Special Content screening tickets are $10 each and entitle you to FREE access to the Q-Me Con Lounge.
Saturday, April 15
Mix Tape PLAYroom Content Showcase
10am - 5pm
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The Q-Me Con 2006 Mix Tape Content Showcase features independently produced LGBTQ-themed and LGBTQ-targeted content, ranging from experimental shorts, queer music videos and interstitial programming, to excerpts from documentaries, sitcoms and other pilots for broadcast, web or alternative distribution.
Frameline Short Content Showcase
4:30 - 5:30pm
Theatre 2
Running Time: 60 minutes
Join us for a very special content showcase presentation of queer shorts by Frameline -- The official presenter of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
HI MAYA
By Claudia Lorenz
2004 Switzerland 12 min. color German w/ English Subtitles
In this charming short film, two elderly ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdressing salon one day. Maya recognizes Charlotte, and Charlotte recognizes Maya, but Maya pretends she doesn't know Charlotte. Their unexpected meeting reawakens memories of their youth together and their shared past, of which they are unsure they want to be reminded.
BIKINI
By Lasse Persson
2005 Sweden 7 min color
An animated musical, Bikini stars a young man, dolled up in his mother's yellow swim suit, who is afraid to come out of the changing room. With the encouragement of a pair of happy twins he emerges, but their lady friend would rather receive all the attention herself.
SURVIVING SABU
By Ian Iqbal Rashid
1997 UK 15 min. color English
Surviving Sabu is the story of the difficult relationship between a young gay South Asian man and his father, refracted through the images of the late film star Sabu of "Jungle Book" and "Elephant Boy".
KATYDID
by Scott Boswell
2004 USA 13 min. color English
In this short comedy, young Skye just wants to have a date for once without twin brother Leif getting in the way. When Leif manages to lure the girl away once again, Skye finally confronts his brother, and they learn that all is not as it appears when it comes to matters of the heart.
SOUTHERN FAMILY
by Keith Wilson
2002 USA 14 min. color English
A Christmas party at a Southern grandmother's home turns into an unexpected and tense coming-out story in this heart-warming documentary that spans several generations.
OUT tv Content Showcase
4:30 - 5:30pm
Theatre 2
Running Time: 60 minutes
Join us for a parade of fabulous programming from Canada's leading queer television outlet.
Sunday, April 16
Mix Tape PLAYroom Content Showcase
10am - 5pm
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The Q-Me Con 2006 Mix Tape Content Showcase features independently produced LGBTQ-themed and LGBTQ-targeted content, ranging from experimental shorts, queer music videos and interstitial programming, to excerpts from documentaries, sitcoms and other pilots for broadcast, web or alternative distribution.
MIX NYC LGBTQ Experimental Short Content Showcase
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Theatre 1
Running Time: 45 Minutes
The New York Experimental Film Festival, MIX NYC presents a cornicopia of queer, edgy experimental shorts.
A Girl Named Kai
By Kai Ling Xue
2004, Canada, 9 min.
A Taiwanese baby bull dyke negotiates family traditions, body modifications, first heartbreak, and disease in this defiantly optimistic collage of vibrant home movies.
IndelibleBy Charles Lum
2003, USA, 8 min.
In case you thought "Carrie" couldn't get any scarier.
Sodom on the Hudson
By Stephen Kent Jusick
2002, USA, 10 min.
Quick in-camera cutting of the NYC skyline shot from the East River leads to a more sober and stationary final reel when the topography changed forever.
TattuBy Terry Roethlein
1998, USA, 13 min.
Watch as these fey spirits take us by the hand and lead us down the primrose path of ecstasy and idolatry, in a time and a place light years away from the pale culture we now call queer.
Wads and Wads
By Kids on TV
2003, Canada, 5 min.
These Kids give cock rock a new-and-improved meaning.
