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Judy Garland Comes to Frameline43 in World Premiere Documentary, Plus Gala Selections Revealed

Frameline, the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema, is pleased to announce its first slate of high-profile programs and pre-sales—including Opening Night feature VITA & VIRGINIA, Closing Night feature GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH, and Centerpiece selections including the World Premiere of SID & JUDY—for Frameline43: San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which takes place June 20-30, 2019 in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. The complete Frameline43 program will be unveiled on Tuesday, May 21. “Frameline is thrilled to return for our 43rd year, serving as a platform for the world’s finest in LGBTQ+ content. I’m always invigorated by […]

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The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Announces Programming for the 37th Annual CAAMFest, May 9-19, 2019

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is pleased to announce its program for the 37th annual CAAMFest taking place from May 9-19, 2019 in the Bay Area.  This year’s edition of CAAMFest continues to celebrate the diversity and richness of Asian American cinema during the heart of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The 11-day festival encompasses more than 120 film screenings and events that amplify and celebrate the vital stories from Asian American communities around the world. “This upcoming festival is brimming with lots of amazing films and events” says CAAM Festival & Exhibitions Director Masashi Niwano. “Key themes that will tie […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Presents “Family in Transition” April 24 at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol

One Night OnlyApril 24th7PMRialto Cinemas, Sebastopol Family In TransitionIn Hebrew with English Subtitles Director: Ofir Tranin, 60 min. This is an intriguing Israeli documentary about an Orthodox Patriarch of a large family who transitions to become her true self, a woman. How does her extended family and a rural Israeli town react? The story follows a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely when their father finally decides to tell his family that he’s a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, and just as it seems […]

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The 24th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival May 1-5, 2019

The  San Francisco Silent Film Festival is pleased to announce the 24th Annual Silent Film Festival. 2This year’s program features many new film restorations, including one by SFSFF in partnership with Photoplay Productions, Clarence Brown’s The Signal Tower, 1924. Films from ten countries will be represented—Bali, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Sweden, US, and the USSR—as well as more than forty extraordinary musical accompanists.San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrates 24 years of live-cinema, presenting silent-era films with live musical accompaniment, at San Francisco’s movie palace Castro Theatre. The festival features five glorious days of dazzling silent-era movies set to […]

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Rocketman Will Make Elton John Look ‘Quite Ugly at Times’, Says Taron Egerton

Upcoming biopic Rocketman will make Elton John look “quite ugly at times,” the film’s star Taron Egerton revealed today. Egerton—who portrays Elton John in Rocketman—said the film begins with the pop-star going into rehab “in a real bad way” to get help for addiction. He said that it will depict the pop star as “broken and damaged” and praised Elton John for allowing them to show him at his “most vulnerable.” “I think it’s right at the heart of what makes Rocketman quite special,” Egerton said. He continued: “It’s also a story about someone who was not well becoming well.” Rocketman star Taron Egerton says there is […]

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‘Birds of the Borderlands’: Jordan Bryon’s Look at Gender and Sexual Identity in the Middle East

When the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist JORDAN BRYON is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both.  Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to the country they had been named after. Their planned three month stay in Amman stretched to 18 months,  and they actually spent the next 5 years flitting all over the Middle East getting immersed in the lives of several LGBTQ people who’s sexuality was creating them major problems. […]

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“The Sound of Music” Occidental Choir Fundraiser at Rialto Cinemas April 6

Thursday April 4 @ 6:30 pm. One night only! Enjoy a family-friendly musical night out with the classic movie ‘The Sound of Music’  on the big screen at Rialto Cinemas (rialto cinemas.com)! Audience participation encouraged, all ages costume contest, prizes and fun! Proceeds benefit Occidental Community Choir’s New Risers Campaign. Come and sing along with us! Adults $15, Children $10. OccidentalChoir.org.

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Papi Chulo :Matt Bomer Stars in John Butler’s Latest LGBT Drama

The openly gay Irish writer/director JOHN BUTLER follows his charming award-winning coming out tale HANDSOME DEVILwith an intriguing movie set in Los Angeles.  It’s the story of a good-looking local TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) who we first meet when he is having an on screen meltdown on live TV.  His very understanding producers hustle him off and insist he takes a long earned break which he reluctantly agrees to do. Back home in one of those spectacular only-in-Hollywood homes with a view to die for two landscapers are waiting for him to take away the large potted tree that sits in the […]

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‘The Fruit Machine’: A Doc Canada’s Past Persecution of the LGBT Community

For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the  US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay.  Particularly on those who had chosen to serve the Government or Country in any way.   It was Trudeau’s Prime Minister father  PIERRE who, following the UK’s lead in 1969, finally dicrimanlised homsoexuality paving the way for the ending of the witch hunt of gays and lesbians. SARAH FODEY’S compelling and rather […]

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Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Announces Line Up

The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (March 8-14, 2019), the largest festival of contemporary German cinema in The Americas, presented annually by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, proudly announces the full lineup of its 23rd edition. The festival will return for the 23rd year to San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre from March 8th-10th with red carpet premieres and actors and filmmakers in attendance, along with encores at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley on March 11th, and screenings at the auditorium of the Goethe-Institut in Downtown San Francisco from March 12th-14th. OPENING NIGHT FILM 25 KM/HDir. Markus Goller (115 min. Germany)International PremiereBrothers […]

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