SHOUT Shorts Docs: Exploring Community

Drag me to Church

Directed by Isabella Sullivan

12:34 • United States • Alabama Premiere

DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT

Worlds collide when a gay pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, bridges the gap between two divided communities by throwing a fabulous drag church service.

Rainbow Rider

Directed by Georgia Krause

25: 41 • United States • Southern U.S. Premiere

DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT

Rainbow Rider follows Shelle Lichti, an outspoken lesbian truck driver hauling freight across the country in her eponymous and iconic rainbow semi-truck.

There’s a Small Hotel

Directed by Michael Grodner

18:53 • United States • Southern U.S. Premiere

DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT

A short documentary about the Brevoort, an old Hollywood apartment building with a notorious past, that has been managed for the last 18 years by former Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro.

Love Birds

Directed by Elliott Kennerson and Angel Morris

27:40 • United States • Alabama Premiere

DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT

In 1972, when married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner discover that a great number of nesting seagull pairs on one of California's Channel Islands are all female, their research on “lesbian seagulls” triggers outrage and jubilation in a nation grappling with a growing LGBTQ+ rights movement while also threatening to tear apart their own relationship.