Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival 2008

When beer-swilling, sports-playing Tyler Davidson (Derek James) invites his college buddy Chase (the sultry Canadian-born Charlie David) to spend the summer holidays with the picture-perfect Davidson family, things just don’t click between Chase and the hot local girls. Soon, Chase comes out, and Tyler unexpectedly has to cope with having a gay best friend. But while Tyler’s doing an admirable job of coming to terms with his own discomfort, a few more surprises begin to brew. In a brilliantly turned subplot, Tyler’s mother Stacey (Thea Gill from "Queer as Folk") yanks Birdy – the family’s precocious eight-year-old – away from her carnal explorations with a local boy and also discovers her husband Nathan (Dan Payne) locking lips with someone else. Set amid the casual, polite homophobia of the upper middle class, Mulligans is a fresh and multi-layered take on the coming-out genre. With grace and sensitivity, director Chip Hale shows that a confession of queerness doesn’t have to end relationships, even if it changes things forever. - Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival Director Chip Hale in attendance! Sponsored by the Hyatt Regency

In the dead of night, in the middle of an isolated wind farm, two out-of-work computer programmers run a man over, killing him. By his body, they find a bag stuffed with cash. Bank robber? Drug dealer? Who cares? Two million Euros staring you in the face and no witnesses – what would you do? Vigo and Sylvain don't take long to make up their minds. The following day, a blind girl is found dead in a warehouse near the scene of the accident. What if the money was destined to pay her ransom? Did the killer see the hit-and-run drivers? Then another girl is kidnapped, and worse, she's a diabetic. The clock is ticking. The police in the provincial town of Dunkerque start to panic. They are ill equipped to deal with such crimes. Helped by her attentive colleague Norman, rooky cop Lucie embarks on her first major investigation. Sponsored by Fantastic Fest