Rock Pockets

{{short description|2007 Canadian short film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Rock Pockets

| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Trevor Anderson

| producer = Trevor Anderson

| writer = Trevor Anderson

| starring = Trevor Anderson
Nik Kozub

| music = Trevor Anderson
Raymond Biesinger
Scott Davidchuk

| cinematography = Steven Hope

| editing = Steven Hope

| studio = Dirt City Films

| distributor = Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

| runtime = 5 minutes

| released = {{Film date|2006}}

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Rock Pockets is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Trevor Anderson and released in 2006.Tom Murray, "Edmonton director's Rock Pockets traverses the globe". Edmonton Journal, October 5, 2007. Centred around the fact that heterosexual couples have the social freedom to walk around in public quietly communicating their relationship status by tucking their hands in each other's back pockets as they walk, while same-sex couples largely do not, the film depicts Anderson and musician Nik Kozub walking around the Klondike Days festival in Edmonton, Alberta, with their hands in each other's back pockets, and documents the range of reactions from onlookers.

The film premiered in 2006 as part of the Loud 'n' Queer Cabaret, Edmonton's annual LGBTQ arts festival.

It was named the winner of the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award in 2007,"Trevor Anderson's short films honoured at Toronto festival". Edmonton Journal, May 1, 2007. and received an honourable mention for Most Innovative Short Film at the 2007 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Van Atta|first=Matthew|date=October 31, 2007|title=Winners Announced for Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival|newspaper=The Advocate|url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2007/10/31/winners-announced-seattle-lesbian-and-gay-film}} In 2008, both Rock Pockets and Anderson's narrative short film DINX were shortlisted for the Iris Prize for LGBTQ-themed short films.{{cite news|date=October 1, 2008|title=Iris Prize promises both reel and unreal|newspaper=Metro UK|url=http://metro.co.uk/2008/10/01/iris-prize-promises-both-reel-and-unreal-554674/}}

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