SF Trans Film Fest Program 1: Locally Brewed

Transiversary
Hayden, a young trans suicide hotline operator, is excited to celebrate their anniversary after their shift. However, their boss calls and forces them to work throughout the night. As the shift goes on Hayden begins to receive unsettling calls.
8m
Kamia Gutierrez

Fool’s Gold
Become golden as trans-vaquero Oliver Gold (Che Ortiga) sings his way through heartbreak and queer revelations of self worth in the instant country hit: Fool’s Gold by the time traveling boyband: Turnback Boyz! Co-starring: Peter Pansy (Max Voltage), JB Bender (Nicole Smith) and Tommy Tugguns (Ruthless Nardecchia).
4m
Che Ortiga

En Memoria
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s Quinceañera dress.
11m
Roberto Fatal

Navel Gazer
Pregnancy-phobic Kora (they/them) does everything to be a good friend, including in supporting their roommate, Diana (she/her), through her challenges in trying to become pregnant. When Kora receives a generous check and thank you note for an egg donation from a mysterious fertility clinic called Fertile Crescent, Diana helps Kora investigate – except Diana doesn’t return. Kora is forced to enter Fertile Crescent alone, and is ensnared by a motherhood-enforcing society that only sees Kora for their idealized healthy body. With Kora’s eggs harvested and no exit in sight, Kora is forced to confront their fears around femininity and fertility.
18m
Shirin Mori

Toward
Danced upon cracked earth under wind-blown skies, TOWARD is a short dance film by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey that uplifts how we can lean into and move toward that which we most desire. Performed by Sean Dorsey and Raúl Torres-Bonilla.
2m

No More Longing
Seven years after moving from Brazil to California to pursue his love of music, and four years after starting testosterone, Jaime Jobim searches for his new voice. Despite an uncertain future and a longing for home, Jaime Jobim relentlessly pursues his dream of becoming a great musician. Always in transition between places and selves, can he find a voice that is truly his own? Born out of a collaboration between two trans men, No More Longing is a rhythmic portrait of an artist engaging in the act, the process, and the practice of becoming.
16m
Connor Lee O’Keefe

Ghosts Cross State Lines
A surrealist mystery film. A trans woman is trying to outrun dangerous forces from her past. The question is: will she make it? Stay tuned.
4m
Shawna Virago

Saturn Risin9
In a poetic mix of dance, visual narrative, and documentary, Saturn Risin9 follows queer performance artist Saturn on their return home to the Bay Area. We follow their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, affirmation, healing and creative expansion poetically told through fantastical imagery. Using diary style interviews and talk-alongs intercut with high fantasy staged performance, the film portrays Saturn’s creative transformation through their dreams, trials, career and progression. The film begins and ends adjacent to one of the most toxic Superfund Sites in the city, Hunter’s Point Shipyard. The nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean after WWII which sickened populations there, were linked to the ships that came back to Hunter’s Point with radioactive debris – the toxic radiation washed into the water and soil. Saturn’s journey through this space extends to their own personal struggles, paralleled with environmental and water issues that continue to this day. Saturn speaks to their own journey of transformation, healing with community, and finding space to thrive at the edges. This film highlights Saturn both as a storyteller in many different forms (word, dance, music) and as a protagonist through a character driven story of perseverance. Saturn Risin9 as a film exists as a byproduct of love, trust, and the determination to realize dreams, intended to be a never ending well of visual and lyrical affirmations.
11m
Tiare Ribeaux + Jody Stillwater