Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival: Two-Spirit Reelness Spotlight

Join us for the Vancouver premier of TWO SOFT THINGS, TWO HARD THINGS, a must-see documentary on the making of Nunavut's first LGBT2Q+ Pride celebration. Stick around after the film for the workshop, Two-Spirit Directions with Harlan Purden. Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/kmOS9EjSLfU Tickets on sale now: http://queerfilmfestival.ca/films/two-soft-things-two-hard-things/ Vancouver Queer Film Festival, along with guest curator Harlan Pruden of Two Spirit Journal, present Two‐Spirit REELness – a three‐film spotlight and workshop on Indigenous stories, sponsored by Vancity. Thank you to our Community Partners: Full Circle: First Nations Performance, Gvncs Two-Spirit, Salmon n' Bannock Bistro, UBC Jane Rule Endowment, and Two Spirit Journal. Details about the spotlight: http://queerfilmfestival.ca/blog/first-spotlights-of-2016-announced/ Directors Mark Kenneth Woods and Michael Yerxa bring us the best-titled film of the festival – an exploration what happens when a remote Arctic community decides to hold an LGBT2Q+ pride celebration. Two Soft Things provides insightful historical grounding on how colonization, religion, forced migration, and cultural assimilation have impacted gender and sexuality in Inuit culture. Then the focus shifts – as it should -- to Inuit traditions of sexuality and gender that predate colonial notions of pride and queerness. The film also covers recent activities in Iqaluit, including the origins of annual pride events and new high school initiatives. This layered doc is a labour of love that asks important questions about cultural survival, the process of regaining histories, and what self-determination may bring. Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things | Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa | Canada | 2016 | 71 min | English, Inuktitut with English subtitles