Tickets: available online and at the door (5-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds). A portion of the night’s proceeds will be donated to Bay Area Workers Support.

Valencia is an experimental feature collaboration of 20 directors each adapting a chapter of Michelle Tea’s award-winning, underground classic memoir of the same name. The result is a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District in the early 1990s, before the dot-com apocalypse, when the neighborhood functioned as a low-rent playground for a generation of punk lesbians who came of age during the birth of the Queer Nation. Valencia documents the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora through the experience of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.

In person: Clement Greenberg & Michelle Tea, filmmakers Chris Vargas and Cary Cronenwett, and the “Michelle” leading actor Lil Miss Hot Mess. 

Credits and Poster Illustrator Amanda Verwey

Filmmakers in chapter order: Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Lares Feliciano, Clement Goldberg, Sara St Martin Lynne and Michelle Lawler, Dia Felix, Silas Howard, Alexa Inkeles, Jerry Lee, Peter Anthony, Sharon Barnes, Cary Cronenwett, Courtney Trouble, Cheryl Dunye, Bug Davidson, Samuael Topiary, Olivia Parriott, Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans, Joey Soloway

Produced by Clement Goldberg and Michelle Tea

Awards:
Jury Award For Best Experimental Feature at Polari Film Festival 2013 and
Jury Award For Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling Film Festival 2013