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Outfest Los Angeles · 2020

Outfest Los Angeles 2020

Documentary Features

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10 films · 1 review

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Ahead Of The Curve

With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. Years later, learning that it will fold within the year, she questions the relevance of the magazine in the face of accelerating threats to LGBTQ+ community.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow; Stars: Franco Stevens, Melissa Etheridge, Jewelle Gomez, Lea Delaria)

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes And Sadomasochism

Review preview for Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes And Sadomasochism

Where it really delivers is in capturing a hidden history.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Eight self-described leather dykes discuss queer politics, power and self-determination.

(Country: US; Year: 1995; Director: Michelle Handelman; Writer: Michelle Handelman; Stars: Patrick Califia, Skeeter, Wickie Stamps)

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The Capote Tapes

Profile of author Truman Capote.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Ebs Burnough)

Cured

A look at the campaign behind the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer; Writer: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer)

Freedia Got A Gun

After losing her brother to gun violence, New Orleans’ queen of bounce Big Freedia uses her national platform to shine a spotlight on gun reform.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Chris McKim; Stars: Big Freedia)

House Of Cardin

Profile of the fashion icon Pierre Cardin.

(Country: US, Franc; Year: 2019; Director: P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes; Stars: Pierre Cardin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Philippe Starck, Sharon Stone, Naomi Campbell, Guo Pei, Jean-Michel Jarre, Alice Cooper, Dionne Warwick, Kenzo Takada, Jenny Shimizu, Hanae Mori, Trina Turk, Yumi Katsura, Rodrigo Basilicati)

I Am The Other One

Luca longs for his lost love; Thalles for a name change; Raul to be a better person. They share one element: they were born as women.

(Country: Brazil, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Sílvia Godinho; Writer: Sílvia Godinho)

Out Loud

A documentary (no further details yet available).

(Director: Gail Willumsen)

PS Burn This Letter Please (P.S. Burn This Letter Please)

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten era: the underground drag scene in 1950s New York City.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera; Writer: Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera)

Your Mother's Comfort (Aconchego da tua Mãe)

With the impending election of an extreme-right wing president in Brazil, trans activist and politician Indianara Siqueira fights to defend the LGBT homeless shelter she founded called CasaNem.

(Country: US, Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Adam Golub)