Stay tuned for additional announcements for films and events for the 2024 Utah Queer Film Festival.
7:00 pm
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING – A House Is Not a Disco
What if you really did put all the gays on an island? In this kaleidoscopic portrait of queer paradise, Fire Island Pines, past and present blur as the iconic beach town bands together to celebrate its legacy and redefine itself for a more inclusive era.
10:00 pm
Desire Lines
Desire Lines is a hybrid feature documentary that blends personal interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality.
10:00 am
Summer Qamp
10:30 am
Utah Queer Short Film Showcase
Utah proud and Utah loud. These short films by local filmmakers highlight the rapidly increasing queer community in our state.
12:45 pm
A Long Way From Heaven
A Long Way From Heaven tells the story of Brigham Young University’s queer underground, demanding their place in the sunlight.
1:15 pm
The World According to Allee Willis
Songwriter / artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the “Friends” theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit “September” and “The Color Purple” musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped.
Featuring a post-film Q&A with the film’s executive producer, Prudence Fenton. Fenton is also the producer of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and the life partner of Allee Willis.
3:00 pm
The Queer Lens: A Screenwriting Workshop
This workshop is designed for writers at all levels who are passionate about telling queer stories through a narrative lens. Participants will learn the essentials of screenwriting, guiding them in turning an initial story idea into a professionally-developed script.
3:30 pm
Chuck Chuck Baby
Helen lives with her ex-husband, his 20-year-old girlfriend, their new baby – and his dying mother Gwen but things are about to change…
4:00 pm
Black, Bold & Brilliant Presents: Queer BIPOC Short Film Showcase
Dive into a cinematic exploration of intersectionality with this collection of shorts highlighting BIPOC stories.
6:15 pm
CENTERPIECE SCREENING – Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.
6:45 pm
Mascarpone: The Rainbow Cake
Three years after their initial romance, Antonio is determined to get back together with Luca, despite Luca’s engagement to someone else.
9:15 pm
HallowQueen Short Film Showcase
Darkness falls across the land and the midnight hour is close at hand, which means it’s time for thrills and chills from this twisted collection of tales.
9:30 pm
The Summer With Carmen
While spending a steamy day together at a nude beach in Athens, best friends Demos and Nikitas start brainstorming ideas for a screenplay based on the colorful events of a previous summer.
10:00 am
All Shall Be Well
Angie and Pat are a well-off lesbian couple in their mid-60s, until Pat unexpectedly dies, and Angie embarks on a later-life emancipation journey.
10:30 am
The ABCs of Book Banning
The ABCs of Book Banning reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
12:15 pm
Camila Comes Out Tonight
When forced to move to Buenos Aires and her liberal public school behind, Camila’s fierce but immature temperament is put to the test and a feminist revolution is born.
12:30 pm
Personal Queer Filmmaking Workshop
In this workshop participants will explore ways to make films centered around their own personal queer stories. We will explore the power of personal filmmaking for both the filmmaker and the viewer, how to develop your own story into an outline or script, and the technical aspects of filming yourself.
2:30 pm
Life After Laramie: A Matthew Shepard Memorial Concert (Live Performance)
Utah Queer Film Festival is proud to present the world premiere live performance of four new musical works that ask: “Where do queer people find Home?” written as a response to last year’s 25th anniversary of the October 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
3:00 pm
Classic Film – Wigstock: The Movie
Wigstock: The Movie is a 1995 documentary focusing on Wigstock, the annual drag music festival held New York City’s East Village through the 1980s and 1990s.
5:30 pm
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING – Chasing Chasing Amy
12-year-old Sav Rodgers watched the film Chasing Amy, and his life was forever changed.
October 27 to November 3, 2024
VIRTUAL SCREENING: Backspot
An ambitious cheerleader faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad and its demanding head coach.
October 27 to November 3, 2024
VIRTUAL SCREENING: Break the Game
Alone in her studio apartment, Narcissa Wright live streams every minute of her quest to be the world’s fastest Legend of Zelda player. But when her isolated digital existence begins to crack, Narcissa must decide her fate: will she embrace love and adventure in the real world, or will she be seduced again by the glow of the computer screen?
October 27 to November 3, 2024
VIRTUAL SCREENING: León
Julia has just lost her life partner, Barby. Torn between her grief and a world that is crumbling without her, she strives to preserve the restaurant they built together and her bond with their son León; a relationship now threatened by a willful grandmother and the return of an absent father.
October 27 to November 3, 2024
VIRTUAL SCREENING: The Queen of My Dreams
Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.
