Directed by Lynn Breedlove and Jen Gilomen, 15min
It’s a universal tale of love, addiction, and redemption in SF’s cool punk late 80’s, when every club on Valencia blasted a local band, everyone wore black, bike messengers were the new pony express, and strippers, their saloon girls.

Lynn Breedlove co-directs with Jen Gilomen, produces with Kami Chisholm, and acts with Adroc of the Beastie Boys.

Music by Katastrophe, The Gossip, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Lunachicks, All The Pretty Horses, Blatz, Dirtbox, Tribe 8, and more.

Biography
Lynn Breedlove will star as the lead talent for Godspeed, Jim. As an author, comic, and the lead singer of Tribe8, Breedlove has toured with spoken word, music and multimedia shows, collaborating across lines of race, age and gender.

Breedlove has been dedicated to creating women’s, trans, and queer art programs internationally for the last 15 years. He has taken this performance art to the cinema screen in Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2003), the feature By Hook or By Crook (2004), the documentary Wrong Bathroom (2005), and in numerous documentaries about the communities of women and queers in rock. In the 90s Breedlove founded Lickety Split All Girl Courier, toured with Sister Spit, and wrote Godspeed, the autobiographical novel (St. Martins Press, 2002. He is now touring his One Freak Show in the US and Europe in five languages, a solo comedy show about trans identities and the LGBTIQQ community.

Co-Director – Jen Gilomen
Jen Gilomen is a media producer and instructor at the Bay Area Video Coalition, where she manages a program called the Digital Storytelling Institute, helping California-based nonprofits use technology to tell stories for social change. Jen’s documentary In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents (director, 31min, 2005) won the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2005 Frameline Film Festival, and went on to screen at several other festivals across the U.S. Her other documentaries and short narrative works have screened in various festivals in the U.S., France, Italy, England, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand. In addition to editing Godspeed and a short documentary about Paraguay, she’s currently writing a feature screenplay called Sunlight in a Dark Room, which she plans to produce in mid-2007.