{"id":245094,"date":"2012-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/filmout-festival-takes-over-north-park-theatre\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T07:00:00","slug":"filmout-festival-takes-over-north-park-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/filmout-festival-takes-over-north-park-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"El festival FilmOut se apodera del North Park Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Antonio Rey | Asistente de edici\u00f3n SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers of this year\u2019s FilmOut LGBT Film Festival, now in its 14th year, will be screening 22 short and 16 feature-length films beginning Wednesday, May 30 at the Birch North Park Theatre. Among the films, including four world premieres is a special screening of \u201cSordid Lives,\u201d written and directed by Del Shores. Shores, who will attend the screening on Thursday, May 31 at 8:30 p.m., is receiving a Career Achievement Award. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to include a wide range [of films] that will appeal to all LGBT audiences,\u201d said FilmOut Festival Programmer Michael McQuiggan. \u201cThis year, [we] were trying to secure a lineup that included world premieres, U.S. premieres and West Coast premieres.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQuiggan said FilmOut will present the community with \u201ca great five-day festival, with over 40 films \u2026 that generally will not play theatrically in San Diego.\u201d The festival runs through June 3.<\/p>\n

FilmOut receives support from other San Diego film festivals, McQuiggan said, as well as local business sponsorships. \u201cThe San Diego Latino Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival [have been] on board for over five consecutive years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are proud to continue to provide this film festival to our communities and hope that, as a collective, it is appreciated, embraced and supported.\u201d <\/p>\n

For this month\u2019s LGBT festival, the Latino Film Festival is co-presenting the June 3 Best of Latino Shorts program, and the Asian Film Festival is co-presenting the feature, \u201cSpeechless,\u201d also on June 3. <\/p>\n

McQuiggan, who said Shores was selected for the award because of his work in multiple aspects of film, added that several cast members from \u201cSordid Lives\u201d will be in attendance at the festival. Scheduled to attend are Ann Walker, Rosemary Alexander and Newell Alexander. Drag comedian Dixie Longate will perform before \u201cSordid Lives\u201d screens, and present Shores with the award. <\/p>\n

The Shores tribute is being co-presented by the South Park Business Group and Chris Shaw, owner of the Uptown establishments Urban Mo\u2019s, Baja Betty\u2019s, Gossip Grill and the upcoming Hillcrest Brewing Company.<\/p>\n

Marsha Smelkinson, spokesperson for the South Park Business Group, said she was grateful to Jeffrey Parish of South Park\u2019s Junc Life & Style for organizing the sponsorship. \u201cThe merchants of South Park are all local, independent businesses,\u201d Smelkinson said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a close-knit group of neighbors and friends who work together to support events that attract people to our community and that foster the indie-spirit of creativity and inclusion,\u201d she said. \u201cThe FilmOut festival in nearby North Park is right up our alley.\u201d <\/p>\n

Opening the festival is \u201cCloudburst,\u201d a romantic road-trip movie starring Academy Award-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. Calling \u201cCloudburst\u201d a hidden gem and one of the best films of the festival, McQuiggan said Dukakis\u2019 \u201cperformance alone is worthy of admission.\u201d Other highlights, he said, are the Boys Centerpiece category film, \u201cMorgan\u201d; the Girls Centerpiece category film, \u201cThree Veils\u201d; and the selection of international films.<\/p>\n

McQuiggan also said FilmOut was proud to include the comedy, \u201cThat\u2019s What She Said,\u201d directed by Carrie Preston and starring Anne Heche, which recently showed at the Sundance Film Festival. Screening June 2, the film is produced by San Diego residents Mark Holmes and James Vasquez. Vasquez recently directed Diversionary Theatre\u2019s \u201cNext Fall\u201d and last year\u2019s \u201cThe Rocky Horror Show\u201d at the Old Globe Theatre. <\/p>\n

Saying he is looking forward to meeting all the filmmakers and actors who will be attending this year\u2019s festival, McQuiggan also said he expects both the opening night party at North Park\u2019s Claire de Lune Sunset Temple and closing night party at West Coast Tavern to be a success. Claire de Lune is located at 2906 University Ave. and West Coast Tavern is located at 2895 University Ave. <\/p>\n

All films will be screened at the Birch North Park Theatre, located at 2891 University Ave. Tickets for individual films are $10, with special prices for the opening and closing night events. The Del Shores tribute is $20, and a festival pass, which allows attendees into each film, as well as all parties and tributes, is $125. For ticket information, visit filmoutsandiego.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anthony King | SDUN Assistant Editor Organizers of this year\u2019s FilmOut LGBT Film Festival, now in its 14th year, will be screening 22 short and 16 feature-length films beginning Wednesday, May 30 at the Birch North Park Theatre. Among the films, including four world premieres is a special screening of \u201cSordid Lives,\u201d written and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":245093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"FilmOut festival takes over North Park Theatre","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}