Beat the heat with these cool summer film fests, featuring new films, panels and more, streaming directly to your climate-controlled couch.
Fanny, the Right to Rock (Frameline45)
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SUMMER 2021
August 6-16, 2020
aGLIFF virtual festival August 6-16
Austin’s All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) will go virtual for 2020 over two weekends this August. The online festival, aGLIFF 33: Prism will be held August 6-16 offering more than sixty-five films, with features, shorts, and events showcasing the diverse experiences of LGBTQIA+ people.
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June 25-28, 2020
44th Annual Frameline Fest offers online access
Frameline44 Pride Showcase is a set of online film screenings offered to our audiences June 25 – 28, 2020. Film screenings will include special live and pre-recorded intros, Q&A’s and other unique enhancements that will make our Pride Showcase as close to an in-cinema Frameline experience as possible. After all, Pride weekend (let alone the 50th anniversary of SF Pride) just isn’t the same without Frameline!
June 30, 2020, 4pm EST / 1pm PST
Wild Nights with Emily + Q&A
Don’t miss this virtual screening of Wild Nights with Emily and a Q&A with director Madeleine Olnek.
Wild Nights With Emily is the story of Emily Dickinson’s life-long romantic relationship with Susan Gilbert, Emily’s life as a writer, and the comic soap opera that was 1880’s Amherst.
Starting 6/19. Live-stream discussion 6/24, 9pm EST/6pm PST
Netflix doc DISCLOSURE + livestream conversation with Laverne Cox, director Sam Feder, and more
DISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Now streaming on Netflix, plus live-stream conversation with Laverne Cox, director Sam Feder and more Wed June 24.
»RSVP: Live Conversation & Celebration with DISCLOSURE Talent
June 22, 2020
FREE Encore Screening: UNSETTLED + panel
If you missed (or loved!) the Lesbian Looks/DocScapes event at the Loft in Feb 2020, here’s another chance to see this great film about LGBT refugees and asylum seekers resettling in SF.
The filmmakers have teamed up with ITVS and World Channel for a special live online screening event this Monday, June 22, at 7pm EST (4pm PST) with NPR’S Ari Shapiro, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Subhi Nahas, one of the subjects of our film, and Tom Shepard, the director of UNSETTLED…. »RSVP here
June 19-21, 26-28, 2020
OUT of Site: SOMA
We have an antidote to being physically disconnected from our communities! An interactive, online show performed live touring the streets of San Francisco…virtually.
OUT of Site: SOMA is virtual-live-street-theater project that explores the history of San Francisco’s South of Market district, a catalyst for radical change and a stronghold for queer and activist organizing.
June 26th will feature a talkback with The Women of SOMA: 4 fierce activists and artists who changed the neighborhood and the culture forever.
Sisters of ’77, Stream for Free, June 18-21
In 1977, over the course of four days, approximately 20,000 women would congregate in Houston, Texas, to attend the first ever National Women’s Conference, as presided over by Congresswoman Bella Abzug. This 2005 film combines incredible archival footage and insightful interviews with attendees to present an inside look at this historic event that defined the […]
June 2020
Loft Streams Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Classics of early queer German cinema are now streaming in gorgeous new restorations from the Loft Cinema: Victor and Victoria (1933), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Michael (1924)….
»PIONEERS OF QUEER CINEMA AT THE LOFT
Now List 2020: Gwen Shockey’s Archive of NYC’s Lesbian Spaces Is More Important Than Ever
New York City-based artist Gwen Shockey has set out to preserve the memory of lesbian bars through her Addresses Project (2016-present). By conducting interviews and sifting through a slew of newspaper clippings, blogs, Facebook event listings, police records, tax information, and business bureau records, she has pinpointed nearly 100 lesbian bars and parties that have existed from 1900 to the present day throughout the city’s five boroughs… »READ FULL ARTICLE
