Program 1: Locally Brewed

Hayden, a young trans suicide hotline operator, is excited to celebrate their anniversary after their shift. However, their boss calls and forces them to work throughout the night. As the shift goes on Hayden begins to receive unsettling calls.

Become golden as trans-vaquero Oliver Gold (Che Ortiga) sings his way through heartbreak and queer revelations of self worth in the instant country hit: Fool’s Gold by the time traveling boyband: Turnback Boyz!

Roberto Fatal [they/them/ellos] is a filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Genízaro, and Spanish ancestors and Mexican-American culture. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi films they make. Their debut feature script, ELECTRIC HOMIES, was on the 2022 GLAAD/Blacklist for best unproduced scripts list and in 2024 the script won an SF Film Rainin grant as well as a development grant from the Sundance Film Institute Indigenous Film Lab.

Pregnancy-phobic Kora (they/them) does everything to be a good friend, including in supporting their roommate, Diana (she/her), through her challenges in trying to become pregnant. When Kora receives a generous check and thank you note for an egg donation from a mysterious fertility clinic called Fertile Crescent, Diana helps Kora investigate – except Diana doesn’t return. Kora is forced to enter Fertile Crescent alone, and is ensnared by a motherhood-enforcing society that only sees Kora for their idealized healthy body. With Kora’s eggs harvested and no exit in sight, Kora is forced to confront their fears around femininity and fertility.

Danced upon cracked earth under wind-blown skies, TOWARD is a short dance film by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey that uplifts how we can lean into and move toward that which we most desire. Performed by Sean Dorsey and Raúl Torres-Bonilla.

Seven years after moving from Brazil to California to pursue his love of music, and four years after starting testosterone, Jaime Jobim searches for his new voice.

A surrealist mystery film. A trans woman is trying to outrun dangerous forces from her past. The question is: will she make it? Stay tuned.

Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance-centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through documentary, dance, visual narrative, and performance.