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Current News and Events
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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2 p.m.
Reelout & FEEL YOGA 80 Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario
Reelout Emotion Pictures welcomes you to celebrate Culture Days 2011 by joining us for yoga and film screenings focusing on healing and restoration of your spirit. No previous yoga experience is required and mats will be provided should you not have your own. There will be a 30 minute screening beginning at 2pm and will feature short, Canadian, independent works by Lukas Blaak, Gloria Kim, La Mathilde, Kathleen Mullen and Gail Maurice-all of which can be interpreted as healing medicine for both the artist and the audience. After the screening, guests will be invited to stay and participate in a 30 minute restorative yoga class led by Michelle Girouard.
About Reelout Emotion Pictures
About the Films
Tough Enough
dir : D. Lukas Blaak2006 / Ontario, Canada / 3:41 min "Tough Enough" is a short, experimental film which looks at how being outside of a mainstream gender identity can shut you off from even the simplest touch. 
Hangman Le Jeu Du Pendu
dir : La Mathilde2010 / Quebec, Canada / 1:40 min English and French with English Subtitles How to rethink innocent games that are really not so harmless. 
Memory in Bones
dir : Gail Maurice2005 / Ontario, Canada / 3:30 min Every step I take is with my ancestors; my memory in my bones-urban and rural live within me. I am who I am, a strong Indian woman. A looking into our roots, our culture and how it makes us or influences us in day to day life. 
You Wash My Skin in Sunshine
dir : Kathleen Mullen2005 / Ontario, Canada / 6 min A reflection on memory, loss, reconciliation and love featuring the filmmaker and her family. 
Rock Garden: A Love Story
dir : Gloria Kim2007 / Ontario, Canada / 12:50 min An allegory about love, loneliness and the healing power of acceptance and how the most unlikely of objects can bring about change. About Restorative Yoga Restorative yoga is a gentle yogic practice intended to cool, calm and renew the body's nervous system. When the body's nervous system relaxes, all sorts of stressors and inflammation in the body can settle as well. Digestion can improve, heart rate can lower, sleep can deepen, immunity can boost, and anxiety can be eased through the practice of restorative yoga. Yoga is a union, helping to remind us of our eternal wholeness in body, heart and spirit. About Michelle Girouard
Michelle began her yogic journey in 1997, Montreal, by observing restorative yoga, meditation and pranayama. She sought healing and wholeness through yoga, witnessing the mind through the actions of the body, watching all practice lay a spirit path. Her practice has carried her to the study of Reiki, yogic sound and chant, therapeutic yoga, sacred activism and shamanism. Having been healed, empowered, softened and enlivened by her studies, Michelle was called to train as a yoga instructor at the Kripalu School of Yoga in 2008. She now observes a daily practice of Ashtanga yoga balanced with Yin/Restorative yoga, chant and pranayama. Her passion for teaching has led her to work with students privately and therapeutically, teaching restorative yoga coupled with Reiki. She holds deep gratitude for all of her teachers, for the boundless fruits that have blossomed before her while walking the yogic path.
Thursday September 15, 2011 • 9:00 PM
The Grey House, Queens University Campus (51 Bader Lane), Kingston, ON 
Screening Under the Stars: Longtime Companion
In the spirit of collaboration commemorating the 30 years since HIV/AIDS descended upon the scene; OPIRG, HARS (HIV/AIDS Regional Services), EQuIP (Education on Queer Issues Project) and the Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival are proud to present an outdoor screening of Norman Rene's classic LONGTIME COMPANION. Starring Campbell Scott and Mary Louise Parker, LONGTIME COMPANION has been hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic. It takes an honest, unlfinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns in to a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage. Admission is by donation and all proceeds will go to Kingston's AIDS WALK FOR LIFE. This is a Queen's University Queerientaion event but ALL ARE WELCOME!!! For more information on this event, please contact Reelout at (613) 549-REEL (7335).
Friday, July 29, 2011
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sunset
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McDonald Park (Newlands Pavilion) Barrie St and King Street.
