(SLGFF 2015) FRIDAY at the Fest!

It is Day 8 of the 20th Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (SLGFF):


Nasty Baby (directed by Sebastián Silva)
7:00 pm @ AMC Pacific Place

Like a delightful child, NASTY BABY reels you in with free-spirited laughter and a calm appearance. It isn’t until the climax that you realize this aptly named film has suddenly turned on you. From Chilean director Sebastián Silva comes this dark dramedy that not only stunned audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival but also took home the distinguished Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and the Best US Dramatic Feature award at Outfest 2015.

Freddy (played by Silva himself) and Mo (“Tunde” Adebimpe), a genial gay couple in Brooklyn, have been attempting to get pregnant with their best friend Polly (Kristen Wiig) who eagerly wants to have a baby. Each member of this “modern family” approaches the world in a different manner: Freddy has a silly sensibility that leads him to create a project in which he acts like a baby, Mo provides balance in the relationship and fills their apartment with plants, and lighthearted Polly becomes earnest when it matters most. Problems arise when a troubled neighbor known only as “The Bishop” puts them all at wit’s end and events soon spiral out of control

NASTY BABY pleases with an embracing handheld style and down-to-earth performances by the whole cast, especially Wiig. It also challenges with engaging paradoxes, juxtaposing infantile behavior with adult situations that send the viewer into an awkward yet illuminating state of observation.

Centerpiece Reception at Il Fornaio Atrium Café, 600 Pine St, 9:00PM



Raven's Touch (directed by Marina Rice Bader and Dreya Weber)
9:30 pm @ AMC Pacific Place


RAVEN’S TOUCH features two stars of lesbian film—sinewy Dreya Weber (A MARINE STORY, SLGFF 2010; THE GYMNAST, SLGFF 2006) and edgy Traci Dinwiddie (ELENA UNDONE, SLGFF 2010)— as women taking refuge from events in their lives and seeking peace and renewal in nature. Rae (Weber) has suffered a tragedy and is on the verge of an emotional breakdown; single mother Kate (Dinwiddie) takes her teenage kids to a childhood vacation spot, hoping to restore her family in the wake of a painful and violent breakup. The spectacular Angeles National Forest provides the backdrop as Rae and Kate, both fighting demons and desperate for connection and healing, unexpectedly cross paths and forge new beginnings.

Director Dreya Weber will be in attendance.

Hush Up Sweet Charlotte (directed by Billy Clift)
9:45 pm @ AMC Pacific Place

This natural follow-up to director Billy Clift’s critically acclaimed cult classic and parody BABY JANE? pays homage to the 1964 Bette Davis classic HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE. Matthew Martin (Baby Jane in BABY JANE?) expertly channels Davis’s Charlotte in this campy, horrific retelling. Charlotte, a reclusive Southern-belle spinster, accused of murdering her lover at a party years ago, is attended to only by her housekeeper Velma (John Waters’s muse Mink Stole). While defending her family’s historic plantation from destruction, Charlotte calls for help from her cousin Melanie (Jeffrey Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, SLGFF 2003), but her arrival sparks a chain of melodramatic events that send Charlotte into madness. Will Charlotte be able to keep her sanity and her home?

Director Billy Clift will be in attendance.

“The festival­­--which first launched with a sold-­out presentation of short films and a flyer that said ‘Queer as a Three Dollar Bill Cinema’­­--aspired to bring the worldwide boom in queer filmmaking to Seattle’s LGBT community, and help the community see itself on screen,” says Three Dollar Bill Cinema Executive Director Jason Plourde. “Our mission today is the same: to showcase extraordinary and award-winning work relevant to the LGBT community, and to encourage members of this community from around the world to express their creativity and tell their stories through film and video.”


The 2015 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is produced by Three Dollar Bill Cinema.

Festival Box Office with full program is now open at http://www.threedollarbillcinema.org/2015