VALENCIA: THE MOVIE/S Screens Tuesday at QFest St. Louis

QFest St. Louis continues with VALENCIA: THE MOVIE/S at 7:00 pm Tuesday April 29th.

QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1^st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, MO) 

QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary LGBTQ-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.

VALENCIA: THE MOVIE/S screens at 7:00pm Tuesday April 29th

An ambitious collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers, “Valencia” is a collective adaptation of the legendary ’90s lesbian memoir by Michelle Tea. Twenty different filmmakers – including Silas Howard, Cheryl Dunye, and recent Sundance award-winner Jill Soloway – explore Tea’s tumultuous love life, adapting her classic underground memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco’s Mission District and the lesbian bohemia of the 1990s. Tea’s memoir documented a generation of lesbians through one hard-loving, hard-drinking dyke and her experiences with punk rockers, riot grrls, and artsy freaks. In this highly anticipated film adaptation of “Valencia,” a new generation of fabulous queer artists reinterprets and reinvents Tea’s tales one chapter at a time.

The screening is sponsored by Left Bank Books

Gabrielle at AUTOSTRADDLE wrote:

“Valencia Is The Most Masterful Dyke-Centric Artsy-Weirdo Film I’ve Ever Seen”

Anna Pulley at AFTER ELLEN wrote:

“Fans of the book will be happy to know that many of the provocative and delightfully weirdo scenes made the cut.”

Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote:

“Shot in myriad formats, ranging from gritty to earnest, campy and experimental in tone, “Valencia” is nothing if not resourceful.”

A Facebook event page for the screening can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/1419403718316200/

For a complete schedule of the QFest film’s visit Cinema St. Louis’ QFest page HERE

http://www.cinemastlouis.org/qfest

Contact artistic director Chris Clark for additional details or questions: chris@cinemastlouis.org or 314.289.4152.

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