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Thursday 27th December 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool
To book by phone, call 0871 704 2063

HAIRSPRAY [PG]

Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta,
Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah
USA 2007, 116 mins

Released to widespread delight this summer, this musical remake of John Waters’ cult 1988 movie now has an even higher rating on the Internet Movie Database than the original. With John Travolta donning a fat suit to cross-dress his way into the role first played by Divine, and newcomer Nikki Blonsky bopping her way to stardom in the role made famous by a then large and loveable Rikki Lake, the new Hairspray is simply not to be missed. Like the original, it’s actually a serious comedy about the darker side of American life in the 1950s: racism, segregation, and the manipulation of youth culture for profit. Plus – it’s got a cameo by John Waters himself as a flasher! What more could you possibly want…



Sunday 2nd December 07
7.30pm at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Telephone: 0151 709 3789

Dedicated to Gene Anthony Ray
FAME [15]
Collection in aid of local HIV charity Sahir House

Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray,
Paul McCrane, Lee Curreri
USA 1980, 133 mins.

You want Fame? Well Fame costs. And right here’s where you start paying… In sweat! That’s right, boys and girls - break out the sweatbands and legwarmers for a rare chance to see the story of the New York City High School of the Performing Arts (and the inspiration for our very own LIPA) on the big screen. It’s a little dated now (Doris becomes a liberated woman just by going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show! The kids dance in the streets to Fame!) but it’s charming, and defiantly optimistic, even for its gay and black characters - a rare thing back in 1980. I sing the body electric…

£5 (£4) Boxes, £4 (£3) Stalls (Concessions) Boxes are available to reserve, all other seats remain unreserved



Thursday 29th November 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

VELVET GOLDMINE [15]
Dedicated to James Lyons

Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor,
Jonanthan Rhys Meyers
UK/USA 1998, 124 mins.

On the eve of director Todd Haynes’ new film – the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There – Outsiders re-visits his ‘David Bowie biopic’ Velvet Goldmine. Best described as Citizen Kane meets The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it’s a sexy, iconoclastic cinematic experience with a cast including Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, Lindsay Kemp, Brian Molko and Homotopia favourite David Hoyle. Production designed by Outsiders 2006 guest Christopher Hobbs, it was edited by James Lyons, who died in April this year of an AIDS-related illness – mention of which brings us to our final Gala Screening of the year, on the day after World AIDS Day….

Check out the movies at:

www.toddhaynes.net

velvet.amiss.org





Thursday 1st November 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

POLTERGAY [18] - UK PREMIERE
Screening with BUGCRUSH

Director: Eric Lavaine
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu,
Lionel Abelanski
France 2006, 93 mins (+ 25 mins).

It’s the end of the festival, post-Halloween, and time for some wonderful silliness. Newlyweds Marc (Clovis Cornillac) and Emma (Julie Depardieu) move into a derelict house with the intention of making it their dream home. There just one problem, however: back in the 70s the basement used to be a gay disco, and sometimes at night Marc thinks he can hear the sound of Boney M’s Ra Ra Rasputin coming from below stairs. Investigating further, Marc finds himself being haunted by 5 dead-but-still-horny gay guys – and questioning his own sexuality as a result. How will he explain this to Emma? Will the ghosts ever leave him alone? What on earth is Mikhail Baryshnikov doing in a gay club?… Screening with Carter Smith’s genuinely creepy short film Bugcrush.

Check out the movies at:

www.poltergay-lefilm.com/accueil.htm

www.bugcrush.net





Wednesday 31st October 07
7.30pm at ‘Next to Nowhere’,
Bold Street, Liverpool, L1
www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org
Telephone: 0151 703 6806

GAY SCOUSE & BLACK GLORY
(and other fims)

FREE EVENT!

Legendary lesbian Grandmother Sandi Hughes has been documenting LGBT life in Liverpool for over 20 years now and her new film about the local gay black experience, Gay Scouse & Black Glory, was funded by the Liverpool Culture Company. Also on this programme are two special films by our very own Queen of Culture, Mandy Romero - That Picture and The $100 Hustle or Ten Famous Views of the Angel City. Join us to watch the movies, sample some vegan cuisine and check out the new Liverpool Social Centre, situated in the basement beneath News from Nowhere on Bold Street (www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org).



