THREAT LEVEL: AN EVENING OF QUEER SHORTS

A quarterly screening of queer short film and video work hosted for the first time simultaneously in Chicago and Brooklyn! 

Wednesday Dec 16th

The Nightingale
1048 N Milwaukee
Doors 7pm / Screening 7:30pm
$5-10

ALSO AT...

Collect Pond
45 Berry St. (corner of 11th St.)
Brooklyn, NY
Doors 8pm / screening 8:30
$5-10

After nearly two years of continual success in Chicago, the screening will now be simultaneously held in Chicago and Brooklyn.  Live-feed video connection between the two sites will provide the audiences the opportunity to connect with other queer short film appreciators 800 miles away.

All proceeds benefit current film projects of MamSir Productions, Moving Train Media and Actor Slash Model.

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MARCH yer ass to this month's Threat Level for an evening of queer short film and video!!

Friday, March 27th
Elegant Mr. Gallery
1355 N. Milwaukee 3rd Fl
Doors at 7:30 / Screening at 8:00
$5-10 sliding scale

Proceeds from Threat Level go to film projects of co-curators MamSir
Productions, Moving Train Media, and Actor Slash Model.

List of featured films forthcoming...

THREAT LEVEL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts is Chicago's bi-monthly screening of queer short film and video work.  We are currently accepting submissions for our March 27th screening at Elegant Mr. Gallery in Chicago.

Is it queer?  Then we want it!  Are you queer?  Send it our way!

Submissions must be:

- postmarked by March 13th
- In English or with English subtitles
- submitted on DVD
- 20 minutes or less in length

**We are also accepting submissions for our May screening: MUSICALS!  All the guidelines are the same as above, and this time we're challenging you to combine film, drama, and music to produce some serious fabulousness!
Submissions due May 1st**


Please send submissions to:

Threat Level
c/o Rosskam/Feder
1265 W. Early #2
Chicago, IL 60660

Once you submit your piece, it will be entered into our collection for this and future screenings.  Please know you will not get this copy back! If you are selected for the March or May screening, we will ask for a mini-DV master, which will be returned after the event.

Threat Level is co-created and co-curated by the members of MamSir Productions, Moving Train Media and Actor Slash Model.  Proceeds from the series benefits these filmmakers' current projects which each address transgender artists, activists and communities.

Actor Slash Model, Moving Train Media and MamSir Productions are fiscally sponsored by Beyondmedia Education (501c3).

CALL FOR JANUARY SUBMISSIONS - QUEER TEEN ROMANCE!

We are challanging you to make the best/worst queer teen romance movie that you have always (secretly) wanted to make. Think camp, satire,
drama, animation, experimental; just make sure it's under 20 minutes,
queer, teen, and romance! Even if you've never picked up a camera
before, now is the perfect time. Harness your fabulousness and make
sweet movie love!

*Submissions due January 6th*

Threat Level is a bi-monthly film and video screening series
organized and curated by Sam Feder, Madsen Minax, Jules Rosskam and
Simon Strikeback to screen works made by or featuring
queer-faggot-dyke-homo-tranny-..inbetween the lines freaks.

F**king, S**king, F*sting and BJs - A Hot Night of Queer Porn

Featuring guest curator Barbara DeGenevieve!

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10th
Elegant Mr Gallery
1355 N Milwaukee
Doors at 7:30, Screening begins at 8:00
$5-10
**18+ over**

Check out this steamy lineup!

Two Girls and Guy - Sheree Hovsepian
ace goldberg, j.
that kilted faggot and jj bitch - Tobaron Waxman
Double Side - Monashee Franz
Auto Play (excerpt) - Stacy Goldate
pricks - alex and ceven
How to Ejaculate: a guide for girls - Courtney Kelley
Trailer from Porn Shot - The Tongue-n-Cheeks Collective

And excerpts from ssspread. com, directed by curator Barbara DeGenevieve-

Love Motel
Home Movies
Can I please come?
Out of the Woods
Bedtime Story
Daddy's Girl

Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts presents...

F**king, S**king, F*sting and BJs - A Hot Night of Queer Porn

Featuring guest curator Barbara DeGenevieve!

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10th
Elegant Mr Gallery
1355 N Milwaukee
Doors at 7:30, Screening begins at 8:00
$5-10
**18+ over**

Stay tuned for the night's steamy lineup...!

Don't forget! Threat Level! This Monday! 7:30 pm! Elegant Mr. Gallery!

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING PEOPLE?!?!


Day Stripper (2007, 4 mins)
Gail gets an unexpected birthday surprise at the office.
Written and Directed by David Jahn who earns his bread and butter
acting for tv and commercials.

King County (2008, 7 mins)
A community theatre company searches for the next 80s movie to turn
into a Broadway Smash!
Written and Directed by David Quantic
Produced by Cindy Peters, who earns her bread and butter as a tv art coordinator
With a large cast and crew of queer industry folks!

Diegesis (2007, 12 mins)
A re-telling of the story of Ulysses' return to Penelope from Penelope's
perspective, as interpreted by three different actresses playing the
same role.
Written and Directed by James Greer in between screenwriting feature films
Produced and Edited by Stacy Goldate in between editing television
Director of Cinematography Ava Berkofsky, in between shooting television

The Jizz Party (2008, 9 mins)
Coco wants to get pregnant, and Evie's got the plan to make it happen.
Written and Directed by Richard Day, an executive producer and writer
for television
Executive Produced by and Co-Starring Jack Plotnick who acts for tv
Produced by Michael Warwick, a television casting associate

The Perfect Ones (2007, 8 mins)
An amnesia-stricken suburban housewife wanders into an underground
punk club and discovers a new way of life.
Directed by Nao Bustamante and Matt Johnstone, who makes his bread and
butter publicizing feature films.
Director of Cinematographer Allison Kelley shot this in between television gigs.
Editor Susan Kim worked as a TV Assistant Editor while editing this film.

