DEAFNESS and isolation. The terror of being closeted and getting taunted by schoolmates. Working in Japan as prostitutes to send money home. A son coming to terms with being gay in the dark corners of Manila's streets.
These are the issues that will confront Filipino moviegoers as they watch four edifying Filipino documentaries in the film program Pinoy Pinkies, one of the rainbow treats from the third Pink Festival (International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) this June Pride season. (more...)
Posted May 31, 2005
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Tickets Available at SM TicketNet Outlets
Pink Film Fans, celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride with ProGay!
Tickets for the films on 3-12 June screenings of the PINK FESTIVAL 2005 will be on sale starting Sunday at Ticket Net outlets in SM Malls. (more...)
Posted May 29, 2005
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Queer filmfest premieres "Touch of Pink"
ProGay Philippines, in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy in Manila presents Touch of Pink, a Sienna Film/Martin Pope Productions production for the Pink Film Festival 2005 in the Gateway Cineplex 10, Araneta Center in Cubao on June 10.
Alim (Jimmy Misty) is a South Asian Canadian who makes a living as a photographer in London, thousands of miles from his family, for one very good reason--he has a boyfriend, Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried). Cary Grant's ghost (Kyle MacLachlan) appears in Alim's fantasy world to teach Alim how to live stylishly in the closet. (more...)
Posted May 29, 2005
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That Man: Peter Berlin Pops & Sizzles In Pink Festival 2005
Are you ready for That Man: Peter Berlin? The Pink Festival 2005 proudly premieres the classic show-all-and-tell-all bio-pic that peeks into the life and times of iconic photographer, filmmaker, model and gay sex god.
Peter Berlin shot to international fame in the early 1970's with his two wildly successful 16mm films, Nights in Black Leather and That Boy. Those rare collectors’s items quickly entered the hearts and fantasies of gay men everywhere. Berlin's take on male sexuality was different from anything else available at the time. He preferred suggestive, skin-tight clothing instead of going totally nude. He served as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer and ended up redefining self-portraiture. (more...)
Posted May 19, 2005
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Queer Chinovela Idols Will Tickle You Pink
TAIWAN's runaway hit Formula 17 will capture diehard soap aficionados in its Manila premiere at the Pink Festival (The International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), on June 1 at the Gateway, the newest mall to rise in Cubao, Quezon City.
Directed by DJ Chen Yin-jung, Formula 17 follows a virginal country boy (Tony Yang) who comes to the big city in search of true love and promptly falls for a heartbreaker playboy Pai (Duncan Chow). The plot is pure formula: boy gets, loses, then gets boy again routine that can never go wrong with fantasy sequences, flashbacks, bright gay colors, funky humor and liberal blasts of bubblegum Cantopop sing-alongs. (more...)
Posted May 17, 2005
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Pink Films Peek Into Senior Queers' Lives On Europe
THOUGHT provoking films from Europe grace the “Euro Pink Night” at the Pink Festival (Philippine International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) at the Gateway Cinema on June 2.
In the historical documentary The Secret Club (Den hemmelige klubben), Norweigian director Kenneth Elvebakk scoured Scandinavia to root out the origins of “Norwegian Gay Society DNF-48”, a secret club for homosexuals established in Oslo in 1950, when homosexuality was a criminal offence in Norway. We also meet men from Sweden and Denmark. (more...)
Posted May 15, 2005
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American Pink Festival
The Pink Festival (Philippine International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) unfolds with three powerful yet heartwarming films that highlight the civil and political rights of gay and lesbian people featured in the “American Pink Saturday” on June 4.
Created by Academy Award-winner Debra Chasnoff and producer Helen S. Cohen, the groundbreaking It's Elementary, Talking About Gay Issues in School, features frank classroom discussions of gay and lesbian issues where wide-eyed children surprisingly reveal how much they know and feel about the silent problem of gay bashing and bullying in the playground and classroom. (more...)
Posted May 6, 2005
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Call For Volunteers
The Pink Film Festival is 100% volunteer driven and has been operating solely on the strength of its volunteers. We need men and women who are interested in helping out for PINK FESTIVAL 2005. (more...)
Posted April 29, 2005
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PHANSuP Supports Pink Film Festival 2005
The Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP) announced its partnership with ProGay Philippines in bringing reproductive health issues to the public in the Pink Festival 2005, the annual film and arts event in the Pride month of June.
PHANSuP executive director Roberto A.O. Nebrida praised the festival's daring and creative efforts to mainstream the urgent issues of reproductive health to mall audiences especially the school-age youth who are most vulnerable to health problems and confusion that can stem from wrong information. (more...)
Posted April 29, 2005
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Be The Face Of The 3rd Pink Festival!
Promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and rights in the Philippines and help confront homophobia, discrimination and unequal treatment.
Come out of the closet, put your face on our promotional posters, internet sites and newspaper ads!
Open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and HETEROSEXUAL male and female and in-between persons, preferrably Filipinos and expatriates living in Metro Manila, aged 18-50. (more...)
Posted April 13, 2005
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Call For Submissions!
The PINK FESTIVAL 2005 opens on June 1, 2005 featuring films and videos on LGBT concerns and reproductive health.
The Third PINK FESTIVAL will also honor gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual (LGBT) artists by helping to mount public exhibits of their works. (more...)
Posted March 20, 2005