Monday 29th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

A WALK INTO THE SEA:
DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE
WARHOL FACTORY

Director: Esther Robinson
Starring: Albert Maysles, Gerard Malanga,
Paul Morrissey, John Cale
USA 2007, 75 mins (+ shorts).

Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, A Walk into the Sea is filmmaker Esther Robinson’s investigation into the 1966 disappearance of her uncle, Danny Williams. Williams was Andy Warhol’s lover and, as Variety noted at the time and as Danny’s recently re-discovered short films confirm, the “mastermind” behind the Factory’s first forays into filmmaking (he designed and filmed the earliest footage of The Velvet Underground, for example). Warhol’s Factory, however, only had room for one mastermind and one evening, after a trip back home to see his parents in Massachusetts, Danny simply disappeared…

A Walk into the Sea was the last film to be edited by James Lyons, who died of an AIDS-related illness in April this year. James was a key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement and worked closely with Todd Haynes, editing Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine (screening on Thursday 29th November as our next monthly movie) and Far From Heaven.

Check out the movie at:

www.awalkintothesea.com



Tuesday 30th November 07
7.30pm in the FACT bar

QUEER FILM QUIZ

FREE EVENT!

Quiz Master: Dean Sullivan

Join us in the FACT bar at 7.30pm for our first ever Queer Film Quiz – with our very own Dean Sullivan asking the questions (thank you, Dean)! Entry is free – all you have to do is get a team together and turn up to compete against your fellow festival-goers. There will be prizes, a picture round and possibly even a music round (although that might just be me singing), so come on down to test your knowledge of the ecstatic highs and terrible lows of lesbian, gay and transgender cinema. And now, your first questions (a picture round, to get you in the mood): take a look at the stills in this box and simply name the films - and you’ll have a head start on the others when it comes to the quiz!



Sunday 28th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

QUEER SHORTS

Front Bum Dancing, Private Life, Tango Finlandia, Lesbians: The Music Video – we’ve been sent some great short films this year by some great young filmmakers. Our programmers Joan Burnett and Michelle Mangan have been carefully considering their selection for some weeks now – and it’s time to unveil the ones we think you’ll want to see. So join us, as the festival begins to draw to a close, for a selection of the best lesbian and gay short films we’ve seen this year. Watch this space for a full listing of the shorts we’ll be showing.



Sunday 28th October 07
6.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

WHOLE NEW THING

Director: Amnon Buchbinder
Starring: Aaron Webber, Daniel MacIvor, Robert Joy
Canada 2005, 92 mins.

The winner of 11 awards at lesbian & gay film festivals around the world, Whole New Thing is a funny, intelligent take on teenage sexuality set in a remote part of Nova Scotia. 13-year-old Emerson (Aaron Webber) has been home-tutored all his life by his hippie parents and now finds it hard to fit in at his local high school. But when openly gay English teacher Don Grant (Daniel McIvor) tries to give the boy some helpful advice, he’s totally unprepared for Emerson’s daring (and dangerous) response. Despite the subject matter, director Amnon Buchbinder has made a film of admirable purity – and what actually follows Emerson’s revelation is a sweet comedy about infidelity and heartache in which the 13-year-old’s ‘innocent’ desire is the catalyst for life-changing events all round.

Check out the movie at:

www.wholenewthing.com



Check out the movie at:

www.wrestlingwithangelsthemovie.com

Sunday 28th October 07
1.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

WRESTLING WITH ANGELS:
PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER

FREE EVENT!

Director: Frieda Lee Mock
Featuring: Tony Kushner, Mike Nicholls,
Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep
USA 2006, 98 mins

Join us for a free screening of this filmed portrait of the gay, Jewish, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America). Covering three years of his life from 9/11 until the 2004 Presidential election, Oscar-winning director Frieda Lee Mock’s Wrestling with Angels reveals Kushner’s profound political commitment to justice for all – without neglecting his sheer talent as a writer (he was recently nominated for an Oscar for the script for Steven Spielberg’s Munich). It’s a film for anyone interested in the role of the Artist in America after 9/11, with contributions from the cast & crew of Angels in America, including Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep and Mike Nicholls.



Saturday 27th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

HOUNDED [18]

Director: Angelina Maccarone
Starring: Kostja Ullmann, Maren Kroymann,
Moritz Grove
Germany 2006, 87 mins.

