Stand by for Frameline!
Out There
Published 05/27/2010
by Roberto Friedman
http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outthere&article=267Frameline 34, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, is just around the queer corner, coming up June 17-27, so executive director K.C. Price and festival director Jennifer Morris took some time out of their busy schedules to sit down with Out There in the Frameline offices and tell us a little about what's coming up.
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Centerpiece films include Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar, a documentary about the Queen of the Factory examining who she really was, under all the glamour and tragedy. Like the Lister films, it's based on archival diaries, here read in a voiceover by actress Chloe Sevigny . This ties in with a mini-retrospective of Warhol films: two programs of early, queer-themed works like My Hustler, and a talk on gay aesthetics in Warhol films by Yale professor Ron Gregg . It's a continuation of Frameline's commitment to exploring the past and present of queer underground film.
Ten new films from Brazil, Argentina and Peru point to a boom in LGBT cinema from South America – "they're sort of in their heyday," said Morris. Offerings include Sundance award-winner Undertow, from Peru ("a definite highlight," said Price), and The Fish Child, from the Argentine director of previous Frameline audience award-winner XXY . From Brazil, Elvis & Madona finds a dyke pizza-delivery gal rom
