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MEDIA RELEASE QUEER SCREEN BRINGING THE BEST OF THE 28TH MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS SCREENING AT MOUNT VIC FLICKS 19 – 21 MARCH 2021 12 MARCH 2021: Queer Screen’s 28th Mardi Gras Film Festival hits the road on the weekend of 19 – 21 March to bring four of the best festival films to Mount Vic Flicks, Mount Victoria. Tickets are now on sale at queerscreen.org.au or through the Mardi Gras Film Festival app. I CARRY YOU WITH ME is an epic love story uniquely weaving fiction and documentary to tell a tale of two Mexican men and the love that colours their lives. Both men, and the actors who play them, are incredibly charming, effortlessly pulling you in to bear witness to their budding relationship. The winner of the NEXT Audience and NEXT Innovator Awards at Sundance 2020, this film has been brought to life beautifully by award winning director Heidi Ewing. Screening Friday 19 March 8:00pm. Winer of the 2020 Venice Film Festival Queer Lion, THE WORLD TO COME gives us outstanding performances from Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, as it explores the astonishment and joy of finding yourself through connection with another in 1850s America. Waterston and Kirby’s incredible chemistry smoulders from the moment they appear together and never lets up. Screening Saturday 20 March at 6:00pm. THE GODDESS OF FORTUNE is a touching dramedy about the importance of love and family, no matter how unconventional. Arturo and Alessandro have been together for over fifteen years, and when their friend asks them to look after her children for a few days, their familiar routine is thrown into chaos. With a group of eccentric friends on hand to help, the couple must juggle parenthood when their relationship is already at breaking point. Screening Saturday 20 March at 8:30pm. The beautifully shot MY FIRST SUMMER is a gorgeous, Australian lesbian coming-of-age film that follows 16-year-old Claudia who has been raised in total isolation from society by her recently deceased mother. Now completely on her own on her property, she is surprised when Grace, a spirited teenaged girl appears from a nearby town. The two girls find themselves, and one another as they teeter on the cusp of first love and womanhood. A sometimes dark, always stunning film about first love and discovering your sexuality. Screening Sunday 21 March at 4:00pm. -ENDS- Media Enquiries: Louise Nealon, Queer Screen Publicity T: 0403 569 177, E: [email protected] 1.

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