REEL AFFIRMATIONS PRESS

Editor's Pick:

Gun Hill Road plays tonight as part of Reel Affirmations Xtra

For its monthly film series, Reel Affirmations presents Gun Hill Road, starring Esai Morales (NYPD Blues) and Judy Reyes (Scrubs) as parents whose already troubled relationship is further threatened by their teenage son's budding sexuality. Read more in Metro Weekly.

Free Screening:

Leslie Jordan's My Trip Down the Pink Carpet

Reel Affirmations offers a free screening of My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, based on the memoirs of gay comedian Leslie Jordan, who has haunted Hollywood for decades now. Read more at Metro Weekly.

Reel Affirmations, part of the 2nd annual ‘Summer Screenings’

My Trip Down The Pink Carpet is Leslie Jordan’s rollicking, faced-paced collection of stories served up with wit, panache, and plenty of biting asides. Filled with overwrought childhood agonies, offbeat observations, and revealing celebrity encounters from Boy George to George Clooney it delivers a fresh, laugh-out-loud take on Hollywood, fame, addiction, gay culture, and learning to love oneself. Read more on the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities blog.

Reel Affirmations Plans Oct. Screenings

Reel Affirmations, Washington’s 20-year-old LGBT film festival staged each year by the non-profit One in Ten, is moving its annual 10-day screening marathon to April but has three films slated for local screenings this month so the change won’t be too jarring for movie lovers. Read more in the Washington Blade.

Spring Affirmations

District's LGBT film festival — Reel Affirmations — announces plans to move the annual fall event to the spring

Reel Affirmations, Washington, D.C.'s international gay and lesbian film festival, set to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year, will be moving to the spring of 2011 in an effort to improve the event's placement in the calendar of film festivals throughout the year. The event had been scheduled for Oct. 14 to 23, 2010. Read more in Metro Weekly.