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3rd Annual Queer West Film Festival

Theme: Queering Boundaries

Saturday August 14, 2010 @ Revue Cinema

Submission Extended to July 16


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Queering Boundaries means going beyond a fixed identity and embracing fluidity. Though situated in the West of Toronto, we see the literal city borders and boundaries as contested and in flux.Through the medium of film, the Queer West Film Festival will push for a more inclusive and complex queer identity; a queer identity that is necessarily shaped through interactions with place, space and community. At the same time, the sites, sounds and boundaries of Toronto's "West End" will be (re)claimed, (re)presented and (re)named as "queer".

The Queer West Film Festival is looking for submissions of short films between 5 and 15 minutes. Since the Queer West Film festival (QWFF) aims to contest city and identity boundaries, you don't necessarily have to live in the Queer West neighbourhood.

Toronto is a city where queers come from different spaces, converging and diverging to create their own sense of community, and the Queer West Film Festival emphasizes that sense of connectedness.

Submit a film that exemplies how you construct or deconstruct identity, how you (re)claim space and/or how predetertimined boundaries affect you.

Queer West Film Festival - Mission Statement - Our mission is to provide a voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer youth by presenting films and videos that only represent the diversity of the GLBT community. By providing innovative, diverse, accessible, quality screen events, which promote/stimulate, educate, enlighten, support queer cultures and entertain us all.

. Queer West Film Festival - Program Director - Casey Reid qwfilmfest@gmail.com

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Saturday August 14th— Cinema evening at the 3rd annual Queer West Film Festival (Full details of all films to be shown and press release by Sunday August 1st)
Where: The Revue Cinema
Address: 400 Roncesvalles Avenue
Start Time: 4 pm
End Time:6 pm
Cover $5/PWYC

Event Description: This year the 3rd annual Queer West Film Festival is Queering Boundaries. We are excited to screen films that question the boundaries of the home, the body and the mind. Films that create a dialogue about racialized/trans/queer identity. Films that rethink and redefine the queer subject on screen. Mostly, the films screened at the Queer West Film Festival strive to broaden the notion of identity through each films narrative (de) construction. The QWFF will also be focusing on the boundary queering work of Toronto’s Triangle Program through a brief 15 year retrospective. http://triangleprogram.ca/about-2/

Festival Contact Information:

Festival Program Coordinator & Volunteers - Jaclyn Isen - queerwestfest@gmail.com
Film Festival Program Director - Casey Reid - qwfilmfest@gmail.com
Advertising / Sponsorships & Web maintenance- Michel Paré - queerwestinfo@gmail.com
Literary Events - Philip Cairns - fullmoon@auracom.com
Media & Public Relations Director - Parul Pandya - queerwestfestmedia@gmail.com

Festival Event Coordinators: Philip, Michel P., Cait, Casey, Jacqulin, Jaclyn, Kailee, Jane, Parul, Regina and Sarah.

Community Information & Helpline Main Phone Number: 416-879-7954

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