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OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Brings the Best of International Queer Cinema to the North Bay

OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival will happen at two theaters November 2 – 5, 2016, with Opening Night at the Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma and  the remaining program at Third Street Cinema in Santa Rosa. In an effort to reach all segments of the LGBTQI Community, OUTwatch will present two Spanish language films, as well as offers films of interest to people of all ages, races, genders, gender-expressions, religions, and more. For its fourth year as one of Wine Country’s fastest-growing film festivals, OUTwatch will showcase five fantastic feature films, two thought-provoking documentaries, and one diverse collection of short […]

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Film Review: ‘(BPM) Beats Per Minute’

  If David France’s Oscar nominated ‘How To Survive a Plague‘ is recognized as the seminal movie on AIDS in the US, then Robin Campillo’s stunning new masterpiece BPM (Beats Per Minute) is undoubtably Europe’s candidate for the title.  His sprawling and somewhat harrowing tale that centers on the ACT UP group in Paris is based on his own experiences as an activist in the 1990’s, but he adds a fictional love story that makes his account of the pandemic in France that much more personal and highly emotional. The story starts at the Group’s volatile weekly meetings (WM) where […]

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Film Review: ‘Becks’

A rather compelling Tony Award Winner Lena Hall in her first starring role in a movie, makes this rather cute musical a much more entertaining experience than one may have otherwise expected from what is a somewhat very predictable drama.  Hall plays Becks an aspiring musician who packs up her life in New York to drive to L.A. to join the love of her life.  She makes better time on the journey than she expects, and arriving a day early surprises her girlfriend who is the midst of entertaining a naked girl in her room. With her tail between her […]

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The 10 Best Books Every Bisexual Should Read

I’m a librarian so to say that books are important to me would be a gross understatement. Books saved me as 15 year old bi girl growing up in conservative Catholic Wisconsin, where I didn’t know any LGBTQ people and thought there was something wrong with me for thinking my boyfriend was hot and female friends were too. They helped me understand that I was not alone. They were my friends when no one understood, my rock when I needed support, and my joy when I read something particularly smart, funny, or just wonderful. I wouldn’t be as well adjusted […]

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Mill Valley Film Festival Announces Complete Lineup

The Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF), presented annually by the California Film Institute, is pleased to announced the complete lineup for the 40th edition of the festival. The festival will celebrate cinema throughout Marin County October 5-15, 2017 with a diverse array of acclaimed films, filmmakers, and events. Opening Night –DARKEST HOUR The festival will open with the Bay Area premiere of DARKEST HOUR, director Joe Wright’s story of Winston Churchill’s rise to power both as Prime Minister and as architect of the push against the imminent, inevitable Nazi invasion of Britain in WWII. Gary Oldman stars as Churchill and […]

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Mill Valley Film Festival Focuses on Women Directors and Stories.

The Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) is proud to present the third year of our gender equity Initiative Mind The Gap: Women | Film | Tech, a festival-wide celebration and call to action, focused on the intersection of film and tech, culminating in an all-day Mind The Gap Summit at the Outdoor Art Club (OAC) on Saturday, October 7th, 2017. In anticipation of MVFF’s 40th anniversary, the Festival committed to the goal of 40% female directors and female-driven storytelling across the whole spectrum of the Festival—World, US, Docs, Shorts. MVFF programmers tracked three things: women directors, women creatives (directors, writers, […]

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Logo and the ACLU Partner for the Premiere of ‘Forbidden: Undocumented & Queer In Rural America’

The Emmy Award-Winning Logo Documentary Films and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today announced a partnership to promote the broadcast premiere of Forbidden: Undocumented & Queer in Rural America.  The documentary, which follows Moises Serrano, an undocumented immigrant and gay man born in Mexico and raised in North Carolina, fighting for the American dream, will premiere Friday, Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The goal of the partnership is to inform the public of the struggles and stigmas placed upon individuals facing similar challenges as Serrano, while highlighting the civil rights and liberties that constitutionally apply to every individual living in […]

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Stand-up Comedy On the Rise in Sonoma County

On a recent Saturday night the Laugh Cellar, Sonoma County’s newest venue for stand-up comedy, was packed, both with return customers and first-timers.Tucked away in a shopping center space off Highway 12 that previously has been home to a grocery store and a couple of different restaurants, the site has taken on a new life as a stand-up comedy club, decked out to fit its name, complete with a wine barrel onstage in the corner of the room.The place was packed the night Lisa Ellison and Tod Ceruti of Santa Rosa chose to make their first visit. “We love comedy […]

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus Launches Tour to Fight Bigotry and Discrimination

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC), whose mission is to create extraordinary musical experiences that inspire community, activism and compassion, will kick off its 40th season by embarking on the Lavender Pen Tour from Oct. 7-15. The tour will visit various cities and small towns in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, while raising much-needed funds for local LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations. With a divisive political climate in the United States, marked by an increase in dangerous and hostile rhetoric against the LGBTQ and other marginalized communities, SFGMC will take its message and music on the road to […]

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Mill Valley Film Fest to Honor Out Director Todd Haynes

 The Mill Valley Film Festival is proud to honor acclaimed director Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, Safe, I’m Not There) with a Tribute, featuring an onstage conversation and presentation of the MVFF Award in recognition of a career that exemplifies the art of great directing. Haynes was last here for MVFF30 in 2007 and returns for MVFF’s 40th anniversary in 2017 with the California premiere of his latest film WONDERSTRUCK. Tribute to Todd Haynes Todd Haynes is a widely admired American independent film director and screenwriter. Critically acclaimed and awarded films include Poison (1991), Safe (1995), Far From Heaven (2002), […]

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