Imagine for a moment that there wasn’t a plethora of queer film festivals, cable channels, magazines, and chat-rooms catering to your entertainment needs. Visualize for a moment that you, the person next to you and even the ticket taker, are being herded away and locked up for watching a movie with gay content. Book-ended by Kenneth Angers avant-garde Fireworks (1947) and Ang Lee’s Golden Globe winning, Oscar nominated Brokeback Mountain (2005), Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema competently guides the viewer through the history and defining seminal moments of gay and lesbian cinema in the US. With clips from landmark titles The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Desert Hearts (1985), Paris is Burning (1991), Poison (1991) Go Fish (1994) amongst many others, co-directors Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg have figuratively thrown a rope and lassoed a ‘who’s who” of significant key cultural players, including film directors, John Waters, Todd Haynes, Jennie Livingston Gus Van Sant, Ang Lee, Donna Deitch, Don Roos, pioneering industry heavy-weights James Schamus (Focus Features), Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Marcus Hu (Strand Releasing), actors Peter Paige (Queer As Folk, Say Uncle), Guinevere Turner (Go Fish, The Watermelon Woman, The L Word) and queer cultural commentators B. Ruby Rich and Alonso Duralde who all contribute their memories and personal testimonies in this timely documentary. It is perhaps no coincidence in this incredible year for gay Oscar nominations that Brokeback Mountain stands at the gateway between what has gone before and the next new wave of queer cinema.

Co-director Leslie Klainberg will be in attendance to discuss the film with the audience.

Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg are co-founders of Orchard Films. Together they directed and produced Chasing the Crown (2005), Beauty in a Jar (2003), Inside Sex: Taboos (2001), and In the Company of Women (2004). Ades’ previous work includes co-directing PBS’s mini-series New York, and producing The Way West (1995), The Donner Party(1992), and Coney Island (1991). Klainberg’s prior work includes Directed by Alan Smithee (2002) and Mo’ Funny: Black Comedy in America (1994), for which she received a Cable Ace Award. In 2003 Klainberg served on the Sundance Documentary Competition Jury.

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