LGBT Los Angeles Film Festival
Showcasing the best of short films and screenplays from the LGBT community. Screenplay Winner every single month performed by professional actors. Film Festival occurs 3 times a year!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But we live in a world that is obsessed with one specific, narrow type of beauty. How would our perceptions of beauty change if we dared to idealize other types of beauty?
Cydney is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington; a Texas-raised filmmaker originally from San Antonio. She developed a passion for creative storytelling while attending the North East School of the Arts. After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Film and Media Arts in 2014, she worked as the Program Coordinator for the USA Film Festival. She currently serves as the Programs Chair for Women in Film Dallas for the second year in a row following the rewarding experience of being the Shorts Programmer for the 2016 Chick Flicks Festival. While she was a graduate teaching assistant at UTA she completed her thesis project, a pilot entitled “Group,” a dark comedy about a group therapy which has since won awards at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. She works in the DFW film community as an Assistant Director, Producer, and Script Supervisor while expanding her body of work that focuses on stories that explore the human condition and the expressions of trauma, adversity, and mental illness.
We are proud to present a story about Queer Love. With women comprising more than 60% of all production roles including directing & producing and a cast/crew as ethnically and gender-diverse as all the types of love stories that exist out in the world, we are sure you’ll fall head over heels in love with “Old Flames” too.
We aimed to take a classic genre of story-telling, romantic-comedy, and re-envision it in a more modern format. By placing a Queer man of color at the center of this story, we gave ourselves the liberty to reconstruct just exactly what “rom-coms” are about and remind ourselves that love and the way it affects us, is always a universal experience.
Damian likes to daydream, especially about his ex-boyfriend, Jessie. And on one quiet night in a bar, we see his fantasies take shape and he meets face-to-face with the man of his dreams. As he journeys back to the “love of his life”, Damian gets the wake-up call that memory and desire don’t always match who we are in real life.
“”Laughing Out Loud”- Short Film Program 2019 “
OUT HERE NOW: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival
“Honorable Mentions for ISA 2019- “Old Flames””
Independent Shorts Awards
https://independentshortsawards.com/honorable-mentions-april-2019/
“”Old Flames”- New Entry”
Independent Shorts Awards
AUDIENCE FESTIVAL AWARDS
Best Film: WAJOOD (SELFHOOD)
Best Performances: HOW TO BE ALONE
Best Cinematography: DEVIL WEARS A SUIT
Best Music: The music from SHAPING SCARS
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video for each film:
The LGBT JUNE 2017 FEEDBACK Film Festival gave our audiences simply the best of short movies from this community.
The theme of the festival was “BEING YOURSELF”.
Every film showcased was about a character(s) just needing to be who they are in order to be fulfilled in this crazy world.
The first ever LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival was a success. Of course anytime you hit a new venture, there is always things to take away from and do better next time out. Bottomline, we want to make sure we have more of a LGBT dominated audience making comments for the filmmakers.
This festival got started in July 2016 to prepare for the 2017 season and beyond. We hired strickly people in the community to program the films and read/grade the scripts.
Alan Flanagan, based in London, UK, was the main programmer for the June 2017 Festival. He has worked for WILDsound on and off since 209 and was the driving force to begin the LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival.
You always know you had a great festival when all the films receive multiple votes for BEST FILM of the night from the audience. WAJOOD was the winner, but by the slimmest of margins.
We are so proud of this festival so far. We can’t wait until the next one in the fall.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
Take a look at the Audience Feedback Videos from our NEW Film Festival. Some of the best short films in the world today were showcased.
DEVIL WEARS A SUIT, 20min, Australia, LGBT, Sci-Fi
WAJOOD (SELFHOOD), 13min, India, LGBT, Romance
MASC ONLY, 15min, USA, LGBT, Comedy
SHAPING SCARS, 7min, UK, LGBT, Dance
HOW TO BE ALONE, 22min, Israel, LGBT, Drama
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