The Reelout Queer Film Festival is an annual LGBTQ
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...
in
Kingston,
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
.
The festival was established in 1999 by Marney McDiarmid, a
Queen's University graduate, with resource assistance from both the university and
Ontario Public Interest Research Group
Ontario Public Interest Research Group is a decentralized network of local Public Interest Research Groups located in the province of Ontario, Canada.
OPIRG was founded in 1972 after a speech by Ralph Nader at the University of Waterloo.
Unli ...
.
["Festival plugs gap in film programming". '']Kingston Whig-Standard
''The Kingston Whig-Standard'' is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published five days a week, from Tuesday to Saturday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is currently owned by Postmedia. It has ...
'', April 4, 2000. In the first year, films were screened at the city's gay bar, Club 477.
[ In its second year, the festival moved to the Screening Room theatre, which has remained its primary venue ever since;][ the volunteers at the 2000 festival included Matt Salton, now the festival's director.
In 2010, the festival was briefly the subject of controversy when its application to present a program of short films directed by women at the Kingston Women's Art Festival was denied.]["Queer community up in arms following application denial from Women's Art Festival". ''Kingston Heritage'', July 22, 2010.]
See also
* List of LGBT film festivals
An LGBT film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ+ focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces ...
* List of film festivals in Canada
This is a list of film festivals that take place (or took place) in Canada. Where relevant, the list below notes when a festival is considered a qualifying festival for the purposes of the Canadian Screen Awards.
National
Alberta
British Col ...
References
External links
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LGBT film festivals in Canada
Festivals in Kingston, Ontario
Film festivals in Ontario
Film festivals established in 1999
1999 establishments in Ontario
LGBT in Ontario
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