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ReelOut Queer Film Festival delivers diverse short films

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ReelOut Queer Film Festival’s ‘Darling Buds of May’ is a collection of family-friendly shorts, offering fun watches for kids and nostalgic experiences for adults.   The collection features five films from India, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Some involve emotionally moving topics...

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Reelout brings global LGBTQ+ cinema to Kingston

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In 1999, Queen’s student Marney McDiarmid, a member of the OPIRG Kingston, was interested in art and queer activism. With a group of students, along with a few faculty and community members, McDiarmid arranged a small weekend movie screening of queer films at a local Kingston gay bar, Club 477, and...

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Reelout brings representation to the big screen

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In its 20th year, the Reelout film festival has come a long way from its origins on the dance floor of Kingston’s only gay bar. On Friday night, the Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival will be hosting its opening night gala at the Tett Centre to kick off the 15-day festival that will take place from...

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Reelout calls a wrap on festival's 19th year

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Gays of Our Lives: Shorts Program On Feb. 8, Reelout’s Gays of Our Lives shorts program brought nine mostly uplifting short films to The Screening Room.   “Rebirth,” the second film in the program, jumped back and forth between the male protagonist’s life as a doctor and a drag queen. The short was...

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Queer Film Festival serves up “Reelness”

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Girl Unbound: The War To Be Her Directed by Erin Heidenreich, Girl Unbound: The War To Be Her is a tender yet matter-of-fact documentary exploring the intersections of gender, religion and war through the perspective of a Pakistani athlete. The story follows Maria Toorpakai as she reflects on her...

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Queer film festival serves up “Reelness”

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From Feb. 1 to 10, Kingston will see a diverse collection of the finest short films and documentaries exploring the LGBTQ+ community. These films tell intersectional stories that span the globe, with intimate and sweeping profiles that ask viewers of all backgrounds to step outside of themselves and...

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Reelout Queer Film Festival returns for 19th year

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From Feb. 1 to 10, the Reelout Queer Film Festival wants you to see the world through a different lens. According to Executive Director Matt Salton, this means watching the festival’s “Reelness” unfold. To that end, this year’s Reelout primarily focuses on short films and documentaries that explore...

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Queer film fest leaves our reviewers 'reeling'

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“It’s time to get OUT!” screams the Reelout Queer Film Festival. In its 18th installment, the festival brought nothing short of groundbreaking films to the Kingston community last week. Originally established in 2000 by OPIRG, Reelout is a collective arts project that seeks to celebrate gender and...

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Reelout wheels out of Kingston

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The Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival screened its closing gala to an enthusiastic crowd this past Saturday, wrapping up an entertaining, illuminating and educational nine-day celebration of sexual and gender diversity in film.  Reelout — which began in 1999 as a project to celebrate queer media...

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A calendar of Kingston's winter film festivals

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Kingston’s winter months are warming up to a series of exciting upcoming film festivals. The end of January and the beginning of February will see three highly anticipated film festivals arrive in Kingston — Reelout Film Festival, the Kingston Canadian Film Festival and Focus Film Festival. Each festival...

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Looking through a lens of self-discovery

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Doing what you love is a journey of self-discovery, something Michael Kenney, ArtSci ’08, found through filmmaking. Kenney’s film Playing it Straight was voted as a Festival Favourite at the 2013 Cinema Diverse! Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It will be playing at the Reelout Film and...

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