St. Louis: Come get your Q on! The Vital Voice and Cinema St. Louis will host a lively opening night reception on Thursday, April 14 to kick off the Fourth Annual Stella Artois QFest. QFest, the St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, runs April 14-17 at the Hi-Pointe Theatre, 1005 McCausland Avenue, 63117. The party will be held before the screening of documentary film The Sons Of Tennessee Williams with guest director Tim Wolff in attendance. Tickets are $20 and include free Stella Artois, wine from West End Wines, Pi pizza, soda and popcorn courtesy of the Hi-Pointe, and a ticket to the 7:30 p.m. screening of The Sons Of Tennessee Williams. The film has had sold out screenings across the country at a number of prominent film festivals and has just been picked up for theatrical distribution by First Run Features. Advance tickets are available through the Cinema St. Louis offices or online via Brown Paper Tickets.
- 4/13/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cinema St. Louis presents the fourth annual edition of the Stella Artois QFest which will be held April 14-17, 2011, at the Hi-Pointe Theatre. QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the diversity and inherent complexities of living an alternative lifestyle in today’s society. The event will feature an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts and will kick off with The Sons Of Tennessee Williams.
I’m not sure if Tennessee Williams, the playwright and St. Louis native, attended gay masquerade balls while wearing massive, elaborate costumes the size of a Cadillacs but the subjects of Tim Wolff’s excellent new documentary The Sons Of Tennessee Williams do. The film focuses on a group of older gay men in New Orleans as they prepare these elaborate costumes for the annual and historic ‘Gay Mardi Gras’. These extravagant getups are literally the size of...
I’m not sure if Tennessee Williams, the playwright and St. Louis native, attended gay masquerade balls while wearing massive, elaborate costumes the size of a Cadillacs but the subjects of Tim Wolff’s excellent new documentary The Sons Of Tennessee Williams do. The film focuses on a group of older gay men in New Orleans as they prepare these elaborate costumes for the annual and historic ‘Gay Mardi Gras’. These extravagant getups are literally the size of...
- 4/13/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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