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!

The Get Bent International Film Festival in Manchester brings you more than thirty original films from around the world. This showreel is a brief taste of some of them.

Join us for four days of film, debates, parties and more...

Get Bent! Short Films

Friday, August 31, 2007 20.00 - 00.00
At the Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester

Friday, August 31, 2007 20.00 - 00.00
At the Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester

The cutting-edge of underground queer film-making from across the country and beyond comes to the Contact Theatre. Get Bent! has selected ten cinematic gems that explore the darkest and most humorous recesses of contemporary life.

The evening rounds off with a special performance by instrumental four-piece, 7 Hertz accompanying a black and white queer cult classic. Followed by DJs and late bar.

Warning: Contains explicit material.
This event is wheelchair accessible. Please contact filmfest(AT)get-bent-manchester.com for any further information.

Get Bent! Documentaries: Life in Motion

Saturday 1st September 13.00 - 19.00
At the Council Chambers, Manchester University Students Union, Oxford Rd.

Life in Motion is a wheelchair accessible event.

Please contact filmfest(AT)get-bent-manchester.com for any further information.

The music on the showreel is 'Faux Feminism' by Vile Vile Creatures

Get Bent Manchester Collective's Festival Wish List...

Big Bent Logistical Spreadsheet of Niceness & Queeries Coming Soon...

Keep checking back for more organised lists of tasks and simple ways for anyone and everyone to get involved in making Get Bent 2007 happen!

NOTE: this document is from Get Bent 2007

Calling for submissions! Bands, Musicians, DJs, Workshops, Skill-shares...

Hello lovely people...
Get Bent, Manchester's celebration of queer diversity, is coming up FAST!

For more information on just what Get Bent is, visit:
http://www.myspace.com/getbentmanchesterqueers
We are now ready to accept submissions to share your amazing talents!
(Clear entry forms are to follow, keep checking our website for full details!).
URGENT! For BANDS/ SOLO MUSICIANS/ DJS to perform Saturday September 1st, WE NEED TO HAVE COMPLETE DETAILS FROM YOU AND YOUR AVAILABILITY BY MONDAY 6TH AUGUST, DUE TO FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING DEADLINE!
Please contact us directly:
getbentinforiseup.net
To facilitate a WORKSHOP or SKILL-SHARE for Saturday Sept 1st:
Please contact us directly:
getbentinfo(AT)riseup.net

Please note: if you are interested in performing of hosting a workshop, but are not available these dates, please contact us anyway and we will pass your information on to other members of the Get Bent Manchester collective working on other programming throughout the week.
Remember, Get Bent is a 10 day festival this year and we will try to accommodate you !
To submit a FILM for the GET BENT film festival on Friday Aug 31st and Saturday Sept 1st:
Please contact Mike directly at:
mikewupton(AT)hotmail.com
ON REMUNERATION (that means dosh!):
Because Get Bent is a DiY festival and has yet to receive any major sources of funding, we are unable to pay any of you amazing talented people, and are relying on your big hearts and yer passion to create amazing queer positive spaces. This unfortunately also means that we won't be able to guarantee assistance with travel costs... HOWEVER, we do appreciate that some of you may be coming great distances and we don't want to exclude people based on the ability to pay for travel. So when you email us about performing/ facilitating, please include whether travel costs will be an issue for you. If we do end up receiving funding or make any profit on the festival (and you've kept receipts for yer travel costs) we will try to reimburse you.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS:
Email...
getbentinfo(AT)riseup.net
Websites...
http://www.get-bent-manchester.com

http://www.myspace.com/getbentmanchesterqueers

http://www.youtube.com/getbentmanchester
Why not join our Get Bent Facebook Group?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2420793556
Or join our logistical/organisational email list by sending a blank email to...
getbent-subscribe(AT)lists.riseup.net
GET BENT COLLECTIVE
www.get-bent-manchester.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Collective forms to plan inclusive summer queer festival
Since the 5th June 2007, a group of activists, artists and community organisers from Manchester’s queer community has been meeting regularly to plan this year’s Get Bent festival.
Get Bent was created in 2005 as a positive and proactive response to the lack of non-commercial queer space in Manchester.
Run by the Kaffequeeria collective, the festival featured live music, spoken word, performance art, film and discussion.
Building on Kaffequeeria’s successes, this year a new collective has formed to create a bigger event.
Get Bent will serve as a safe space for all genders and sexualities to come together in celebration – creating a wide variety of programming by supporting diverse people to create diverse events.
It is open to all ages, all incomes, all abilities, all ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, to all people regardless of HIV status, to those who are comfortable in commercial gay spaces and those who aren’t.
Get Bent will take place at various locations in and around the Manchester area from Friday 24th August to Sunday 2nd September 2007.
"I think it’s unfortunate when people are unable to celebrate their community because of barriers like cost. That’s why creating alternatives is so important." Fergus, a member of the Get Bent Collective
"I want to celebrate the creativity of the queer community – to share in the art and ideas of its members" Gemma, a member of the Get Bent Collective
"Over the years I have become increasingly disillusioned with the commercialisation of gay festivals. Marching in London for the repeal of section 28 made me feel proud; sitting passively in a bar getting drunk certainly doesn’t!" Rachel, a member of the Get Bent Collective

"You’re not the only gay outside the village!" The Get Bent Collective 2007