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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…

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…

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…

The 2021 Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Film Festival is set to honor I May Destroy You icon Michaela Coel with the Fusion Achievement Award while The United States vs. Billie Holiday star and Oscar nominee Andra Day will be honored with the James Schamus Ally Award on…

EXCLUSIVE: Outfest has launched its annual Outfest Screenwriting Lab and selected eight scripts that advance the visibility of LGBTQIA+ storytelling. This year’s fellows include Johnny Alvarez, Courtney & Hillary Andujar, Carlton Daniel Jr., Gary Jaffe, Raul Martin, Damon Royster, Cody Stickels & Kea Trevett, and Leand…

EXCLUSIVE: The 2020 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival has unveiled their schedule for livestream events and their program for its "Under the Stars" drive-in experience. For Outfest LA’s digital space, Tony Award-winning John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will host a livestream marathon listening…

Outfest Los Angeles is going virtual this year and they have unveiled their stacked lineup for the 11-day festival which kicks off August 20. The LGBTQ film fest fest will include over 160 films with 35 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres to Los Angeles for 2020. The fest will live on http…

EXCLUSIVE: Outfest has unveiled their lineup for the 17th annual Outfest Fusion — or the more official title: Outfest 2020: Culture. Film. Music. Story. The fest will run March 6-10 and include screenings, performances, panels, galas, workshops, and world premieres in Los Angeles. Outfest Fusion brings together one of…

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Navarro, a content development and digital media executive, has been selected as the new executive director of Outfest. The move comes after an eight-month search to replace Christopher Racster, who is exiting the role at the conclusion of the nonprofit organization’s flagship event, the Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Who says you have to touch one another in order to feel love? In James Sweeney’s feature film debut, Straight Up, he questions if love can last when it’s all talk and no touch — and the exclusive clip above shows that there is a lot of talking in this film…a lot. But it’s sharp, witty and funny. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: When someone finally gets into a relationship, it’s great. There’s love, romance and marital bliss — but exactly how long does it last? Is it like milk? Does it have an expiration date? Well, Mike Doyle’s directorial debut, fittingly titled Sell By unpacks all of that in the new exclusive clip featuring…

Now in its 37th year, Outfest serves up an inclusive and intersectional slate of programming, two-thirds of which includes content directed by women, people of color and trans filmmakers. The fest, which will be held July 18-28 in Los Angeles, will open with Rachel Mason’s documentary Circus of Books which spotlights…