2:00 A Finished Life: The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour

Given six months to live, Gregg Gour, a 48-year-old man with HIV, packs up an RV and criss-crosses the country to bid farewell to his friends and family. As the camera follows him from Arizona to New Mexico, from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, we bear witness to his heartbreaking and often transformational story. As his health deteriorates, Gregg’s strength and conviction only grow stronger. A Finished Life is a powerful and unflinching documentary that deeply honors the conscious experience of dying, a person’s right to choose, the fragility of human relationships and the difficulty of letting go. (Dirs Michelle Boyaner, Barbara Green 2007 US 81 min)

Invited guests: Michelle Boyaner, director; Barbara Green, director.

4:15 Men’s Shorts -- A perfect package of men’s briefs!

Sponsored by William Otto, DVM, Carpinteria Veterinary Hospital

And The Award Goes To
A gay filmmaker’s dreams come true on that night of nights…
(Dir J.T. Tepnapa 2007 US 6 mins)

A Perfect Match
Homo-sock-shual handpuppet opera. 'Nuf said. (Dir Tom Diamond 2008 Canada 5 min min)

Even in my Dreams
Tom of Finland brings comfort to an older man still struggling with his sexuality. (Dir Flavio Alves 2008 US 8 min)

The Window
Three men discover the pleasure of showing the world what they're made of.
(Dir Philippe Gosselin, Ronald Regina 2008 US 6 min)

Daddy’s Big Girl
Millie attempts to finally reconcile with her estranged father, and discovers they might have more in common than she’d imagined. (Dir Reid Waterer 2008 US 17 min)
Invited Guest: Reid Waterer, director

Shattercane
A Nebraska son fights to keep his family farming tradition alive despite some rebellious feelings beginning to grow inside him (Dir Michael Tringe US 22 min)

Wrestling
You may think of “Brokeback Mountain” as two Icelandic wrestlers grapple with their love for each other. (Dir Grímur Hakonarson 2007 Iceland 20 min)

6:00 Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)

Sponsored by GLBA Santa Barbara

“I only care about music,” snaps Frau Traude Krüger (a pitch-perfect Monica Bleibtreu), the withered piano teacher at a women’s prison. Forced by Nazis to betray her dissident lover in order to preserve her own musical career, Traude has been imprisoned by remorse for decades. Jenny von Loeben (a true rebel) is a convicted killer whose explosive will ignites Traude’s longing to redeem and be redeemed. Though generations apart, together these two women seek a way out of their lockdown lives through an uneasy alliance built around music. It’s a battle of wills as Jenny pursues her own instinctual musical voice, while her teacher demands she adhere to proper classical form. As secrets are revealed, true intimacy grows beyond cynical manipulation. (Dir Chris Kraus 2006 Germany 112 min)
In German with English subtitles.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER - BEST FEATURE FILM Frameline and 21 other awards.

8:30 Were the World Mine

Sponsored by Jens Sorensen, Kyle Irwin, Kevin Kemper, Howard Hawkes, Henri Bristol, Daniel Emmett

A real GAY High School Musical! Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream serves as the basis for this truly fantastic and fantastical movie musical—a first for the Outrageous Film Festival. In an all-male academy, the drama coach recruits the rugby team to put on Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Soon, fairy dust plays havoc with everyone’s minds and the macho rugby players (and their homophobic coach, along with anyone else they come across) morph into dancing fairies decked out in go-go boy attire and burst into all kinds of romantic song. As the play’s characters frequently say, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” In Gustafson’s clever hands, that course takes some strange — and beautifully staged—turns. A perfect ending to our rebel-themed festival. (Dir Tom Gustafson 2008 US 95 min)

Preceded by: How Do I Say This? I'm Gay!
A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends. (Dir Michael Bodie, Silas Howard 2007 US 5 min)