor it has been the traditional land service animals and minimum of 15 minutes before of the Huron-Wendat, the CENTREPIECE GALA & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS guide dogs. the scheduled start time of Seneca, and most recently, the Party Only Included with film ticket their screening. Seating cannot 2 Starz Festival Lounge Mississaugas of the Credit River. Artscape Sandbox All foreign-language films be guaranteed for latecomers Today, this meeting place is still *Film and Party Tickets to Gala Screenings and Special Presentations who arrive after the scheduled 31 Widmer Street are screened in their the home to many Indigenous start time. All Inside Out single people from across Turtle Island original language with Adelaide Street West Special Events tickets sold are general admis- and we are grateful to have the English subtitles. sion and seating is first come, 3 The Rec Room opportunity to work on this land. first served. MEMBERS PUBLIC 255 Bremner Blvd. For youth (24 and under) and Warehouse Door seniors (65+), we offer free Awards Brunch $25 $30 All films are rated R unless Content tickets for weekday screenings otherwise stated. For more Subway stop that begin before 6pm. Local Heroes $8 $10 Advisories After Party information on ratings and Tickets cannot be reserved content warnings, visit For content advisories, visit our in advance and must be Red Carpet Included with film ticket insideout.ca website at insideout.ca picked up in person at TIFF Receptions Service charges are applied to Bell Lightbox on the day of all points of purchase: online, the screening, limit 1 ticket Official Ticketing Provider over the phone, and in person. per person, limited quanti- Fees are added to both Member ties available. and non-Member prices. Visit our website for a detailed For more information on breakdown of service fees. accessibility, visit insideout.ca 6 7 About Inside Out About Inside Out Inside Out 2019 Board, Committees & Staff Scott Ferguson Incoming Reps: Paula Forst, Tim Board Claire Jarvis Higgs, Sandra Hodnett, Michele Allia McLeod Jelley Chair: Jason Wagar Andrew Murphy (staff) Treasurer: Thomas Park Outgoing Reps: Eric Benson, Linda Nik Redman Secretary: Jo-Ann Chiam Lum Perry Voulgaris (VR) Sujata Berry Front of House Assistants: Lee Linda Chen Pre-Screener Committee Clapp, Natalia Lopez-Woodside Tania Cheng Rasheed Bailey Tech Rep: Paul Williams Harry Cherniak Syriah Bailey-Harding Ruby Bantock Finance Forum Producer Ashley Cooper Jan Nathanson Dave Singh Jacob Crepeault Adam Stewart Kristin Rankin Grant Writer and Reel Access Amy Talbert Celine Roustan Coordinator Scott Smart Steen Starr Erika Thoen Reel Access Working Group Committees Eloise Veber Steen Starr, Co-Project Manager Program Note Writers Michael McNeely, Co-Project About Inside Out Finance Committee Rachel Beattie Manager Chair: Thomas Park Allen Braude Kelsey Butt Inside Out is a not-for-profit registered charity that exists to challenge attitudes Nathan Heinrichs Jacob Crepeault Alicks Girowski Japneet Kaur Jenna Dufton Andrew Gurza and change lives through the promotion, production and exhibition of film by and Zak Miljanic Scott Ferguson Ken Harrower about LGBTQ persons of all sexual and gender identities, ages, races and abilities.