Stephanie Mannis

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• Posted Stephanie's QFest Diary for Saturday, July 18 – Sunday, July 19 to Phillyist
  Films: I Can't Think Straight, Changing Spots, Training Rules, St. Trinian's Future screenings: None I Can't Think Straight This clever film has all the makings of a good girl-meets-girl love story. Gorgeous, wealthy Jordanian Tala is engaged for the fourth time when she meets doe-eyed beauty Leyla in London. The two become fast friends, then lovers (in a smoldering scene that seemed to leave half the theater breathless). Leyla comes out to her traditional...
• Posted Stephanie's QFest Diary for Tuesday, July 14 to Phillyist
  Films: Tough Love (shorts program) Future screenings: None Tuesday night was full of more short film goodness, proving once again that good things do come in small packages. The evening line up included six films, all of which artfully told tales of lesbian love and lust in 23 minutes or less. The first standout in this group was "Mars," a German short depicting the sizzling sexual tension between a young photographer and her subject,...
• Posted Stephanie's QFest Diary for Monday, July 13 to Phillyist
  Films: Sexy Intentions (shorts program) Future screenings: None I love going to see shorts at film festivals, because there's a good chance that you won't get to see them any other time. And that's a shame, because some of them are pretty good. The two standouts in tonight's lineup were "Trophy," in which a teenager seduces her sultry stepmother-to-be, and "At Home (or Love as Well)," a Spanish film whose protagonist hires a call...
• Posted Phillyist Playlist: Girl in a Coma and Miss Derringer at The Khyber to Phillyist
  We sort of didn't want to like a band whose name is a blatant rip-off of a Smiths song. Then we slipped Trio B.C. into our CD player and sort of fell in love with Girl in a Coma (MySpace). Following quickly on the heels of the first tejano-inspired guitar notes of "BB," Nina Diaz's soulful voice grabbed us, then proceeded to kick us in the ass on the singalong-worthy "Static Mind." We're not...
• Favorited Circus Arts Showcase on Phillyist