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Night Deposit: One Part, runtime 9:38 mintues 1999

The Low Down: A beautiful woman uses her feminine wiles to start an interesting cottage industry.

Night Deposit

Details:

Christy Scott Cashman as Clare

Written & Directed by Monika Mitchell

The Science of Love: 2 Parts (Part One runtime 9:10 minutes; Part Two runtime 8:18 minutes), 2005

The Low Down: Meet Sydney, a gorgeous and uptight professor who clashes with Ileana, her sexy boss, over Sydney’s brain scan based research on the nature of love. Ileana states that love is far too complicated to be reduced to science. So the question remains: Does the heart have a mind of its own?

Part One

Part Two

Details:

Sally Wheeler as Sydney

Alexandra Neil as Ileana

Written and Directed by Joyce Draganosky

Due to internet issues, this is late. But we are up and running again, and will carry on! Come join us!

The Name for the August/September Softly Dreaming Lesbian Short Film Festival is:

Take off or Bust Softly Dreaming Lesbian Film Festival

Congratulations to Sheila Kavorik from Reno for submitting the winner. Sheila, I will get in touch shortly to get your preference for the type of Moleskine you would like.

Now onto the festivities!

Here is the complete list so far:

From our own Affable Imp:

* Softly Dreaming’s Screenings
* Clit Flick Fest
* Getting into Women’s Shorts

From TW:

* Girls on Film
* Girlie Action
* Girl2Girl
* Watch w/Your GF
* Les Films
* My Lesbian Lover Loves This Film…fest
* Girls Just Wanna See Films
* Celluloid Sisters or Celluloid Sisterhood
* Broad Spectrum Films
* Lesbian POV Films
* F-Licks For Us
* I Love Naked Ladies

Also submitted via email:

*Les Flicks
*Out and Proud
*It’s an L thing
*Take off or bust
*Softly Shorts

Here is the proposed line up for the First Even Softly Dreaming Lesbian Short Film Festival. Please feel free to chime in with your two cents worth:

• After Sex: What happens after sex, when the lines between friendship and “just sex” are unclear?
• Red/Blue: Told through narration, a sneak peak into what one woman foresees for her life as a lesbian.
• Night Deposit: Find a niche and fill it. A sexy woman grows an interesting cottage industry from her exploits.
• Weeki Wachee Girls: Two girls are best friends, but their dynamics change when one is seen kissing another girl.
• Queen for a Day: Things are not always as they appear.
• Transit: A look at lesbian cruising on the subway.
• Interviews with My Next Girlfriend: A lesbian interviews others to find her next girlfriend.
• Last Exit: A lesbian visits her best friend, but things get complicated when she brings her new girlfriend along.
• The Science of Love: Is there a science to discovering the meaning of love?
• Ex: It’s their first weekend living together, but romantic plans go astray when the ex calls…
• Put That Away: Created in 3 days for a film contest, a look at the start and end to a relationship.
• Red Velvet Girls: Full of lesbian vampire fun, and a love interest.
• Long Ago: Severing ties with your past isn’t always easy.
• Snap: Follow the norm, or follow your heart after a chance meeting. There is no dialog, which makes it an interesting piece.
• Not So Small Talk: An office co-worker returns from vacation, and there just seems to be something different about her.

These are pending approval:

• 4pm: What happens when a politician hooks up with a free spirit?
• Unspoken: Sex, drugs and a junkyard set the background for this short about two girls and their individual places in a relationship.
• Triple Minority: Woman. Gay. Black. A look at love.
• The P-P-P Pickup: Lesbian meets Penguin. Is there hope?
• Sacred Heart: A girl gets confused about her feelings for a new housemate, complicated by her religious upbringing.
• The Black Plum: A little girl gets lost in a “different world”.
• The Triangle: The dynamics of three friends change as one learns the other two have slept together.

Any submissions for film considerations must be in by midnight Friday, August 22 (today ladies). All films must be less than 20 minutes. And that’s midnight Pacific Time, so all of you in Central, Mountain or Eastern time (or international time zones) get a few extra hours.

