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Art challenges social norms and hard conversations — stunning docfilm QUEENDOM is a breathtaking portrait of creative courage from artist @GenaMarvin
By Oliver Carnay https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gr6f0lUcPvM?si=eU6_A7VdHXZwM6RV Jenna Marvin (IG: @genamarvin), the subject of the documentary film QUEENDOM, directed by Agniia Galdanova and producer Igor Myakotin (Welcome to Chechnya), attended

FIREBRAND / MADAME SATÃ advanced screening and reception co-presented by Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival + Q&A with filmmaker Karim Aïnouz
By Oliver Carnay https://www.youtube.com/embed/oyAK_isFwbU?si=jiyc8l3hiHJFGEK0 An advanced screening of FIREBRAND, back to back with the screening of his debut feature MADAME SATÃ (2002) was held

Films to watch out at 48th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48)
By Oliver Carnay For more information and complete list of films playing at FRAMELINE48, please log on to frameline.org https://www.youtube.com/embed/-iCzagPQKVc?si=87TWAHyLCknbLFH- DEMONS AT DAWN is playing

FRAMELINE48 celebrates queer creators, past and present, among other festival highlights
By Oliver Carnay Director Alessandra Lacorazza‘s debut feature, In the Summers (screening on 6/20 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre) was awarded Frameline’s Completion Fund Grant and went to

Theodore Pellerin delivers a tour de force performance in “SOLO” with an exquisite direction from Sophie Dupuis
By Oliver Carnay https://www.youtube.com/embed/yO6tMRbbA88?si=O6SDdauhb6GI7CEC Theodore Pellerin (Genesis, Boy Erased, Never Rarely Sometimes Always) gives a brilliant and moving performance in this film bursting with

Docfilm “THE GRAB” is a powerful thriller about a nearly invisible conspiracy to control the world’s food and water, uncovering the money, and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the earth, exposed and discovered by investigative journalist Nate Halverson.
By Oliver Carnay THE GRAB will start playing at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinemas in San Francisco and will have a Q&A with Nate

48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48) runs June 19 through 29; First-ever Castro free outdoor block party event to open the festival followed by a screening of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” documentary feature
By Oliver Carnay The oldest and longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival in the world, the San Francisco International Film Festival (also known as the arts

Docfilm “PRODIGAL DAUGHTER,” a heartfelt timely story of an immigrant woman artist, to premiere May 30 at LALIFF 2024
By Oliver Carnay Filmmaker and artist Mabel Valdiviezo reunites with her family in Peru after 16 years of estrangement, confronting her past as an

GRASSLAND, from Executive Producer COMMON, will be LALIFF’s Closing Night film
By Oliver Carnay GRASSLAND, a riveting social justice drama highlighting the perils of marijuana incarceration, will be the Closing Night Film of the 23rd

Thrilling frontier Western “The Dead Don’t Hurt” starring Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps was inspired by Mortensen’s mother; opens nationwide, in theatres May 31
By Oliver Carnay Written and directed by Academy Award®-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in

We Were The Lucky Ones Series Finale Screening + Q&A
By Oliver Carnay https://www.youtube.com/embed/hOOn7Wb8sNw?si=810q-qhwf8gj8wY4 The American Cinematheque presented a special series finale screening of “WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES” with actors Joey King and

24th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival (May 1 through May 5) Opening Night held at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres
By Oliver Carnay The 24th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival celebrated Opening Night with red carpet arrivals from Rumer Wills for the LA Premiere of My Divorce

