52nd City

Q-Fest

I type up Webster University's calendar page every week that there's a newspaper. It's really boring work, but sometimes I find some interesting things going on. The St. Louis LGBTQ (mouthful!) Film Festival is going on from March 12-16.

QFest, as it has been dubbed, starts out at the Mad Art Gallery in Soulard, but from the 13th-16th the films will be screened at the Winifred Moore Auditorium at WU.

All the information: Walk this way.

I have the bad habit of judging a film by its title, or its IMDB page, whichever I come across first. Jamie Babbit's (The L Word, Gilmore Girls, Ugly Betty, The Riches, etc) film "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" caught my attention. Fun title, sounds like a fun movie. It's being screened at 6 and 8 p.m. on the last day of the festival.

"QFest, a new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer themed film festival, launches in St. Louis March 12-16, 2008. QFest is a cooperative project founded by members of Metropolis St. Louis' Out & Urban committee, Cinema St. Louis, and The Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender Community Center of Metropolitan St.Louis. The primary mission of this new film festival is to utilize the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the diversity and inherent complexities of living an alternative lifestyle in today’s society. This inaugural five day event will feature a variety of short subjects and narrative feature films, plus a powerfully moving documentary on gay marriage. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of new voices in queer cinema including Jamie Babbit (But I’m a Cheerleader, The Gilmore Girls) and the out-rageous Minneapolis-based Lesbian filmmaker and punk rock musician Lisa Ganser."