Hounded is that rare thing: a queer take on the strange and twisted world of straight sex. Here, Lesbian director Angelina Maccarone (Unveiled) has teamed up with veteran lesbian cabaret star Maren Kroymann and up-and-coming gay actor Kostja Ullmann (Summerstorm) to produce one of the most interesting movies of the New German Queer Cinema: a sadomasochistic heterosexual love story. Jan, a 16 year old petty crook, offers himself to Elsa, his much older probation officer. But while Elsa is initially shocked by Jan’s desire to be dominated by her, she gradually finds herself drawn into her willing slave’s rapturous world…

Check out the movie at:

www.verfolgt-der-film.de



Check out the movie at:

www.power-up.net/ibtc.htm

www.power-up.net/main.htm

Saturday 27th October 07
6.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE
Screening with the original short film version of D.E.B.S

Director: Jamie Babbit
Starring: Diaz, Nicole Vicius, Jenny Shimizu,
Guinevere Turner
USA 2007, 87 mins (+ 11 mins).

The new movie from director Jamie Babbit (But I’m a Cheerleader) – and the opener for this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - is the funny, political and charming Itty Bitty Titty Committee. It’s a simple, old-fashioned story of girl meets girl, girl joins underground cultural terror network, girl finds True Self. Melonie Diaz is Anna, a depressed A cup girl in a glamorous C cup world who quits her job in a plastic surgery clinic to follow the sexy Sadie (Nicole Vicius) into the CIA (Clits In Action), a feminist revolutionary army dedicated to fighting the Fascist Phallus. No surprise, then, that Itty Bitty Titty Committee boasts an all female cast & crew, or indeed some wonderful cameos from the likes of Guinevere Turner, Jenny Shimizu and Clea DuVall... Plus, it’s screening with D.E.B.S. – the legendary short film that came before the feature we know and love!





Saturday 27th October
4.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

JOHN WATERS: THIS FILTHY WORLD [15]

Director: Jeff Garlin
USA 2006, 86 mins.

Prepare yourself for the laugh of the festival! Part hilarious memoir, part lecture on sexual freedom (and/or perversity), This Filthy World is a recording of the ever-evolving stand up show director John Waters has been doing in some form for the last 30 years. In it, the man William S. Burroughs called ‘The Pope of Trash’ lets rip about anything and everything that comes to mind: his memories of working with Divine on Hairspray and Pink Flamingos, ‘teabagging’ (whatever that is), how students can and should be more filthy… As the great man says, “I was the only kid in the audience who didn’t understand why Dorothy would ever want to go home to that awful black and white farm, when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions…”

N. B. This show is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Strong language and graphic descriptions of sexual acts throughout.

Check out the man at:

www.dreamlandnews.com

www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/





Friday 26th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

FOLLOW MY VOICE:
WITH THE MUSIC OF HEDWIG

Director: Katherine Linton
Featuring: John Cameron Mitchell, Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Stephen Trask, Frank Black, Kim Deal
USA 2006, 100 mins.

When groups on the religious right tried to cut their funding, teenagers at the Harvey Milk School in New York – the first accredited school for LGBTQ youth in the United States – decided to fight back by recording a benefit album of songs from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Suddenly, with the help of composer Stephen Trask and writer-director John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus), everybody wanted to get involved – and artists such as Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Frank Black, Kim Deal and The Polyphonic Spree came into the recording studios to help out. Follow My Voice is the story of the making of this album, including studio sessions with all these artists, and documenting in the process the hopes and fears of the kids at the Harvey Milk School.

Check out the movie at:

www.myspace.com/followmyvoicehedwig

www.rainlake.com/ourwork/popup/FMV_trailer.html





Friday 26th October 07
6.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY
Introduced by the director

Director: Terence Davies
Featuring: Terry O’Sullivan, Wilfrid Brambell,
Sheila Raynor
UK 1984, 101 mins.