If this is new to you, please see previous posts: First Ever SD Lesbian Film Festival (HINT: There’s a contest in that one) and Lesbian Short Film Festival Teaser

If this is new to you, please see previous posts: First Ever SD Lesbian Film Festival (HINT: There’s a contest in that one) and Lesbian Short Film Festival Teaser

Names submitted to date:

*Les Flicks
*Out and Proud
*It’s an L thing
*Take off or bust
*Softly Shorts

C’mon Ladies! Need some more name submissions. And on the top link, there is a contest running for the best name to be selected by 2pm on Saturday… That’s Pacific Time Zone and TOMORROW.

How would you like to pay half what you are paying now for gas? How would this be possible, you ask? Apparently oil speculation is what is driving these crazy prices, so:

The price of retail gasoline would fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday. Testifying to a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management said the price of crude oil would drop closer to its marginal cost of around $65 to $75 a barrel, about half the current $135. [Story]

Wouldn’t this also help us with things like our utility and electric bills? Wow. Heaven forbid not forking out hundreds of dollars per month in an effort to keep us in electric and gas.

Do you love women? Do you love movies? Then please join SD in our First Ever Lesbian Short Film Festival!

What’s a Lesbian Short Film Festival? It means the films are short… Not the lesbians… Or the festival…

Softly Dreaming Lesbian Short Film Festival

Remember These Lesbian Movies?

(They won’t be in our festival, since they aren’t under 20 minutes, but they are GOOD!)

Recently, The Los Angeles Times ran an article on a new TV ad by the organization, Let California Ring. Let California Ring tries to open hearts and minds to same sex marriage by spurring conversations. The ad was criticized because it shows a straight woman overcoming obstacles as she makes her way down the aisle. So, picture if you will, a beautiful bride having to cram into a car parked too close to another, tripping over cans tied to the back of the car. Picture a flower girl getting in her a way, and a guests cane tripping her up as she makes her way to her chosen partner. Picture, as he tries to go to her aid, that the best man and groomsmen restrain him.

The criticism says that the ad is gutless and since it doesn’t directly mention Proposition 8, or gay marriage specifically, that they are trying to dodge some sort of tax law. A tax law that prohibits tax-exempt organizations from political campaigning. Personally, how does an organization try to educate in this atmosphere without somehow being political. It has also come under fire for being somewhat gutless by not showing a gay couple.

However, when you go onto the Let California Ring website, what you find is many videos specifically speaking about the right for all to marry. There are lesbians, gay men, transgender activists and straight couples, parents and friends who love us. You also have a section where you can share your story, or read that of others. Like the story of Bill and Marvin Hayworth, who were married for their 50th Anniversary together. Somehow that doesn’t seem gutless to me. (Although I have seen much better commercials in my time.)

From August 23rd through September 4th, Softly Dreaming is proud to announce our first ever Lesbian Film Festival!

The films will all be shorts no longer than 20 minutes in length. If you have a favorite short film, please submit it for all SD readers to enjoy.

Also, I am running a contest for the best name for the film festival. Will it be Dyke-arama Flicks? Will it be Lezzie F-Licks? You decide! The winner will receive their very own Moleskine Journal, the journal of prolific writers and artists throughout the years. You decide if you want graph, lined or blank sheets, depending on your proclivity. Want to see what else you can do with your Moleskine? Check out my past blog post, Hip Art. Fancy yourself the next Hemingway? Or perhaps Van Gogh? Then Moleskine is for you! I like the fact that they are soft leather bound, have an inside pocket that doesn’t interfere with your sketching or writing, and securely close with a hearty, yet stylish elastic strap and, of course, they are made for travel, so they slip in anywhere.

MOLESKINE IS THE HEIR OF THE LEGENDARY NOTEBOOK, USED BY EUROPEAN ARTISTS AND THINKERS FOR THE PAST TWO CENTURIES, FROM VAN GOGH TO PICASSO, FROM ERNEST HEMINGWAY TO BRUCE CHATWIN.

Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.

This trusty, pocket-sized travel companion held their sketches, notes, stories, and ideas before they became famous images or beloved books. The little black notebook, with its typical rounded corners, elastic closure, and expandable inner pocket, was originally a nameless object. It was produced by a small French bookbinder, that supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary and artistic avant-garde for more than a century. [Read More About Moleskine History]

The winner will be decided on the 23rd of August by 2:00 pm, so start logging your comments!

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