Doors: 12PM; Movie: 12:30PM

Get Animated! was created to promote animation as one of the fine arts and bring together a wide variety of perspectives and styles to express LGBTQ voices and themes.
Presented with The ToonSeum.

Happy & Gay = (Dir: Lorelei Pepi) (11min)
“Happy and Gay” is a revisionist history document reflecting the form of a 1930’s-styled cartoon musical. This film’s goal is to be a “revisionist history” work, imitating the Hollywood cartoon of the 1930s. It’s main focus is aimed at responding to acts of censorship, prejudice and stereotype by re-placing a positive representation of gay and lesbian characters into a positively queer narrative.

100 Crushes Elisha Lim – (Dir: Elisha Lim) (2min)
Toronto-based artist Elisha Lim’s work celebrates the dignity and power of being neither straight, nor white, nor cis-gendered. In 2011 they also successfully advocated for Canadian gay media to adopt the gender neutral pronoun “they.”

Jayson – (Dir: Jeff Krell) (3min)
Jeffrey A. Krell is an openly gay American cartoonist, known for his long-running syndicated comic strip Jayson.[1]The strip is about Jayson Callowhill, a skinny farm boy who moves to Philadelphia searching for a job and a man, and has been described as “the gay Archie

Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure(Dir: Sam Berliner) (13 min)
Sam is a Bay Area-based filmmaker and animator best known for his engaging and accessible films about gender non-conformity. His award-winning short films, Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure, Genderbusters and Perception have screened at over 100 film festivals around the world and are distributed by CFMDC and Frameline Voices.

Beyond the Mirror’s Gaze – (Dir: Iris Moore) (4min)
Iris Moore is a Montreal based artist who is focused on painting, drawing and animation. In her animated film “Beyond The Mirror’s Gaze”, she explores the fantastical and surreal, with the intention of evoking the viewer’s sense of whimsy and wonder surrounding themes of gender

Bittersweet (Dir: Allen Martsch) (4 min.)
Jason, a shy teen, reluctantly writes a heartfelt candy gram message to his high school crush, Armando.

Operated by Invisible Hands (Nicole Brending) (6min)
Lauded at festivals around the world as one of the best short films of the year, “Operated by Invisible Hands” tells the story of two antique dolls who must confront their feelings for each other after a night of extraordinary passion. French with English Subtitles.