La Corona (2008, 30 mins)
The contestants are murderers, guerrillas, and thieves. The winner
will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a
role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her
cell.
Directed by Isabel Vega and Amanda Micheli
Isabel earns her bread and butter as director of cinematography and
director for television.
Amanda earns her bread and butter and a director of cinematography for
films and television.
Editor Luis Colina earns his bread and butter editing television and
feature films.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!!
Threat Level; an evening of queer shorts – One Year Anniversary

We know, we can hardly believe it ourselves, but our one-year anniversary is right around the corner! Since it is a special time for Threat Level, we are working on a very special program. Remember growing up and watching all those teen romances, where the girl always get the boy, but never the girl you know she not-so-secretly desires? Well, we've had it with reading-between-the-lines, not to mention creating an entirely different plot just to get our rocks off.

Threat Level presents: Queer Teen Romance. We are challenging all of you to make the best/worst short queer teen romance you always new you wanted to, but never had the right forum. Think camp, satire, drama, animation, experimental: just make sure it's queer, teen, and romance! Even if you've never picked up a camera before, now is the perfect time. Get some under-aged looking queers, a camera, come glitter and make sweet movie-love!

Videos/films should not exceed 20 minutes, can be any genre, and shot with anything you can get your hands on. Submissions must be received by no later than January 9th, 2009. This is an arrival date, not a post-mark date.

Send all submissions to:

"Threat Level"
c/o Feder/Rosskam
1265 W. Early Ave 2
Chicago, IL.
60660

Please send only NTSC, DVD's.
*Be sure to include*: a one sentence description of the work and
contact info for the filmmaker (including email, phone, and address).

Threat Level Queer Shorts is a bi-monthly film and video screening series organized and curated by Sam Feder, Madsen Minax, Jules Rosskam and Simon Strikeback to screen works made by or featuring queer-faggot-dyke-homo-tranny-inbetween-the-liners-freaks! This event is put on to support the filmmaking duos of Feder/Rosskam and Minax/Strikeback as they raise funds and awareness for their current documentary film projects, respectively exploring trans feminism and gender identity in music performance. To learn more about their work visit http://www.julesrosskam.com http://www.samfeder.com or http://www.actorslashmodel.com

Check out our myspace page: http://myspace.com/threatlevelqueershorts

Threat Level is back with a vengeance folks... So we've taken the summer off, and now we're gonna start this season off right. that's right, put on your Sunday's best and get all your butts on out to kick off another round of THREAT LEVEL QUEER SHORTS!!! Join us Monday September 22nd At Elegant Mr. Gallery 1355 N. Milwaukee Ave. 3rd Floor to welcome guest curator Stacy Goldate and... In Between the Bread and Butter Passion Films of Hollywood Queers This program of shorts features films and videos by queer folks working full-time in the television and film industry. Whether as a production assistant, gaffer, actor, editor, director, producer, etc, these artists have found time during their professional careers to make their own independent projects on their own terms, without studio funding. These films are a testament to the fact that Hollywood has many passionate queer filmmakers who have found a way to earn a living doing what they love, without compromising their ability to make their own work. "In Between the Bread and Butter" is curated by Stacy Goldate, who earns her bread and butter editing for television ("Cities of the Underworld," "The Mole") and edits and writes independent films whenever she finds the time ("Her Life as a Gigolo," "Dominatrix Waitrix," "Dive.") Come wearing your most fabulous suits and gowns and inbetweens!! cuz we're gonna walk the red carpet, for real. Doors open at 7:30, screening begins at 8pm Threat Level Queer Shorts is a bi-monthly film and video screening series organized and curated by Sam Feder, Madsen Minax, Jules Rosskam and Simon Strikeback to screen works made by or featuring queer-faggot-dyke-homo-tranny-inbetween-the-liners-freaks! This event is put on to support the filmmaking duos of Feder/Rosskam and Minax/Strikeback as they raise funds and awareness for their current documentary film projects, respectively exploring trans feminism and gender identity in music performance. To learn more about their work visit http://www.samfeder.com or http://www.actorslashmodel.com Threat Level accept submissions year round. If you have a short film or video you'd like to submit to Threat Level, please send of DVD of your piece to "Threat Level" c/o Feder, 1265 W. Early #2, Chicago, IL 60660.

Join us for another fabulous evening of queer shorts at

THREAT LEVEL June 12th, 8PM

The line up is:

Dirty Baby, /Todd Downing/
The Pain With Being Thirsty, /David Yun /
Voodoo Engine, /Basic Fix/
Still Black (trailer), /Kortney Ryan Zeigler and Awilda Rodriguez /
Desire in Three Places, /Amber Bemak /

The Selected Works of Malic Amalya
"He-She's, Bearded Ladies, and Other Monstrosities"
"Training Tapes"
"Room 206"
"Untitled"
"Gossamer Walls"
"Eddie, Pam, Gary, Sue"
"Window Dancing"

*Local Chicago filmmaker Malic Amalya will be in the house to present his body of work
and to answer all of your questions. Don't miss out on this great filmmaker!

*Doors open at 7:30PM, show starts at 8PM
Elegant Mr. Gallery -- 1355 N. Milwaukee Ave. 3rd Floor
$5-10 sliding scale donation -- all proceeds go towards local queer and trans film/video productions
Our now famous Sangria (red and white) will be for sale as well for $3 a glass

*please spread the word!!

*if you're not already, please be our MySpace friend: www.myspace.com/threatlevelqueershorts