Looking for something to do this weekend! Attend the Desperado Film Festival!

Showcasing independent Gay and Lesbian film making from around the world, the inaugural Desperado Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is Phoenix Arizona’s primary outlet for LGBT film.
Award winning films and independent films of limited release alike will run two days, January 29th and 30th, 2010 at the Center for Performing Arts on the campus of Paradise Valley Community College. The new venue is as impressive as the film line-up. Progressive, contemporary architecture matches perfectly with cutting edge film making. Paradise Valley Community College’s Center for the Performing Arts is located near the 34th Street and Union Hills Drive entrance into the campus, which is one block west of SR-51 and one mile south of the Loop 101/SR-51 interchange. Tickets can be purchased online by visiting www.paradisevalley.edu/cpa, at the CPA box office which is open Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm or by calling 602.787.7738
Meet film makers, actors and leaders of change during a festival of fun, uplifting and at times provocative subject matter. Long overdue, Desperado brings back a Film Festival to celebrate Phoenix’s LGBT community.
Feature Films:
Big Gay Musical – Embrem Entertainment 2009
Paul & Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical Adam & Steve: Just the Way God Made ‘Em. Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing; Paul is looking for the perfect man & Eddie is dealing with how his sexuality & faith can mix.
Hannah Free – Ripe Fruit Films 2009
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial.
AMANCIO…Two Faces on a Tombstone – Downtown Loft Studios 2009
As a young boy, Amancio Corrales immigrated from Mexico to Yuma Arizona with his parents in search of a better life. Gay and Hispanic, Amancio dreamed of one day being a performer in Las Vegas, but his dream was cut short on May 6, 2005 when Amancio’s body was found floating in the Colorado River near Yuma.
Patrik 1.5 – Here Films 2008
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption. The problem is that no giving countries approve of homosexual parents. But one day there’s an opening, and they have a possibility to adopt a Swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced in the red-tape, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.
Short Films:
A Belch Can Ruin A Wedding – 2009 – Director David M Ice / Festival World Premier
It was love at first sight when Little Mel spotted Studly Doright across the bar. Two years later, they announce to the world that they will “tie the knot” in the state’s first gay marriage. But when the dastardly, right-wing Rev. Fred Belch learns of their wedding plans, he devises a sinister plot to foil the happy couple’s plans – for good. How far will Belch go to carry out his evil plan? Will Studly learn of Mel’s plight in time to save the day? Will true love win out?
25 Random Things I Did During My Big Fat Lesbian Depression – 2009
25 RANDOM THINGS I DID DURING MY BIG FAT LESBIAN DEPRESSION takes a comedic look at one lesbian’s journey of recovery from an unreal break up. From eating excessive amounts of frozen yogurt, to leaning on friends, to yoga in the desert to entering a twelve step program, 25 RANDOM THINGS uses the framework of social media to poke fun at some of the crazy, yet personal things we do in life to get through our darkest moments in order to move on from the past and emerge into a lighter state of being.