Queer Bits Fall Film Fest

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November 10, 2014

Pride Films and Plays’ Queer Bits Film Festival

Announces Short Films to Receive Chicago Premieres

Chicago, IL –Pride Films and Plays announces ten short films from the USA, Denmark, and Spain receiving their Chicago premieres during Queer Bits Fall Film Festival at the Public House Theatre (3914 N Clark) on November 10^th, 2014.

Pride Films and Plays’ Queer Bits Film Fall Festival will include a sexy romp about a young man with an international taste in men, a poignant drama about an elderly woman revisiting an intense memory, two very different and festive animated films, a touching documentary about a gay couple living in the Deep South, a powerful lesbian drama about a dangerous crush, a fascinating examination of LGBT youth in America, a sweet coming-out tale set in high school, a smart look at two men trying to reconcile their dissimilar faiths, and a fun look at a relationship which one of the partners wants to make more open.

The screening commences at 7:30PM and will be followed by a brief talkback with some of the filmmakers. The Public House Theater bar will be open beginning at 6:30PM. Please come early and have a drink with us!

Warning: some of the short films contain adult themes, language, and brief nudity. You are going to love them!

Tickets are $10. VIP Tickets are available for $15 and include prime table seating. Student and Senior tickets are also available for $5. Tickets can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1.800.838.3006.

Queer Bits Fall Film Festival Program (in alphabetical order)

A Mississippi Love Story

Director: Robbie Fisher (USA, 13 minutes)

A Mississippi Love Story: a story set against the backdrop of legal battles about same-sex marriage, featuring Eddie Outlaw and Justin Outlaw of Jackson, Mississippi.

Freja and Sofie

Director/Writer: Søren Lundvall Danielsen (Denmark, 15 minutes)

Sofie plans to humiliate the lonely girl of the class Freja who is secretly in love with her.

Heavenly Peace

Director/Writer/Animator: Andreas Wessel-Therhorn (USA, 5 minutes)

An estranged gay couple is visited by a mischievously manipulative cupid just in time for Christmas – based on a comic by Ralf König.

International Male

Director/Writer: Heath Daniels (US, 7 minutes)

A financially strapped man, yearning for global adventure, invites over an international cast of men for a series of romantic escapades.

KARA FISTIK

Director/Animator: Nesli Erten (US, 4 minutes)

KARA FISTIK is a love letter to the freedom of female body parts.

The Miles Were Many

Director/Writer: Ashley “Smash” Wright (US, 5 minutes)

40% of America’s homeless youth are LGBTQ. Nancy was one of them. At 14 she came out, at which point her life became a journey, and “The miles were many”.

Open Relationship

Director/Writer: Carlos Ocho (Spain, 14 minutes)

Oscar and Sergio have been in a relationship for 5 years and one of them has decided to ask for an open relationship.

Out Again

Directors: Emma McKittrick, Greg Chu, Tai Payne (US, 5 minutes)

Sixteen-year-old Sam attempts coming out to his crush Jordan. He travels through time to fix his mistakes until he can get the “perfect” coming out.

Scotty and Josh Get Enlightened

Director/Writer: Dan Pal (US, 14 minutes)

After a passionate night, Scotty and Josh discover they are on opposite ends of the believer/non-believer spectrum. Can their relationship survive?

Violet

Directors/Writers: Daniel Mena and Carlos Farró (Spain, 15 minutes)

An elderly woman is fighting against Alzheimer’s. Before the disease kills her memories, she decides to look back at a buried memory.

About Queer Bits Film Festival

Queer Bits Film Festival is Pride Films and Plays’ recently re-titled Film Festival is now in its third year and prides itself in providing the best LGBT short films with their Chicago premieres.

The first screening and incarnation of Queer Bits occurred in November 2012 in Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre. In November 2013, five short films received their Chicago-premieres in the same venue during Pride Films and Plays’ annual Gay Film Weekend. In June 2014, Pride Films and Plays presented Queer Bits Film Festival, a sold-out 90 minute program of short films and webisodes, which was followed in September 2014 by the Women’s Words Film Festival, a very successful program of short films and webisodes with lesbian characters and themes which were written and/or directed by women.

Tickets are $10. VIP Tickets are available for $15 and include prime table seating. Tickets can be purchased here:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/674062

For more information visit pridefilmsandplays.com.

About Pride Films and Plays

Founded in 2010, Pride Films and Plays is a leading player in the development of GLBT plays and musicals, screenplays and films. Under A Rainbow Flag won Jeff Awards in 2013 for Best New Work and Best Musical, and The Children’s Hour won for Best Supporting Actor (Nora Lise Ulrey) in 2014. Our current season began with the Jeff Recommended Chicago premieres of Some Men by Terrence McNally and The Submission by Jeff Talbott.

The season continues with the highly anticipated world premiere of The Book of Merman by Leo Schwartz – Jeff Award Winner for Under A Rainbow Flag – opening in January at Mary’s Attic. It will be a followed by Topher Payne’s comedy Angry Fags which is included in the spring Garage Rep at Steppenwolf.

For more information visit www.pridefilmsandplays.com.

David Zak, Executive Director

Pride Films and Plays
www.davidgzak.com

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The Submission October 12 to November 25 at Apollo Studio, 2540 N Lincoln
Enter the Great Gay Play and Musical Contest by October 31.
Queer Bits Fall Film Fest November 10 at Public House Theater, 3914 N Clark
Gay Film Weekend November 14 to 16 at Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted
Holiday Memories, December 1 at Twisted Vine
It’s A Fabulous Life, December 30 at Mary’s Attic
The Book of Merman January 15 to February 15 at Marys’ Attic, 5400 N Clark