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Frameline Distribution Ramps Up Its Selection of Films in Frameline30,
the 30th Annual San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
San Francisco, CA—Frameline Distribution’s program has been building momentum, adding new titles to its educational and burgeoning new home video lines as well as contributing some gems from its catalog to this year’s Festival. The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the world’s largest and oldest queer film fest, will screen from June 15–25, 2006.
Titles from Frameline Distribution’s catalog that are screening in Frameline30 include Yogesh Bhardwaj’s feature, Shabnam Mousi, an action-packed Bollywood musical based on a true story about a eunuch who transcends societal oppression to become a successful politician; Alessandra Zeka’s documentary, Harsh Beauty, about the lives of Jyoti and Usha, two eunuchs who ran away as children so they could live as their true selves; Jenn Kao’s short film, Outside, set amid a post-apocalyptic underground society in which one young woman confronts her fears of the unknown when she makes contact with an Outsider; The Believers (recipient of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant), a documentary of the journey of the world’s first transgender gospel choir; and Derek Jarman: Life as Art in which Jarman’s family and friends recall the avant-garde filmmaker’s life.
Current and classic Frameline titles have recently aired on MTV network’s Logo and here! TV, will air on The Sundance Channel in June.
Frameline will be releasing William E. Jones’ Is It Really So Strange?, its first DVD for the home video market, on June 27th. Jenni Olson’s The Joy Of Life will be released on July 25th. More titles are scheduled for the future. Check Frameline’s website (www.frameline.org) for details.
Frameline distributes more than 175 titles to more than 300 universities and more than 80 community groups in the US and Canada and to 120 film festivals internationally. Frameline titles will be available on IPTV platforms in Asia, New Zealand and Australia in the coming months. The Frameline release, Screaming Queens: The Riot At Compton’s Cafeteria, was recently nominated for a Northern California Regional Emmy award. The winners will be announced at the Emmy award ceremony on May 20th, 2006 in San Francisco.
Frameline’s titles are also screening at film festivals internationally. Highlights include Pink Screens Film Festival in Brussels, Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Get Real Film Festival, Inside Out in Toronto, Outfest in Los Angeles, Provincetown International Film
Festival, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Frameline30: the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, screening June 15–25 at the Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street), CinéArts@Empire (85 West Portal Avenue), Roxie Film Center (3117 16th Street), Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street) in San Francisco and the Parkway Theater (1834 Park Blvd.) in Oakland.
Advance tickets will be available at the Festival Ticket Outlet located at 474 Castro Street in San Francisco. The Ticket Outlet will be open for Frameline Members only from May 26th through June 1st. General public ticket sales begin on June 2nd. Tickets may also be purchased by phone (925.866.9559), fax (925.866.9597), or mail (Frameline30, P.O. Box 2229, Danville, CA 94526-7229). For more information on the Festival and how to purchase tickets call the 24-hour hotline at 925.866.9559 or visit http://www.frameline.org/festival.
The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is presented by Frameline, a nonprofit LGBT organization whose mission is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.
Media contact:
Seema Arora
seema@frameline.org
415.703.8650 x323 |
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