Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival
Location Seattle, Washington
Founded 1996
Language English
Website www.threedollarbillcinema.org/programs/TWIST

TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival (formerly known as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, or SLGFF) is an annual film festival in Seattle. This event is the largest LGBTQ Pacific Northwest festival, and its award winning films receive national praise. At the festival each film is able to receive an award which is doled out by a jury. Ben McCarthy (2018) is the Executive Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema the organization that produces Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival. Kathleen Mullen(2014, 2015, 2018) is the Festival Director of Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival in charge of all festival programming.[1]

Logo of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, promoter of the TWIST festival

The festival is produced by Three Dollar Bill Cinema, a nonprofit organization which promotes queer cinema. Their mission is to provide films by, for, and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The festival is a place where the filmmakers can have contact and interact with their audiences and fellow filmmakers.[2] This is one of the many events that Seattle International Film Festival, SIFF highlights. The Films are shown in cinemas around Seattle including AMC Pacific Place, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Broadway Performance Hall, and Northwest Film Forum. There are also after parties at local spots like Pony and Queer/Bar following the showings.[3]

TWIST was inspired by a gay film festival in San Francisco that Skylar Fein attended in the early 1990s. He knew that he wanted to start a similar one in Seattle. After trial and error in 1995, the first Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival was created in 1996. Since then it has grown into the large vibrant event it is today.[4] The 20th annual festival took place October 8–18, 2015 and over 10,000 people were expected to attend.[4][5] Many of the films throughout the festival highlight the struggles, successes, and daily lives of people within the LGBT community. Some of the films this year had high profile actors like Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, the actress from Juno.[5]

The festival has given awards for best feature film, best documentary film, documentary film honorable mention, best short film, short film honorable mention, and most innovative short film, and awards for audience choice. There are also events throughout the showings. In 2015, year there was an auction and dinner, a series of short films, and a celebration of the last 20 years of LGBT film.

References

  1. ↑ "Three Dollar Bill Cinema". www.threedollarbillcinema.org. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  2. ↑ "General Info". Three Dollar Bill Cinema. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Venues". Three Dollar Bill Cinema. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  4. 1 2 "'Something to get motivated' — Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival turns 20". CHS Capitol Hill Seattle. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  5. 1 2 "'Freeheld' kicks off 2015 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival". The Seattle Times. 2015-10-08. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)


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