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Experience the Utah Queer Film Festival (UQFF) in person on October 25-27, 2024 at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center–an exciting weekend of LGBTQIA+ creativity, ideas, and art explored through dramatic and documentary films from around the world, including local short films. Virtual films will be available October 27-November 3, 2024. As the longest-running queer film festival in the Mountain West, UQFF celebrates, inspires, and highlights queer stories, queer history, and queer joy through a diverse selection of feature and short films, community collaborations, workshops, discussions, and more! >>June-July 18: Early-bird festival passes for Utah Queer Film Festival are on sale now! >>Mid-July: First Program Announcements >>Mid-August: Additional Program Announcements >>Early September: Films, workshops, and tickets available to reserve with your pass! >>October 25-27: Pick up your physical pass and enjoy the in-person Festival >>October 27-November 3: Select films available to view during the online Festival Buy your Early Bird Festival Film Pass at: https://utahqueerfilmfestival.org/passes/ Utah Queer Film Festival is powered by Utah Film Center.

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Engage with filmmaking during the Utah Queer Film Festival! The Queer Lens: A Screenwriting 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. Topics include queer media & queer identity, story ideation & character development, loglines & treatments, character arcs & journeys, and story structure & formatting. >> Event: Filmmaking Workshop at Utah Queer Film Festival >> When: Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm >> Where: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 W. Broadway, SLC, UT 84101 >> Cost: $35 or pay what you can >> Registration: Get more information and reserve your spot at: https://utahqueerfilmfestival.org/event/the-queer-lens-a-screenwriting-workshop/ Learn more about the instructor: Skye Emerson – Screenwriter Skye Emerson is a passionate storyteller dedicated to exploring diverse narratives through the art of screenwriting. Recognized as one of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2020 by the International Screenwriters Association, Skye has garnered numerous writing accolades, including the 2019 Fresh Voices Grand Prize and the Grand Prize in ISA’s Emerging Screenwriters Competition in 2018. A Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive Program Fellow, Skye received the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Commissioning Grant at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. In June 2024, Skye completed production on Little Genes, a short film she wrote and co-directed with Amy Redford. Her independent feature, Under the Influencer, was showcased at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Queer Screen Goes to Cannes initiative. Skye is currently collaborating with Mischief Productions to bring her mid-80s family feature Salt & Honey to production in 2025. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, where she received the UCLA TFT Sloan Foundation Grant and the Carl David Memorial Screenwriting Fellowship for positive portrayals of the LGBTQ+ community in film. This workshop is hosted by the Artist Foundry and is offered as part of Utah Queer Film Festival happening October 25-27th at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more about festival films, workshops, activities, parties, and more at utahqff.org.

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Engage with filmmaking during the Utah Queer Film Festival (formerly Damn These Heels)! Personal Queer Filmmaking Workshop offers an individual exploration of ways to make films centered around one’s personal queer story. We will delve into 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. We will emphasize the importance of queer people sharing their stories and making films that reflect our experiences. The workshop will include prompts for developing a concept, practice exercises, and time for sharing in the community. No film experience is needed. >> When: Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm >> Where: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 W. Broadway, SLC, UT 84101 >> Cost: $35 or pay what you can >> Registration: Get more information and reserve your spot at: https://utahqueerfilmfestival.org/event/personal-queer-filmmaking-workshop/ Learn about the instructor: Amanda Madden – Director, Editor Amanda Madden (they/them) is a filmmaker, educator, and community organizer whose work explores evolutions of intimacy, identity, body, and connection. They have worked as a director and editor of documentary, narrative, and experimental films for the past 15 years, and their work has been exhibited internationally, winning multiple awards and nominations. They facilitate the independent educational project, Reflection Collective, a series of virtual workshops and gatherings focused on creative practice as a tool for introspection and connection. They are also the Manager of the Artist Foundry at Utah Film Center. Learn more at amandacmadden.com. This workshop is hosted by the Artist Foundry and is offered as part of Utah Queer Film Festival (formerly Damn These Heels) happening October 25-27th at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more about festival films, workshops, activities, parties, and more at utahqff.org.

Utah Queer Film Festival is proud to present on Sunday, October 27th at 2:30 pm at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Downtown Salt Lake City – the world premieres 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, we encourage you to join Utah composers and writers to reflect on how this terrible moment — and others like it in recent years — have shaped our lives, our loves, and our communities. About the Program and Artists: >> If You Use Your Senses, a new work by Garrett Medlock composed to their own text. The piece will feature Garrett and their husband, bassoonist Dylan Neff. Medlock and Neff met while undergraduate music students at the U. Garrett is a longtime vocalist with Utah Opera and The Cathedral of the Madeleine. Dylan is principal bassoonist of the Reno Chamber Orchestra. >> Saddle Stitch Venus, composed by Miranda Livengood and poet C.E. Janecek’s is a new folk-infused song cycle. As a trans woman who grew up in Salt Lake City, Miranda provides a unique perspective on how the impact of the Shepard murder has been mirrored in more recent events in the US. Livengood grew up in Salt Lake City and studied music at the U; her father, Lee Livengood, is clarinetist with the Utah Symphony, and her mother, Melissa Livengood, is a respected classical pianist. C.E. Janecek is a poet with an MFA from Colorado State University. >> Bleeding, by May Swenson’s is set to music by Jared Oaks and performed by bass Yvette Gilgen. Swenson and Oak’s piece examines the ongoing and increasing trauma created when victims are blamed for their own harm — a theme which extends beyond the queer experience to all walks of life. Oaks is conductor of the Ballet West Orchestra. Gilgen studied at Westminster University and performs with Utopia Early Music. >> A Boy Like Me, concludes the evening, a new work for tenor and chamber orchestra by composer Chris Myers and author Taylor Brorby (Boys and Oil, Coming Alive). Drawing on his own teenage experience, Brorby’s text evokes the memory of a closeted young man in rural North Dakota stunned by the news of Shepard’s murder. How is it possible to find happiness and love if this is how the world treats people like him? Myers works for NOVA Chamber Music Series and Park City Chamber Music Society. Brorby was the Annie Clark Tanner Teaching & Research Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the U. >> Cost: $15 or pay what you can >> Registration: Get more information and reserve your spot at: https://utahqueerfilmfestival.org/film/life-after-laramie-a-matthew-shepard-memorial-concert/ This special performance is offered as part of Utah Queer Film Festival happening October 25-27th at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more about festival films, workshops, activities, parties, and more at utahqff.org.