Milwaukee LGBT Film & Video Festival

The Milwaukee LGBT Film & Video Festival takes place every fall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The festival was established in 1987^[1] and is presented by the Film Department in the Peck School of the Arts of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM). Opening night and centerpiece gala screenings take place at the Oriental Theatre located on the East Side of Milwaukee.

Programming often includes multi-award-winning films and independent videos; the festival also books documentaries, coming out films, romantic comedies, films dealing with LGBT identity with age, race, and religion, and films from outside the United States. Each festival also includes series of "men's shorts" and "women's shorts" that include gay and lesbian themes, respectively.

“

The festival offers something for pretty much everybody in the LGBT community, and something for everybody interested in good movies. It is a festival for the community and a film festival for all.[2]

”

Carl Bogner, festival director

Festival sponsorship comes from a variety of corporate and private donors. Major, sustained festival sponsorship has come from Jack H. Smith of Shorewest Realtors, Beans & Barley, Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Johnson & Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund, Cream City Foundation's Joseph R. Pabst LGBT Infrastructure Fund, and Bronze Optical.

Past Festival Highlights

2005
Adam & Steve, Loggerheads, Unveiled, The Journey, Mysterious Skin, Guys and Balls, 100% Woman, Summer Storm, Cote D'Azur

2006
Boy Culture, Broken Sky, Small Town Gay Bar, Oublier Cheyenne, The Line of Beauty, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, Lover Other, Red Doors, Another Gay Movie, Camp Out, Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story, 20 centímetros

2007
Nina's Heavenly Delights, Shelter, FtF: Female to Femme, The Bubble, Beyond Hatred, For the Bible Tells Me So, Colma: The Musical, Itty Bitty Titty Committee

2008
Were the World Mine, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, La León, Butch Jamie, Save Me, The Lollipop Generation, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, XXY, A Jihad for Love, Water Lilies, Jerusalem Is Proud to Present, The World Unseen, Saturn in Opposition, Chris & Don: A Love Story, Japan Japan, Members Only

References

1. ^ "Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival". Film Festivals - Wisconsin. Planet Indie. http://www.planetindie.com/film-festivals/wisconsin/. Retrieved September 28, 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.uwm.edu/News/PR/06.09/LGBT.html

External links

• http://www4.uwm.edu/psoa/programs/film/lgbtfilm/