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Award-winning writer/director Myles Yaksich creates a deeply personal story about timeless issues: race, gender, sexuality and sense of belonging — in his period thriller-drama directing debut feature “ALBATROSS”
By Oliver Carnay https://www.youtube.com/embed/6fWXliLuVTUALBATROSS, set in a period movie, is a dark, character-driven drama which examines the concept of self-identity, ethnicity, and sexual orientation
BIG WINNERS AT OUTFEST 2022 — Amanda Kramer’s “PLEASE BABY PLEASE” won Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding North American Narrative Feature and a double win for Juan Felipe Zuleta’s “UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS” awarded Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance in a North American Narrative Feature for actor Matthew August Jeffers
By Oliver Carnay Outfest — the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization promoting equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBTQIA+ stories on the screen — has
The Oscar® Qualifying HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL returns for its much-anticipated 18th edition from August 11- 20th, 2022
By Oliver Carnay From an impressive 5000 entries, 161 female directors and 101 BIPOC directors and nearly 400 films form this year’s exciting program,
Outfest 2022 Legacy Centerpiece screens ‘FAR FROM HEAVEN” for its 20th Anniversary with a grand red carpet and Q&A after with star Julianne Moore, Director Todd Haynes, and producer Christine Vachon
By Oliver Carnay FAR FROM HEAVEN with JULIANNE MOORE, TODD HAYNES, CHRISTINE VACHON Q&A with Christine Vachon, Julianne Moore, and Todd Haynes Academy award-nominated
Outfest had the World Premiere of iWantTFC’s episodic “Sleep With Me” starring Janine Gutierrez and Lovi Poe (directed by Samantha Lee), double billed by digital series “Crazy” with actors/creators Rachel Leyco and Sheena Midori Brevig
Photos, text, and video by Oliver Carnay The 40th anniversary of Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival had the World Premiere of Filipina stars Janine Gutierrez
New Amazon Studios Series “A League of Their Own” showed free screenings of two episodes at Outfest 2022, followed by Q&A with filmmakers and cast moderated by Rosie O’ Donnell
Photos, text and videos by Oliver Carnay A free advanced screening of the series’ first two episodes was held at the Directors Guild of
Outfest LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival Closing Night Gala with the red carpet World Premiere of Blumhouse / PeacockTV’s THEY/THEM held at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
By Oliver Carnay KEVIN BACON and KYRA SEDGWICK at THEY_THEM World Premiere THEY THEM red carpet with cast Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival’s
Billy Porter receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Outfest 2022 and kicked-off Opening Night with his rom-com directing feature debut “Anything’s Possible”
By Oliver Carnay The 2022 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival kicked off last night at the iconic Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles
Director/Producer Michelle Ehlen returns to OUTFEST with her feature film “Maybe Someday;” screening Saturday, July 23, 7pm
By Oliver Carnay Maybe Someday will have its Los Angeles premiere at the Outfest LA Film Festival July 23rd at the Director’s Guild and is also
P.J. Palmer’s NORTH STAR starring Colman Domingo and Malcolm Gets is playing at Outfest and has been selected by four Oscar-qualifying film festivals
By Oliver Carnay Writer/Director P.J. Palmer’s touching short film NORTH STAR has been selected for high-profile film festivals, having only just begun the festival circuit
Acclaimed queer filmmaker Maris Curran debuts feature docfilm “JEANNETTE at Outfest2022
By Oliver Carnay From acclaimed queer filmmaker Maris Curran (Five Nights in Maine), JEANNETTE is an intimate vérité documentary about a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting
Actor Matthew August Jeffers offers new take in the LGBTQ+ and LP community via his first feature “UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS,” as star and debuting producer
By Oliver Carnay Outfest US Centerpiece feature UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS, a twisted queer take on the buddy road-trip genre, and one of the few feature narrative