Made in three parts over a period of ten years and shot mostly on location in Liverpool, Terence Davies’ first film is an initially autobiographical account of the life from birth to death of an ordinary working class gay man. So much of what Terence has told us about his life is here: a loving mother and sisters, the influence of the Catholic church, an abusive father dying of cancer, rejection by other gay people and the ‘scene’. But it’s also Terence’s most openly erotic work (indeed, it was originally released with an 18 certificate) and the basis for his only novel, Hallelujah Now. It’s the sort of film the BFI used to make but don’t have the funding to anymore – although they’ve done us proud by creating a new digital print of this hugely important film.

Check out the movie at:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0264090/





Thursday 25th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

SPIDER LILIES

Director: Zero Chou
Featuring: Rainie Yang, Isabella Leong, John Shen
Taiwan 2007, 94 mins.
Mandarin & Taiwanese with English subtitles.
Original title: Ci Qing

Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, lesbian director Zero Chou’s latest movie is a sumptuous mix of past and present, ancient legend and ultra-modern desire. Jade (Rainie Yang), a ‘webcam girl’ selling sex on the internet, stumbles into a tattoo parlour owned by the mystical Takeko (Isabella Leong) and decides on a tattoo in the style of a Spider Lily - a cursed golden flower said to line the path to hell. The seeds of a love affair between the two women are sown, but long buried secrets are beginning to surface: Takeko has some news for Jade - they’ve met before, and it didn’t end well… Indie-pop-rocker Rainie Yang also provides the exceptional soundtrack.

Check out the movie at:

www.encorefilms.com/spiderlilies/index.html





Gala Screening:

Wednesday 24th October 07
7.30pm at the Philharmonic Hall
Book by telephone on 0151 709 3789

THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT [15]

Director: Stephen Elliot
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter
Australia 1994, 99 mins.

Get on the big silver bus, boys and girls, and ride out into the Australian desert because it’s time for another drag-camp-kitsch-bitch extravaganza at the Liverpool Phil! Priscilla, Queen of the Bush, is back - with the best drag queens in the business on board. And there’s a lot to do: Felicia (Guy Pearce, Memento) needs to grow up; Bernadette (Terence Stamp, Smallville) needs a man - and Mitzi (Hugo Weaving, The Lord of the Rings) has some unfinished business with his ex-wife… On the way they lip-sync to just about every queer classic you’ve ever heard – and their unforgettable costumes will make you jealous, girlfriend!

£5 (£4) Boxes, £4 (£3) Stalls (Concessions)
Boxes are available to reserve, all other seats remain unreserved.

Check out the movie at:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0109045/

To hear what Liverpool's very own Queen of Culture Mandy Romero (www.mandygirl.net) has to say about the significance of Priscilla, click here.



STOP PRESS!

The Official Priscilla After-party takes place just across the road from the Philharmonic Hall, downstairs in the lovely Hope Street Hotel… Expect lesbian DJ Michelle on the decks from 10.00pm, drinks promotions and plenty of Priscilla-induced frivolity! Come along, have a dance, have a drink – after all, my goodness, it’s Wednesday already - you deserve it!

Love Matt and Michelle xx



Tuesday 23rd October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

THE LONG DAY CLOSES
Introduced by the director

Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack,
Anthony Watson
UK 1992, 85 mins.

Filmed mostly on location in a grey and predictably rainy Liverpool, The Long Day Closes is a portrait of ‘Bud’, a friendless, probably gay 11-year-old boy growing up in an ordinary working class Catholic family in Kensington Street, L5 (a street that no longer exists). It’s the early 1950s, and Bud, isolated from everyone but his loving sisters and mother, lives for the pictures – the cinema - and in particular for the colour and life of the Hollywood musicals. His developing inner world, however, also has a darker side - for Bud occasionally subject to terrifying religious visions… The Long Day Closes is a truly beautiful film, considered by many to be the director’s masterpiece, and we’re very proud to have Terence Davies here in person to introduce the film.

Check out the movie at:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0104753/



Check out the movie at:

www.vierminuten.de/de/start/

Monday 22nd October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

FOUR MINUTES

Director: Chris Kraus
Starring: Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung,
Sven Pippig
Germany 2006, 112 mins.
German with English subtitles.
Original title: Vier Minuten

Best described as Bad Girls meets Shine, the multi award-winning Four Minutes is set in a tough German women’s prison where the elderly Ms. Traude Krüger (Monica Bleibtreu) teaches the inmates piano. When one prisoner, the violent, destructive Jenny Loeben (Hannah Herzsprung), turns out to have an extraordinary talent, Traude is determined to ensure that she reaches her full potential. Teaching Jenny is dangerous, however: she’s a convicted murderer, the guards and the other inmates (including Jasmin Tabatabai from Unveiled) are jealous of her ability - and Traude herself is falling in love with the girl… Four Minutes is an exceptional lesbian-interest movie and we’re delighted to be previewing it here in advance of its general release.





