(Christian Mercado) struggles to maintain his secret love affair with a local painter from his wife and extended family. Writer/director Javier Fuentes-León’s debut film was actually developed at an Outfest Screenwriting Lab in 2003. The aforementioned screenings are sandwiched between the Closing Night and Opening Night Galas. The latter will feature the festival’s popular After-Party, which will be held at the new-kid-on-the-block nightclub Exchange, and follows the Opening Night centerpiece film Howl. Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl is at the center of the picture, which stars Milk’s James
Franco as the revolutionary artist. The San Francisco-set movie follows a series of inter- woven stories that revolve around Ginsberg’s personal and professional lives, as his art and sexuality cross paths and make history along the way. Howl begins in 1955, when the then 29-year-old poet recites his renowned poem to
a captive audience, and follows the controversy that the poem ignited with its usage of drug-fueled imagery and gay sex references. The work became the subject of a famed obscenity trial against its publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, which enabled the work to become one of the most definitive artistic endeavors of the Beat Generation. The film also explores Ginsberg’s relationships with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and
Peter Orlovsky, who went on to become the writer’s partner—and how these affairs informed each of them separately and together on an artistic level, but also America as a whole. These men and other events within the Beat Generation gave way to the rise of the counterculture revolution in the U.S. Documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk
and The Celluloid Closet) tell the story of this important milestone in gay history in Howl, their first feature film debut. Closing out the 28th annual celebration of celluloid is Spork, a comedy that recounts
the life of a high school hermaphrodite (played by Savannah Stehlin) named after the popular KFC utensil, and the misadventures that she and friend Tootsie Roll (Sydney Park) share, as they attempt to thwart adversary Betsy Byotch’s (Rachel G. Fox) by bust- ing all the right moves at a dance competition.
To get the full scope of events, panels, film times and locations, log onto
http://www.outfest.org/ fest2010/
index.html
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James Franco in Howl
Jane Lynch
A scene from BearCity
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