Shropshire LGBT Film Festival
A selection of Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) short films popular with past audiences of the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival. An emotional roller-coaster of fiction, poems, music and documentaries from around the world.
Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival is delighted in securing a Birmingham Pride LGBT Community Grant. Following the success of Birmingham Pride raising £75,136 last year (2014), a Pride Trust was independently formed to award a number of grants to LGBT community groups in the coming months and years.
1st December 2015 – The Hive. In this compelling documentary, five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute jump.
Phil Bearman Creative Media Solutions is an expert in motion graphics and has helped the …
Sunday 17th May 2015 @ 20:00, The Hive. In response to finding the words “fag” and “U R gay” spray-painted on her car, Erin decided to embrace what happened by leaving the graffiti on her car, putting her studies on hold and embarking upon a video-documented 55,000 mile journey through 41 U.S. states.
Peter Scott-Presland was on great form: entertaining and informative. He read from personal accounts in the book, which was riveting. A really good discussion followed and a number of books were sold. A big ‘Thank you’ to Peter, who put so much into making the event a success and Maria and Karen at Two Fat Rascals for hosting it.
We are eager this year to feature a number of screening outside Shrewsbury as requested in some of the feedback forms during previous festival weekends.
Is there a community hall, local cinema or other suitable venue you would like the festival to come to? Is there an organisation you would like us to present to? Do get in touch and we will do our best.
Absolutely nothing to do with Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival, however The Shrewsbury Film Society are screening the Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros on 29th June. We screened it during our second festival back in 2007.
Every year we are delighted to welcome film directors and guest speakers from all over the world to our festival. However, as the film festival gets more and more popular we are running out of spare bed space. To volunteer a bed space or your time please get in touch.
FLATPACK Film Festival presents….LOLGBT SHORTS. Surreal, reflective, and occasionally downright crude – a lucky dip of new shorts presented in association with Shout Festival.