Sunday 21st October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

BOY CULTURE [15]

Director: Q. Allan Brocka
Featuring: Derek Magyar, Patrick Bauchau,
Darryl Stephens
USA 2006, 88 mins.

Based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Rettenmund, Boy Culture is the “confession” of a highly-paid but emotionally cold hustler going by the name of ‘X’ (Derek Magyar). His latest client, the older, reclusive Gregory (Patrick Bauchau), doesn’t want sex however. On the contrary, what he wants - what he pays for - is to tell X a strange, true love story spanning fifty years or more. And as X listens, his difficult relationship with his only friends, flatmates Andrew (Darryl Stephens) and Joey (Jonathan Trent), begins to come into focus… Boy culture is a moving, sexy film dealing with the relative place of sex and love in our lives, and a big, clever, cool step forward for director Q. Allen Brocka (Eating Out and Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds).

Check out the movie at:

www.boy-culture.com

boyculture.typepad.com



Filmography:
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
The Long Day Closes (1992)
The Neon Bible (1995)
The House of Mirth (2000)

Sunday 21st October
6.30pm at FACT in Liverpool

TERENCE DAVIES IN CONVERSATION

FREE EVENT!

Please ask at the FACT box office for your free tickets for this event.

Terence Davies – a gay filmmaker from Liverpool – is one of the reasons Outsiders exists, and we’re delighted to welcome the man considered by many to be Britain’s greatest living director to the festival to answer your questions about his life and work. And while it’s no secret that Terence has struggled since The House of Mirth to finance his quiet, moving, intense films, he is now working on a new project: Time and the City, a documentary about life in Liverpool over the last 50 or so years – and what could be more appropriate for a man who has returned to his roots on screen in no fewer than 3 out of his 5 films?

Joan Burnett’s interview with Terence Davies will feature clips from his films and will be followed by a Q&A session. And please note – Terence will be introducing his masterpiece, The Long Day Closes, on Tuesday 23rd October at 8.30pm, and his first film, The Terence Davies Trilogy, on Friday 26th October at 6.30pm.

Check out the filmmaker at:

www.imdb.com/name/nm0203993/



Sunday 21st October 07
4.30pm at FACT in Liverpool
To book by phone, call 0871 704 2063

GAY SEX IN THE 70S
Screening with: REPORTER ZERO

Director: Joseph Lovett
Featuring: Tom Bianchi, Larry Kramer,
Robert Alvarez
USA 2005, 67 mins (+ 25 mins).

Life after Stonewall and before AIDS was different, of course, and as the documentary Gay Sex in the 70s makes explicitly clear, life in New York City was a ball, a blast and a hedonist’s paradise! It may seem like Life on Mars to us now, but this was once our future, a future that involved nothing more than sex, drugs - and more sex. Taking us through the excesses of those years are, among others, erotic photographer Tom Bianchi and veteran political activist Larry Kramer, with archive footage of our lost Age of Innocence complimenting their memories and reflections.

Check out the movie at:

www.gaysexinthe70s.com




Screening with:
REPORTER ZERO

Director: Carrie Lozano
USA 2006, 25 mins

Carrie Lozano’s award-winning short documentary about the late Randy Shilts, AIDS activist and author of the classic and impossible-to-ignore And the Band Played On.

Check out the short at:

www.reporterzero.com



Opening Night:

Saturday 20th October 07
8.30pm at FACT in Liverpool
To book by phone, call 0871 704 2063
Reception, 7.30pm in the FACT Bar

THE GYMNAST - UK PREMIERE

Director: Ned Farr
Starring: Dreya Weber, Addie Yungmee,
David De Simone
USA 2006, 96 mins.

