This Friday, the 2022 Outfest Fusion Film Festival will begin, ten days that celebrates LGBTQIA+ people of color through cinema. This Los Angeles-based fest will be in-person from April 8th to April 13th with screenings and events held at Regal LA Live DTLA, Baldwin Hills Cinemark, Plaza de la Raza in East LA and the California African-American Museum. Then from April 13th to April 17th, the fest will move online with many of these films available on-demand.
Outfest Fusion will kick-off at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center with a special awards presentation which will honor actor, Stephanie Beatriz with the Fusion Achievement Award and actor, Sandra Oh will receive the James Schamus Ally Award. After this, there will be a screening of several short films in an astrology-based collection called "Leo: The Life of the Party", one of many film groupings assembled by astrological signs that will be shown throughout the fest.
Some of the feature films and episodic programing will include "Finlandia", the feature debut from Horacio Alcalà that follows three muxes (a Zapotec term for "non-binary") living in a small town in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. "Keep the Cameras Rolling The Pedro Zamora Way" is a documentary on Pedro Zamora who found fame appearing on MTV's "The Real World: San Francisco", the third of the early reality show series. But what made Zamora and this 1994 season so groundbreaking was that he was openly gay and HIV positive with the program dealing with his romantic life and health struggles with AIDS. "Mustache Mondays", an Artbound episode directed by Marianne Amelinckx, takes a look back on the queer nightclub event in Los Angeles called "Mustache Mondays" that became a creative outlet for some of today’s contemporary artists.
The festival will include workshops, panels and the annual One-Minute Movie Contest sponsored by Hyundai with the winners receiving cash prizes and going on to be screened during the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival this July.
For the complete list of films, events and to purchase tickets, please click below:
2022 Outfest Fusion
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