Silas Howard

Framing Agnes

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.

Framing Agnes

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 Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

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.

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

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 musicians created a do-it-yourself petri dish that changed the punk scene... and the world at large.

Don't Mess with Texas

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

Wrong Bathroom

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.

Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary

Interweaving performance footage, still photos and pointed interviews, filmmaker Tracy Flannigan provides an intriguing glimpse into the lives and psyches of in-your-face lesbian punk rockers Tribe 8. Based in San Francisco, the band is famous for breaking the rules on stage and everywhere else -- and cameras capture it all as the outrageous ladies kindle controversy from coast to coast. Bonus material includes deletes scenes.

By Hook or by Crook

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 sparked between these men and they become partners in crime.

Homocore Minneapolis

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.

Blue Diary

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.