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Upcoming: Reeling; Disability film
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2015-09-09
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Reeling film festival Sept. 17-24
Reeling, the second-oldest LGBTQ+ film festival in the world, returns to Chicago Sept. 17-24.
The festival will present nearly 40 features and more than 60 short films from around the worldthe majority of them Chicago premieres. The festival's opening-night presentation returns to the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., and to the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., for the bulk of the festival. The fest's home base, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., will also host screenings.
Reeling launches with the opening-night presentation of Fourth Man Out, director Andrew Nackman's comedic debut feature about a man who comes out as gay to his blue-collar friends. The festival will also present Freeheld, director Peter Sollett's ( Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ) real-life drama about a lesbian police officer ( Julianne Moore ) fighting to leave her pension to her life partner ( Ellen Page ) when she is stricken with terminal cancer.
Another festival entry with a lot of buzz is Stonewall, a Roland Emmerich-directed take on New York's Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969the place and time of the famed riots considered the start of the LGBT-rights movement.
Among the many other anticipated highlights are a 10th-anniversary screening of Brokeback Mountain; documentaries such as A Sinner in Mecca, Parvez Sharma's controversial, eye-opening follow-up to A Jihad for Love; the world premiere of Kiss Me, Kill Me, a murder mystery from gay film fave Casper Andreas that includes Queer As Folk's Gale Harold and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Jai Rodriguez; and a screening of Sand Dollars, a lesbian-themed romantic drama with a widely praised performance by Geraldine Chaplin, winner of the Best Actress award at the 2014 Chicago International Film Festival.
Visit www.reelingfilmfestival.org for tickets and more information.
Windy City Times will present a more detailed look into the festival in next week's issue.
Disability film fest Sept. 9-13
The ReelAbilities Film Festivalthe largest such event regarding disability in the United Stateswill take place in Chicago Sept. 9-13.
Among the movies being shown are FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, Scarlet Road and Come As You Are. Among the venues are Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.; Studio Xfinity Comcast, 901 W. Weed St.; and the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
All events are free to the public. Visit chicago.reelabilities.org/ .
Full calendar of events at the link: www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/chicago/events/upcoming.php. |
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