This is the first short film collection I've reviewed but (full disclosure)
the nice folks over at Peccadillo Pictures were kind enough to send this over so I
thought I'd give it a shot.

Most of these short films are not at all obscure - three of them I'd seen
previously at various film festivals, and four have won awards of some kind from
gay and lesbian festivals worldwide. The collection features such high-powered
lesbian names such as Roberta Munroe (who programmed the short film section of
Sundance for five years) and Guinevere Turner. A close reading of the credits of
each film shows many of these filmmakers thanking each other, so the lesbian
filmmaking scene seems fairly close-knit, and lesbian organisation POWERUP
funded one of Munroe's films here. So let's just say, this collection has street
cred.

As an overall collection the film has strengths and inexplicable weaknesses.
For instance, the fims are generally well made, with nary a camera wobble to be
seen, but I can't for the life of me figure out why the person collating this
DVD would start with the weakest film first. It starts off the collection in the
worst possible way. Luckily it picks up (with one notable exception). So here's
my breakdown of the Here Come the Girls 1 collection. I sincerely hope there's
more like it on the cards.