Painting the Spectrum 2012 concludes next week with three films—Weekend, The Kids are All Right and Kickoff—and an open mic evening.
According to a press release, tomorrow, the film Weekend will be screened at the festival’s venue, Sidewalk Café. Weekend reveals what happens after Russell heads out to a gay club following a drunken house party with his straight mates. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. The open mic night, Caribbean Spectrum Celebration, is on Monday and features poetry, song, dance, praise and testimonies.
The film festival closes on Tuesday with two comedies. The Kids are All Right tells the story of Nic and Jules, a married lesbian couple living in California. They have each given birth to a child using the same sperm donor. Nic, an obstetrician, is the primary breadwinner and the stricter parent, while Jules, a housewife who is starting up a landscape design business, is more laid back. The younger child Laser wants to find his sperm donor but has to be 18 to do so. He begs his 18-year-old sister Joni to contact the sperm bank and determines that Paul is the donor. The three meet and much drama ensues.
The second film Kickoff is about the a 5-aside football match between Platoon FC – a newly formed gay team with its own problems; and Bethnal Reapers – the hardest meanest Sunday team with convicts on the run and other misfits. The drama escalates at a breathless comic pace until the grand climax: the penalty shoot-out – as the police swoop in.
Admission is free and all screenings and events start at 7 pm and are intended for mature audiences.
