Outfest LA 2021 - Documentary Short

Follows the illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.

A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.

MAMA HAS A MUSTACHE is a short, quirky, fully animated documentary about gender and parenting, as seen through children's eyes.

Brazilian artist Fabio da Motta uses bondage and photography to question the boundaries between fantasy, power, provocation and art.

Growing up in the Dominican Republic, filmmaker Ley Comas had a negative understanding of their trans identity. Years later, they attempt to share their truth with their religious family.

In West Philadelphia, an artist known as Richard explores what it means to be Black, queer and non-binary in society.

The business of HIV is uncovered through the lens of a long-term survivor, who puts his life on the line in search of a cure.

As the pandemic rages and America starts revealing its dark underbelly, an isolated immigrant finds comfort in an unusual companion: Ruth, her motorcycle.

At an LGBTQ retirement home, the annual "senior" prom takes on a whole new meaning - a celebration of the lives and legacies of resistance of the eldest queer generation.

A mixed media love letter to 90s New York, friendship, and sexual liberation.

A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen persona Joan Jett Blakk. Today, Smith reflects back on his seminal civil rights campaign and its place in American history.

A visual poem that reflects on how one person's perspective around joy has shifted due to the pandemic.

The stories of four queer Asian women are presented within an immersive experience of past and present, revealing the real-lives of a different generation.

A nonbinary teenager caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living happily ever after with his long-distance boyfriend.

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s.