2019 OUTFEST FUSION

The 2019 Outfest Fusion is set to begin on March 1st and will run through the 5th. This film festival remains a showcase to tell stories involving LGBTQ People of Color and it has become even more important as we continue to fight against forces that try to abolish our rights and diminish our accomplishments. This fest is a celebration that will bring moving, enlightened and entertaining stories to the big screen.

The Opening Night Film will be "Amateurs", a Swedish feature about two high school students assigned to making a movie about their community. But when it doesn't meet what the town was trying to capture, the students decide to continue with the film on their own terms.



Here are some trailers of a few features that will be playing at the fest:







"Cassandro, The Exotico!" is a documentary on Cassandro, a star of the gender-bending, cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as "the Exoticos". After performing for twenty-six years, he has no interest in retiring yet his body has been broken and battered after all that time in the ring. Cassandro must find a way to reinvent himself as he enters his twilight years.



Gregg Araki, a filmmaker who was part of the New Queer Cinema movement back in the '90's has just created his first television series for Starz. "Now Apocalypse" follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his group of sexually adventurous friends as they search for love and fame in Los Angeles. The show captures the wild, youthful energy and surreal comedy of Araki's early feature work. After the screening on March 3rd, Mr. Araki and some of the cast will be on hand for a sure to be interesting conversation.



Outfest Fusion will feature several shorts programs that will focus on South Asian stories, family matters, surreal adventures, sexy experiences and three rarely-screened shorts by Marlon Riggs, the director of "Tongues Untied". There will also be some workshops available during the fest that will cover making a movie with your smartphone, creating a web series, helping to get your idea to a script, a guide to documentary filmmaking and teaching aspiring LGBTQ actors techniques to help them succeed. And the fest will close with a finale party and the One-Minute Movie contest.

For the complete list of films, venues and to purchase tickets, please click below:

2019 Outfest Fusion