In honor of the 40th anniversary of Boston Pride we are opening the 2010 Boston LGBT Film Festival with Bob Christie's stunning documentary on Pride across the globe Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride.More info
Please join us for the world premiere of award winning director Stu Maddux's new documentary Gen Silent.
This program is now sold out. Tickets are still available for the Brattle Screening on May 11th.
There is a possibility of unclaimed tickets being released on May 6th. Keep an eye on this page for an announcement.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HUNTINGTON AVENUE ENTRANCE WILL BE CLOSED: YOU MUST ENTER THROUGH THE FENWAY SIDE OF THE MUSEUM.
Please join us for a very special evening. We will be awarding famed LGBT film distributor Wolfe with our Community Award. Wolfe President Maria Lynn will be presented with the award for all of their work over the past 25 years in getting LGBT films out into the world. The award ceremony will be followed by a special screening of the Sundance Audience Award winning drama Contracorriente (The Undertow).
Jarrett Barios, President of GLAAD will be presenting the award to Maria Lynn and will introduce the film.
The screening will also be proceeded by a performance by renowned tango dancer Fernanda in a celebration of our Focus on Latin Cinema. A native of Argentina, Fernanda has performed at the Tango Conference at Harvard University, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), the Somerville Theater, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Regattabar and Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge.
Join us after the screening at Machine Nightclub, 1254 Boylston Street for the very special Wolfe After Party Sponsored by Dyke Night.
Russian born director Evgeny Afineevsky brings his debut feature film to the Boston LGBT Film Festival. Breaking records at film festivals internationally – and soon to be one of the first Gay films ever screened in Moscow – Afineevsky’s film brings together noted comedic actress Lainie Kazan (Ugly Betty, You Don’t Mess With Zohan, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and BEACHES!), Hollywood writer and actor Bruce Vilanch, the fabulous Carmen Electra, and Queer Eye’s Jai Rodriguez in a romantic comedy about a Jewish mother who discovers that her son is gay.
Director Evgeny Afineevsky and star Bruce Vilanch will be in attendance.
Join us at the after party from 4 to 8 at Back2Basics Tea Dance at the Verve Lounge @ Rudi's Resto Cafe & Bar !
Free Tea Dance admission with movie voucher from “Oh Vey My Son Is Gay.”
811 Massachusetts Avenue at the Hampton Inn Hotel.
Based on the novel of the same name by Peter Cameron, Omar Razaghi
(Metwally) is an Iranian-born graduate student whose fellowship hinges
on finishing an authorized biography of deceased Latin American author
Jules Gund. The unexpected withdrawal of the Gund Estate throws Omar's
world into disarray, and Omar is left with no choice but to travel to
Uruguay and petition Gund's executors to change their minds.
Omar arrives into a hornet's nest of intrigue and idiosyncrasy. The
Gund "family," living together on the author's isolated and decaying
estate, includes Gund's widow, Caroline (Linney); his mistress, Arden
(Gainsbourg); Gund's brother, Adam (Hopkins), and Adam's partner, Pete
(Sanada). Omar's unannounced arrival upsets their fragile co-
existence, causing all to question their own circumstances and fates,
which in turn leads Omar himself to question his own existence up
until now.
The City Of Your Final Destination is a finely-tuned comedy of modern
manners from which emerges that rarest of things: a film romance that
is actually romantic; it is, to quote The New York Times review of
Cameron's novel, a "pungent, airy, grave, and transporting commedia
dell-arte [that] subtly, affectingly, erotically traces the beginning,
the hesitations, the advances of a love affair."
How we fall in love, how we find a home, and how we come to know, or
change, ourselves are all questions that The City Of Your Final Destination deftly explores in this warm and engaging work.
The City Of Your Final Destination is as pure an example of the
Merchant Ivory brand of upscale literary cinema as devotees of
"Howards End," "A Room With a View" and "The Remains of the Day" could
ask for. - Stephen Holden, New York Times
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HUNTINGTON AVENUE ENTRANCE WILL BE CLOSED: YOU MUST ENTER THROUGH THE FENWAY SIDE OF THE MUSEUM.
We celebrate noted filmmaker Cheryl Dunye with the Boston LGBT Film Festival's inaugural Director's award. Ms. Dunye astounded the world with her breakthrough film Watermelon Woman in 1996 and we are honoured to present her latest film The Owls. Please join us in celebrating a filmmaker who has made an amazing contribution to LGBT cinema.
About the making of the The Owls:
Director Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz, Candi Gutteres and Ernesto Foronda invited a group of lesbian and gay artists with creative links to work on this project. This marked the beginning of the ‘Parliament Collective’, a large multiethnic artists’ collective that developed the story for The Owls.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HUNTINGTON AVENUE ENTRANCE WILL BE CLOSED: YOU MUST ENTER THROUGH THE FENWAY SIDE OF THE MUSEUM.
The Boston LGBT Film Festival is proud to present Kareem Mortimer's debut feature film Children of God as our closing night film. A smash hit at it's screening at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, where it sold out the largest cinema in the city, the Odeon in Leicester Square, we are honored to host the New England premiere of this stunningly beautiful story of love and homophobia in the Caribbean. This is a film not to be missed.
Lead actress Margaret Laureena Kemp and Producer Trevite Willis will be in attendance.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUART PLAYHOUSE DOESN'T HAVE ONLINE TICKETING OR CREDIT/DEBIT SERVICES. IT WILL BE CASH ONLY AT THE BOX OFFICE.
Join us for an evening with Auntie Mame! The Boston LGBT Film Festival helps kicks off our Pride "Mini" Film Festival with Rosalind Russell's fantastic and unforgettable Auntie Mame. What's more fitting for Pride that an evening with the woman who coined the phrase "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Come down to the Stuart Street Playhouse, have a couple of cocktails and spend two hours with the most wonderful aunt a boy could have. We'll be shouting along with Mame, Vera, Patrick, Gooch, Ito and the rest. You know the lines. You know the film. See it on the big screen for the first time in a long time.
Cocktails start at 7 and the film starts at 8! We'll see you there! And remember, "when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something."
