An audio recording of Eliza Steinbock's presentation at Get Bent on 26th August.

Most of the audio from the film clips has been removed.

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It was almost standing room only last night as people filled the foyer and bar of the Contact Theatre for 'Not Coming To A Cinema Near you' -- part of Get Bent's Film Festival.

Thirteen short films were screened. Four were introduced by their makers as we were lucky enough to have them in the audience: A Self-critical Sinner's Murder (Mercy Liao), Black or White? (Debbie Howard), Anxiety (Trent) and Grandma and the Monster (the Producer).

The evening closed with a classic queer film short, which was accompanied by Leeds-based band 7 Hertz.

Coming up right here on the website soon: video of the event, clips of the films and exclusive on-the-spot interviews with two of the film-makers.

Eliza Steinbock talks about her two presentations at Get Bent: 'Trans Youth' film shorts and 'EROTIXXX: Trans Porn Retrospective' (Sunday 26th August).

Eliza is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam: The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).

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Get Bent's fancy dress club night rocked, with colourful costumes and a raffle. Amongst the famous faces that turned up were: Joan of Ark, The Riddler, no fewer than two Doctor Whos (Eccleston & Tennant), the Pink Pound Fairy, Queer Rambo, a hydrosexual and Bob the Builder.

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This clip is also here on YouTube.

On Sunday 26th August 2007, the Bent Double Kings and Queens Cabaret Night was compered by Manchester's first and foremost seven foot tall tranny-punk-flaming-drag-queen-on-heat Mz Zsa Zsa Noir...

Seen here performing a song.

More clips from the cabaret coming up!

At the first event of this year's Get Bent, Ida Lukawska from the Culture For Tolerance LGBT Festival, Krakow, talked about the situation for LGBTQI people in Poland.

Get Bent is a safe space for all genders and sexualities and seeks to engage with and foster the possibility of creating queer-positive spaces.

Get Bent challenges the notion that you have to act or dress a certain way to be accepted.

Get Bent follows a DiY ethic, creating wide variety of programming by supporting diverse people to create diverse events.

Get Bent provides an alternative to commercial gay spaces by creating a queer autonomous space that is sex-positive without being sex-centered, doesn't depend on alcohol to have a good time, and is unafraid to put the politics back into pride.

Get Bent fosters a sense of community by being inclusive: all ages, all incomes, all abilities, all ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, regardless of HIV status, those who are comfortable in commercial gay spaces and those who aren't.

Everyone is welcome to participate in this celebration of queerness!