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A Festival of Film Resources

Festival Information

The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, a critically acclaimed event, is based in the world-renowned historic South Beach neighborhood and screens films and videos in locations throughout Miami-Dade county and Ft. Lauderdale.

International Directory of Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festivals

PlanetOut.com currently lists contact information for over 150 lesbian and gay film festivals. Many of these are annual events. When available, the dates of the most recent or upcoming festival are given, along with information about how to contact each festival. Where possible they also provide links to festival Web sites.

Featured Films

Ask Not

ASK NOT is a rare and compelling documentary film that explores the effects of the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay and lesbian soldiers and service members. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law and examines the societal shifts that have occurred since its passage in 1993.

Nina's Heavenly Delights

The Scots/Indian filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar, has been making documentaries for 20 years, chronicling the unique experiences of gays and lesbians throughout the world. In her feature, Nina's Heavenly Delights, Parmar celebrates food, family, and lesbian love with a unique Scottish/Bollywood sensibility.

Its Still Elementary

When cameras entered several 3rd & 4th grade classrooms across the U.S. in 1999, they found, to their surprise, heterosexual teachers challenging prevailing attitudes of homosexuality with their pupils, and the refreshing perspective of children confronting prejudice. 10 years later, the filmmakers revisit some of the students in the film, and see how they've grown and how the filming influenced them and countless others.

Featured Artists

A Conversation With...John Schlesinger and Charles Busch

At his death in 2003, 77-year-old writer/director John Schlesinger, had left a body of work that told the tales of lonely people, outsiders dependent upon their allusions, adrift in a world bitter, but not without sympathy, said to be drawn from his own Jewish, gay, background. In this warm interview from 1996, actor/playwright Charles Busch talks with Schlesinger and recalls the strong and weak moments that produced the likes of Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Darling, Marathon Man, and Billy Liar...vivid and sympathetic portrayals of people who do not quite fit comfortably into society at large.

The Cliks

The Cliks, Canadian punk rock, gender-queer, trans band, give a whole new spin to fierce, ferocious, and fun.