25^th October 2006
Media Release

Pink Screens

The Cardiff Film Festival, which runs in Wales’ capital from 8-18 November, has always looked after its GLBT film fans and special interest movies. This year is no exception with a strong mix of films and personal accounts to entertain even the most jaded of gay audiences. If going straight while at the cinema is more your thing there are countless other fascinating films from around the world to tickle your fancy.

Shortbus (18), dubbed the most explicit commercial film ever to come out of America, gets its Welsh premiere at Cardiff’s Cineworld on Friday 10^th November at 8.30pm.  Directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring Paul Dawson, Justin Bond and Sook-Yin Lee, the film charters the tale of a sex therapist yet to have an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect and a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, Need we go on…

The Canadian film Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma (18) gets its Welsh premiere at Cineworld on Saturday 11^th November at 9.30pm. Directed by Denis Langlois and starring Dusan Dukic, Karyne Lemieux, Norman Helms and Louise Laprade, the film, inspired by real events, tells the story of an American found naked and amnesiac in a vacant parking lot in Montreal in 1998. He says his name is James Brighton, but the only thing he’s sure of is that he’s gay. If only everyone could be so sure!

Interest in documentaries is on the rise around the world and The Person De Leo N (15) is a fascinating Italian film showing in Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff’s Canton area on Monday 13^th November at 7.30pm. As a twelve year old boy, Nicola de Leo already knew she wanted to become a woman. Now forty, this transsexual lives in Venice and has changed her name to Nicole.

If pure pink entertainment is your game then Creatures from the Pink Lagoon (18) gets its European premiere at Chapter on Friday 17^th November at 7.30pm. In this campy spoof of classic B horror flicks, a plucky young sissy’s idyllic birthday weekend is crashed by a group of libidinous gay men - tuned into ravenous flesh-eating zombies by toxic mosquitoes at a

cruisy highway rest stop. If this doesn’t make you laugh we might as well give up...!

Sarah Howells, Director of the Cardiff Film Festival, said, "We have always strived as a Festival to find interesting gay films from around the world and this year is no exception. Shortbus is sure to raise a few eyebrows and Creatures from the Pink Lagoon a few laughs and we hope GLBT film fans will come out and support this event again this year.

"More information is available on the Festival website www.cardifffilmfestival.co.uk and tickets can be booked directly online or through the Chapter Box Office on 029 20 304400."

 
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