The nation's only queer film festival devoted exclusively to documentaries returns to Portland for it's fifth year June 2-5, 2011 with a guest programmer. Jennifer Morris joins the Festival from her home base in San Francisco as the Festival Director for Frameline, one of the largest LGBT film festival in the world, where she has worked on staff since 1995. In addition, to she also manages the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund, which annually awards $20,000 in grants to LGBT filmmakers. Co-founding QDoc Festival co-founder David Weissman is taking the year off to tour with his recent feature documentary WE WERE HERE, about the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s, which was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is now playing across the country. The Festival will once again take place at the Clinton Street Theater(2522 SE Clinton) over a beautiful weekend in Portland, Oregon. Visit
www.queerdocfest.org for ticket and schedule information on May 10th.
QDoc is being presented in cooperation with the Q-Center, whose mission is to increase the visibility of, and foster connection within, metropolitan Portland’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) community. The center aims to build public awareness and support, and celebrates LGBTQ diversity through art, culture, and programming.