Reelout Emotion Pictures Presents FLAMING FUNNIES Admission by Donation. Not recommended for children under 14 years of age (due to some language and frank discussion of sexuality). Bring a lawn chair or blanket! Reception and Dance at The Grad Club after the screening. Technical services provided by Baldwin A/V Services. Funded through the generosity of the Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Initiatives Program, the Reelout Emotion Pictures Screening Series focuses on the visceral impact film and video projects on to the viewer. Each month, Kingston audiences will be invited to attend screenings devised to provoke a significant emotional response followed by dialogue and artist/audience engagement. Laughter is the best medicine and humour has always been a hallmark of some terrific, queer Canadian film and video. Queer lives are often mired by oppression and intolerance and comedy has always been a welcome escape to laugh off our troubles and laugh at ourselves. FLAMING FUNNIES highlights our trademark Canadian humour through the works of nine, talented, independent film and video artists spanning the years between 1994 and 2011. Queer fantasies come to life in Christina Chew's cowgirl stand-off SLOW BURN, Sarah Rotella's urban whimsy MY LESBIAN FRIEND and Thirza Cuthand's fairytale satire THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS; satirical jabs at consumer reports, pop culture and infomericals can be found in Dayna McLeod's THONG, Wayne Yung's ASIAN BOYFRIEND and Sarah Rotella's THE NOT-SO-SUBTLE SUBTEXT; intimate confessions that will make you smile include Rachel Matlow's TRANZPLOITATION and Janine Fung's LEFTOVERS; gay male insecurities are highlighted in two shorts written by Scott Thompson and directed by the Levy brothers; and we revisit INTERVIEWS WITH MY NEXT GIRLFRIEND, a festival favorite that is as relevant today as it was ten years ago (although Karen Robinson's character would no doubt have a smart phone rather than a pager!)
The Films
 Slow Burn2011 / Ontario, Canada / 13 min In this hyper-stylized western set against a winterscape, a mysterious girl with a criminal past wants to make a fresh start and decides to symbolize this decision by getting her very first tattoo. She meets two tattoo artists who are immediately smitten with her, and in the time-honoured tradition of the western, the artists battle each other in a duel for the right to design the tattoo.  The Not-So-Subtle Subtext2010 / Ontario, Canada / 5 min his video piece explores and questions the "subtextual" relationship between Xena and Gabrielle in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.  522010 / Ontario, Canada / 4 min Written by and starring Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall), we are welcomed to step into a gay man's worst nightmare-aging!  Leftovers1994 / Ontario, Canada / 8 min The narrator recollects a most memorable family dinner.  Thong (to the 5th Power)2010 / Quebec, Canada / 4 min A pseudo-consumer report on thong panty liners, The Keeper, New York City and buying coolers in the U.S. Featuring Dayna McLeod and guest voice over Catherine Kidd.  Tranzploitation2008 / Ontario, Canada / 8 min Kaleb is a cheeky FTM Torontonian trying to get by in a trans-phobic culture. Even though labels yell "No Trans Fats" to a self-declared trans fatty, does the prospect of cheaper haircuts make things better?  My Lesbian Friend2009 / Ontario, Canada / 5 min A young girl catches a wild lesbian in her backyard. After getting permission from her mother, the girl can keep the lesbian as a pet, but only for the day. 
Through the Looking Glass
1999 / Saskatchewan, Canada / 14 min Half-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's disapproval of her racial transgressions. A funny and quirky take on race starring Cosmosquaw as the Red Queen, Shawna Dempsey as the White Queen, and Thirza Cuthand as Alice. 
Asian Boyfriend
2006 / British Columbia, Canada / 1 min "Get your very own Asian boyfriend today!" 
Interviews with my Next Girlfriend
2001 / Ontario, Canada / 13 min Nine women representative of the wild, world of lesbian dating vie to become the interviewers next girlfriend. 
4 Pounds
2010 / Ontario, Canada / 13 min An Actor, over the course of four, life-changing weeks, focuses his considerable will to the goal of losing some weight. Though the people in his life try to dissuade him from his ruinous path, he ignores them in his headlong rush towards self-destruction.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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6 p.m.
Queen's Centre Room 504 Reelout Annual General Meeting All are welcome to attend. Voting members must have valid membership cards present and have been a member prior to May 26th, 2011. New memberships will be available for purchase or renewal on site. Previous minutes are available to be read by appointment by calling (613)549-7335.
