2019 Delaware LGBTQ+ CINE-brations runs through April 7 at Cinema Art Theater
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is proud to present the 2019 Delaware LGBTQ+ CINE-brations in partnership with CAMP Rehoboth. Films will be presented through Sunday, April 7, at the Cinema Art Theater.
• “Snapshots” will be viewed Friday, April 5, at 4 p.m. It is hosted by Mona Schwartz, Sharon Miken and David Stabile, CINE-brations committee members.
Living alone in her lake home of 50 years, Rose is flooded by memories after a weekend visit by her daughter and granddaughter, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds her of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise. “Snapshots” is a film about hidden truths and the joy that can be found when one finally shine a light on them.
• “A Million Happy Nows” will be viewed Friday, April 5, at 7 p.m., hosted by PFLAG. “A Million Happy Nows” wrestles with a difficult subject that provides the viewer with smiles, comfort and hope.
It chronicles Lainey and Eva’s changing relationship as they struggle to deal with the diagnosis of Lainey’s Early Onset Alzheimer’s. Together they face down the prospect of an indomitable woman’s future of dependence on her single support system - the woman who was once in awe of her, became everything to her, and will now look after her.
• “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” will be viewed Saturday, April 6, at 4 p.m., hosted by Jim Lesko, Keith Zembower, Jan Cooper and Michael Cockey.
From writer/director Desiree Akhavan and based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Rev. Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) - himself an example of how those in the program can be “cured” - the center is built upon repenting for “same sex attraction.” In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Forrest Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.
• “Tucked” will be viewed Saturday, April 6, at 7 p.m., hosted by Chris Beagle, Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices-Gallo Realty. When veteran drag queen Jackie Collins receives a diagnosis with six weeks to live, all he wants to do is perform his long-running act, and behave as if all is normal. But between a surprising new friendship with a rising young queen and unfinished business with his estranged daughter, he may just have the most eventful month and a half of his life.
A feel-good film with charm and humor as well as surprising insight into a evolving understanding of gender identity across generations, this marks the first queer film from prolific young British director Jamie Patterson.
• “The Lavender Scare” will be viewed Sunday, April 7, at 1 p.m., hosted by Lenny Stumpf and John B. Pitchford. The Lavender Scare” is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual. In 1953, President Eisenhower declared gay men and lesbians to be a threat to the security of the country and therefore unfit for government service.
In doing so, he triggered the longest witch-hunt in American history. Over the next four decades, tens of thousands of government workers would lose their jobs for no reason other than their sexual orientation. But the actions of the government had an unintended effect. They inadvertently helped ignite the gay rights movement.
“The Lavender Scare” is a chilling reminder of how easy it can be, during a time of fear and uncertainty, to trample the rights of an entire class of people in the name of patriotism and national security.
Admission is $10 per screening. Customers are encouraged to purchase tickets online. If seats are available, tickets can be purchased at the theater, starting 30 minutes prior to each screening. Please note that tickets are non-refundable and there will be no exchanges.
For more information on this series, other events, or to become a member, go to www.rehobothfilm.com, or call 302-645-9095.
