She Likes Girls 4 – Lesbian Short Films : Tomboys & Tough GirlsTomboys and tough girls abound in this wonderful new installment in the She Likes Girls lesbian shorts series featuring eight terrific portrayals of girls who like girls!Babysitting Andy (11 mins, Canada)Dir. Pat MillsA deviously precocious nine-year old tomboy interrogates her gay uncle and his boyfriend in this hilarious short film. Pitstop (15 mins. USA)Dir. Melanie McGrawAccidentally left behind by her family at a desolate gas station, a young tomboy has a poignant platonic encounter with an older lesbian in this beautiful tale.No Bikini (9 mins. USA)Dir. Claudia Morgado EscanillaA delightful short film about a little girl who abandons her bikini top at swim camp and passes as a boy.Gay Bash (5 mins. USA)Dir. Camrin PittsA fresh anthem of pride from lesbian Hip-Hop artist Melange Lavonne.Don’t Mess with Texas (6 mins. USA)Dir. Carrie Schrader & Tricia CookeA pair of wild young activist dykes on a road trip have an eye-opening ex (more…)

In this unpredictable and shocking coming-of-age story, three high-school girls on a weekend getaway impulsively take a menacing trespasser captive when he shows up at their remote mountain cabin. Fueled by desperation, alcohol and a childhood story about a mountain murder, Ruth, Deb and Kate endure a long, terrifying night with their captive before it all erupts in a dramatic and deadly end. Shot on location in the spectacular Colorado Rocky Mountains, Wilderness Survival for Girls uses edge-of-your-seat suspense to explore the conflicting inner lives of teenage girls as the boundaries of their friendship, their secret desires and their newfound taste for cruelty are tested. Fans of THIRTEEN, GIRL INTERRUPTED and SWIMMING POOL will love WILDERNESS SURVIVAL FOR GIRLS!

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Director Marita Giovanni’s gay romantic comedy suffers all the earmarks of low-budget cinema–some uncertain performances, pedestrian plotting, and a bad theme song–and, despite some comic observation, never completely recovers from them. Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) and Rachael (Liza D’Agostino) meet at a lesbian pit stop in Los Angeles, fall in love, and cause each other misery. Wolfe, playing a Woody Allen-ish neurotic, has a way with screenwriter Lauran Hoffman’s wit and supplies most of the film’s passing pleasures. The characters’ emotions, however, soon seem to change from second to second: the pair hooks up scant minutes after the opening, then spends every following moment running romantically hot-and-cold. Somewhere around the halfway point the film loses its mind, with off-key dramatics and some truly awful therapeutic dialogue (Loretta realizes “I really want to love me”). This may be an ode to human fickleness, but it’s woefully out of control in (more…)

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This warm romantic comedy by newcomer Maria Maggenti is a gay coming-of-age story framed by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Randy (Laurel Hillman) is a stoner, lesbian teenager who happens to be failing math and dating a married woman. One day, fellow student Evie (Nicole Parker) drives up to Randy’s gas station in a Range Rover and flips her world upside down. Evie is privileged and popular. Randy is poor, impulsive, and according to the other students, a freak. Opposites attract when the two girls kick off their friendship in detention. The flirtation blossoms after Evie introduces tomboyish Randy to the joys of Whitman and opera. Randy returns the favor by acquainting the sheltered Evie with the problems and delights of mature, taboo love. There is a beautiful scene where the two consummate their courtship on Evie’s birthday while Mom is out of town. The true test of their relationship occurs during the hilarious climax when angry families and (more…)