Rise above! Outsiders 2007 opens with The Gymnast – a lesbian-interest movie that can be enjoyed by anyone, and the winner of more than 20 awards at gay (and straight) film festivals worldwide. Dreya Weber is the still fantastically supple and sexy Jane, a woman on the verge of middle-age whose career as a gymnast ended in injury over twenty years ago. But when a chance encounter sends Jane back to her old gym and into a partnership with the secretive Serena (Addie Yungmee), she comes to understand that the rising tide of sexual tension between the two women cannot be ignored…

The Gymnast is simply one of the best lesbian-interest movies of recent years, and we’re delighted to be opening our festival with its UK Premiere. And don’t forget to join us before the movie for the opening reception in the FACT bar from 7.30pm.

Check out the movie at:

www.thegymnastfilm.com/thegymnast_flash.html

www.imdb.com/title/tt0473074/

Check out the movie at:

www.llgff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=106268

Thursday 27th September 07
8.30pm at Picturehouse at FACT

PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS

Director: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Gretchen Mol,
Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson
USA 2006, 82 mins

The last Outsiders monthly movie before the festival itself kicks off is the new comedy from Maria Maggenti, director of the classic The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love. Opera-loving lesbian Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser, Grey’s Anatomy) finds herself having a fling with a man (Justin Kirk, Weeds) after being dumped by her latest girlfriend. But the sultry, sexy Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Betty Page) is about to enter the picture – creating a love triangle full of surprises and, in the process, a great date movie for the bi-curious.



Thursday 30th August 07 8.30pm at Picturehouse at FACT
SONJA

Director: Kirsi Liimatainen
Starring: Sabrina Kruschwitz, Julia Kaufmann, Nadja Engel
Germany 2006, 72 mins

The first of two lesbian movies for the summer at Outsiders is Sonja, the latest entry in a new wave of social realist-queer cinema from Germany (think Unveiled). Sonja is 16, trapped in a tiny flat with her overbearing mother and bored witless by her boyfriend. Life isn’t going to get any better quickly, however – it’s only going to change gradually, and from within; and as Sonja watches her sensuous best friend Julia toying with the local boys, she begins to realise that her heart’s desire may take her on a different path…

Screening with the 2006 Teddy Award winning short film, The Day I Died.

Check out the movie at: www.llgff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=106249

Check out the movie at www.beautifulboxer.com

Thursday 26th July 07 8.30pm at Picturehouse at FACT
BEAUTIFUL BOXER [15]

Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Starring: Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree,
Om-Anong Panya-wong
Thailand 2003, 110 mins

Beautiful Boxer, one the most popular Outsiders screenings ever, returns for a well-deserved second outing. It’s a warm, funny, action-packed film about the experience of being transgender, based on the true story of Nong Toom (Asanee Suwan), a poor boy from rural Thailand whose only hope of raising the money to pay for a sex change operation was to enter the ring as a professional kickboxer. Which is what he did, winning fight after fight, and humiliating his macho opponents in the process.

Thursday 28th June 07 8.30pm at Picturehouse at FACT
PRICK UP YOUR EARS [15]

Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina,
Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters

UK 1987, 110 mins

Joe Orton, the murdered homosexual playwright whose biopic this is, famously said that Prick Up Your Ears is much too good a title for a film. Alan Bennett, writer of The History Boys, disagreed - and managed to create a script that did justice to the wit (and lust) of the infamous author of Entertaining Mr. Sloane and What the Butler Saw.

The result is one of the best British films of the 80s – shocking, hilarious, raw. And the easily-deciphered anagram in the title is a delight…

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA (IDAHO)


Thursday 17th May is International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO).

For national events, click here: www.idaho.org.uk.

For local events, read on...















Thursday 17th May 07 4.30pm at FACT
BEYOND HATRED [15] – FREE SCREENING!

Director: Olivier Meyrou
86 mins, France 2005
French with English subtitles. Original French title: Au-delà de la haine.

France, 2004. Three skinheads, affiliated to a far-right group, go looking for an Arab to beat up or even kill. Instead, late at night in a park known to be frequented by gay men, they come upon François Chenu. But François refuses to accept the homophobic insults they hurl at him – and when they attack him, he courageously fights back… What follows, however, is a horrific homophobic hate crime, and the subject of this Teddy award-winning documentary, which follows François’ devastated parents as they try to find out what happened, to retain their pride in François, to find some peace in justice – to go Beyond Hatred, in fact.

