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Oscar-Nominated ‘Umbrella Academy’ Star Elliot Page Announces He Is Transgender

Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated star of “Juno” and Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” has announced he is transgender. “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I’ve been endlessly inspired by so many […]

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Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival ‘Docs Make House Calls’ 2 Final Films Available Friday

Queen of the Beach & Butterfly from 11/20-11/29 via Docs Make House Calls, SDFF’s Online Fest +In collaboration with SebArts “Who Are You?” Exhibit and OutWatch, Wine Country’s LGBTQI film festival  Buy Tickets Now!   Beginning November 20, SDFF will present the final two films in its 2020 festival, Docs Make House Calls, and its collaboration with “Who Are You?”, a SebArts online exhibition that reflects on identity and community—how we understand our identity within our communities and how our communities are defined. Butterfly is also co-presented with OutWatch, Wine Country’s LGBTQI film festival.  This film program ends on Nov. 29 and costs $12.  […]

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“Bare:” The Story of the Making of a Performance Piece with 11 Naked Men

It’s still hard to perceive that even in 2020 public nudity still evokes a torrent of negativity.  On one hand there are the juvenile reactions from people who left their teen years decades ago, and on the other hand there is still so much overwhelming out-of-place Victorian censorship . If you show more than a naked ankle on Facebook their narrow minded self-appointed expurgators will banish you and your FB page from public view until you recant. It’s a regrettable situation that was part of reason why Belgian choreographer THIERRY SMITS developed a dance piece with 11 male nude dancers.  Smits claims […]

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“The True Adventures of Wolfboy” is a New Film Written by a Trans Woman

Today, just in time for Halloween, The True Adventures of Wolfboy premieres in select theaters and anywhere you can rent or buy movies. This isn’t a horror movie though – it’s a beautiful coming-of-age film written by Olivia Dufault, a transgender woman, about the fears and emotions trans people may experience as they approach transition.  Paul (Jaeden Martell) is the wolfboy of the title (he has hair all over his face) and he is struggling with his fear that his condition means the world will only ever see him as a freak. As Paul stumbles toward self-acceptance, he meets Aristiana (Sophie Giannamore) who has […]

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Sonoma Film InstituteAnnounces Virtual Screenings for Fall

Sonoma Film Institute Announces Virtual Screenings for Fall Sonoma Film InstituteAnnounces Virtual Screenings for Fall 2020The link for watching the films will be posted on the SFI website by Friday at noon and will be good for 72 hourshttps://sfi.sonoma.edu A White, White Day Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 through Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020 A WHITE, WHITE DAY Trailer | TIFF 2019In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually […]

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Queer Israeli Film ‘Sublet’ Featured at SoCo Virtual Film Festival

SONOMA COUNTY VIRTUAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL October 13 – November 16, 2020 October 13 – November 16, 2020 The Jewish Community Center Sonoma County is proud to present the 25th Anniversary of the Jewish Film Festival, VIRTUALLY. Ten of the newest and best international films will be available online on a dedicated, user- friendly, film platform. Highlights include the newest release, SUBLET, a moving Israeli LGBTQ drama, and THEY AIN’T READY FOR ME, a documentary about an African American rabbinical student and mother singlehandedly fighting against violence on Chicago’s South Side. The films will be available on-demand throughout the weeks. Embracing the new medium, four live filmmaker talks will allow the […]

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San Francisco’s GLBT Museum Hosts Virtual Gala with Peaches Christ & Marga Gomez October 16

We’re thrilled to introduce the gracious hosts of our virtual Gala, Peaches Christ and Marga Gomez. Join them on October 16 for Reunion: Making History, an evening of powerful performances, inspiring presentations and a heartfelt celebration of LGBTQ History Makers. Make sure to get your tickets now for Reunion: Making History, for access to the live broadcast on October 16, as well as sneak peeks of early content along the way! Register for the virtual Gala Peaches Christ is a filmmaker and cult leader living in San Francisco. Her infamous movie events are self-produced at the Castro Theatre and regularly draw over 1,000 attendees to each new production […]

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SDFF Online Docs Make House Calls – Identity & Performance Program Streams 9/25-10/4

Identity & Performance Program: Gay Chorus Deep South and Siudy Entre Mundos: 50 performances of the American Dream stream from 9/25-10/4/20 via Docs Make House Calls, SDFF’s Online Fest Buy Tickets Now!  Beginning September 25, SDFF’s Docs Make House Calls streaming festival will be streaming two films in which the relationship between performance and identity is focalized. For the performers captured on-screen in Gay Chorus Deep South (David Charles Rodrigues) and Siudy Entre Mundos: 50 Performances of the American Dream (Pablo Croce, 2019), stage performances are a means of expression overtly linked to perceptions and experiences of identity. These films […]

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Exclusive Q&A with “Killing Patient Zero” Director Laurie Lynd

Gaétan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant was dubbed “Patient Zero” in Randy Shilts groundbreaking book on the AIDS Epidemic, And the Band Played On In her engaging documentary, director Laurie Lynd (Schitt’s Creek; Breakfast with Scot, Frameline34) explodes the myth of the man who brought AIDS to America. Ironically, Gaétan  went out of his way to help CDC researchers solve the riddle of the disease that wasn’t wasn’t yet called AIDS. Lynd expertly delves into the most terrifying time in Queer History and emerges with a terrific documentary that is part loving portrait of this vilified man, part health crisis procedural, and […]

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OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Celebrates 50 Years of U.S. Pride & Goes Virtual October 16 – 25

OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival is an online virtual film Festival from Friday, October 16 through Sunday October 25 this year. We’ve named the Festival: Looking Back; Moving Forward.  We honor those individuals and groups who fought for LGBTQI rights bringing us to this point in time, where we both enjoy many advancements but still struggle to keep those civil rights and expand them to our entire community.  The Festival will showcase four enlightening, empowering and entertaining documentaries.  This year, our featured films are: Tongues Untied This 1989 experimental documentary film is  directed by Marlon Riggs, one of the top gay filmmakers of the time. It […]

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