Festival Screening – August 14, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at Rio Theatre Lily Tomlin fans, rejoice! She’s clearly having a ball in Grandma, a rousing, exhilarating joyride that brings limitless energy and a decidedly un-Hollywood approach to storytelling about three generations of women. Here, the carefree feminist plot reveals itself early when Elle’s (Lily Tomlin) […]
First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Vancouver Playhouse “The greatest film practitioner we’ve ever seen” is how Peter Greenaway refers to Sergei Eisenstein, the 20th century creator of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and October. Here, Greenaway offers us his own sumptuous rendition of the director’s 1931 trip to Mexico to […]
Festival Screening – August 6, 2015 @ 4:45 PM at Metcalf Auditorium (RISD Museum) Greg finds out that he’s pregnant with his partner Ken’s baby. Dumbstruck by the news, their relationship takes twists and turns through hardship and hilarity. Director – Matt Riddlehoover An Official Selection in the Boys Centerpiece at the 2015 FilmOut San […]
Festival Screening – August 3, 2015 @ 8:30 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield In the 1950s, blonde, blue-eyed, squarejawed Tab Hunter is number one at the box office and number one on the music charts. He is Hollywood’s most soughtafter star and America’s boy next door. Hunter is Warner Bros.’ top-grossing star, and […]
Festival Screening – August 2, 2015 @ 12:30 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield In award-winning crowdfunded documentary Game Face the viewer is watching from the touchline as two athletes prepare for the biggest challenge of their careers – coming out. Fallon Fox, MMA’s first openly transgender pro fighter, and gay Oklahoma college basketball […]
Festival Screening – August 1, 2015 @ 6:30 PM, Screen 2 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield Smart, successful, and charming, Elsie is the perfect girlfriend. She also happens to be a serial monogamist, leaving a long trail of broken hearts in her wake. Weaving through the dos and don’ts of modern lesbian relationships, Elsie negotiates ‘coming […]
Festival Screening – July 31, 2015 @ 6:30 PM, Screen 2 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield Chet and Todd are gay brothers who grew up in a small town in central California with a homophobic single father. The two could not have turned out more different – Chet runs the family hardware store and still lives […]
Festival Screening – July 30, 2015 @ 8 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield Headlining this strand is Out to Win, a documentary from award-winning LGBT filmmaker Malcolm Ingram. It is an examination of the lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian sportspeople from all over the world. Director – Malcom […]
Final Festival Screening – Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 2:45 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 2 In this remarkable drama, first-time filmmaker Philipp Karner deftly captures the challenges of L.A. through the eyes of a disillusioned actor named Mark. Having spent years auditioning for bit parts, Mark questions whether he’s masculine enough for Hollywood’s […]
Festival Screening – Saturday, July 18, 2015 @ 7:00 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 1 THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE is arguably one of the year’s most visually stunning films. It also happens to be one of the most romantic. Set against the bright summer skies of Lithuania’s countryside, the story begins with a chance […]
