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Ships' registry: Malta and Ecuador. 05_15_SW_PRC_8.375x10.875_Outfest Festival_EDGE Villas.indd 1 5/14/18 1:37 PM 1 PRESENTING SPONSOR GRAND SPONSOR AUTO SPONSOR PREMIERE SPONSORS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Tickets: 213.480.7065 | outfest.org 2 FUNDERS DAY SPONSORS PLATINUM OUTFEST FORWARD SPONSORS FILM GUIDE SPONSORS PROGRAM FRIENDS OF MEDIA SPONSORS OPENING NIGHT OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS OUTFEST Adelante Magazine GALA VIP GALA AFTER PARTY Annapurna Pictures Ramada West Hollywood American Institute The Advocate RESTAURANT RESTAURANTS AT&T Entertainment SAG-AFTRA of Bisexuality Edge Media Network SPONSORS Broken Spanish Group SAGIndie Backstage West Gay Desert Guide Craft Craft AT&T Hello Lab Scruff California Film KSPC 88.7 FM Border Grill Truck Gwen BroadwayHD Shaftesbury Commision LA Confidential Love & Salt Horse Thief BBQ Barefoot Wine Showtime Networks Christopher Street West/ LA Weekly Rossoblu Hunter & Charlie’s The Film Collaborative STARZ LA Pride Level Ground Salt’s Cure Mozza FotoKem Taiwan Academy Comedian Robbie Rob OML Union Letterpress Chocolate Fox Searchlight Taiwan Ministry of GALECA OUT Lucques Group HBO Culture Goethe Institut Pink Banana Media Proof Here Media Tello Films Hollywood Bowl Remezcla Rustic Canyon Lesbian News Wolfe Video IDA Variety 411 Sqirl The LGBT Sentinel SJ Walkies WeHo Bistro Munger, Tolles & WGAW Wexler’s Deli Olsen LLP Northern Trust @outfest #outfestla 3 ESSENTIALS Parties & Receptions 9 Schedule at a Glance 27 Major Donors 54 HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS? Focus on Women 56 Regular Screenings: $15 Emerging Leaders Council 56 Centerpiece Screenings: $20 Film Index by Title FORD Under the Stars: $20 57 Platinum Alchemy Party: $25 GALAS | CENTERPIECES Opening Night Gala Opening Night Gala 4 VIP (Orchestra/Loge) with VIP Pre-Party $175 Centerpiece Screenings 6 Preferred (Front Balcony) $85 Closing Night Gala 8 General (Rear Balcony) $60 *All Gala tickets include entry to After Party FESTIVAL PROGRAMS Closing Night Gala Narrative Features 12 Preferred (Orchestra) Seating $75 Documentary Features 20 General (Balcony) Seating $55 Episodic Programs 34 *All Gala tickets include entry to After Party Short Film Programs 36 Member Benefits Special Events 42 $4 off Regular, Centerpiece and Ford Screenings Platinum Section - Experimental Film 48 $5 off Platinum Alchemy Party $10 off Opening and Closing Night Galas Outfest UCLA Legacy Project 50 To become an Outfest member visit outfest.org/membership or call Outfest Forward 51 213.480.7065. WHEN DO TICKETS GO ON SALE? PROGRAMMING TEAM Outfest Members: Thursday, June 14 Lucy Mukerjee, Lauren Cioffi, General Public: Monday, June 18 Director of Programming Consulting Programmer Alonso Duralde, Daniel Crooke, WHERE CAN I BUY TICKETS? Senior Programmer Shorts Programmer Online: outfest.org Sheryl Santacruz, Tiffany Naiman, Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Programming Manager Platinum Programmer By Phone: 213.480.7065 Jessica Broutt, Keefe Liu, 6/14-7/12: Monday-Friday 11:00am-7:00pm Educational Programs Manager Programming Assistant 7/13-7/21: 10:00am-8:00pm 7/22: 10:00am-5:00pm Brendan Lucas, Kevin Martin, Legacy Project Manager Copy Editor In Person: Outfest Los Angeles Box Office at the DGA 7/3-7/12: 11:00am-7:00pm (closed 7/4 & 7/8) Twiggy Pucci Garcon, 7/13-7/21: 10:00am-10:00pm Episodic Programmer 7/22: 10:00am-4:30pm at Regal Cinemas Tickets: 213.480.7065 | outfest.org 4 OPENING THURSDAY | July 12 | 8:00pm | Orpheum STUDIO 54 Dir: Matt Tyrnauer, 2018, USA, 98 min. When disco was the epicenter of popular culture, Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco. Brooklyn-born college pals Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager took a former opera house and CBS studio (where “What’s My Line?” and “Captain Kangaroo” filmed), in what was at the time one of New York City’s sketchiest neighborhoods, and turned it into a dance palace known the world over. Extroverted gay Rubell and introverted straight Schrager (the latter giving his most extensive interview to date about Studio 54) were a powerful team — but the swirl of sex, drugs, celebrity, and tax evasion brought this phenomenon to an end, as