All films in this program are closed-captioned.
In the throes of early pandemic lockdown, the threat of closure looms large over San Francisco’s historic queer bars. As the caretakers of these spaces look after their deserted venues, phantoms of the past and future begin to bleed into the present. Shot on black and white 16mm film and incorporating digital footage from before the pandemic, Last Call weaves together observational, essayistic, and experimental modes along with archival footage to gesture towards storied legacies of queer resilience. https://www.drewdepinto.com/lastcall
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Drew de Pinto is a director and editor based in Queens. They are a recipient of the 2023 NewFest New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a graduate of the Documentary Film MFA at Stanford, and a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors. Their work has been recognized by The New Yorker, Film Independent, and the International Documentary Association.
As a teenager, Drew was drawn to film as a way to process feelings of gender dysphoria. Their work explores how documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking can build alternative frameworks for gender and other social structures that allow us to imagine better worlds.
All films in this program are closed-captioned.
In the throes of early pandemic lockdown, the threat of closure looms large over San Francisco’s historic queer bars. As the caretakers of these spaces look after their deserted venues, phantoms of the past and future begin to bleed into the present. Shot on black and white 16mm film and incorporating digital footage from before the pandemic, Last Call weaves together observational, essayistic, and experimental modes along with archival footage to gesture towards storied legacies of queer resilience. https://www.drewdepinto.com/lastcall
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Drew de Pinto is a director and editor based in Queens. They are a recipient of the 2023 NewFest New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a graduate of the Documentary Film MFA at Stanford, and a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors. Their work has been recognized by The New Yorker, Film Independent, and the International Documentary Association.
As a teenager, Drew was drawn to film as a way to process feelings of gender dysphoria. Their work explores how documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking can build alternative frameworks for gender and other social structures that allow us to imagine better worlds.