Outfest LA 2021 - Documentary Feature
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- DirectorEmily BranhamStarsNea Marshall KudiEmily BranhamRuPaulCaptures the incredible rise of the first ever winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: the legendary BeBe Zahara Benet.
- DirectorJeffrey SchwarzStarsMuhammad AliSteve AllenBrooke AndersonDickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, find themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson's web when she hires them to write a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard."
- DirectorGina LambEdward 'Enyce' SmithStarsRyku BellaThomas DavisJerome KitchenFive members of the Los Angeles LGBTQ+ House & Ball Community share intimate stories of their experiences with methamphetamine addiction in response to the death of Ballroom community member Gemmel Moore, who died in the home of Democratic political fundraiser Ed Buck.
- DirectorAlberto FuguetStarsPaco MoyanoManolo RodríguezFrancesc MuletA film essay about a singular couple, Paco and Manolo, two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona, who have been together for thirty years. Both have managed to work as a single photographer and have captured their imagery in Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with an essentially Mediterranean homoerotic aesthetic.
- DirectorMichiel ThomasStarsGia BanksMark ChambersJeffrey DrewFriends reminisce on the lives and deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two black gay men who died at the hands of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck.
- DirectorT.J. ParsellStarsBonnie BakerCidny BullensDianne DavidsonThis documentary explores a group of gay women songwriters who have successfully navigated the male dominated country music genre and have written number 1 hits for some of country music's greatest stars.
- DirectorJulie CohenBetsy WestStarsPatricia Bell-ScottPauli MurrayDolores ChandlerA look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
- DirectorVivian KleimanStarsAlison BechdelJennifer CamperAlex CombsA lively look at five LGBTQ+ comic book artists whose careers go from the underground scene to the cover of Time Magazine and the international stage.
- DirectorAngelo Madsen MinaxStarsAngelo Madsen MinaxFilmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his home town after the mysterious death of his two-year-old niece and the arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit.
- DirectorAlex ClausenRyan A. WhiteStarsSusie BrightDarryl CarltonRick CastroRaw. Uncut. Video. chronicles the rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, and explores how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by promoting kinky sex. Legendary leatherman Jack Fritscher met Mark Hemry in 1979 at Harvey Milk's birthday party - and the two fell head over heels in love. When the AIDS epidemic swept through San Francisco, the couple left the city to begin a new venture: turning a rural ranch in Sonoma County into a safe-sex porn studio that offered viewers new sexual possibilities in an age of plague. Casting rugged non-professional models to explore their unique erotic fantasies onscreen, the studio explored a wild array of queer kinks - and helped champion sex-positivity in the porn industry.
- DirectorAdrián SilvestreStarsAlicia de BenitoLena BrasasCristina MillánJust as the Earth is, our inner selves are made up of many layers that make up our identity and tell the story of our existence.
- DirectorDante AlencastreStarsPeter CashmanJohn DuranPaul LanglotzSeizing her power as she confronts her mortality, trailblazing trans activist Connie Norman evolves as an irrepressible, challenging and soulful voice for the AIDS and queer communities of early 90's Los Angeles.
- DirectorJoshua GuerciStarsMichael PhillisRory DavisJoe AndrewsThe story of San Francisco's gay all-male revue.
- DirectorPedro PeiraStarsPatricia ArquetteRosario DawsonBarbara JacobsBamby, a transgender activist, hosts a 50th birthday celebration attended by the people who made her.
- DirectorDebra ChasnoffKate Stilley SteinerStarsDebra ChasnoffNancy OttoIn perhaps her bravest act as a filmmaker, Oscar-winning San Francisco documentarian, LGBTQ+ activist, and Frameline Award recipient Debra Chasnoff (It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996)) responded to her diagnosis of stage-4 cancer by turning the camera on herself, her wife, and her sons to chronicle the journey that lay ahead of them. With customary candor and humor, she took on the assignment out of necessity: not wishing to be defined only as patient or victim, she adopted a role she could play with certainty-that of storyteller. Completed according to her wishes by a circle of Bay Area peers and family, Prognosis: Notes on Living is not only a film about illness. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, intimate and honest, it is the unforgettable, present-tense diary of a life fiercely lived, and a love worth fighting for.
- DirectorHarri ShanahanSiân A. WilliamsStarsIndigo AzidahakaKaren FischREBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.
- DirectorBo McGuireStarsCarron ClarkChuck DuckBo McGuireA poet composes a cinematic love letter to his grandmother as his homophobic aunt and drag queen uncle wage war over her estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama.
- DirectorAndrea MeyersonStarsJessica M. BairAshlynne BairChristian BairIn the quest to find herself, Jessica Bair had to be prepared to lose her family, her faith, her job-and nearly her life.
- DirectorChris J. RussoStarsFelicia CarbajalJoyce CentofantiCheryl Mumzer GoldmanAfter the widely praised decision to legalize marijuana in California, six courageous women come out of the shadows of the cannabis underground to enter the new commercial industry. But with excessive government oversight and regulations that favor well-funded corporations, these trailblazers risk everything to fight for a piece of the "American Dream" in the market they helped create.