Leah Land

Team Queen screens at the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
6pm October 8 2006
Portland, OR

Screening with “El Caliento”

El Calentito
Directed by Chus Gutiérrez
Sunday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m.
Spain, 2005, 90 minutes, subtitled

With El Calentito’s declaration that “the fight is on the stage,” as exclaimed by one of the members of the all female punk band Las Sioux, director Chus Gutierrez portrays the attitude of the young people who lived through a tumultuous period in recent Spanish history. On the eve of a military coup in 1981, Las Sioux are preparing for a musical showcase for a music company they hope will produce their first album. The band rehearse and performs at the club El Calentito owned by a sassy and fearless transsexual who acts as a surrogate mother to the girls. As unfolding political events jeopardize their gig, Las Sioux, become steadfast in their passion to be one of the greatest punk bands the world has ever seen! With a comical and free-spirited exuberance, El Calentito embodies an era full of libertarian energy in which sexual and gender liberation, equality for women, and homosexuality began to exert itself on Spanish culture. Filled with witty performances and with great punk numbers, El Calentito is out, loud and in your face!