Out on Film: Festival celebrates LGBT culture on the big screen

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Out on Film: Festival celebrates LGBT culture on the big screen
by Steve Warren   
Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00

http://thegavoice.com/index.php/aae/film-menu/1227-festival-celebrates-lgbt-culture-on-the-big-screen

One way to get ready for Pride is a week of total immersion in LGBT cinema. Fortunately, Out on Film offers that opportunity from Oct. 1-7 at two venues, the Landmark Midtown Art Cinemas (LMAC) and the Ansley Park Playhouse (APP).

With 31 features, four programs of shorts and other events, you'll be able to visit exotic locations (Rio, Buenos Aires, Peru, Nassau, 19th–century England) or spend endless hours in New York bars. Nine of the features are documentaries — and the doc is "in" these days — but fictional films offer a dose of the reality of homophobia in the Bahamas, the Marines and other places.

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"I am also ecstatic that Out on Film agreed to program 'Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s with Knives,' which, for all its controversy, is a film that we find empowering, and a film a lot of folks like."