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The GlamFest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival returns in 2010, boasting a great programme of films and some very exciting changes. We have a new venue, relocating from Astor Cinemas to the Empyrean (the old IMAX, 12 Lake Street, Northbridge). Empyrean has Western Australia's largest cinema screen and an amazing sound system. We will also have a festival bar running throughout the season, with entertainment before and after our evening sessions.
Over the last two years, we have donated more than $2,500 from GlamFest ticket sales to Gay & Lesbian Community Services (GLCS). This year, we hope to make an even bigger contribution to our community. To start with, we will be offering Pride WA members discounts to all sessions. We will also be raising money for three charities this year. Part proceeds from our Friday night session will be donated to the Breast Cancer Foundation (WA), part proceeds from all Saturday sesssions will be donated to Families 4 Freedom and part proceeds from all Sunday sessions will again be donated to GLCS.
In parternership with Melbourne Queer Film Festival, GAYinWA Events is excited to be bringing you another GlamFest. Enjoy.
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Hollywood je'taime | 8pm, Thursday 15 April
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Freshly dumped, Jerome swaps Paris for California in the hope of finding some sun, an acting job and men – anything to keep his mind off his cheating ex. When he arrives, it’s not the paradise he imagined, but he soon meets prostitute Kaleesha, who takes a real shine to our puppy-dog-eyed loner, and who introduces him to drag queen, Norma Desire, and with nowhere to stay Jerome crashes at Norma’s place.
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Drool | 8pm, Friday 16 April
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Hands up all those of you who have been waiting impatiently for Laura Harring to return to the fold? It’s eight years since Harring (then credited as Laura Elena Harring) joined Naomi Watts to create one of cinema’s greatest ever Sapphic pairings in David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive. And now she’s back. Drool is a very, very different movie – although it does also turn on Harring’s character being rescued from an untenable position by a wonderful woman.
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Hollywood je'taime | 3.30pm, Saturday 17 April
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Freshly dumped, Jerome swaps Paris for California in the hope of finding some sun, an acting job and men – anything to keep his mind off his cheating ex. When he arrives, it’s not the paradise he imagined, but he soon meets prostitute Kaleesha, who takes a real shine to our puppy-dog-eyed loner, and who introduces him to drag queen, Norma Desire, and with nowhere to stay Jerome crashes at Norma’s place.
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And Then Came Lola | 6pm, Saturday 17 April
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Owing a huge (tongue in) cheeky debt to 1998’s Run, Lola Run, the film that put Tom Tykwer’s firmly onto the world cinema map, this first feature from the do-it-all duo (credited for writing, directing, producing and operating the camera) Seidler and Siler (who on her own made The Midwife’s Tale in 1995) is as light as a soufflé and frothier than a cappuccino. It’s also as delicious as both, but much sexier than either.
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The Big Gay Musical | 8.30pm, Saturday 17 April
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When Paul and Eddie begin previews for the new Off-Broadway musical ‘Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made ‘Em’, they find their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is dealing with how he reconcile his sexuality with his faith. After yet another disastrous dating experience, Paul has an epiphany and decides he’s done dating and just wants to be a slut like the sexy chorus boys that share his dressing room.
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Drool | 1pm, Sunday 18 April
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Hands up all those of you who have been waiting impatiently for Laura Harring to return to the fold? It’s eight years since Harring (then credited as Laura Elena Harring) joined Naomi Watts to create one of cinema’s greatest ever Sapphic pairings in David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive. And now she’s back. Drool is a very, very different movie – although it does also turn on Harring’s character being rescued from an untenable position by a wonderful woman.
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Aussie Short Films | 3.30pm, Sunday 18 April
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A collection of Australian short films screened back to back. Titles include Bombshell, Lash, The Human Prism, Neon Skin, Trixie Club, Disarm, Breeders and Sorrento. Great plots from up-and-coming gay and lesbian film makers.
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Redwoods | 6pm, Sunday 18 April
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Everett and Miles live in relative seclusion in a small town with their learning disabled son, Billy. Their relationship is passionless and they seem to be held together by their shared loved of the child. When Miles and Billy take a trip out of town to visit family, Everett is thankful for some time to be by himself. However his peace is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome stranger, Chase, a writer who has taken a wrong turn on the way to his B&B.
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