Sun, Sand and the Silver Screen, Key West Film Festival

(GayWebSource.com – Gay News & Press Network) – Posted by Jake Simpson – TheGayUK.com

Key West is the southernmost tip of the US and lies at the bottom of Florida ….known as ‘the sunshine state’.

This small rather stunningly beautiful town with its relaxed unhurried pace is closer to Havana Cuba than Miami, and has a pronounced Latin influence to it. It’s always been home to artists and writers: both Hemingway and Tennessee Williams lived here for years, and it has a vibrant gay community too. Now the city has established its own International Film Festival, the third edition of which will run from the 12th- 16th November 2014.

The Gay UK Film Critic Roger Walker-Dack will be covering the event for us (when he is not sipping yet another Mojito on the beach) and here are our Top Tips of the new movies that he is going to preview that will eventually hit our cinemas next year.

HELICOPTER MOM: Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son, Lloyd, were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to his entire school. There’s just one wrench in her grand plan—Lloyd doesn’t even know whether he’s gay or not. But his mother is willing to accept her son for who he is, or at least who she thinks he is. This potentially hilarious comedy stars Noa Vandals (from My Big Fat Greek Weekend fame).

X/Y: An edgy look at the lives and interactions of a group of friends living in New York written and directed by Ryan Piers Williams and starring his wife America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Queer AS Folk Gale Harold Film Fully Funded

John Lewis Christmas Advert 2014, Featuring Tom Odell

KORENGAL: this picks up where the Oscar nominated ‘RESTREPO’ movie left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war. It explains how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it. As one soldier cheers when he kills an enemy fighter, another looks into the camera and asks if God will ever forgive him for all of the killing he has done. Directed by Sebastian Junger it promises to be yet another very moving experience.

Full details of the Festival and where to stay etc http://kwfilmfest.com

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