\n\tThe 50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival ended with a split decision: the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awarded its outstanding first narrative feature prize to both Adrian Chiarella\u2019s Leviticus and Sam McConnell\u2019s Test after voting ended in a statistical tie \u2014 a first for the festival\u2019s juried awards.<\/p>\n
\n\tChiarella\u2019s Australian debut uses horror to excavate internal and external homophobia; McConnell\u2019s Test, a gritty sports drama, earned particular praise for a star-making performance from its screenwriter, Brock Yurich, playing a closeted amateur bodybuilder.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn the audience side, Jane Schoenbrun\u2019s closing night film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma \u2014 a queer psychosexual slasher starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson \u2014 won best narrative feature, while Efra\u00edn Mojica and Rebecca Zweig\u2019s experimental rodeo documentary Jaripeo took best documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tBrydie O\u2019Connor\u2019s Barbara Forever, a portrait of pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer, won outstanding documentary feature and is set for a theatrical release through Strand Releasing this fall.<\/p>\n
\n\tShort film honors went to the Brazilian Morpheus & Charon (outstanding narrative short) and Cecile Fountain-Jardim\u2019s Doug + Me (outstanding documentary short), a formally inventive film about the director\u2019s uncle, who died of AIDS before she was born.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe festival\u2019s closing weekend, which coincided with San Francisco\u2019s Pride festivities \u2014 the massive citywide celebration of all things queer \u2014 brought two sold-out, boisterous premieres to the Castro Theatre, the legendary cinema hall in the heart of the city\u2019s gay district that recently reopened after a $41 million renovation.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn Thursday, John Early<\/a> debuted Maddie\u2019s Secret, his homage to films like Kate\u2019s Secret, a 1985 TV movie starring Meredith Baxter about a woman with an eating disorder. Introducing the film, Early thanked Frameline<\/a> onstage and joked that the film was \u201creverse engineered to be played at the Castro\u201d \u2014 rather than wait a decade for camp-classic reappraisal, he said, he wanted to skip straight to the crowd, theater, and city it was built for. <\/p>\n \n\tSaturday, the documentary Hunky Jesus \u2014 a history of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the long-running charitable drag nun order led by Sister Roma, \u201cThe Most Photographed Nun in the World\u2122\u201d (real name Michael Williams) \u2014 drew an equally enthusiastic hometown crowd, with Sister Roma proving herself a natural movie star: Bea Arthur in kabuki makeup, with the comic timing to match.<\/p>\n \n\tFrameline50 drew roughly 50,000 attendees across 11 days, screening nearly 150 films from more than 30 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival ended with a split decision: the San Francisco Bay Area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[103888,95202,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-380891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-frameline","tag-john-early","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}