One Minute Time Machine

"Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions. Directed by Devon Avery. Selected for the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of coolest short films and the filmmakers that make them."

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Short Film: Out Smart

From the filmmakers:

What if you had to come out smart the way you come out gay? In our short film "Out Smart," a teenage boy faces his parents' shock and outrage when he "comes out." He's not gay, though. He's smart! We made the film as a tool to talk about coming out. "Out Smart" satirizes the most common objections made to those who come out LGBT. We hope this unusual context makes these remarks seem as ridiculous and hurtful as they are. We also hope the not-yet-out LGBT person might feel emboldened by that -- and certainly less alone. Nearly 50 chapters of PFLAG nationwide have screened "Out Smart," from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Kauai, Hawaii, and Juneau, Alaska. Schools and churches, too. It's won 6 awards and 8 nominations and appeared in two dozen film festivals around the world.

Cute and well-acted.

Richard Blanco - Until We Could

I got to see this gorgeous short back in April at the tenth anniversary celebration of Freedom To Marry. The Daily Beast recaps:

It is a decade since the U.S. first state, Massachusetts, enshrined marriage equality in law, and since the founding of campaign group Freedom To Marry (FTM). It has been a fruitful, frustrating decade, a bizarre range of weather systems of advances and losses—but mainly now, finally, advances. To mark the 10 years, FTM commissioned Richard Blanco, the poet for Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013, to write a poem commemorating the decade. So powerful was the result, titled “Until We Could,” the organization then commissioned a video to bring Blanco’s words to evocative life.

The poem's text is at the link above.

(Tipped by JMG reader David)