The hub for LGBT and LGBT-friendly festival-goers during Sundance and other Park City film festivals
Panels & Events
Panels
*Courtesy of GLAAD's new program cineGLAAD. Panels are open to the public, but RSVP is strongly recommend. For information and to RSVP, go to www.glaad.org/cineglaad
All panels take place at the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker Lodge (Elks Building), 550 Main Street, 2nd Floor. These events are open to attendees of Sundance and Slamdance and other Park City film festivals.
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Out Loud: The Role of a Publicist & Creating Buzz For Your LGBT Festival Film
Saturday, January 23, 2010
4pm to 6pm (includes a networking mixer that follows the panel discussion)
Guests: John Murphy/Murphy PR (A Serious Man, Mil, Jihad for Love), Mark Pogachefsky/mPRm (Brokeback Mountain, I Love You Phillip Morris), Annie Jeeves of Fifteen Minutes (William S. Burroughs: A Man Within), Taj Paxton (Entertainment Media Dir., GLAAD)
Moderator: To be determined
Join a diverse panel of current Sundance filmmakers with LGBT-content and publicists who have represented LGBT-inclusive films as they discuss their media strategies at the Festival as well as the changing face of media itself. GLAAD’s Entertainment Team will also join the panel to guide filmmakers on unique ways to leverage their visibility and offer advice on how to speak to the media about LGBT-content.
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LGBT Civil Rights and the Power fo Film: "8: The Mormon Proposition"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
4pm to 6pm (a short networking mixer will precede the panel discussion)
Guests: Darrin Reed Cowan (Director); Dustin Lance Black; San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera; , Joe Solmonese (Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign); Bruce Bastian (Executive Producer)
Moderator: Kate Kendall, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights Introduction by GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios
With people consumed with the recession and unemployment, and polling showing the nation trending back toward conservatism, can the film, 8: The Mormon Proposition bring marriage equality back into the nation’s focus? Through thorough investigation, the filmmakers documented the Mormon Church’s decades-long strategy to defeat LGBT civil rights through front organizations and the systematic use of its enormous resources to defeat legislators who support marriage equality. Join this distinguished panel to discuss the power of film and its role in LGBT civil rights.
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Queer Cinema's Next Wave: A Conversation with Auteurs Lisa Cholodenko, Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
4pm to 6pm (a short networking mixer will precede the panel discussion)
Guests: Lisa Cholodenko (Director/Co-Writer, The Kids are All Right), Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (Directors/Producers/Co-Writers, Howl), Christine Walker (Producer, Howl)
Moderator: To be determined
In the early 90s, cultural critic, B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” as the independent film movement which aggressively and even angrily espoused queer identity, culture and politics and openly challenged the status quo. Join gay auteurs, Lisa Cholodenko, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, in a discussion about the direction of the next wave of queer cinema in the context of their body of work and their current entries at the Festival. Has queer cinema finally broken through the curtain of stigma to the mainstream? Find out in this lively discussion with some of the most important queer filmmakers of our generation.
Events
8: The Mormom Proposition Party
Private event, invitation only
Homos Away from Home Party 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 9PM to Midnight
