Malic Amalya is a femme-identified filmmaker currently living in Seattle. He has been heavily influenced by his grandfather's super 8 home movies, the fierce feminist politics of Riot Grrrl and queercore punk rock, and unrequited crushes on skaters.
Malic holds an MFA in Film/Animation/Video from theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago. He has presented his work at Yale University; Threat Level in Chicago; Sissies Artist Talks in Portland, OR; and the TransSomatechnics Conference held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. His films have also screened at festivals acrossNorth America, including the TIE Cinema Exhibition in Montreal, the Takoma Park Film Festival in Maryland, and the Olympia Film Festival in Washington State. He has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and Blue Sky Project in Dayton, OH, and has been awarded production grants from the Northwest Film Forum and Jack Straw Studios in Seattle, WA.
For more information about Malic, visit: www.malicamalya.com
Rhiannon Argo is a writer and photographer. Her debut novel TheCreamsickle won the 2010 Lambda Award in the Lesbian DebutFiction category. Her work has also been published in Baby Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing; It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style; The LowdownHighway Anthology; ArtXX; $pread Magazine; and Cutter Photozine. Rhiannon has toured nationally with the new wave ofSister Spit. She has been a Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat and Radar Lab Writer's Retreat fellow.
For more information about Rhiannon, visit:www.rhiannonargo.com
To purchase The Creamsickle, visit: www.bellabooks.com
The short story of Boots for Tula was originally published in Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing,edited by Michelle Tea. For this anthology, Tea gathered new work by twenty-two of the most outstanding emerging voices in queer girl writing. Fiction is matched in excitement by graphic novel excerpts and personal essays. Certain to become a literary touchstone for a new generation of writers and readers, Baby Remember My Name speaks to the broad range of queer girl experiences in work that is brave, irreverent, funny, sensitive, and hot. (ak press)For more information and to purchase Baby Remember My Name, visitwww.akpress.org
With no real acting experience to speak of, Sarah Lu (Ash/Sound Designer) saw a flier for Boots for Tula at her favorite feminist bookstore and felt compelled to audition because it brought together two of her favorite things: queerness and skateboarding. A radio producer and sound instructor based in Chicago, Sarah also designed the sound for the film. She currently makes radio, and teaches other people how to
Sarah also directed Scene 22H, Take 2 about the making of Boots for Tula for Chicago Public Radio. Listen to it by visiting http://www.wbez.org/Soundmarks_Archive.aspx
Teresa Klaban (Tula) lives in Los Angeles working in film production. She has been acting in both film and theater since childhood. However, while working as an extra on an independent film in Detroit, she fell in love with the production side of filmmaking. She majored in Directing at Columbia College in Chicago, and has directed a number of short films includingLemonomics.
Lianna Carrera (Deez)
Sarah Evans (Zoey)
Cameron Brainard (Baby Blue)
Kaylee Williams (Krista)
Brandon Sears (cinematographer)
Marie Martino (assistant director) is a queer filmmaker and librarian. She holds an MFA in Film/Animation/Video from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chris Shotwell (sound mixer and boom operator)
Haruko Fujimoto (1st AC and Head Grip)
Renato Velarde (director of photography for Super 8 skate scenes) is a filmmaker with over 10 years experience. He began shooting on super-8 and 16mm and now works as a director of photography and documentary director. His recent film Leg Before Wicket explores the tenuous relations between India and Pakistan through the lens of a Chicago Cricket team "the Giants" and their growing friendships.
Christa Donner (sketchbook artist) uses large-scale drawings and small-press publications to explore issues around the human body and body image. Her process often incorporates publicprojects and collaborations around narratives of bodily experience. Christa's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including Kravets-Wehby Gallery and Longwood Arts Project (NY); POST Gallery (Los Angeles); the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh); Wuthering Heights (Malmo, Sweden); the ANTI Festival of Contemporary Art(Kuopio, Finland); and the Centro Columbo Americano (Medellin, Colombia).
For more informatin about Christa, visit: www.christadonner.com
The Witches Of... is a seattle-based queercore band.
The Shondes (taking their name from the Yiddish word for "shame" or "disgrace") are a band from Brooklyn, NY. Their instrumentation includes drums (Temim Fruchter), bass (Louisa Solomon), guitar (Fureigh) and violin (Elijah Oberman) and vocals (primarily Solomon). Their music draws from feminist punk, classical and Jewish music, which combine to create songs that are often both heartbreaking and hopeful. They bring an infectious urgency to their live performances that gets audiences on their feet and singing along.For more information visit: www.shondes.com, www.facebook.com/theshondes, and www.myspace.com/theshondes
Actor Slash Model is the Chicago-based acoustic duet of Simon Strikeback and Madsen Minax. The two draw from bluegrass and folk roots, explore gender and sex positivity, and often incorporate costumes and vaudvillian performative styles.
For more information, visit: www.actorslashmodel.com
Tough Tough Skin takes the stage with a punk sensibility and a strong nod to the Homocore bands of the 90s. This Minneapolis rock trio draws on a range of influences, from classical and blues to riot grrl, and layers playful but propulsive bass and guitar with energetic vocals and breakneck rhythms that will shake you to your feet and get you on the floor.For more information, visit:www.toughtoughskin.com
Mathew Anderson is a music lover, maker, and unmaker living in Seattle, WA.
For more information about Mathew, visit: www.thankyouforlistening.org
Romanteek is a spectral pop-cabaret dance band from Olympia, WA. Over the last ten years, Romanteek has been crafting heart-throbbing jams, touring America and Europe on a mission to make people dance. The three piece band is simple, yet multi-dimensional. The tasteful reverb drenched guitar of Le Matt is complicated by the understated and steady drumming of Emerson Kwo. Keyboard and hand percussion are added by Ruby Valentine, who sews the sound together with her voice. Each song spins stories of love, magic, and the unknown.
For more information, visit: www.romanteek.com
C. Doty Run was formed in freshman classrooms in '99. This band likes Minneapolis, 40's, frisee, and bikes. Oh, and music.
For more information, visit: www.myspace.com/cdotyrun
Early to Bed is Chicago's radical, feminist sex toy shop and web-store.
Brown Elephant Resale Shops raise money to help fund serves for clients of Howard Brown, Chicago's queer health center.
Women and Children First is Chicago's independent, feminist bookstore.
Located in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood, T's is a neighborhood bar for everyone.
