A team of Frameline staff -- Executive Director KC Price, Festival Director Jennifer Morris, and Administration and Operations Director Des Buford -- will be headed to Park City, Utah to see the newest in queer cinema. This year’s Sundance Film Festival has a wonderful line up of LGBT films -- here's just a few to watch out for:
Pariah
Dee Rees and Nekisa Cooper’s feature adaptation of their Frameline Audience Award winning short will be finished just in time to world premiere at Sundance. The film is about a Bronx teenager forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family while she juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression. If you would like to help Dee and Nekissa finish their film and make it to Sundance for their world premiere please check out their Kickstarter page
We Were Here David Weissman’s powerful AIDS documentary which many of you had the chance to see as a work-in-progress at Frameline34 and was a recipient of a Frameline Completion Fund grant.
Gun Hill Road
Director Rashad Ernesto Green features Esai Morales as a Latino father who returns home from prison after three years to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son stumbling towards a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Kaboom
Frameline Award winner Gregg Araki’s newest film which won the Cannes Film Festival's first Queer Palm award and stars Thomas Dekker in a genre-transgressive, sexy, comic science fiction mystery.
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Veteran shorts filmmaker Madeleine Olnek’s debut feature film centers around three lesbian aliens who are sent to Earth to have their hearts broken by earthlings so their overactive emotions won't destroy the ozone of their planet!
We will also be headed up Main Street to the Slamdance Film Festival to catch a screening of Mark Jackson’s debut feature Without which follows a young woman mourning the loss of her girlfriend, a teenage suicide victim of anti-gay bullying.
Read about more LGBT films at Sundance here. All these wonderful films bode well for a great Frameline35!
