Movies: Silas Howard

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to...

After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time. When an unexpected occurrence...

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. A...

A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities....

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access....

In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing ...

Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is spar...

A Yoruba & Igbo and Filipinx transgender couple nest a pregnancy in their love and give light to possibilities outside of a binary world....

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the inspiring 924 Gilman Street collective. This diverse group of artists, writers, organizers and...

A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends....

Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told thro...

A transgender teen is sent to a science-based conversion camp by his family and quickly learns that the youth there are being converted into something less than human....

Gender specific restroom spaces are challenging places for gender non-normative people and single parents! This film not only takes a candid look at this issue through a humorous lens and explores the movement to make restroom safe for everyone....

"The Golden Age of Hustlers" captures the 1970's gay hustler scenes of pre-HIV/AIDS era on Polk St in San Francisco from an insider's experience....

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl....

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers....

A comic morality tale about two cocky young lesbians who bite off more than they can chew at a Texas roadside diner....

Documentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on queer punk groups. Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires, and The Butchies....

Bambi Lake, a notorious San Francisco transgender performer and entertainer, takes us on a stroll down Polk Street, sharing anecdotes and the history behind her song Golden Age of Hustlers, which was written about her time as a street hustler in the ...

Seven transgender and gender nonconforming individuals share their unique experiences with Silas Howard....