To reserve your free tickets simply email matt@outsidersfilmfestival.com and we’ll reserve you a place!


6.00pm IDAHO DEMO

At 6.00pm on the steps of the Bombed Church (St. Lukes at the top of Bold Street) there will be a Minute's Noise to mark International Day Against Homophobia – with a quick speech by none other than Stephen Twigg, former Labour MP and the famous David versus Goliath victor of Michael Portillo in Enfield Southgate!

Followed, if we can persuade him, by a quick Q and A in the FACT Bar before the screening of Queer Duck: The Movie!



Thursday 17th May 07 9.00pm at FACT
QUEER DUCK: THE MOVIE [15]
Director: Xeth Fienberg
72 mins, USA 2006
Featuring (voices): Jim. J. Bullock, Tim Curry, David Duchovny, Maurice LaMarche

It’s International Day Against Homophobia and Queer Duck is back to do battle with homophobes everywhere!

The UK Premiere of Queer Duck: The Movie at Outsiders last year was one of our most popular screenings ever and we’re delighted to be able to give you a second chance to see this filthy, hilarious cartoon, written by Mike Reiss, the hugely-talented producer of The Simpsons, and voiced by some of the most famous names in showbiz!

But watch out - Queer Duck’s lover, Openly Gator, and his friends, Oscar Wild Cat and Bi-Polar Bear, are in for a shock: Queer Duck is about to be ‘cured’ of his gayness by a homophobic evangelical preacher. Worse, he’s getting engaged to a retired movie star called Lola - who bears an uncanny resemblance to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard...

Queer Duck will be out on DVD in the UK on Monday June 25th but in the meantime you can check out all sorts of Queer Duck stuff on YouTube by clicking here. With very special thanks to Jess Scott and Jenny Reilly at Paramount UK.









Check it out online at blossomingofmaximooliveros.com
and www.llgff.org.uk.
Thursday 31st May 07 6.30pm at FACT
THE BLOSSOMING OF
MAXIMO OLIVEROS [15]

Director: Auraeus Solito
100 mins, Philipines 2005
English subtitles.
Original language title: Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveras.

Yours truly was on the jury at the Berlin Film Festival that named The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros the best queer film of 2006 and we’re delighted to launch our new ‘last Thursday’ time slot of 6.30pm with this hugely entertaining and moving movie. Twelve year old Maximo Oliveros lives with his father and older brothers in the slums of Manila. ‘Maxi’ is openly gay and completely accepted as such by the rest of the family – partly because he does all the cooking and cleaning. There’s a problem, however: Maxi has developed a passionate crush on the local policeman – and the policeman in turn is taking more than a passing interest in how the Oliveros family get by financially…

First-time director Auraeus Solito has created something of a neo-realist masterpiece in The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (newcomer Nathan Lopez as Maxi is superb) and we look forward to showing you his latest film, Tuli, later this year.

Images coming soon!

Friday 1st to Monday 4th June
(times vary) at FACT
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES [15]

Director: Terence Davies
Staring: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams
84 mins, UK 1988

In advance of Terence Davies’ visit to Outsiders 2007 this October, we’re delighted that at least one of his masterpieces, Distant Voices, Still Lives, has been restored by the British Film Institute and is showing in the director’s home town. It’s an intense, emotional evocation of working class life in Liverpool in the 40s and 50s, interweaving popular songs of the period with ceremonials of birth, death and marriage for a family living in the shadow of a violently unpredictable - even psychopathic - father. And yes, for many people (our lesbian programmer Joan Burnett included) it’s simply one of the best British films of the 1980s.

Thursday 26 April 2007
TICK TOCK LULLABY [18]

Director Lisa Gornick
73 mins, UK 2007
Starring Lisa Gornick, Raquel Cassidy, Joanna Bending

Lisa Gornick’s debut feature Do I Love You? (the first British lesbian movie for ages) proved very popular at festivals and on DVD and she has re-united most of the original cast and crew for her new film Tick Tock Lullaby, which screens here fresh from its premiere at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2007. And, as the title implies, it’s all about ticking biological clocks and making gaybies, straightbies, bi-bies and babies! Lesbian Sasha (Gornick) sometimes wishes that she (or her girlfriend Maya) could get pregnant ‘by accident’ like straight people. But is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence?

