| Jenni Olson's LGBT Film Resources |
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Facilitating connections between films and the viewers who need to see them has been a lifetime passion for me. I’ve been fortunate to spend the past 30 years doing this in one form or another including: marketing and promoting online movie transactions via VOD streaming and download; driving e-commerce sales of DVD & Blu-ray; creating and operating innovative online initiatives for film lovers such as: the massive LGBT film website, PopcornQ (where I pioneered the first LGBT streaming movie platform back in 1996) and the global digital LGBT film showcase, WolfeOnDemand.com; guiding independent film release strategies for filmmakers; programming cinema new and old for film festival audiences. Not to mention making, distributing, collecting, teaching, writing about and, of course, watching — movies.
Below are a few useful resources for LGBT filmmakers. And here's a 2016 article I wrote for Moviemaker Magazine called So You're an LGBT Moviemaker which is pretty much a prose version of the below.
Also, here's my LinkedIn profile if you want to know more about my work. In any case I wish you all good things and hope these resources are helpful — it takes a village.
Below are a few useful resources for LGBT filmmakers. And here's a 2016 article I wrote for Moviemaker Magazine called So You're an LGBT Moviemaker which is pretty much a prose version of the below.
Also, here's my LinkedIn profile if you want to know more about my work. In any case I wish you all good things and hope these resources are helpful — it takes a village.
PQ Professionals
The first online networking group for LGBT film and video professionals. I created this group in the late 1990s as a way to connect queer filmmakers, distributors, programmers, publicists, journalists, etc. Please come join us.
The first online networking group for LGBT film and video professionals. I created this group in the late 1990s as a way to connect queer filmmakers, distributors, programmers, publicists, journalists, etc. Please come join us.
- PQProfessionals List (Yahoo Email List version)
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FILM FESTIVALS & EXHIBITION
QueerFilmFestivals.com
An excellent chronological directory of worldwide LGBT film festivals. Handy for festival submissions and includes links to more than 100 queer film fests around the world. The LGBT Film Fest Guide on Twitter Massive list of Twitter accounts for more than 100 LGBT film fests on Twitter. AND MORE
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FUNDING
You can also find great lists of funders via Filmmaker Magazine, International Documentary Association and many other sites. |
Outfest & Frameline
In addition to running the largest LGBT Film Festivals in the world (Outfest in Los Angeles, Frameline in San Francisco) these two organizations impact the LGBT media landscape nationally and internationally.
° Frameline Distribution focuses on North American LGBT film distribution, the Frameline Completion Fund offers funding to LGBT projects (annual deadline in October).
° Outfest is responsible for The Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, the Outset LGBT Young Filmmakers Project and a wide array of filmmaker development programs including their annual Screenwriting Lab.
In addition to running the largest LGBT Film Festivals in the world (Outfest in Los Angeles, Frameline in San Francisco) these two organizations impact the LGBT media landscape nationally and internationally.
° Frameline Distribution focuses on North American LGBT film distribution, the Frameline Completion Fund offers funding to LGBT projects (annual deadline in October).
° Outfest is responsible for The Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, the Outset LGBT Young Filmmakers Project and a wide array of filmmaker development programs including their annual Screenwriting Lab.
OTHER GENERAL INDIE FILM RESOURCES
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INDIE FILM NEWS
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FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS
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CROWDFUNDING
