This entertaining collection of lesbian-friendly cinema features five films, four of them making their premiere on DVD.
CARMELITA TROPICANA
An East Village Latina performance artist winds up in jail with some other riot girls.
WINNER – Teddy Bear, Berlin Film Festival
WINNER – Audience & Critics Award, Frameline SF Int. Lesbian & Gay FF
PLAYING THE PART
A college girl wants to come out to her parents, but her angst-ridden efforts keep on ending in futility.
“Enthralling.” -New York Times
“One of the Year’s Best Short Films”
-Film Comment
JUMPING THE GUN
The morning after a one-night stand, a woman fantasizes about her life together with the sleeping beauty, from honeymoon to breakup.
“An intriguing romantic fantasy.”
-New York Times
LITTLE WOMEN IN TRANSIT
12-year-old Jennie is seated in the back seat of the station wagon, wedged between her two jeering sisters, enduring that special hell – the family car trip.
LAVENDER LIMELIGHT:
From GO FISH to PARIS IS BURNING to THE WATERMELON WOMAN, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors as they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and of course, love and sex, onscreen and off. Featuring Cheryl Dunye, Rose Troche, Jennie Livingston, Monika Treut, Maria Maggenti, Su Friedrich and Heather MacDonald.
“Inspirational & Funny A must-see!”
-San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
“Enthralling & Intimate!”
-Outfest Los Angeles
Rating: 
(out of 3 reviews)
List Price: $ 24.95
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November 8, 2010
#1
Review by Amos Lassen
Rating:
“Lesbian Nation”
Five Lesbian Shorts
Amos Lassen
“Lesbian Nation” is a collection of five lesbian films that is both entertaining and thought provoking.
“Carmelita Tropicana” is about a Latina performance artist who is mugged one night after her gig by a thief carrying a knife. The next day she is arrested at a demonstration with anti-abortion protesters and she, Orchid, her animated friend and Sophia, her uptight sister are arrested. She is put in a cell with another woman who just happens to be the person who mugged her the night before. Relationships develop between the two pair of women and among the four of them and they all go through changes during their time in jail.
“Lavender Limelight” looks at successful Lesbian film directors and goes behind the scenes with them. We see Jenny Livingston, Monika Treut, Cheryl Dunye, Maria Magnetti, Rose Troche, Su Freidrich and Heather Mac Donald.
“Playing the Part” is the story of Mitch and her girlfriend Chat who does not know that he is gay. Cat is off to London after graduation and Mitch thinks about her family a great deal. She decides to tell them during the winter break from school and she wonders how they will react.
“Little Women in Transit” is about a family and three sisters, Dana, Jenny and Lisa. Jenny is son to become a seventh grader. The three sisters begin teasing each other and Jen bears the worst of the teasing. She debates whether to defend herself or not.
November 8, 2010
#2
Review by Matthew
Rating:
you never know what you’re going to get when you go into the unknown… but this was a well selected set of shorts by lesbian filmmakers. they’re not lesbian erotica, if that’s what you’re looking for, but they’re not short of women-loving-women. it’s just that, in these films, the real love is usually coming from behind the director’s camera. they’re more about the film-making, which makes sense because one of the films is a nice little documentary of interviews with lesbian filmmakers called “lavender limelight.” of the group, my favorite was “carmelita tropicana,” which feels almost like a documentary because the rawness of the footage in ’80s east village. “playing the part” was quite great to, a great little documentary about how a college-age woman (the film maker) approaches her relationship to her family and herself, how she appears in different contexts. but, this collection is great because it brings together a set of what would-be forgotten short films. overall, you just wish there were more.
November 8, 2010
#3
Review by Aliyah A. Abdullah
Rating:
This is a stupid movie. I completely regret paying what I paid 4 it. $15 I think. I wish I could get rid of it