Check out Lisa Gornick’s first feature Do I Love You? at: www.valiantdoll.f2s.com/do.html


IAWN DOL/ALRIGHT LOVE

Directors Sara Lloyd & Eryl Huw Phillips
10 mins, Wales 2006

New writer Bethan Marlow’s first short film was shot entirely in a Caernarfon nightclub toilet in the space of just 48 hours. It’s a reflection on what makes young women tick: raw emotions, sexual revelations and the secrets they keep even from their closest friends.

Produced by Opus Television and Film in association with the Arts Council of Wales. For more information visit www.opustf.com
Thursday 29th March 2007
A LOVE TO HIDE [18]

Director Christian Fauré
103 mins, France 2005 French with English subtitles
Original French title: Un amour à taire
Starring Jérémie Rénier,
Bruno Todeschini, Louise Monot

NAZI-occupied Paris, 1942. Lovers Philippe (Todeschini) and Jean (Rénier) rescue Sarah, a Jewish childhood friend, after her family is murdered by the Gestapo. But keeping their clandestine love a secret from their own families proves even harder than saving Sarah – Jean’s homosexuality is exposed by his own brother and he finds himself transported to Dachau. There, he witnesses and is subject to the atrocities the NAZIs perpetrated on the prisoners who wore the Pink Triangle. At times it’s too painful to watch – but the compelling central performance from Dardenne brothers regular Jérémie Rénier (L’Enfant) keeps you glued to the screen. . …

Screened in association with the UK Jewish Film Festival.

Check out the movie at www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk or
www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk/Films/A-Love-To-Hide~202.html

KZ [12A]


22nd March 2007
Director Rex Bloomstein
113 mins, 2006







Outsiders are proud to be supporting the UK Jewish Film Festival screening at FACT of KZ, director Rex Bloomstein’s controversial documentary about the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria (one of the camps that also housed prisoners with the Pink Triangle). How does a town come to terms with what it has done?

Rex Bloomstein will be in attendance and there will be an opportunity to question him about his film after the screening.

or go to www.hmd.org.uk.
ORLANDO [PG]

Screened 22nd February 2007
Director Sally Potter
93 mins, UK 1992
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Quinten Crisp, Billy Zane, Jimmy Sommerville

Join us for a near-Valentine’s Day screening of Sally Potter’s film of lesbian author Virginia Woolf’s most accessible novel – in which 400 years of sexual history are compressed into a mere 90 minutes of celluloid. Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia) is the Orlando, a young man about town during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (played here by Quentin Crisp). But while Orlando never ages, he does change sex - becoming a woman and, in the Twentieth Century, giving birth to an immortal child. No doubt she is still alive today. Happy LGBT History Month, Orlando!

Virginia Woolf
1882 - 1941
www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk

Quentin Crisp
1908-1999
www.quentincrisp.com

Orlando
c. 1600 – ?


Screening with:
CON QUÉ LA LAVARÉ?
Trans: With What Shall I Wash It?

Director/Animator: Maria Trenor
11 mins, Spain 2004
Starring: Daryl Byford, Vinnie Price, Neil Copplestone


Maria Trenor’s Teddy award-winning animation is, simply, one of the most beautiful short films ever made, telling the story of a day in the life of a male prostitute, inspired by the homoerotic art of Jean Cocteau, David Hockney and Pierre et Gilles.

Check out the movie at www.tacatuca.com

Screened 11th - 14th January 2007

SHORTBUS [18]

Director John Cameron Mitchell
102 mins, USA 2006
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Raphael Barker,
Lindsay Beamish, Bitch, Justin Bond

UK 1987, 110 mins

It was our best ever closing night movie at the festival last year and now it’s back – the triple X-rated new film from John Cameron Mitchell, writer-director-star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Originally titled The Sex Film Project, that’s exactly what it is – a sex film with a story, characters and a truly fabulous sense of humour (thanks in no small part to wicked angel Justin Bond - who plays himself). Shortbus also includes one of the funniest, sexiest gay threesomes ever committed to camera – you gotta see it to believe it… “I believe sex is sacred,” says John Cameron Mitchell, “but it’s not being respected by the America cinema. The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it. … This is an act of resistance.” Like Outsiders.

Check out the movie at www.shortbusthemovie.com



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