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Yaniv Dabach
  With You!
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 68 min)

With You! follows New York City’s first gay rugby club, the Gotham Knights, as its coaches and players strive to prove to themselves and to their more established opponents that they have what it takes to become a real team. For some player  More»
Keith Dando
  Spaceboy
[Short] (UK, 2005, 7 min)

A boy wonders if his dreams have come true when an astronaut crash-lands in the woods near his home.  More»
Luiz de Barros
  Two Moms: A Family Portrait
[Mid-Length] (South Africa, 2004, 48 min)

An intimate portrait of an extraordinary lesbian couple and their two charming adopted children, Two Moms reveals the human faces of a family that waged a long legal battle to forever change the adoptive rights of LGBT people in South Africa.  More»
Heather de Michele
  Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama Goes to Sweden!
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 79 min)

In December 2004, popular New York City based comedy troupe Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! performed a three-city tour of Sweden, showcasing their trademark sketch/variety act inspired by the immensely popular lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s and 60s. Delightfully  More»
Katrina del Mar
  Surf Gang
[Short] (USA, 2006, 24 min)

A gang of urban surf girls leaves their turf to kick-ass in the luxurious Hamptons.  More»
Benedicte Delgehier
  Odile
[Short] (France, 2005, 10 min)

An encounter between a bakery clerk, and a red haired biker.  More»
David Deri
  Say Amen!
[Mid-Length] (Israel, 2005, 65 min)

Say Amen! is a warm portrait of the filmmaker and his very large and close-knit Moroccan-Israeli family – whose biggest concern, it seems, is why he, the youngest of ten children, is the only one who has not married. As the pressure mounts  More»
Damion Dietz
  Love Life
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 72 min)

Joe, a closeted ex-professional baseball player, and Mary, from a well-off family and with a same-sex relationship background of her own, have been in a marriage of convenience for over a year. Though they have an understanding when it comes to Joe’  More»
Paul Dinello
  Strangers With Candy (Opening Night Gala)
[Feature] (USA, 2004, 90 min)

This eagerly awaited comedy serves as a perfect kick off NewFest 2006 – bringing all of the humor and intelligence of the critically acclaimed television series to the big screen. And for any unfortunate souls who haven’t seen the show – don’t fear, this  More»
Nokuthula Dlhadlha
  Possessed by Demons
[Short] (South Africa, 2004, 5 min)

A personal account of a congregation's response to a lesbian in their midst.  More»
Sekiya Dorsett
  Wisdom and Understanding
[Short] (Bahamas, 2004, 7 min)

A young woman struggles for self-acceptance and love against an unforgiving world.  More»
Todd Downing
  The Underminer
[Short] (USA, 2005, 6 min)

The best friend who casually destroys your life.  More»
Joyce Draganosky
  The Science of Love
[Short] (USA, 2005, 14 min)

The mind has a heart of its own.  More»
Jan Dunn
  Gypo
[Feature] (UK, 2005, 98 min)

Gypo, the first UK film to receive Dogme95 certification, is the story of a middle-aged British working-class couple, Helen and Paul, whose lives are changed when Tasha, a young Roma Czech refugee enters their lives. Intriguingly told from three  More»
Chris Dupuis
  boy meets boy
[Short] (Canada, 2004, 8 min)

A young man’s one-night stand takes an unexpected turn.  More»
P David Ebersole
  Hot Chicks
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 100 min)

Hot Chicks is a unique omnibus collaboration that adapts several of the widely-read palm-sized religious comicbook tracts that have been published by Jack T Chick since 1958. Over 400 million copies of Chick’s easy-to-read work have been di  More»
Chiedu Egbuniwe
  Squeeze Play
[Short] (USA, 2004, 14 min)

Dyke drama overwhelms a touch football game.  More»
Dylan Ellison
  Gay
[Short] (USA, 2005, 10 min)

A day in the life of a gay teenager through the perspective of both gay and straight teenagers.  More»
Elaine Epstein
  Gender Rebel
[Mid-Length] (USA, 2006, 45 min)

Expertly exploring the latest frontier of gender identity, Gender Rebel profiles three young biological females who identify as genderqueer – neither male nor female, but something in-between. These articulate subjects navigate the unexplor  More»
Jeff Erbach
  Around Sanford
[Short] (Canada, 2005, 10 min)

In a small prairie farm community, homophobia literally manifests as a personal demon…  More»
Fernando Lopez Escriva
  Hotel Gondolin
[Mid-Length] (Argentina, 2005, 52 min)

A portrait of a unique building that is collaboratively run by MTF sex workers as a haven from the dangerous life of the streets, Hotel Gondolin shows the power of grassroots activism to enact real change against discrimination and violence aga  More»
Lizette Vila Espina
  Sexualidad
[Short] (Cuba, 2004, 30 min)

A profile of participants in Cuba’s first safe sex education course designed for transgendered women.  More»
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