Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival 2009

Mom follows the odd couple Kelly (Emily Burton), a tightly wound, straight-laced reporter with major television market aspirations, and her camerawoman, Linda (Julie Goldman), a mellow, talkative butch who is only doing the job until she can open her own tattoo studio. They work for a marketing agency, clashing as they travel the country together in cramped, rickety cars, interviewing people for research purposes.

Everything gets a little funny when they arrive in the town Little Hope only to find their hotel reservations have been lost. With no hope of finding other accommodations in the midst of the biggest event of the year, the town's annual chili cook-off, they manage to squeeze into the local youth hostel. Butch Linda finds a happenin' Sapphic enclave, while Kelly is left out on her own to navigate the waters of life with bad cell phone reception. Linda runs into an old flame; Kelly struggles to fit in with her new surroundings while trying to pursue a lead for a television job back in New York.

When nothing goes quite as planned, the women are pushed from co-workers into actual friends and forge a bond worthy of the best buddy movies. Mom is an upbeat charmer that shouldn't be missed. --Cindy M Emch

Director Erin Greenwell will be in attendance
There will be an Ultra Ultra Party following the screening