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Savannah Stehlin in Spork
Outfest Film Festival: CELEBRATING 28 YEARS OF TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL IMPACT
Now in their 28th year, The Outfest Film Festival is entertaining LGBT audiences with
a wide array of movies focused squarely on our community, lifestyle and heart. This year, the July 8–18 event showcases 60 full-length features and 87 shorts and
they are not just from American soil. 23 countries are also represented in the nation’s leading LGBT film festival. Additionally, the festival will play host to dozens of discussion panels and a bounty
of special events across town, and Outfest will continue to aim the spotlight on both established and up-and-coming filmmakers. The eleven-day affair, created by this non-profit organization, continues to expand
upon its mission statement, which “protects our past, showcases our present and nur- tures our future by fostering artistic expression of gender, sexuality and LGBTQ culture and its transformative social impact on the world.” There is truly something for everyone in the community, with looks at the bear world
(BearCity and Bear Nation), the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy (A Marine Story and Out of Annapolis), homophobia (Children of God), and even those who keep us enter- tained (Le Tigre: On Tour). And speaking of entertainers, Glee’s Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is to receive the Out- fest Achievement Award, which will be presented to her by Kurt Hummel (a.k.a. co-star
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Chris Colfer) and director Paris Barclay. The film fest also happens to coincide with the 25th anniversary of West Hollywood
becoming an incorporated city, and the films The Broken Hearts Club, An Ordinary Couple, Out of the Shadows and Is It Just Me? have been selected to highlight the com- munity’s artistic contributions. The 5th anniversary of the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation will
also be commemorated, so future generations can chart our progress through these moving images, each with a decidedly different slant at their look at the “then and now” aspect of storytelling. Five filmmakers, journalists and musicians were chosen to introduce a treasured film from the Legacy Collection, which include: Hustler White, Mädchen in Uniform, Macho Dancer, Out of the Shadows/Signs of Protest and Clueless. The U.S. Dramatic Centerpiece, The Owls, does not refer to winged creatures, but
rather is an acronym for older wiser lesbians and the innovative achievement by direc- tor Cheryl Dune is described as a “hybrid narrative thriller/documentary,” which high- lights the very real generation gap between the titular Owls and twenty-something fledgling lesbians. While the International Dramatic Centerpiece, Undertow, tells the tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of a Peruvian fishing village, as a young man Miguel
A scene from Undertow ( Contracorriente)
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