PrideArts Spring International Film Festival March 14 - May 1 - streaming online
PRIDEARTS SPRING INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
March 14 – May 1, 2022
Streaming Online
Four weekly programs of international short queer films and three documentary features. $10.00 per weekly program. Admission allows unlimited viewing of the weekly programs through the end of the week of release. Full festival passes for all seven weeks are also available for $25.00.
More info and ticketing at https://www.goelevent.com/pridearts/e/Search.
A film festival of 32 films short LGBTQ films and three feature-length documentaries that will stream in seven separate programs, each available online for one week. The films – which include musicals and documentaries along with dramatic stories - reflect the diversity of queer communities and the commonality across cultures of queer experiences.
PrideArts Spring International Film Festival extended by three weeks, to May 1
Three newly-added weeklong runs of documentary features to stream April 11 – May 1, following four weekly programs of short films streaming March 14 – April 10.
PrideArts today announced an additional three weeks of programming for its Spring International Film Festival. The festival, which was originally set to conclude on April 10 after streaming 32 short films from 13 countries in four weekly programs, will now run through May 1. The additional programming for the extension will be weekly runs of three LGBTQ-themed documentary features.
SEGUIMOS AQUI (WE’RE STILL HERE): PRIDE, PANDEMIC, AND PERSEVERANCE, by Chicagoan Emmanuel Garcia, will stream from April 11-17. The 34-minute film follows four LGBTQ+ identifying Latinx Chicagoans who navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, interpersonal struggles, and community triumphs throughout a turbulent yet powerful 2020. It will be followed April 18 -24 by Liliana Furió’s ILSE FUSKOVA – a profile of the Argentine activist, lesbian-feminist, and journalist of the title, who came out after a 30-year marriage. The festival will conclude April 25 – May 1 with ONCE A FURY, a profile of a notorious 1970s lesbian separatist collective that published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power. The cost to view the documentaries is $10 per film, or $25 for a festival pass that will allow the patron access to all seven weeks of the festival.
The previously announced initial four weeks of the festival will begin on March 14 and will consist of four weeklong programs of short LGBTQ-films. The films will be shown over four separate programs of approximately ninety minutes per program, with each program streaming for one week. The first week of the festival will present 10 musical films from the US, Germany, Australia, Spain, and Botswana. The films range from a music video of an original love song inspired by marriage activist Edie Windsor, through films that tell their stories through dance, others through song, a documentary about dancers, and a short musical. Themes of the second week’s films explore relationships at opposite ends of the age spectrum - from young love to a couple dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Some of the third week’s films explore prejudice and discrimination against people with queer identities. One film considers the challenges of sexual relations during the quarantine. Featured in the fourth and closing week of the festival are films concerned with identity and self-image as a queer person, challenges of romantic relationships, and a shocking film about a hate crime.
Access to each program of shorts in the PrideArts Fall Film Festival will be $10.00, which will grant viewing of the program or feature purchased for a full week – allowing audiences greater flexibility in viewing the films at their leisure. Full festival passes for all four weeks are also available for $25.00. Tickets and more information are available at https://www.goelevent.com/pridearts/e/Search.
LISTING INFORMATION
SPRING SHORTS PROGRAM WEEK 1 (1:27) – March 14-20, 2022
10 short films from the US, Germany, Australia, Spain, and Botswana.
SPRING SHORTS PROGRAM WEEK 2 (1:28) – March 21 -27, 2022
9 short films from the US, Canada, Israel, Germany, and Ecuador.
SPRING SHORTS PROGRAM WEEK 3 (1:28) – March 28 – April 3, 2022
7 short films from the US, Canada, Iran, Finland, Greece, Spain, and Chile.
SPRING SHORTS PROGRAM WEEK 4 (1:40) – April 4 – 10, 2022
6 short films from the US, Spain, Chile, and China.
SEGUIMOS AQUÍ (WE'RE STILL HERE): PRIDE, PANDEMIC, AND PERSEVERANCE (USA, 34 minutes) April 11 -17
Four LGBTQ+ identifying Latinx Chicagoans navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, interpersonal struggles, and community triumphs throughout a turbulent yet powerful 2020.
ILSE FUSKOVA (Argentina, 90 minutes) - April 18 - 24
An Argentine activist, lesbian-feminist, and journalist, Ilse Fuskova, came out after a 30-year marriage. She was instrumental in organizing lesbian, gay, and trans activists to develop the first Marcha del Orgullo LGBT de Buenos Aires (Lesbian-Gay Pride Parade), June 1992.
ONCE A FURY (USA, 83 minutes) – April 25 – May 1
Ten former members of the Furies, a notorious 1970s lesbian separatist collective that published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power, reflect on political activism and personal struggle.