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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL
Newport Beach Film Festival(NBFF) will take placeThursday,
April 21 through Thurs- day, April 28 at multiple venues in and around its seaside setting. While not an exclusively LGBTQ fest, its programmers strive each year to
incorporate at least a few films of appeal for our community. This year is
no exception and actually a bit stronger than last year’s festival, in this regard.
SAME-SEX LOVE IS IN THE AIR The 17th Annual
by chris carpenter
On Friday, April 22, the evening spotlight film will be the Southern Cali- fornia premiere ofLove is All You Need? This hard-hitting drama imagines a world where to be gay or lesbian is the morally acceptable norm and being straight is considered wrong. Gender roles are also reversed in this otherwise conservative-Christian society. The local Catholic priest is female, as is the star quarterback of the high school football team. Things start to change when the quarterback, Jude and a male sports journalist find themselves falling in love with each other. When Jude is outed by her vengeful ex-girlfriend, the pair are disdainfully labelled “ros” (short for heteros) by their schoolmates and subjected to intense and ultimately tragic bullying. Kim Rocco Shields adapted Love is All You Need? from her award-winning
2011 short film of the same title. When the short was leaked online without Shields’ approval but went viral, it providentially created a global dialogue about human rights, bullying and prejudice that is still going on today. The writer-director decided to expand her short into a feature film to similarly expand and further this dialogue. “This is a very important project,” Shields said via phone in advance of this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival. “I’ve been working on it for over seven years. Everything that happens in the film has happened to someone, especially the religious content.” She revealed that her movie’s Christian zealots were inspired by Kansas’s notoriously anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church (although the film is set in Indiana). True to form, the church’s members have already condemned Shields for helping to bring about the Apocalypse.
16 RAGE monthly | APRIL 2016
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