San Francisco, CA - Frameline29, the 29th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, is scheduled to run June 16-26 at the historic Castro Theatre, Victoria Theatre, and Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, as well as at Oakland's Parkway Theater.

A significant number of films of all types included in Frameline29 feature members of the LGBT community partaking in a variety sporting endeavors. To lead off this explosion of queer sports, the Festival will present SUMMER STORM, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. This stirring and sexy drama follows two youths as their rowing team competes in a summer competition.

Other narrative features set in the world of sports include FORMULA 17 (Taiwan) directed by DJ Chen, and MY BROTHER NIKHIL (India), directed by Onir, that have their swimming protagonists in Speedos throughout much of their stories. From Germany, GUYS AND BALLS pits a rag-tag gay soccer team against their goalie's former homophobic teammates.

Several documentaries in Frameline29 cover an array of sports including RUGGER BUGGERS, (UK) directed by Mark Loughlin that features the San Francisco Fog winning last year's Mark Bingham Cup tournament in London. A transgender athlete takes on downhill mountain bike racing in 100% WOMAN, directed by Karen Duthie, and A KNOCKOUT, directed by Tessa Boreman and Samuel Reiziger, follows a butch black female boxer trying to make a go of it in a sport that prefers its female participants to be white, blond and a little more femme.

Other sports hitting the queer screen at Frameline29 include wrestling in GIRL WRESTLER, roller derby in HIGH HEELS ON WHEELS, basketball in THE LADY IS A CHAMP, cross-country cycling in LESBIAN GRANDMOTHERS FROM MARS, volleyball in GAY VOLLEY-BALL SAVED MY LIFE, soccer in NO ORDINARY JOE, Aussie football in CRASH and cricket in SHINING THE BALL.