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
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nightfall
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historic Fort Henry
Reelout Emotion Pictures Presents QUEER PRIDE & PREJUDICE Funded through the generosity of the Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Initiatives Program, the Reelout Emotion Pictures Screening Series focuses on the visceral impact film and video projects on to the viewer. Each month, Kingston audiences will be invited to attend screenings devised to provoke a significant emotional response followed by dialogue and artist/audience engagement. June's screening is a collaborative effort with Kingston Pride 2011 and will be screened outdoors on the walls of historic Fort Henry on June 11th at nightfall. QUEER PRIDE & PREJUDICE examines a uniquely Canadian perspective on how prejudice empowers our gender/sexual/cultural/racial/class/ability/age pride and empowerment. Beginning in the 19th century with a camp subversion of "Indians" as "romantic savages" by European painters George Catlin and Paul Kane in GROUP OF SEVEN INCHES, these shorts progress in emotional tonality evoking quiet reflection and introspection through the manipulated landscapes and altered Cree language in NIKAMOWIN (SONG). From cultural pride to queer pride, we move to the urban environment of Toronto from the 1970s to 2006 in PRIDE AND RESISTANCE and then to 2010 as Kim Chee Lee narrates his own fears of prejudice as a queer senior in THE KCLPAS STORY. On the opposite end of the age spectrum and on the other side of the country, we are introduced to 12-year old Anneke in I'M JUST ANNEKE who begins her journey through gender-identity and self-respect with the proud support of her family. This shift then moves us to stories of hope, happiness, empowerment, (FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, LAUGH, ABSTRACT RANDOM COWBOY) and a renewed sense of why we celebrate Queer Pride and why our struggles continue. The Films
Group of Seven Inches
dir : Kent Monkman & Gisele Gordon2005 / Ontario, Canada / 8 min Group of Seven Inches subverts the subjectivity and authority of colonial art history and everything else it can get its hands on. Miss Chief Eagle Testickle turns the dismissive writings on the "romantic savage" upside down and inside out by stripping colonialist men, seducing them with whiskey and then dressing them up as more "authentic" examples of the "Europeean male". Vtape 672.03 Nikamowin(Song)
dir : Kevin Lee Burton2007 / Swampy Cree, Manitoba, Canada / 11 min A message that begs lost language speakers to hear their inner song of pride so they can bring the language that lives alone waiting in the darks of their spirits. A linguistic soundscape comprised of the deconstruction and reconstruction of Cree narration dances with various manipulated landscapes. Vtape 772.01 Pride and Resistance
dir : Nancy Nicol2007 / Ontario, Canada / 17 min Pride and Resistance, is a series of five three-minute videos on queer history created by Nancy Nicol. Pride and Resistance takes a whirlwind tour through forty years of local and national LGBTQ history celebrating the political history of Pride Day in Toronto. Pride and Resistance was commissioned by Xtra and Pride Toronto and premiered as large projections on Church St. for the Pride Day celebrations in Toronto, 2007. Vtape 298.17 The KCLPAS Story
dir : Kim Chee Lee2010 / Ontario, Canada / 4 min The KCLPAS Story reveals a gay senior's experience in a nursing home. Vtape 987.00  I'm Just Anneke2010 / British Columbia, Canada / 11 min Anneke is a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she's a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or someone in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. CFMDC From Russia in Love
dir : Nancy Nicol2009 / Ontario, Canada / 10 min When a Russian court threw out their request to marry in Russia, Irina Shipitko and Irina Fedotova-Fet traveled to Toronto, Canada. On October 23, 2009, they were married in Toronto hoping their Canadian marriage will help to advance their struggle for equality and acceptance back home. With the support of their lawyer, Nikolai Alexeyev, they will pursue their case to Russia's Supreme Court and to the European Court of Human Rights. Vtape 298.21 Laugh
dir : David C. Jones2009 / British Columbia, Canada / 4 min Vancouver's West End bursts into song after a young man (played by queer popstar Peter Breeze) while walking down the street. 22 actors, two city blocks, one truck, ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE. davidcjones@shaw.ca 
Abstract Random "Cowboy" feat. Ill Nana
2010 / Ontario, Canada / 3 min "Without girls there'd be no world!" COWBOY is about gender bending, questioning authority, and challenging the norm. An Abstract Random Production featuring the amazing and beautiful, Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company. Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring-back-cool-feminist-political group based out of Toronto. CFMDC Friday May 6, 2011 - doors open 9pm
The Mansion 506 Princess Street, Kingston, ON
Fun House Concerts recognize the support of OPIRG, City of Kingston Arts Fund, the City of Kingston, and Kingston Punk Productions.
 Hunter Valentine with Lucas Silveira of The Cliks and Gillian Sheilds.
HUNTER VALENTINE
Blasting out their inimitable rock since the summer of 2004, Hunter Valentine has blossomed, establishing a devoted fan base via their self-financed eponymous 2005 EP and building on that foundation with their 2007 full-length The Impatient Romantic (True North Records). Razing crowds from coast to coast in their decrepit van, nailing select European and U.S. Cities over the course of 200-plus shows, the trio has garnered an international fan base as they build out of their native Canada. Hunter Valentine are now poised to break through with their gripping follow up Lessons From the Late Night (Tommy Boy/Fontana/Universal).
THE CLIKS
•Tickets at the door $8-$10 (a portion of the proceeds will go to Reelout!); this is a 19+ event• For more information on this event, please contact Reelout at (613) 549-REEL (7335). Friday 15 April 2011, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM •
Renaissance Event Venue 285 Queen Street, Kingston, ON  THE REELOUT PAJAMA JAMMY JAM
Join the fun folks at the Reelout Arts Project Inc. in your favourite jammies for a fundraising evening to support gender and sexual diversity education in the schools, workplace, and rural communities.
