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The Atlanta premiere of “Rivers Wash Over Me” at the Out on Film festival at Midtown Art Cinema was a sold-out packed-house affair. The film co-written and directed by John G. Young, poignantly confronts homosexuality, interracial dating, life on the down low, fractured families, violence and sexual and drug abuse.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 4, 2009 under Fantasy, Film Festival, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
Amy McClung’s indie religious fantasy “Change of Life,” is building big buzz on the film festival circuit. The film has screened at the Great Lakes Independent Film Festival (where it was named best film with a religious/spiritual theme), the L.A. Femme Film Festival, the International Film Festival South Africa, the Swansea Bay Film Festival in Swansea, Wales, and the Thailand International Film Festival in Phuket, Thailand.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 21, 2009 under Documentary, HBO, LGBT, Television | Comments are off for this article
Outrage, the controversial documentary that purports to expose the private lives of politicians who work against gay rights in public but lead homosexual lives in private, will air on HBO October 5 at 9 p.m. and again several more times that month.
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Filipino film “In My Life” will have its US premiere on September 27 at the Fox Theater in San 
Francisco. The film stars Philippines’ multi-awarded veteran actress Vilma Santos, Santos’ real life son Luis Manzano and Manila’s matinee idol John Lloyd Cruz.
The film set in New York and the outskirts of Manila revolves around a doting mother and her gay son, who is not out to her yet. She visits the gay son and finds out he lives with a “Best Friend.” The mother cloys and clings with the son until finally the son gives in with a blow of his ailment.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 15, 2009 under Film Festival, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
A Single Man, now screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and which earned Colin Firth the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival was picked up the Weinstein Company.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 29, 2009 under Foreign Film, Industry, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
Here Media announced today the launch of Here Films, the new acquisition and distribution division of Here Media, Inc. All current staff of Regent Releasing will be folded into the newly formed parent company Here Media effective immediately. Here Films staff will oversee all remaining Regent releases through 2009 with all new films being released through the Here Films banner. Here Films recently acquired several high profile films including Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner “I Killed My Mother” (J’ai tué ma mère), Berlin Silver Bear Winner “About Elly” (Darbareye Elly), and the Kenneth Branagh made for cinema opera “The Magic Flute.” Here Films will distribute all these pictures in select U.S. theaters, on DVD and via here! Networks in 2010.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 7, 2009 under Documentary, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
Academy Award®-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated) controversial film “Outrage” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, will be released this Friday, May 8 by Magnolia Pictures.
The film exposes closeted gay politicians who live a secret homosexual life even while working against the interests of the gay and lesbian community. Kirby presents analysis from many prominent members of the gay community, such as Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, and the controversial blogger Mike Rogers (whose blog has spearheaded the movement to out closeted, anti-gay-rights politicians).
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 30, 2009 under Documentary, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
New York City former mayor, Ed Koch is reportedly upset over the new documentary, “Outrage” now playing in the Tribeca Film Festival. The former mayor is outraged– not because it claims he had “a well-established affair with a man he subsequently ran out of town,” as Variety reported, but because it claims “his record on AIDS and gay rights was virtually nonexistent,”reports the NYPost. Koch is proud of his record on AIDS and gay rights and accuses filmmaker Kirby Dick — a proponent of outing closeted politicians — of revising history.
“Outrage” from Academy Award®-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated) is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on keeping their secrets. [Tribeca Film Festival]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 23, 2009 under Comedy, Film Festival, LGBT, drama | Comments are off for this article
Academy Award winning director Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain fame, returns to movie theaters this Summer, August 14, with Taking Woodstock. Taking Woodstock was also confirmed this morning as an official selection for this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup.
The film, based upon the book of the same name, follows the true life story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in Upstate New York and, at the time, held the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offered both the Catskills motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival’s organizers.
The film also focuses on Tiber’s life as a closeted gay man hiding both his marijuana habit as well as his sexual orientation from his family, and the self-discovery that he experiences following the Stonewall Riots. [via]
Taking Woodstock stars Demetri Martin in the lead role and a supporting cast that includes Imelda Staunton, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Paul Dano and Emile Hirsch.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 11, 2009 under Film Festival, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
Canadian filmmaker John Greyson, has reportedly turned down an offer to premiere his documentary film “Fig Trees” at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, in support of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israeli apartheid. Greyson is a member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
In his letter to the festival, Greyson emphasizes that “my decision isn’t in opposition to your festival,” but “Instead, I feel I must join the many Jews and non-Jews, Israelis and Palestinians, queers and otherwise, who are part of the growing global BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israeli apartheid. I’ve come to the conclusion that, in this moment, to not take this stand is unthinkable, impossible.”
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. Read more of this article »