Fifteen years of civil war in Liberia has resulted in one of the world’s worst doctor shortages and cut off the country’s rural poor from basic healthcare. Community health workers trained and equipped by the non-profit Last Mile Health are working to deliver lifesaving health services to the 1.2 million Liberians living in the most remote reaches of the country.
First place winner of HBO’s inaugural APA Visionaries contest. “What can I get to you?” That’s the question driving a conflicted young hustler who sells everything and anything to make money. As he code-switches through various cliques, he’s forced to confront racism as well as the immorality of his occupation.
Tales of the obsessed, depressed and Unexplained
Join us Saturday November 4th for The Video Club Film Mixer!
Come hear about the Video Club’s latest Film Project and watch a collection of short psychological films. Every ticket enters you in our special raffle that will be awarded at the end of the night. The raffle prize is a high valued item. Emerging and established filmmakers and talent come join like-minded individuals for a fun filled night of networking, short films and prizes.
6:30pm-7pm Meet and Greet complimentary drinks
7pm-7:10pm Short Night Captain Presentation
7:10pm-8:10pm Collection of Short Psychological Films
8:10pm-8:45pm Last call for drinks and raffle prize presentation.
$25 TO ATTEND Buy Here
Ticket includes two drink tickets and one raffle ticket with entry. 50% of all proceeded will be going to the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Organization.
Those unable to attend the event that would like to support the film can donate $25 here Donate Now
Raffle Prizes include:
1. One night stay at the Shattuck Plaza Hotel ($359)
2. Pictoclik Class Pass one year of film/talent workshops ($250)
3. Two General Orchestra tickets to Peaches Christ Production of TRIXIE & KATYA’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (November 18th, 2017 @ Castro Theatre 3pm ($60)
4. Women in Animation one year Membership The Membership includes screenings at Pixar and ILM, lectures, workshops and networking events. ($50)
5. Barnes & Nobles gift card ($30)
By Nicole De Meneses
It’s often been said that behind every great man is a great woman. In Joshua Grannell’s case, he is the exuberant filmmaker, performer behind the boisterous drag queen persona Peaches Christ. As a young boy growing up in suburban Maryland in the 80’s while other little boys were playing baseball, he was attending drama workshops and acting classes. Always drawn to the theatre and performing arts, he had no idea that what started off as playful make believe would lead to a successful international drag career.
From a young age, Joshua was naturally obsessed with movies. Some of his favorite films to consume were Poltergeist, E.T., and Jaws with a heaping helping of Hitchcock Presents for desert. It wasn’t until he was in junior High that he discovered the transgressive films of John Waters. Films like Pink Flamingos that were made in Maryland and were so far outside the Hollywood system that he realized directors could do more then just entertain, they could challenge societal norms and be outrageous.
As a teenager, Joshua’s cinematic tastes graduated to fantasy horror masters like Wes Craven and John Carpenter. Years later after graduating from Penn State and moving to San Francisco, Joshua started working for Landmark Cinemas and soon after pitched the idea for Midnight Mass. A slew of musical drag performances and outrageous antics followed suit. For a Halloween event in 2001, he made a short hybrid film parody of Halloween meets Mommy Dearest called Season of the Troll. The film initially made for Peaches fans was so well received that a film programmer wanted to screen the film for the Frameline Film Festival. The following year in 2002 Joshua made another parody film called Nightmare on Castro Street. Peaches Christ fans were growing outside of the midnight screenings and finding a more mainstream audience.
In 2003 Joshua decided to start his very own festival called The San Francisco Underground Film Festival. Pre-YouTube and Vimeo, longing for a way to showcase his friends’ works the festival was a way to celebrate the outlandish and shocking. That same year Joshua decided to make an original film called Grindhouse. The film followed a mousy librarian that owned her own theatre and was killing people in the short films that she was screening. This short sparked the idea for the feature film All About Evil. Fast forward to 2007 Joshua had finished the feature script. Alas independent films are made much like his mousey protagonist films with blood sweat and tears, it would be two more years until shooting would start in 2009. In 2010 All About Evil debut to a sold out crowd at The Castro Theatre with John Waters in attendance.
