HOMEGROWN: 30 Years of Queer Film in the PNW

Three decades of queer cinema. One night of remembrance, joy, and love.
As Three Dollar Bill Cinema celebrates its 30th anniversary, we invite you to a special event that honors the legacy, and future, of queer filmmaking in Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest. Homegrown is a cinematic mixtape and living archive, featuring nearly 40 locally made works: shorts, features, and documentaries crafted by queer filmmakers who call this region home.
These films span generations and genres, but they all share one thing: a voice that couldn’t come from anywhere else. Queer means something beautifully different here. It’s scrappy, tender, defiant, weird, wild, intersectional, and unmistakably local - and you’ll see it in every frame.
Part clip show, part historical documentary, part nostalgia trip, and part archaeological dig, this Homegrown screening unearths the untold stories, lost gems, and bold visions that helped shape our cinematic identity. It’s a chance to reflect on where we’ve been, to rediscover what’s been nearly forgotten, and to celebrate the artists - past and present - who continue to push us forward.
Come celebrate our roots, our resilience, and our radiant future.
(Special thanks to block editor Kris Boustedt & the Scarecrow local/queer video archive)
HOMEGROWN MOVIE TITLES:
Potato Dreams of America, Humpday, Crocodile Tears, Block Party, Straight: A Conversion Comedy, Gory Gory Hallelujah, Inlaws & Outlaws, Capitol Hill Web Series, Boy Culture, Cthulhu, Blood on the Flat Track, Brides to Be, A Wink and a Smile, For My Wife, Travel Queeries, Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!, I Saw U, Practical Things, Stories from 20 years, Zombies of Mass Destruction, Heart Breaks Open, Drag Becomes Him, The Glamour & the Squalor, Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel, Finding Kim, Torrey Pines, Yes I am: The Ric Weiland Story, The Jinkx & Dela Holiday Special, The Most Dangerous Year, Good Kisser, Vanishing Seattle: Queer the Land, Queens, The Chase