Brontez Purnell
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Biography: Brontez Purnell is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down (2017), and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers, and member of former band Gravy Train!!!!; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.
Department: Acting
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape
Overview: Dancer, musician, artist, and publisher of the cult queer zine Fag School, Brontez Purnell makes his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical "video mix tape" by produced Jack Shamama and NakedSword Film Works. Relying on his punk rock aesthetic to give the world a peek into his singularly unique perspective, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape takes the viewer on an unforgettable ride that's as audacious as it is experimental.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-01
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Gravy Train!!!! Stame the Batch!
Overview: Get to know Chunx, Funx, Hunx & Junx up close and personal on stage and behind the scenes in the first-ever authorized bootleg of the world's raunchiest bubblegum dance troupe ever...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-24
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Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
Overview: A pandemic-era reunion special of Patrik-Ian Polk’s groundbreaking ’Noah’s Arc’ series.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-29
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I Want Your Love
Overview: After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse's already bittersweet feelings about leaving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-12
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Together People
Overview: Meet Gary, a disillusioned queen obsessed with status and “Quality of Life,” who’s living close to the edge, all the while pining for a garden cottage in Noe Valley. Vulgar people, sadistic people, ripped-off people—wherever and whenever people are falling apart, you'll find them: the Together People.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-15
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3: Fuck Boy Anthem / How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Overview: 100 Boyfriends Mixtape 3: Fuck Boy Anthem/How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a choreofilm/video zine mixtape that was made in intervals in the summer of 2020; it’s one of three mixtapes in a series Purnell conceptualized as video zine versions of his 20-year running print zine Fag School. The videos also give his recently published book of short stories, flash fiction, and stories told-in-verse, 100 Boyfriends, its name and inspiration.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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I Want Your Love
Overview: After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse's already bittersweet feelings about leaving.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-19
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)
Overview: Set in an urban fairytale, DeShawn (an unlikely anti-hero) is smack-dabbing in the middle of a peculiar crossroads. He is haunted by the ghosts of one hundred men: ex-“boyfriends,” in addition to the ghosts of everyone they dated. His days are filled with spiraling epiphanies and lucid, reckless bohemianism fueled by systemic poverty and HIV ennui. In this particular sketch he is relating his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline telephone while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of jeans that he recently shoplifted from Levi’s. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2017 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, a program of seven videos prioritizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-10
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Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock
Overview: An investigation of the life of experimental, gay, black SF based choreographer Ed Mock - and his death of AIDS in 1986.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-23
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Everything But The World
Overview: Human past and future intersect in a non-linear, natural history meta-documentary about ourselves: Homo sapiens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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We Are Pat
Overview: Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms. Decades later, and now an out trans filmmaker, Haber still grapples with Pat’s legacy. Thirty-five years after It’s Pat first aired, Haber assembles a group of queer and trans comedians, writers, and even Sweeney herself to revisit the character. Through conversation and critique, they aim not to erase Pat but to reframe them, transforming a symbol of ridicule into one of reflection and empowerment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-08
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