
Here is a 95-minute collection of LGBTQIA+ shorts from around the world.
JESSE JAMES: "Jesse James" traces the moments between a neighbor's phone call and the arrival of the police, when Jesse and his lover test the boundaries of their relationship and come face to face not just with what they are losing but with what they have already lost -- when Jesse can no longer save his relationship but only himself.
COCOON LOVE: A teenager is sent back to stay with her grandparents in her hometown village. As she begins a budding friendship with a classmate, she is forced to confront her past and imagine a much different future.
ANOTHER XMAS DINNER: An Afro-Latino family is challenged with seeing the youngest son for the first time in four years since his sexual transition, and meeting her new husband for the first time on the evening of their family’s annual Christmas dinner.
LAS REINAS DE LOS CUENTOS: A Latinx drag queen activist couple in San Diego uses storytelling to educate and empower children, foster community, and spread a universal message of understanding and self-acceptance. Barbie Q and Raquel Ita inspire a love of reading while teaching deeper lessons of building an equally diverse and inclusive society. We learn of the queen's backgrounds, watch their performance, hear their aspirations for using the art of drag to enrich children's lives with reading, and enter into an imaginative world of story-time via an animated sequence.
ROADKILL: Tillie's lonely life as a roadkill removal worker is destabilized when Wanda, a lively stranger, comes to town.
THE UNSURE MASSEUR: A young man considering a career as a masseur learns the sacrifices required from an experienced massage therapist.
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
"Jesse James" traces the moments between a neighbor's phone call and the arrival of the police, when Jesse and his lover test the boundaries of their relationship and come face to face not just with what they are losing but with what they have already lost -- when Jesse can no longer save his relationship but only himself.
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QueerBee
Santa Fe Film Festival: Cinema Different
Vegas Cinefest International Film Festival
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
La Dolce Vita Cine Roma
Erie International Film Festival
Director Biography - Josef Steiff
Raised in rural Appalachia and a former licensed social worker, writer/filmmaker Josef Steiff creates work that reflects his interest in the ways that people struggle to make personal sense out of random, impersonal events. Exhibiting in the United States, Europe, and Asia, his film work includes directing the award-winning shorts Borders, Catching Fire, Indian Summer, Eclipse, and I Like My Boyfriend Drunk as well as the documentary, How Will I Tell? Surviving Sexual Assault. He has produced the short films Safe Word and The Quit (directed by Todd Lillethun) and served as general crew on Michael Moore’s Roger & Me and Wendy Weinberg’s Academy Award nominated documentary, Beyond Imagining. Steiff’s feature work includes writing/directing The Other One (winner of 4 Indie Awards). Steiff is a graduate of Ohio University School of Film and currently a Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago.
- Year2020
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorJosef Steiff
- ScreenwriterJosef Steiff
- ProducerJosef Steiff
- CastSpike Mayer, Joey Bicicchi, Santosha Chantal, Matthew Gold, Grace McPhillipsEddie Huchro,
- CinematographerGabriel Patay
- EditorMelissa Lawrenz
- MusicDylan Love & Catherine Nguyen






Here is a 95-minute collection of LGBTQIA+ shorts from around the world.
JESSE JAMES: "Jesse James" traces the moments between a neighbor's phone call and the arrival of the police, when Jesse and his lover test the boundaries of their relationship and come face to face not just with what they are losing but with what they have already lost -- when Jesse can no longer save his relationship but only himself.
COCOON LOVE: A teenager is sent back to stay with her grandparents in her hometown village. As she begins a budding friendship with a classmate, she is forced to confront her past and imagine a much different future.
ANOTHER XMAS DINNER: An Afro-Latino family is challenged with seeing the youngest son for the first time in four years since his sexual transition, and meeting her new husband for the first time on the evening of their family’s annual Christmas dinner.
LAS REINAS DE LOS CUENTOS: A Latinx drag queen activist couple in San Diego uses storytelling to educate and empower children, foster community, and spread a universal message of understanding and self-acceptance. Barbie Q and Raquel Ita inspire a love of reading while teaching deeper lessons of building an equally diverse and inclusive society. We learn of the queen's backgrounds, watch their performance, hear their aspirations for using the art of drag to enrich children's lives with reading, and enter into an imaginative world of story-time via an animated sequence.
ROADKILL: Tillie's lonely life as a roadkill removal worker is destabilized when Wanda, a lively stranger, comes to town.
THE UNSURE MASSEUR: A young man considering a career as a masseur learns the sacrifices required from an experienced massage therapist.
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
"Jesse James" traces the moments between a neighbor's phone call and the arrival of the police, when Jesse and his lover test the boundaries of their relationship and come face to face not just with what they are losing but with what they have already lost -- when Jesse can no longer save his relationship but only himself.
FACEBOOK: Click Here
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
QueerBee
Santa Fe Film Festival: Cinema Different
Vegas Cinefest International Film Festival
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
La Dolce Vita Cine Roma
Erie International Film Festival
Director Biography - Josef Steiff
Raised in rural Appalachia and a former licensed social worker, writer/filmmaker Josef Steiff creates work that reflects his interest in the ways that people struggle to make personal sense out of random, impersonal events. Exhibiting in the United States, Europe, and Asia, his film work includes directing the award-winning shorts Borders, Catching Fire, Indian Summer, Eclipse, and I Like My Boyfriend Drunk as well as the documentary, How Will I Tell? Surviving Sexual Assault. He has produced the short films Safe Word and The Quit (directed by Todd Lillethun) and served as general crew on Michael Moore’s Roger & Me and Wendy Weinberg’s Academy Award nominated documentary, Beyond Imagining. Steiff’s feature work includes writing/directing The Other One (winner of 4 Indie Awards). Steiff is a graduate of Ohio University School of Film and currently a Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago.
- Year2020
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorJosef Steiff
- ScreenwriterJosef Steiff
- ProducerJosef Steiff
- CastSpike Mayer, Joey Bicicchi, Santosha Chantal, Matthew Gold, Grace McPhillipsEddie Huchro,
- CinematographerGabriel Patay
- EditorMelissa Lawrenz
- MusicDylan Love & Catherine Nguyen