DisOrient 2022 Asian American Oregon

Shorts Program: LGBTQ+ Montage of Stories

Expired April 11, 2022 6:59 AM
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5 films in package
Midnight Rhythms
Rice Street
One Lift At A Time
A young transgender athlete navigates the challenges and gender politics of professional weightlifting.
Dog Story
Dog Story is about the violence of growing up within the gender binary. Quiet rebel, Jo, navigates her changing body and identity, and starts to assert herself in a world that wasn't made for her.
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Dragon Fruit
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A kaleidoscope of LGBTQ+ stories. Experimental, inspiring, searching, celebrating. From a Hmong community in Minneapolis to poetic storytelling in Portland, OR; from LGBTQ+ history, to modern day trans and non-binary realities.


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Midnight Rhythms: In this conceptual, poetic narrative, a young gay man struggles with his sexual identity and spirals into the world of drunken facades and midnight afterthoughts, questioning who he is and if he's willing to take the risk to be his truest self where others can see.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    16 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Oregon
  • Director
    Quincy Woo
  • Screenwriter
    Quincy Woo
  • Producer
    Avery Abigail
  • Cast
    Riku Toyohara, Nathanael Ayers
  • Cinematographer
    Peter Gregory
  • Editor
    Ty Cayatineto, Quincy Woo
  • Production Design
    Casey Hastings
  • Composer
    James Gameboy
  • Sound Design
    Matthew Johnson
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