The 22nd annual Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival closes today with four screenings at Tampa Theatre. CL was able to preview two of the films, including the rousing festival closer Leave It On The Floor (7 p.m.) and the drama Judas Kiss (3 p.m.). Also on tap: Walking Toward (5 p.m.), an Italian film about two women in love, one a Bosnian immigrant with a troubled past (preceded by the short film The Evening Room by local director Victoria Jorgensen); and Angel (1 p.m.), a documentary with perhaps the most intriguing premise of any in this year's festival: it's about a former champion boxer who has left his native Ecuador and become a transvestite prostitute in Paris, and what happens when he returns home.
Reviews of Judas Kiss and Leave It On The Floor after the break:
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.