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Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Boy Shorts By Nevin Jefferson Frequent Traveler Patricia Bateira;2007 Portugal 8 minutes with subtitles. Frequent Traveler is a human comedy of errors that just keeps getting worser as the actions become hilarious. A man is at the Airport Security waiting to get checked through. A hot security guard is on duty with wand in hand. The traveler sets off the alarm of beeps and has a big grin on his face. The hot guard asks him to step to the side which he does all smiles and cooperation. The smiles become a frown when a ugly guard takes over for the hot one. But not for long, the traveler enjoys the frisking all over his body and up and down his legs. He looks at the object of his affection as he goes through the motions. He ends up getting stripped searched and has to bend over and assume the position for a cavity search all while smiling in the mirror where the hot guard is standing watching everything. After going through horrors of it all with a dog of a guard he's released. The hot guard apologizes for making the traveler miss his plane. The traveler stomps off in a huff. On hearing the alarm go off,the handsome guard looks over and sees that it's his friend all over again. If first you don't succeed.... Great Short that's very entertaining and humor at its funniest. Non-Love-Song Erik Gernand;2009 U.S .Of A. 8 minutes On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year-old best friends attempt to connect as adults, and for the first time in their lives share a "final" moment. In a digital world one kid still uses his Polaroid camera to take pictures of the beach and his best friend who he has it bad for. College is around the corner and the two won't see each other until Thanksgiving. In a world of voice messaging and CD's the smitten one tells his bud that he recorded a tape for him on his tape recorder. He wants him to listen to it while he's away at college then he ducks and dodges questions about it only to say that it's not a love song. Their moment is interrupted by two girls who're are friends with the two. His object of affection asks him to take a picture of him with the girls. The hurt look on his face says it all. He makes the moment by pulling the tape labeled Not A Love Song in his back pack. The End. In my Arts class we were asked to come up with a summary on what happened to the characters? My guess? After listening to the non love song he returns home and lays his friend on his back and stuffs him like a turkey on Thanksgiving Day. The Island Trevor Anderson;2008 Canada 5 minutes The premise of this film takes on the homophobic comment;

The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival By Nevin Jefferson Hollywood JeT'aime Production: Lightfoot Prods. Cast: Eric Debets, Chad Allen, Diarra Kilpatrick, Michael Airington, Jonathan Blanc, Scott Romstadt. Director-screenwriter: Jason Bushman Producer: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld Director of photography: Alison Kelly Production designer: Michael Fitzgerald Music: Timo Chen Costume designer: Kari Cassellius Editor: Phillip J. Bartell No MPAA rating, 95 minutes Devastated by a love affair gone to hell , Jerome (Eric Debets) journeys from Paris to Los Angeles over Christmas, longing for a change of scenery and dreaming of a career in the movies. The opening scenes in Paris are in Black and White. When Jerome hits Hollywood, the film changes to bright candy colors like the Wizard of Oz. Jerome checks into a seedy Hollywood hostel when he gets to L.A. Once in Hollywood, Jerome tries his best to enjoy the city, making endearing first-timer mistakes. He pisses of the cab driver and bartender by not tipping them. Later when he goes back to the bar the bartender rips him a new one for not tipping him. Jerome slides a quarter from his change to the bartender who get's totally pissed behind this. The bus ride to the beach takes all day and he finds that the beach is cold. While suffering at the beach Jerome hits it off with a gay pot dealer (Chad Allen), who drives him halfway home. A taco-stand tranny named Kaleesha (Diarra Kilpatrick) escorts him the rest of the way, introducing him to Norma Desire (Michael Airington), a "shabby chic" Silverlake drag queen who takes Jerome under her wing. One of the movie's jokes is that Jerome travels everywhere in car-crazed Los Angeles by bus. Somehow he survives. The drug dealer introduces Jerome to a commercial agent, who sends him out on a couple of interviews. The scenes showing the audition process are the comic highlights of the movie. One audition is for a dancer in a video where Jerome fumbles on hitting the mark and saying his name then giving a profile. When its time for him to dance he just stands there looking lost. The Pizza commercial audition has him walking down the street with his girlfriend then sitting down and eating pizza. He gets the job after imagining that the woman is Giles and gets into the role. Bushman's shrewd firsthand knowledge of the less glamorous side of the Hollywood merry-go-round gives a nice ride. Jerome also has a few romantic flirtations, including a sexually explicit encounter with a waiter he meets at a bath house. After finding it all in Hollywood Jerome leaves for Paris because he's still in love with Giles and returns to his apartment. The winning formula for this film is the characters ;the sad-eyed Frenchman who ends up surrounded by an exquisite cast of Hollywood