Outfest Los Angeles ran from July 11 - 21 in Los Angeles.
LGBTQ Docs
In this interview, Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig talk about their years-long collaboration on their queer rodeo hybrid doc Jaripeo
Brydie O’Connor discusses Barbara Forever , her Sundance-premiering follow-up to the short Love, Barbara , and how Barbara Hammer’s archive continues
In this interview, Fil Ieropoulos discusses his documentary-cum-manifesto, Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens
IndieCollect’s Sandra Schulberg reflects on the life of fellow co-founder Jill Godmilow, the iconoclastic filmmaker, beloved teacher, and influential
Gianluca Matarrese discusses his festival darlings GEN_ and I Want Her Dead, plus why “documentary probably doesn’t exist”
Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from longtime creative and life partners Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle’s Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency, the third film in the pair’s trilogy of queer environmentalist documentaries. Forced to evacuate a fire in the Northern California redwood forest sanctuary where Stephens and Sprinkle live, they channel their energy into their “ecosexual” art, a conceptual activist framework that reframes human relationships to nature to emphasize reciprocity. Playing With Fire premieres at Frameline, San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ film festival, this Friday.
Documentary is happy to debut the trailer for Peter McDowell’s first feature, Jimmy in Saigon (2024) . The film premiered last year at BFI Flare
In Holding Back the Tide , Emily Packer’s “docu-poetic meditation on New York’s oysters,” the humble bivalve becomes much more than the sum of its