27th Connecticut LGBT Out! Film Festival

Laura Williams; Co-Director, Out! Film Festival

http://www.outfilmct.org/

• Starts May 30th and runs for 9 days, closing on June 7th
• Connecticut’s longest-running film festival
• Connecticut’s largest LGBT cultural event
• Hartford’s major gay pride month event
• Most film screenings take place at Cinestudio on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford
• Closing night films screening at Spotlight Theatres on Front Street and the Wadsworth Atheneum, with the Closing Night party in the Wadsworth’s courtyard, with food, beverages, and dancing
• Hosting several premieres, including the U.S. premiere of the feature film Of Girls and Horses and the International Premiere of Queen of Amsterdam (the film’s very first screening outside of the Netherlands)
• Lots of actors and film directors will be visiting, from as far as Brazil to Toronto and the Netherlands to Los Angeles.

Films with Connecticut connections

•       Burning Blue – Co-Writer Helene Kvale lives in West Hartford and is a UConn professor.
• A Self-Made Man – An intimate portrait of transgender youth advocate and Connecticut native Tony Ferraiolo.
• You’re Dead To Me (short film) – Producer Melissa Haizlip was raised in New Haven, and still has deep family roots in Connecticut

May 30 to June 7

For more information, go here

Day              Date              Time           Venue            Title
Friday        5/30/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio     Boy Meets Girl
Saturday    5/31/2014    2:30 PM    Cinestudio     To Be Takei
Saturday    5/31/2014    5:00 PM    Spotlight        Girltrash: All Night Long
Saturday    5/31/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio     The Way He Looks
Saturday    5/31/2014    9:30 PM    Cinestudio     Tom at the Farm
Sunday       6/1/2014     2:30 PM    Cinestudio      Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Sunday       6/1/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio       A Self-Made Man
Sunday        6/1/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio      Open Up To Me
Monday      6/2/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio       The 10 Year Plan
Tuesday      6/3/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio       Women’s Shorts
Wed            6/4/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio        Burning Blue
Thursday   6/5/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio        Of Girls And Horses
Friday        6/6/2014    7:30 PM    Cinestudio        Heterosexual Jill
Friday        6/6/2014    8:30 PM    Spotlight           Lilting
Saturday    6/7/2014    2:30 PM    Wadsworth      The Dog
Saturday    6/7/2014    7:30 PM    Spotlight           Queen of Amsterdam
Saturday    6/7/2014    7:30 PM    Wadsworth       Tru Love