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2011 Schedule of Films

September 15, 2011: Orgasm, INC. Genre: Documentary

Filmmaker Liz Canner is hired to edit videos for a drug trial of Viagra for women. Marketed under a new disease, Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), the drug has already received FDA Approval. Liz quickly begins to suspect that her employer, along with other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endangering their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits. Orgasm, INC. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives.

"A Must-See! Liz Canner's informative, amusing, expertly crafted and well-laureled documentary "Orgasm Inc." seizes the perfect platform from which to launch a common-sense attack on Big Pharma's shameless corporatization of health. " -Variety

October 20, 2011: Teeth Genre: Comedy/Horror

Mitchell Lichtenstein's provocative feminist horror flick that gives “girl power” a whole new meaning through a cheeky horror film about vagina dentate. Dawn O’Keefe is a teenage spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group called The Promise. After becoming the victim of a sexual assault, she discovers that she had grown an unexpected defense: a toothed vagina.

Winner of 2008’s Scream Awards for "Most Memorable Mutilation" for "Penis Bitten Off by Vagina with Teeth".

November 17, 2011: Breasts: A Documentary Genre: Documentary

Twenty-two women – most topless, all candid – reveal how their breasts have shaped their lives, from puberty to sex to motherhood and beyond. Interspersed throughout are precious archival gems, including a racy 1920s cartoon, a 1950s beauty pageant and a 1970s bra commercial. The film's subjects include a voluptuous transsexual, a stripper with implants, an 11-year-old on the cusp of puberty, a 420-pound comedienne and an 84-year-old grandmother.

“A unique and surprisingly commanding look at how the female breast plays a significant role in the experience of womanhood.”
– Time Out

December 29, 2011: Clip Show holiday party

Forget the Yule Log! Watch hilarious commercials and trailers and make fun of the advertising and entertainment industry's portrayal of women. Not to be missed!

January 19, 2012: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Genre: Musical

The story of an ‘internationally ignored’ rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love. Born a boy named Hansel whose life’s dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned ‘angry inch’. Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/protégé in young Tommy Gnosis, who eventually leaves her, steals her songs and becomes a huge rock star.

Winner of the Audience and Director Awards (Sundance Film Festival), Best Feature Film (Berlin Intern’l Film Festival), Best Narrative Feature (San Francisco Intern’l Film Festival), Best First Feature (San Francisco Intern’l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)