Tomorrow the 23rd annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival gets under way and I am so freakin excited. I had the pleasure to create the festival’s trailer this year with long time festival supporter James Goodman, and also wrangled Mike Wiskar, composer for Beyond Gay, to create the super fun music track. It also stars the awesome staff of the VQFF.
There’s an awesome line up of over 100 films this year and it all gets under way on Thursday Aug 11th. I have caught a few of the films at other festivals already, and highly recommend the Centerpiece Gala “Grown up Movie Star.” And of course we are looking forward to the Vancouver Premiere of Charlie David’s new film Judas Kiss which is playing August 13th with a party afterwards hosted by Guy Spy. See you at the movies! (and order your DVD copy of Beyond Gay today!)
Well we were only in New York for four days and they legalized same-sex marriage. Ahh the magic of film.
It’s true though, we had an amazing screening at 92Y Tribeca on Tuesday. On Friday caught up with many of our friends from the Drag March and just as we finished our march through the village, and stopped in front of the Stonewall Inn, the announcement came in that the Senate vote had passed 33 – 29.The energy in New York was absolutely amazing. Congratulations to all our New York fans.
And now it’s time to Celebrate Queer Vancouver!
It’s our fair city’s 125th birthday and we have been working with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival to bring an extra blast of homo-fabulousness to town. The entire program of Celebrate Queer Vancouver runs from the launch on July 21st through the film festival that wraps up on August 21st. Our special screening and Canadian DVD launch of Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride will be on July 24th at the Vancity Theatre. There will be a reception afterwards with drinks, nibblies, autographed DVDs, and all sorts of fun. Come on out and see it on the BIG screen one more time. It is going to be a great summer to visit Vangroovy- we are also hosting the North American Outgames and Human Rights Conference. And of course, the last two weeks of July are chock-a block full of Pride events. Check out the Vancouver Pride Society website for all the event details. See you at the movies!
Here we come. We are super excited to partner with Newfest and Guy Spy for a special Pride screening in the Big Apple on June 21st. Its all going down at 92Y Tribeca. We’ll have the first run of DVDs from TLA Releasing there. There’ll be drinks and it’s gonna be fun for sure. (You can pre-oder a dvd from TLA now and have it in time for Pride.)
There’s even more screenings in the works. I hear it’s sunny on Salt Spring Island in September. Sounds like it’s going to be another summer of Pride. Let get the party started. See you at the movies.
So as the mercury slowly rises (and here in Vangroovy SLOWLY barely describes it) we are gearing up for a bunch more screenings. CinéPride in Nantes, Frances will go Beyond Gay on May 17th The International Day Against Homophobia. We’ve also lined up a second screening in Norway, this time in Bergen on May 19th. And not to be outdone, our friends at Homochrom in Germany have arranged two screenings, the first on May 30th in Dusseldorf, and a second in Cologne July 1st. It looks like June will have its share of screenings as well, dates to be confirmed but Regina, Seattle and Michigan are all in the works.
Finally we are really excited to partner with Newfest New York city’s LGBT film festival for our New York City premiere and DVD launch, just in time for Pride in the Big Apple. Dates and details to follow so keep your eyes peeled for the updates coming soon.