Whether it be a tantalizing teddy, naughty negligee, baggy boxers, sexy silk gown or foxy in flannel.. wear something fitting for bed, bath and beyond! DJ Bolt will spin the beats guaranteed not to put you to sleep as well as prizes and games befitting of the boudoir. :) Cover is $10 or $9 with your Reelout membership. This is a 19+ event. For more information on this event, please contact Reelout at (613) 549-REEL (7335). Sun, Jan 23rd, 6pm - 8pm •
The Sleepless Goat Cafe & Workers' Co-op 91 Princess Street, Kingston, ON  QUEER SPEED DATING
On the evening of Sunday, January 23, the Sleepless Goat will be hosting an All-Genders, Queer Speed Dating night to give people a chance to connect with potential movie dates for the upcoming Reelout Film Festival, and meet other lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans, two-spirit, pansexual, and otherwise queer folks within the Kingston community in a relaxed, fun, atmosphere.
In the spirit of free love, there is no cost for participation. However, due to limited space, please RSVP before 4 pm, January 22 by emailing: lookingforlove@thegoat.ca This event is wheelchair accessible. For more information on this event, please contact The Goat at (613) 545-9646. Sun, Dec 12th, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. •
Kingston Frontenac Public Library 130 Johnson Street, Kingston, ON
The Reelout Arts Project invites you and your family to join us in laughter and song on Sunday, December 12th in the Wilson Room of the Central branch of the Kingston Public Library starting at 1:30pm as we present SingAlong The Sound of Music! Reelout Family Fundraiser.
Admission is by donation (suggested donation $5) and proceeds will go to our community outreach projects that include Reelout in Schools, Wheelout Reelout and ...Reelout Community Lending Library - all of which promote tolerance, respect and sexual and gender diversity education. Children of all ages and singing abilities are welcome to belt out memorable favourites as the lyrics of each song appear during the film Karaoke style at the appropriate moment. Prizes will be awarded for Best Costume! This film is rated G although some scenes involving the Nazis might be frightening to young children and Julie Andrew's hairstyle might be frightening to some gay men. This event is wheelchair accessible. For more information on this event, please contact Reelout Festival DIrector Matt Salton at director@reelout.com or call (613)549-REEL.  THE SOUND OF MUSIC
dir. Robert Wise
1965/ Colour / USA / 174min. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture! In this true-life story, Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to Austrian widower Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and his seven children.
This beloved classic musical is bursting with memorable classics like "Climb Every Mountain", "My Favourite Things", "Do Re Mi", "Edelwiess", "The lonely goatherd", "So Long, Farewell", "Sixteen going on Seventeen" and many, many more! Thurs, Aug 12th, 8:30 p.m. • Springer Market Square
Reelout is proud to partner with Movies in the Square to present Billy Wilder's classic gender bending comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT to a Kingston audience. Bring your own lawn chair to Springer Market Square in time for dusk to catch Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in one of Hollywood's finest comedies of all time. Admission is Free.
 Some Like It Hot
dir. Billy Wilder
1959/ USA / 120min. / b&w When two Chicago musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, they trade in their union suits for flapper frocks and hightail it down to Florida as the newest members of an all-girl jazz band. Hailed by the American Film Institute as the funniest American movie of all time and a rare example of queer iconography in Hollywood cinema that doesn't patronize or condemn the notion of homosexuality.
Sat, June 19th, doors open at 10 p.m. • The Mansion
Kingston is the place to be for merriment in June. Yes we have Pride but we also have a mega-celebration of independent musical artists performing day and night starting June 16 and wrapping Saturday, June 19th at 10pm at The Mansion.
Admission to this event is free, but donations are welcome. (We at Reelout can't imagine how our friends at Skeleton Park Music Festival can bring this much entertainment to Kingston without charging admission, it has got to be a feat so please donate generously!).  Henri Faberge and the Adoreables
REELOUT ARTS PROJECT INC. is proud to collaborate with SKELETON PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL for the joyous closing gala party featuring local DJs and a wildly giddy headlining performance by Henri Faberge and the Adoreables.
There will be tons of musical performances this week so check out http://www.skeletonparkmusicfestival.ca/ for the line-up of treats! Sat, June 5th 6:00pm • Fort Henry
Join us on Saturday evening, 5 June 2010, at Kingston's historic Fort Henry, for what is expected to be a fantabulous BBQ from 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m., followed by the movie projected outdoors on the Fort walls from 8.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m., followed by a colourful dance party from 10.00 p.m. to 2.00 a.m.
Admission to this event is $10.00 and is an all-ages event. More info ...  Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
dir. Bob Christie
2010 / Canada REELOUT ARTS PROJECT INC. and KINGSTON PRIDE 2010 are proud to premiere the hottest new documentary on the film festival circuit! This feature follows the Vancouver Pride Society's Parade Director Ken Coolen and his colleagues as they travel to places where Pride is still steeped in protest to personally experience the rampant homophobia that still exists. They also travel to Sao Paulo Brazil for the world's largest gay parade and New York City, the birthplace of the modern gay liberation movement. Visit the film website |
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