2021 OUTFEST FUSION

This year's Outfest Fusion, the film festival which now goes by QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color), will be a combination of streaming and drive-in screenings. Now in it's 18th edition and running from April 16th to 20th, the fest continues to showcase cinema and events focusing on the work of queer and trans filmmakers of color. This will include ten feature films, over forty short films, a dozen workshops and panels and the One-Minute Movie Contest.

Some film highlights include "All Boys Aren't Blue" from director, Nathan Hale Williams which explores George Matthew Johnson’s memoir on masculinity and queerness in relationship to Blackness, using different actors to represents Johnson at different stages of their life; Marion Hill's "Ma Belle, My Beauty" looks at two polyamorous women who were former lovers that are reunited at a country villa in the south of France, igniting old tensions and emotions; "Nowhere" tells the story of a thriving gay couple from Columbia living in New York City. But immigration complications threatens to severe their relationship in this feature from David and Francisco Salazar; and "Unapologetic", a documentary from Ashley O' Shay, focuses on two queer, black female organizers who challenge Chicago's administration on being complicit in violence against its African-American residents after several police killings.

And this year's honorees will be Michaela Coel, star and creator of "Chewing Gum" and "I May Destroy You", with the Fusion Achievement Award and singer, Andra Day, who received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her moving portrayal of jazz great, Billie Holiday in "The US vs. Billie Holiday", is the recipient of the James Schamus Ally Award which goes to a great supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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2021 Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC