Out on Film 2025 LGBTQ Film Fest (Day 7)

From the venue:

FROM PITCH TO PREMIERE: THE REAL DEAL ON DISTRIBUTION & LIVE SPEED PITCH SESSION
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This special two-part event brings together producers, studio executives, and representatives from top festivals and platforms for a candid conversation about how queer stories get discovered, championed, and brought to audiences. These aren’t just gatekeepers — they’re advocates working inside complex systems to make space for bold, inclusive storytelling. Then, for the first time at Out on Film, the conversation moves from the stage to the spotlight with a live speed pitch session. A select number of attendees will be randomly selected to pitch their projects directly to this panel of industry decision-makers — in front of a live audience — and receive immediate feedback. No favorites, no pre-screening, just your chance to be heard. Whether you’re on stage or in the seats, you’ll get a rare, inside look at what it takes to sell your story and move it toward the big screen.

LOVE, LOUD AND PROUD:

Dandelion, 3 pm
In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who’s tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.

Taper, 3 pm
A queer, Black kid going to a PWI needs to get a haircut. He finds a Black barbershop but finds himself having to tone down to blend in.

Deep Dish Dimples, 3 pm
When Gio, a Black trans man, calls his best friend Lazette for help burying a body, the two are pulled into an unexpected confrontation with the past. As whispers of family wounds and unresolved trauma echo through the night, Gio must face a surreal encounter with his pre-transitioned self. What begins as a desperate mission transforms into a journey of acceptance, love, and self-forgiveness, reminding us that healing comes from embracing every part of who we are.

Home, 3 pm
Home follows a successful, Black woman who buys a house on her own. Soon, she begins to feel trapped inside, haunted by memories of her ex and taunted by the imaginings of what might have been.

At My Girlfriend's Funeral, 3 pm
A young Korean woman attends her girlfriend's funeral and encounters the mother for the first time, who doesn't know her late daughter had a girlfriend.

The World Stood Still, 3 pm
Young trans woman Myrsky has run away from her transphobic parents and lives on her grandfather Tapio’s couch. She dreams of moving somewhere far away, but high school graduation isn’t working out and her mother is causing problems. Tapio’s health issues and Myrsky’s mother’s remarks make her feel like a burden, and she takes her stress out on her friend Nella. On the verge of huge life decisions, the concern of Myrsky’s loved ones makes her second guess herself and rethink the meaning of home. Maybe there could be a new life still in the city that used to feel poisoned?

Arman, 3 pm
The day of his wedding, Arman, an Iranian gay émigré who is not out to his parents back home, is completely isolated in the midst of a celebration with his American husband-to-be. Lying to his mom back home that he is at work instead of the wedding. Moments before walking down the aisle, he is uncertain how to move forward.

This Is Ballroom, 5 pm
In Rio de Janeiro City and its outskirts, LGBTQ+ youth of color recreates Ballroom culture on their own terms. A portrait of the dramas, the voguing performances, and the art of shade, 50 years after its inception in New York. Rio is burning!

GEORGIA ON MY MIND, 7 pm

ASHA, 7 pm
Amidst the chaos of her daughter’s 10th birthday party, Asha must face her estranged mom who shows up unannounced bearing the ultimate gift.

Zora Head: The Life and Scholarship of Valerie Boyd,
Zora Head focuses on Valerie Boyd’s lifelong dedication to sharing black women's stories, and presents insights into her writing process, sites of memory, archival objects, and personal history narratives as told by Boyd’s closest collaborators.

The film features her most lauded publications, _Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, _and _Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience _and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic.

Fairy Play, 7 pm
A wooden toy soldier is placed by a child into a dollhouse castle as a replacement for a porcelain princess figurine. The toy soldier struggles to dance with the princes and princesses of a world that was not built for them.

The Other Skye, 7 pm
Skye a chronically ill outcast, lives in hiding just outside of this retro-futuristic America. The only thing keeping her alive is hope that she'll be cured and accepted back into a society and family she so desperately misses. Well… that and beans.

But when drag queen, Virginia Curve, shows up in the woods to self-terminate an unlikely friendship is formed. Skye is forced to consider a totally different kind of healing.

Speak, 7 pm
Individuals in the LGBTQ community use artistic expression and the power of words to share their own stories and experiences through written poetry.

Are You Fucking Kidding Me?!, 7 pm
When a broke birthday party clown finds out in the middle of the gig from hell that his mother is on her death bed; he must do whatever it takes to afford a flight home to say goodbye, all the while slowly losing his grip on reality.

The Beard, 7 pm
In the aftermath of a child's birthday party, two estranged high school best friends unexpectedly reunite. But tensions arise as unspoken issues and trauma come bubbling to the surface.

She's the He, 9:15 pm
On the last week of school, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans women to get into the girl’s lockers. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. Now Alex and Ethan must reckon with their changing friendship and the messy process of coming out.