Frameline Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin and Director of Programming Jennifer Morris sat down with Out There in their offices last week as they prepared to roll out Frameline 32, the SF International LGBT Film Festival coming up June 19-29.
The opening-night attraction will be director Tim Fywell 's Affinity, based on Sarah Waters ' first novel, a period piece set in a women's prison. "A bodice-ripper!" blurbed Lumpkin. "We haven't had a good women's prison film in a while!" added Morris.
The fest's centerpiece, XXY from Argentine director Lucia Puenzo, premiered last year at Cannes. It concerns 15-year-old Alex, born intersex, brought up female, and just beginning to explore sexuality.
Closing-night's film, starring TV hunk Thomas Cavanagh , will be Breakfast with Scot (director Laurie Lynd), described as an "only-in-Canada mix of homos, hockey and family values."
Showcased films include date-night delight Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!; a restoration of seminal gay doc Word Is Out, complete with a short update; Isaac Julien's doc on queer film pioneer Derek Jarman , Derek, with Jarman leading lady Tilda Swinton; and When I Knew, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's exploration of that moment when we knew we were different from other little {boys, girls}. "It sounds hokey, but they do a great job at interweaving stories, not of coming out, but of self-realization." Filmgoers will be able to record their own WIK story in a video booth at the AT&T Festival Pavilion next door to the Castro.
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