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SAN DIEGO TURNS 20
Conditions are Ideal by chris carpenter
As summer 2018 gets underway, so does the
20th anniversary edition of FilmOut San Diego! The annual LGBTQ film festival will runThursday, June 7 through Sunday, June 10at the historic Obervatory North Park and no fewer than 45 short and feature films will be screened during the fest’s relatively brief 60 or so hours. Many creators and cast members will be in attendance and will participate in question and answer sessions with the audiences. San Diego city council member Chris Ward will officially kick off theOpening Night festivities on Thursday, June
7.Ideal Home serves as this year’s inaugural movie and it’s a goodie. Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd and British comedian Steve Coogan are hilarious as a bickering, longtime gay couple. Their lives are turned upside down when a 10-year-old boy shows up at their door claiming to be the elder partner’s grandson. Neither man is ready to give up their extravagant lifestyle to be parents, but this initially nameless kid has a thing or two to teach them about the value of family. Ideal Home, which will be making its West Coast
premiere, was written and directed by Andrew Fleming. Fleming previously made the underrated LGBT-interest movieThreesome, as well as the cult
FILMOUT
classic horror filmThe Craft (which FilmOut will be hosting a special screening of in October). It’s great to see him back in fine, funny form with his latest gay-themed comedy. Four of the films to be screened during the festival
incorporate local topics and/or
talent.San Diego’s Gay Bar History is a KPBS-funded and community- supported documentary that will be having its world premiere. Preceding this documentary will be two short films,Deviant andSaltwater Baptism, both directed by local filmmakers. Finally, writer-director Stewart Wade (Such Good People, Tru Loved) returns to FilmOut withSay Yes, along with San Diego resident Patrick Zeller as the lead actor in this world premiere. A young woman diagnosed with cancer tries to play matchmaker between her soon-to-be widowed husband (Zeller) and her bisexual twin brother. Terminal illness, mortality, compassion and sexual fluidity are all touched upon in this poignant and heartfelt drama. The Rage Monthly is once again a proud sponsor
of FilmOut, as well as co-presenter of a major new documentary that will be shown onFriday, June 8. To A More Perfect Union: United States v Windsor tells a true story of love, marriage and the fight for
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RAGE monthly | JUNE 2018
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