did the advent of Ronald Reagan, the AIDS crisis, and the “Disco Sucks” backlash. But oh, what heady times there were during Studio 54’s heyday, which this vibrant documentary captures, mixing vintage interviews (Michael Jackson!) with reminiscences from the doormen, bartenders, and paparazzi who experienced the thrills and the beats on the dance floor and in the infamous balcony. There may never again be such a stately pleasure dome as Studio 54, but director Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood) observantly captures the hedonism and the hubris with the exacting eye that has made him one of this generation’s most fascinating documentarians. Matt Tyrnauer is a writer, director, producer, and award- winning journalist whose films include Valentino: The Last Emperor, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (see p23), Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, and Jean Nouvel: Reflections. Upcoming projects include Once Upon a Time in Beverly Hills for HBO. GALA 5 2018 OUTFEST ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREE: ANGELA ROBINSON Who says queer cinema can’t be fun? Not Angela Robinson, whose storied career has encompassed teen spies, hot Cajun vampires, kinky comic-book creators, West Hollywood power lesbians and the world’s smartest VW bug, to name just a few. Since her breakthrough with the daffy, sexy secret-agent satire D.E.B.S. (first as a short, then a feature), Robinson has successfully jumped from small screen to large, from movies to comics and back again, always bringing a variety of characters, places and periods to exhilarating life. Whether it’s “True Blood” or “How to Get Away with Murder,” “The L Word” or Herbie: Fully Loaded, “Hung” or Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Robinson’s stories pop; she has the compassion and the narrative drive of a born storyteller, and her career will no doubt continue to delight and surprise audiences as she takes us places we’ve never been before. ABOUT OPENING NIGHT GALA Join us for the legendary LGBTQ party of the summer! The VIP Pre-Party is the see-and-be-seen event of the season. Shannon Swindle, James Beard semifinalist Pastry Chef at Tom Collichio’s Craft, has asked some of his friends from the top restaurants in the city to join him to give you a taste of the best LA has to offer. Inside the theater it begins with the presentation of the Achievement Award followed by the Opening Night movie. Then come outside to Outfest’s reimagining of Studio 54. Grab a bite from one of the dozen restaurants and a glass of beer from Angel City Brewery, a glass from Barefoot wines or a Finlandia vodka cocktail. It’s all on us! And don’t worry, you will be able to dance the night away. 6:30PM 8:00PM 10:00PM VIP PRE-PARTY AWARD PRESENTATION AND FILM GALA AFTER-PARTY 6 CENTERPIECE SCREENINGS PLATINUM CENTERPIECE US CENTERPIECE FRIDAY | July 13 | 8:30pm | REDCAT SATURDAY | July 14 | 6:45pm | DGA 1 OUR FUTURE ENDS WE THE ANIMALS Dir: Clement Hil Goldberg, 2018, USA, 50 min. Dir: Jeremiah Zagar, 2018, USA, 93 min. Will queer culture go out with a stylish bang, or will the spirits of Lemuria Lovely and lyrical, this film received well-earned comparisons to Moonlight when it inspire us to preserve our fabulousness? Springing from the creative mind of premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it earned the prestigious NEXT trans director, writer, and animator Clement Hil Goldberg, this multimedia and Innovator Award. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar makes his multidisciplinary satire envisions both near-extinct lemurs and long-lost narrative debut with this adaptation of the novel by Justin Torres about three boys Lemuria. Lemuria (a precursor to the occult city of Atlantis) was an imagined navigating their parents’ volatile relationship and the aftermath of their breakup. site of catastrophic loss populated by Lemurians, queer prehistoric entities Two of the sons clearly follow in the footsteps of their macho, anger-prone father that went extinct alongside the Atlanteans. Goldberg’s work illuminates the (Raúl Castillo, Looking), while the sensitive youngest, Jonah (Evan Rosado), at-risk nature of queer spaces as well as the world’s most endangered remains closer to their mother (Sheila Vand, Women Who Kill).