Saturday, April 25, 2009

2009 Q Film Fest ignites LB Pride celebration

Celebrate Long Beach Pride early at the Long Beach Q Film Festival. Lovers of the autonomous queer movie genre can satiate their visual palates, May 8 – 10 at the Art Theatre.
The festival includes features, shorts and documentary films of, by and for the LGBT community, providing a chance to meet filmmakers, commune with other movie enthusiast and watch queer films. The show schedule comprises everything from comedy to thrills and real-life drama.
Some of the features include:
Don’t Go, a new TV series filmed in Long Beach, described as “Melrose Place” meets “L Word.” The cast and crew will be guests at May 8 opening screening.
Tru Loved, centered on a 16-year-old girl reared by lesbian mothers, who relocate from San Francisco to a conservative community in Southern California.
Bi the Way, a documentary followed by a panel discussion.
Saving the Boom, as story about a man who struggles to save the oldest gay bar in Laguna Beach.
Other documentaries and films For My Wife, The Constant Princess, A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square and Showgirls, Provincetown, MA also are among the Q Festival’s line-ups.
Details and tickets: visit www.centerlb.org.

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