FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS AND PARTIES

There are so many great films to choose from, we know you can’t see them all. Allow us to direct your attention to some of the festival highlights.

We are proud present our OPENING NIGHT presentation – the Sundance smash DIE MOMMIE DIE (with special guests director Mark Rucker and star Jason Priestley – no kidding!) to the Super8 Wonders of the World. Festival Centerpiece LATTER DAYS is fresh from a triumph at Outfest, where it won the Outstanding First Narrative Feature Award. HAIRSPRAY meets VALLEY OF THE DOLLS in our simmering sneak preview, and GOLDFISH MEMORY wraps it all up CLOSING NIGHT with a saucy tale of revolving-door romance.

This year, bringing you the best queer film from around the world was easier than ever since some was made right here in Seattle. Our LOCAL SHORTS program features the work of a talented batch of Northwest artists. The LAST DANCE AT THE TIMBERLINE is a fond look back at one of Seattle’s most famous and historic queer bars…you or your friends might even be in it! And we’re proud to copresent a screening of GORY GORY HALLELUJAH with the Warren Report on Tuesday, October 21, 7pm at the Seattle Art Museum. This new work by Sue Corcoran is local filmmaking at its bloody best. For more info on this screening, visit www.thewarrenreport.com.

We are very excited about the return of PARADISE HOTEL! Comprising salon-style, interactive art installations, each room invites you to explore a new world. Take a break and let the DJs spin you on the dance floor. Provocative, edgy, and with just the right amount of naughty, you’ll be talking about this party well into the New Year. Sing along with SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN to welcome the first drizzly days of fall. For all you crooners who can’t get enough, the film lover’s version of karaoke returns in CINE-OKE: RELOADED. Hanging on to old home movies, film school flops, or guilty video pleasures? Dust off those VHS tapes and submit them to our very first GONG SHOW! Hosted by LA author and funnyman Dennis Hensley, lucky audience winners could walk away with great prizes – if they escape the gong!

We’re thrilled to present two rare screenings of archival films, both by queer directors. WORKING GIRLS, directed by Dorothy Arzner, has been hailed as her most daring and innovative film. One of the greatest American female directors, Arzner launched the careers of some of Hollywood’s biggest female stars, including Katharine Hepburn. SYLVIA SCARLETT, directed by George Cukor, is our tribute screening to the late, great Kate. Brazen and unconventional, Hepburn was a star like no other, and in this film (one of her first starring roles) she disguises herself as a man (and kisses a woman!) — one of the most handsome crossdressers ever captured on screen. This year’s festival pays homage to many remarkable women, including Martha Graham (GHOSTLIGHT), and lesbian pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (NO SECRET ANYMORE).

We’re also pleased to present two free programs with the Capitol Hill Branch of the Seattle Public Library. You can bring the whole family to JUST FOR KIDS, a collection of entertaining short films, or be inspired and energized by FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS: 15 YEARS OF ACT UP (just in time for the elections)!

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