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Philly Film Fest Highlight: QFEST July 11-22, 2013
More summer film festivals in Philly! As AwesomeFest continues, and on the heels of The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival comes the 19th Annual leading LGBT film fest – QFEST With 108 films that include 46 feature films, 23 documentaries, and 39 shorts films, as well as 3 World Premieres, 4 East Coast Premieres and over 50 Philadelphia Premieres, QFest is showcasing the absolute best in LGBT cinema. As has become tradition for the festival, QFest will be also offering up films that touch on several hot button topics facing the LGBT community, immigration, sexual identity, addiction, and marriage equality. “While not prone to hyperbole, I have to say that this…
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Interview: SCUD “Love Actually…Sucks”
QFEST 2011 lft to rt: Haze Leung, Scud, Ryo van Kooten Taking inspiration from six different court cases involving crimes of the heart, Scud examines the intense, often self-destructive sexual longings among several well-to-do young Hong Kong residents – gay, lesbian and straight. The film opens with the most scandalous wedding reception ever put on film: a young couple’s marriage ends (in the most dramatic fashion) before it begins. There is the 30-ish married gym instructor who trolls the active bathroom scene for young flesh; a lesbian couple with roleplay issues; a dance instructor who becomes the object of attraction to his much older student; a married painter who falls…
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RECAP – PFS Screening of 12 Monkeys at Eastern State Penitentiary
So I’m back, but I have yet to write a post for T & T. I do have several food posts to write, which I plan to combine together in a post called Culinary Catch-Up; which makes me think of ketchup; which is fitting as the post will be just a sprinkle or flavoring of meals I’ve enjoyed. I also plan to re-blog 2 or 3 of the filmmaker interviews I did for QFest on the Qblog. But for now, all I’ve had a chance to do is PFS blog post for this month’s filmadelphiaClassics – 12 Monkeys.(Click to read)
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Tinsel & Tine Mini-Hiatus
As previously mentioned, I was hired to write posts, fb & tweet out social media for Philadelphia Cinema Alliances’ QFEST 2011! The festival runs July 7th – 18th, but I’ve been at it steadily for the last two weeks; so be sure to check out the Qblog. Now that I’m blogging for both film organizations in Philadelphia, a full-time career in this arena can’t be far away!? Actually, I had some apprehension about accepting the QFest gig for three reasons: 1) As many Philly readers know, there once was only one non-profit film association, until a couple of years ago when there was a nasty split. I never chose sides;…
