One of the intriguing offerings at this weekend's Sunscreen Film Festival is Erin Davies' provocatively titled documentary, Fagbug. The movie will be shown Friday at 8 p.m. at Muvico Baywalk 20 in St. Petersburg.

Davies, a lesbian, was living in Albany, N.Y. when she attached a rainbow bumper sticker to her Volkswagen Beetle. Someone decided to add their own, narrow-minded decorations, spray-painting "fag" and "ur gay" on the exterior, as you see from this photo (compliments of Vanity Fair, whose Brett Berk, gay car blogger -- that's his title -- profiled Davies).

Davies could have simply washed off the paint and chalked up the act to homophobic ignorance. Instead, she left the epithets untouched and embarked on a 58-day road trip across the United States, filming reactions from strangers, some sympathetic and others not. Fagbug, the nickname her Beetle earned, is the result of that trip, and a movie that Sunscreen co-founder Tony Armer pegged as one of this year's likeliest breakout hits.

Davies wound up living in Tampa's Seminole Heights district with her Beetle, and shot footage locally for Fagbug. Her harassment didn't end when the video tape ran out. While her car was parked in Seminole Heights, someone threw a brick through the window.

I left a phone message with Davies at her home in New York. When she gets in touch, I'll post some of her comments here ASAP. Seems like the movie says it all, though. Worth a look.