Outfest

  • Wish We Were There : Pioneers in Queer Cinema Event in LA

    Wish We Were There : Pioneers in Queer Cinema Event in LA

      Its been 17 years since  UCLA Film & Television Archive partnered with Outfest to create the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation.  This essential development was formed to confront the fact that historically queer cinema and related moving images documenting the LGBTQ+ community have been tragically underseen and woefully under-cared for…

  • The OutMuseum : the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum of its kind

    The OutMuseum : the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum of its kind

      The OutMuseum is the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum of its kind – available free to the public. Home to a combination of rotating and permanent exhibits centering themes, identities, and experiences which celebrate and commemorate the queer and trans communities we serve as an organization, the OutMuseum places the telling of…

  • Queerguru reviews DEATH AND BOWLING : with a trans cast and a trans sensibility

    Queerguru reviews DEATH AND BOWLING : with a trans cast and a trans sensibility

      Trans filmmaker Lyel Kash’s directorial/writing debut Death and Bowling that is having its world premiere at OUTFEST Film Fest in LA is an extraordinary achievement.  Not just because in a groundbreaking move Kash cast all the roles in the movie with transgender actors, but his spiritual drama gives a very personal insight which we…

  • Charles Busch is back : we review his latest movie THE SIXTH REEL

    Charles Busch is back : we review his latest movie THE SIXTH REEL

    We think it is no secret that the multi-talent that is Charles Busch was born in the wrong era.  He is the perfect epitome of a glamorous Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s: he doesn’t just look the part, but he totally lives it.  So convincingly with all the mannerisms and melodrama, watching his…