Frameline49: Homegrown

Celebrate queer stories from the Bay Area with the Homegrown program. This program features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more.

Short films showing in this program:

AutoErotica: We Buy Gay Stuff
17 mins
Jeremy von Stilb

Behind an unassuming “We Buy Gay Stuff” sign in San Francisco’s Castro district – complete with a striking leather daddy illustration – lies an unexpected treasure trove of queer history.

Budget Paradise
14 mins
LaTajh Simmons-Weaver

Filmed and set in Oakland, Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown.

En memoria
11 mins
Roberto Fatal

In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s Quinceañera dress.

Liminality
13 mins
Tess Bliven

In the summer of 2004, in Berkeley, California, queer teens Nina and Jay grapple with understanding Jay’s uncharted transgender identity amidst the throes of first love.

Rainbow Girls
16 mins
Nana Duffuor

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young Black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

Thanks, Babs!
14 mins
Rivkah Beth Medow

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time.

Expected Guests

Jeremy von Stilb
Director (AutoErotica)

Patrick Batt
Participant (AutoErotica)

Bradley Roberge
Participant/Co-Producer (AutoErotica)

Ricky Vidrio
Producer (AutoErotica)

LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
Director (Budget Paradise)

Sean Gillane
Producer (Budget Paradise)

Caitlyn Durkin
Producer (Budget Paradise)

Chris Walters
Producer (Budget Paradise)

Roberto Fatal
Director (En memoria)

Ali Meyers-Ohki
Screenwriter (En memoria)

Tess Bliven
Director (Liminality)

Anuj Nijhawan
Screenwriter (Liminality)

Nana Duffuor
Director (Rainbow Girls)

Jen Rainin
Director (Thanks, Babs!)

Rivkah Beth Medow
Director (Thanks, Babs!)

Content Advisory: Transphobia.