Todd Verow

In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hard core movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down. (imdb)

Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything. (imdb)

An experimental feature film about people in different cities who are trying to escape their loneliness through love, lust or a combination of both. (imdb)

The story of The Hoist, one of London's only leather bars, gay sex from decriminalisation to Grindr, taking in police entrapment, the Spanner case, safer sex and Section 28. Informative and eye-opening - did you know more gay men were arrested and convicted of gross indecency in 1989 than in 1966? Described by the barman as a 'sneaky, sexy, dirty wee hole', The Hoist and its patrons could be seen as representing the antithesis of the recent trend in mainstream gay politics towards assimilation. (whatson.bfi.org.uk)

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years. (imdb)

A cinema verite documentary about a man living in New York City determined to have raw sex with as many men as possible in a year and meticulously keeping count of the number of 'loads' he takes. (imdb)

Frenchman Claude (Yann De Monterno) had a bad relationship in USA ages ago that is why he came back to France. One early dawn as he is walking towards his home he saw a drunken American lying on the pavement. Claude took him to his home as there was no identification on the Young American wallet. When they had a chance to talk, the young American name was Brad (Kevin Miranda). That chance meeting led to their relationship (or so Claude thought). (imdb)

Voice-over narration describes Tom's Gift, a sex shop in rural America closed by municipal ordinance.

Sex and drugs- getting hooked and getting off- can be addicting. For Drew, eking out a mundane life in Waterville, Maine, it is resisting the illicit pleasure in New York; for Mistress DaTina, it means operating a sex and drug den to cope with her life. (imdb)

A lonely middle-aged man, Todd (Todd Verow), hires a hustler named Paul (Gregg Tucker) to spend the weekend with him in New York City. Todd wants to experience everything he has never done before, un-safe sex, drugs, anonymous sex with multiple partners, etc. Paul jumps at the opportunity to go to New York and get paid $2000 but Todd has more in mind than Paul bargained for. Both of their lives are forever changed after that weekend. (KG)

Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach. (imdb)

Edgy, fragmented, Deleted Scenes is a tale of love, passion and dysfunction. When 30 something Sean meets Eastern European immigrant Wolf, sparks fly. They return to Sean's apartment begin a high energy and hugely sexual affair. What starts as a mere chance meeting slowly evolves in to something more. Wolf is easy going, turning tricks to supplement his living, while Sean is needy, talkative and neurotic. (BangorFilms.com)

After his best friend Kevin commits suicide, John decides his life needs a change and he spontaneously heads off to Europe to follow Kevin's muse Solange, a minor pop music diva and eccentric B-movie actress. As the odd pair become embroiled in a world of sex, drugs, and murder the boundaries of trust start to wear thin and John begins to wonder whether Solange is the victim of a bizarre lifestyle or its mastermind. (filmguide.newfest.org)

A cute art student does the hustle to pay his pricey tuition and ends up learning some gritty life lessons in the process. (tlavideo.com)

A woman (PHILLY) is busy dragging her own corpse, trying to find a resting place for it, when she encounters an old lover (MICHAEL BURKE) who used to be a she but has transitioned to a man. He wants to get out of town but she wants to stay it's the end of time when nothing is a crime. Several gay men engage in more and more extreme sexual activity, they want to experience it all before the big collapse. (Movieo)

Filmed entirely on a cellphone, Hooks to the Left presents a day in the life of a gay hustler.

Bulldog in the Whitehouse takes political satire to obscene new heights: portraying the Bush administration as a cabal of lustful and traitorous gay men who are too busy having sex to notice the empire crumbling down around them. (tlavideo.com)

Life in picturesque Bangor, Maine, is complicated for Joe, a blisteringly sexy high school senior. Living with his single mother and older sister in a rough housing project, Joe takes a job as a live-in model for Victor, an artist, to save money for art school. While Joe dreams of leaving town, his friend Andrew, a hunky football star and avid shoplifter, is going nowhere. Joe and Andrew, stealing moments here and there from time with their girlfriends, begin to fall in love... (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)

A graphic, uninhibited story of a man whose sexual addiction threatens to take over his life. (Bangor Films)

A completely wacked out film by Todd Verow, Against features and uglied and crazied-up version of the adorable Eric Sapp as a cross-dressing gay guy in rural Maine who inherits his parent's house and finds it possessed. (imdb)

A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal. His friends attempt to determine if he's truly a psychopath. (imdb)