This entertaining collection of lesbian-friendly cinema features five films, four of them making their premiere on DVD.CARMELITA TROPICANA An East Village Latina performance artist winds up in jail with some other riot girls.WINNER – Teddy Bear, Berlin Film FestivalWINNER – Audience & Critics Award, Frameline SF Int. Lesbian & Gay FFPLAYING THE PART A college girl wants to come out to her parents, but her angst-ridden efforts keep on ending in futility.”Enthralling.” -New York Times”One of the Year’s Best Short Films”-Film CommentJUMPING THE GUN The morning after a one-night stand, a woman fantasizes about her life together with the sleeping beauty, from honeymoon to breakup.”An intriguing romantic fantasy.”-New York TimesLITTLE WOMEN IN TRANSIT 12-year-old Jennie is seated in the back seat of the station wagon, wedged between her two jeering sisters, enduring that special hell – the family car trip.LAVENDER LIMELIGHT:From GO FISH to PARIS IS BURNING to (more…)

Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)

This latest fabulous movie from Jamie (But I m a Cheerleader) Babbit is a dynamic, romantic, frequently funny and politically astute movie with a smart script, rockin soundtrack and terrific ensemble cast that includes sexy young Melonie Diaz as the new dyke on the block who falls in with a great gang of Feminist troublemakers called Clits in Action (CiA), and then falls in love with leader of the pack, Nicole Vicius. Unfortunately, Nicole has a girlfriend Melanie Mayron and, as they say, drama ensues. With Carly Pope, Daniela Sea, Guinevere Turner, Deak Eugenikos, Jenny Shimizu and Lauren Mollica.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee, the third film from Jamie Babbit, director of the 1999 cult comedy But I’m a Cheerleader, focuses on a group of radical young feminists experiencing both political and sexual awakenings. With a riot-grrrl heavy soundtrack (there’s so much Kathleen Hannah she should be listed in the credits) and an unabashed message about the degradation of women in the media, Itty Bitty Titty Committee strives to be a very powerful and moving film. It doesn’t quite make it. Continue Reading