Friday November 12 at 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Hooked On Shorts
(Men’s shorts film program)

Go Go Reject (Heath Daniels USA, 2010, 20 min.) Wholesome Daniel Ferguson yearns to leave his job at Yogurt World and fulfill his childhood dream of becoming the Jennifer Beals of male go-go dancing.

Communication (Christopher Banks, New Zealand, 2010 19 min.) Jacob, a young Orthodox Jewish student, never expected to hear from his old university tutor Andrew ever again. Shocked to learn of Andrew's sudden death, and surprised to discover that he has inherited his entire estate, Jacob returns to Andrew's house looking for answers.

You Can't Curry Love ( Reid Waterer, USA, 2009, 23 min.) An East Indian from London travels to India for the first time for work, and finds both a country that's more than he ever imagined and a romance that's more than he's ever experienced.

Last Call (Nick Corporian, USA, 2010, 17.30 min.) A man enters a bar and meets a most unusual bartender who helps transport him to the past to relive his life with his ex-lover.

Friday, November 12 at 8:00 – 11:00

Opening Night Gala

presented by LIGALY

Walk the Pink Carpet at our lavish opening night gala in the cinema’s Sky Room, included in the ticket to Fishnet or Violet Tendencies. Entertainment by Fire Island’s piano singer Lydia Sabosto, mouth watering hors d'œuvre and more provided by the Thatched Cottage and hosted by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV. This is Long Island’s premier social event.

Friday, November 12th at 7:30 PM

Fishnet
(Brian Pelletier, USA, 2010, 85 min)

When two girlfriends and burlesque dancers accidentally get involved in a mob hit, they hit the road only to turn a small town upside down. In an effort to earn some money to return home the girls start a burlesque show at a local truck stop. The show becomes the hottest thing to hit Texas since Charlene Tilton on Dallas. This not only causes a big controversy in a little town but also sends the mob, the police, and the media after them . As the clothes come off the bullets fly. Director Brian Pelletier's will be in attendance with 25 Random Things I Did During My Big Fat Lesbian Depression, (Christine J. Russo, USA, 2009, 11 min) My Big Fat Lesbian Depression takes a comedic look at one lesbian's journey of recovery from an unreal break up. From eating excessive amounts of frozen yogurt, leaning on friends, to yoga in the desert to entering a twelve step program. 25 Random Things uses the framework of social media to poke fun at some of the crazy, yet personal things we do in life to get through our darkest moments in order to move on from the past and emerge into a lighter state of being.

Friday, November 12th at 9:30 PM

Violet Tendencies
(Casper Andreas, USA, 2010, 100 min )

with filmmaker Casper Andreas in attendance. She’s Manhattan’s most fabulous fruit fly! At 40, Violet (TV’s Facts of Life star Mindy Cohn) is the racy, fun-loving belle of the ball. She spends her nights as royalty, but when the party ends, she always heads home alone.  While her co-worker Riley struggles with his boyfriend Markus going baby-crazy, and her roommate Luke tackles monogo-mania, Violet’s romantic life is one big bellyflop. Realizing she’s at a certain age and still single, Violet is at a crossroads.  In the fast pace of high fashion PR where she works, Riley tells her to seek out a straight male version of herself -- the mythical fag stag. But glamorous guru Salome gives her other advice; To nab a man, she insists, Violet must abandon her gay boys.  When Violet arrives home from yet another disastrous date to find Luke has organized a gay sex party in her bedroom, she decides Salome may be right. In order to get a prized man of her own, Violet strikes out on a hilarious quest to change the woman she is. Chasing love and lust at all costs, she may find them in the most unlikely of places.

Friday, November 12 at 11:30 PM

Violet Tendencies After Party at Quetzalcoatl

in Huntington, free hors d'oeuvres and our own go go boy.