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Reel Out Charlotte
Short Films

Annual LGBTQ Shorts Night

Presented by

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

PLEASE NOTE:
Short films are listed in the order in which they will screen on your paper Shorts Ballot.

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SEPARATE
Separate is a post-apocalyptic survival story. When the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter and dad flee their home, dodging citizen bounty-hunters, to find refuge in a gay-ballroom safe-house across the border.
Director: Kestrin Pantera
United States, 2021
Drama
Runtime: 05:55

ASSEMBLÉ
Isabel, a talented ballet dancer, struggles to prioritize her identity and her love for dance.
Director: Cristina Mariné
United States, 2022
Drama
Runtime: 06:07

THE BUTCH AND THE BABY DADDY     
Alex has wanted to have a baby almost as long as she can remember. But how is a trans/butch lesbian supposed to get sperm? When she considers asking Mateo, a close gay friend of hers, Alex is forced to investigate what she really values.
Directors: Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, Barb Taylor
Canada, 2022
Animation
Runtime: 06:11

POP-OFF
A nervous young gay man has an eye-popping first experience hosting a hookup.
Director: Rance Collins
United States, 2023
Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 06:30

MOTHER(S) & SON
A filmmaker captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in this short documentary. Consequently, she discovers her own fear and insecurity surrounding the adventures of parenthood– all while completing the adoption process for her non-biological son, as required by heteronormative and gender-restrictive North Carolina state law.
Directors: Kiersten Houser
United States, 2021
Documentary
Runtime: 09:43

BOUNDLESS
Come swim with us through the limitless pools of our trans and nonbinary spirits.
Director: David Chai
United States, 2022
Animation
Runtime: 09:37

ARE YOU SURE?
Transgender woman Sarah struggles to jump the same transition hurdle, again and again.
Director: Perette Barella
United States, 2023
Comedy
Runtime: 10:00

CHURCH CAMP
Josh, a gawky camp counselor who puts the bi in Bible Camp, teeters on the edge of coming out to the entire camp.
Director: Andrew D Bourne
United States, 2022
Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 13:42

DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS
A whack, irrelevant comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.
Director: Nyala Moon
United States, 2023
Comedy
Runtime: 14:00

MAVERICK THE MYSTIFYING ORACLE
Come one, come all to witness Maverick, the Mystifying Oracle! Err…Oracle in training. Waking up from one helluva morning after, no-nonsense Lindsay realizes that her mother has ordered a psychic for her birthday. Enter all-nonsense Maverick, Madame Lulu’s newest protégé who gives Lindsay a birthday surprise she’ll never forget…
Directors: Alex McFry, Alex Engel
United States, 2023
Comedy
Runtime: 15:00

FIRST TIME
After an intern goes out to dinner with his supervisor on the last day of his internship, things take a sharp turn as he gets pressured into his first sexual encounter with a man.
Director: Daniel Kahana
United States, 2022
Drama
Runtime: 18:16