Jessica Fostekew: Wench

AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.

In this raunchy and outlandish queer comedy, best friends Robby and Noah-Lee – employees at Portland's historic Clinton Street Theater – find themselves confronted by a parade of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors.

A lot of fuss ensues over what a four-year-old kid wants to wear to school.

An actor faces a tough audition, and a difficult challenge in proving that the part should be theirs.

After hearing that her boyfriend lacks the courage to break up with her, plucky Elena decides she’d be less humiliated if Arturo was ensnared by a man rather than a woman.

A gay high school student throws a swinging prom party in the hopes of finally wooing the football captain - but when popular kids start turning up dead, the partygoers discover a slasher killer amongst the student body!

Since his boyfriend left him, Yotam hasn’t slept alone. He developed an obsession for dating apps and spends his nights in the arms of strangers. One day, he discovers he’s been infected with an insufferable skin disease and realizes he’s got no choice but to stop his way of living for a while. His journey into the midst of his first night alone will find him and his obsession in very dark and itchy places.

An experimental short film made as part of a multi-media triptych, originally screened alongside a fashion collection and an art-installation. Drawing from Papa Yorick’s (Director and fashion designer) thesis “Men Are My Cumrag”, the film reenacts eight mainstay gay porn scripts, incorporating and parodying tropes and clichés, that explore masculine identities within the gay porn industry, through a satirical and critical lens.

To protect their reputations before graduation, two friends pretend to be trans women—only for a comedic stunt to turn into a profound journey of self-discovery when one of them realizes her truth.

Two brains in jars exist exclusively in a game of PONG, oblivious to the world falling apart outside of their computer.

When Sama’s girlfriend blows off their Friday plans, the teen copes with romantic rejection by blasting music in her room. When her dad suggests hanging out, she agrees. Their evening takes an unexpected turn as a message forces her to choose between authenticity and keeping up appearances.

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Johanie, the single mother of a dysfunctional family, takes a dim view of the arrival of Ian and his dog in the neighborhood. Like a trench dividing the two camps, the back alley becomes the witness of a rivalry where prejudice, fascination and frustration mingle slyly with the sound of barking.

A midlife-crisis burdened Shrek, longing for the days of when he felt like a real ogre, makes a pact with magic deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin. But when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met—he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.

Isabela sprints through the city, eager to get somewhere. She finally makes it to an apartment complex, pulls herself together, and is shocked to find the last person she would expect - her partner B. Isabela is caught and she knows it, and she knows how crazy B can get. While B berates Isabela, saying everything one could ever want to say to an ex, Isabela tries to console her, but only digs herself deeper into her own grave.

In an art gallery, a secret agent meets a contact to exchange information about the imminent collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair is a trans sex worker trying to get by in Vancouver while also mentoring her recently-out friend Adeline and making an attempt at pursuing actual motherhood. Meanwhile, lowly production assistant Turner finds himself dangerously spiraling into inceldom as his current relationship implodes.

Follow Cupid and her new client Neha as they race the clock to find her a date for Valentine's Day. Will she find a perfect match? Or has it been there all along...?

Billy, a queer college student and hopeless romantic, gets swept into what seems like a romantic connection with a kind man. From a light and cheesy beginning, Billy gradually confronts the pain of unreciprocated feelings and blurred boundaries. In the end, he learns that love does not have to come from romance to be real — and that, for now, choosing himself is enough.

Howl If You're Horny, a student dissertation film, explores queerness and mise en scene with a metaphorical relationship between being trapped within the closet and the werewolf exterior. Queer suppression and desire is explored within a dream sequence where posters, which were once in his room, come alive. He must decide if he wants to keep surviving or to live his first day as a human.