The first Rural GLBT film festival will be taking place in Brattleboro June 23-25 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater~139 Main St. All screenings begin at 7pm. Everyone is welcome. (info & reservations contact John Scagliotti at john@afterstonewall.com) or call 802-254-9276

Below is the film schedule:

Friday, June 23rd,
Short Film: “Beautiful” by local Pioneer Valley filmmaker Bryan Horch (the hit of last summer’s VT Bear Film Festival, “very funny … a romp!!!”)
Feature: Farm Family: In Search of Gay Life in Rural America. Filmmaker T Joe Murray searches out gay countrymen like cowboys, radical faeries, hermits, and dairy farmers – it is poignant, funny, and sometimes scary.

Saturday, June 24th,
Short Film: BILLY'S DAD IS A FUDGE-PACKER (2004) (Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and 2005 Cinequest Film festival) (COMEDY)
Short Film: “Flowers from the Heartland” People from all over the country send flowers to San Francisco couples in support of same-sex marriage.
Feature: “Laramie Inside Out” After the death of Matthew Shepard, lesbian filmmaker Bev Seckinger returns home to rural Laramie, the site of her own closeted adolescence, to investigate.

Sunday, June 25th,
Guest Introductory Speaker: Dolores Klaich is a writer, editor, and GLBT activist. She’ll be speaking about her experience as an openly lesbian delegate to the National Women’s Conference in 1977 when she took part in the effort to get Betty Freidan to do a turnabout on her Lavender Menace stance.

Short Film “From being called a menace to changing the world: Lesbians made a difference” Excerpted from After Stonewall with Karla Jay, Rita Mae Brown, Dorothy Allison, Jewelle Gomez, Barbara Smith and Judy Delugaz.

Feature: “The Amasong Chorus Singing Out” This film tells the inspiring story of the rise and success of this small-conservative town lesbian/feminist chorus.

7PM at Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St. (info & reservations -$8/tkt: contact John Scagliotti at john@afterstonewall.com or call 802-254-9276