2000 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Welcome from the Programming Committee The best thing about the year 2000 is that we get to start fresh...to see life in new ways...to push ourselves to understand even more about ourselves and all those around us, queer or not. We’ve had a beautiful experience of working with the Screening Committee and sharing our ideas with our colourful eyes. There are so many “Sparkles” in this year’s festival. Because we are a community-based festival, we sought out filmmakers who push boundaries and challenge the many concepts we have all held tightly at one time or another. From the directors right on our doorsteps we have the shorts program The Coast is Queer (formerly Code V/ Made in Vancouver), the English Bay infused Two Brothers, the fun and seriousness of Out and About and Easy, and the film noir nature of Casablanket. We find beautiful and poignant truths in the documentaries of Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 and Pieces of James: An Enquiry Into the Art and Life of James Manning. The meaning of queer is again redefined in Sexing the Label, the Trans Shorts Program, and Sexual Tourists:Going Bi Way. This ever-changing self concept includes religion and spirituality in Wicked, exposes the establishment in Punk as Fuck, and reaches out to other communities in Positively Queer Youth III, Mix Mexico, and Deaf Queer Program. We’re going to blow your socks off with Punks and Chutney Popcorn and keep you entranced till next year with If These Walls Could Talk 2 and Funny Felix. Come out, participate, and be...