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Wolfe Releasing Acquires Rights To Charles Busch & Carl Andress’ Outfest Pic ‘The Sixth Reel’, Cult Comedy ‘Die, Mommie, Die!’ Written By And Starring Busch
EXCLUSIVE: Wolfe Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Charles Busch and Carl Andress’ comedy The Sixth Reel, and to the late director Mark Rucker’s cult comedy Die, Mommie, Die!, slating the former film for release in theaters and on digital this fall. The latter will hit theaters in 2023, subsequently making…
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Outfest Rounds Out Lineup For Its 40th Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Outfest has announced the complete lineup for its 40th-anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which will take place from July 14-24 at multiple locations throughout Los Angeles.
More than 200 films, representing 29 countries, will screen as part of this year’s lineup. 42 will make their world premieres…
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Outfest Unveils Lineup For Second Annual Queer Television Festival, The OutFronts
Outfest today unveiled the lineup for its second annual LGBTQIA+ television festival, The OutFronts—a four-day hybrid event with internationally accessible virtual panel discussions and ticketed in-person events in Los Angeles, featuring the talent from some of the most exciting LGBTQIA+ programs available on…
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Outfest, Netflix Expand Screenwriting Lab In Support Of LGBTQIA+ Creatives
EXCLUSIVE: Outfest will expand its Screenwriting Lab this year, in partnership with Netflix.
The Outfest Screenwriting Lab was established in 1997 as a screenwriting contest, and has since become the cornerstone of the organization’s education and creative development programming. It will this year provide 10 LGBTQIA+…
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Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso Among Honorees Set For 2021 Outfest Legacy Awards Gala
At the 2021 Outfest Legacy Awards, Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso will be honored with the Visionary Award, with additional awards going to Neon, Jonathan Howard, Robin de Jesús, Rain Valdez, Alan Koenigsberg and Marissa Román Griffith.
At the gala, taking place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November…
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Outfest Sets Fellows For 2021 Screenwriting Lab
Outfest has named the 11 writers selected to participate in the 2021 Screenwriting Lab, which it has partnered on with Netflix via its Fund for Creative Equity, along with 11 Notable Writers it will set up with industry support.
Fellows selected for the week-long lab, which kicks off today, include Amanda Kohr (Texts f…
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‘No Straight Lines’ & ‘Firstness’ Among Top Winners At Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival – Complete Winners List
Outfest has announced the award winners of its 2021 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival.
The nation's leading LGBTQ festival ran from August 13th to August 22nd, holding its closing night at the iconic Orpheum Theatre, with Vivian Kleiman’s No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics claiming the Documentary…
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Outfest: Documentary ‘AIDS Diva’ Celebrates Life, Pioneering Work Of “Blatantly Honest” LGBT Activist Connie Norman
A quarter century after the passing of HIV-AIDS activist Connie Norman, she's being remembered for her relentless battle to curtail the disease and to combat homophobia and transphobia.
The outspoken figure in ACT UP/LA is the subject of the new documentary AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman, which made its Los…
‘Boulevard! A Hollywood Story’: Doc Reveals Gloria Swanson’s Star-Crossed Attempt To Make Her Own ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Musical
When Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard premiered in 1993, it became a major hit. But few people then, or even now, are aware of a much earlier attempt to bring the classic film to the stage—by Gloria Swanson herself.
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, explores how…
Outfest Los Angeles: Dates, Venues & Lineup Set For 39th Festival Returning To In-Person Screenings
Outfest has unveiled the dates, venues, and lineup for its 39th film festival, which is returning to in-person screenings more than a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival will be held this year between August 13-22.
The 2021 edition of the nation's…
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Outfest Partners With Netflix And eMinutes On Screenwriting Lab
EXCLUSIVE: Outfest announced a partnership with Netflix and law firm eMinutes in support of its 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab.
The collaboration with Netflix is part of the recently announced Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, in which Netflix will invest $100 million dollars over the next five years in a combination…
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OutFest Launching OutFronts To Highlight LGBTQ+ TV And Streaming Series
Outfest is launching The OutFronts, a five-day virtual festival that is designed to connect fans with the best in queer episodic television, setting a lineup that includes talent from shows like VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, HBO Max’s It’s a Sin, OWN’s David Makes Man, Freeform’s Everything's Gonna Be Okay and Showtime’s T…
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