ALL ABOUT EVIL: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D kicked off a 20 city tour that would take Joshua all the way back to Baltimore. The cast was a who’s who of horror and cinematic icons like Cassandra Peterson of Elvira fame and one of the Dreamlanders, Mink Stole, a John Waters collaborator. Their eagerness to participate in the film came from the genuine friendships that Joshua had formed over the years with them celebrating their cult works at midnight screenings. What started as a social drag event party had allowed him to work with his childhood heroes and had turned work relationships into authentic friendships. That young boy who had idolized the works or Steven Spielberg and John Waters had become what he had always admired, a filmmaker.
Gore and glamor consume All About Evil’s Deborah played with wickedly twisted perfection by Natasha Lyonne. Deborah is a lonely librarian who killed her mother with a ballpoint pen in a violent rage. She is embolden with a taste for the blood of anyone who stands between her fledgling film career and beloved movie theatre. Deborah starts screening a series of grizzly short films in an attempt to save her father’s old theatre, the shorts bring in a new audience of gore hungry fans. Steven played by doe eyed Thomas Decker is a teenage fan who starts to suspect that there is more to Deborah’s films then red dye and corn syrup. All About Evil is a camptastic gore ride with practical effects that will shock and delight even the most seasoned horror hound.
Joshua credits his over the top, monstrous, wild, larger then life and politically incorrect Peaches Persona to Freddie Krueger from Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and John Waters principle collaborator Divine. It was his love of Freddie mixed with his love of Divine that ultimately inspired him to be Peaches Christ. You can see Joshua Grannell as Peaches Christ, Jinkx Monsoon and Bob The Drag Queen performing live at The Castro Theatre October 7th in Hocum Pokem @3pm & 8pm shows. You can purchase tickets to shows and get the All About Evil DVD at http://store.peacheschrist.com/
Join us on the red carpet November 11th as emerging and established filmmakers from around the world battle it out for trophies, prizes and official bragging rights. Doors open at 7pm for the pre-party and promptly at 8pm for the screening.
VIP tickets start at $25 and General Admission $15.
VIP includes: 2 drink tickets at the pre-party, keepsake program book, no wait entry lines, preferred seating in the theater, and screening.
Buy Now Early Bird $25 (sold out)| Regular $35 (sold out)
General Admission: 1 drink ticket at the pre-party, keepsake program book and screening.
Buy Now Early Bird $15 (sold out) | Regular $20 | At the door $30
Screening Only: keepsake program book and screening only. Program starts at 8pm.
Buy Now Regular $10 | At the door $15
2017 Short Film Line Up
“Monday” Dinh Thai | Drama
“The Tyranny of Distance” Gabriel Diamond | Documentary
“Stray Animals“ Maria Julia de Paiva | Drama
“The Rage” Alrik Bursell | Thriller
“Rabbit Blood” Yagmur Altan | Animation
“Chocolate” Dru Miller| Drama
“Girl Knight“ Deborah Attoinese | Dramedy
MONDAY | Drama
First place winner of HBO’s inaugural APA Visionaries contest. “What can I get to you?” That’s the question driving a conflicted young hustler who sells everything and anything to make money. As he code-switches through various cliques, he’s forced to confront racism as well as the immorality of his occupation.
THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE| Documentary
Fifteen years of civil war in Liberia has resulted in one of the world’s worst doctor shortages and cut off the country’s rural poor from basic healthcare. Community health workers trained and equipped by the non-profit Last Mile Health are working to deliver lifesaving health services to the 1.2 million Liberians living in the most remote reaches of the country.
STRAY ANIMALS | Drama
Olivia and Arthur spend their days away from home. They walk around the condominium, listen to music and dream of somewhere far away. The day Olivia discovers a stray cat in the woods is the first step into a journey of loss of innocence.
THE RAGE| Thriller
The Rage is a psychological thriller about relationships and the choices we make when we are angry.
RABBIT BLOOD | Animation
Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea.
CHOCOLATE | Drama
A suburban housewife and mother suddenly finds herself vulnerable, homeless and lost in downtown Los Angeles.
Chocolate is proudly endorsed by Alzheimer’s Greater Los Angeles and is qualified for the 2017 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Live Action Short Film category.
GIRL KNIGHT | Dramedy
Sixteen-year-old ISABEL is not your ordinary knight. She clanks around her lonely life trapped in her own armor until she meets DELILAH, a goth princess, in detention at school. Edging around each other at first, these two wounded souls learn to love by finding the courage to let their guard down.
