New Films From SXSW, Tribeca, Los Angeles Film Festival and Outfest

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New Films from SXSW, Tribeca, LA Film Fest, and Outfest

TransMilitary • Making Montgomery Clift • Mapplethorpe • Tucked


	Dear Programmers: This is one of the most exciting lineups of LGBT films we’ve ever had the honor to offer to venues around the world! From SXSW, we have the groundbreaking TRANSMILITARY; next, we have the definitive Montgomery Clift documentary, MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT, which premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival in September; from Tribeca comes Ondi Timoner’s first narrative feature, MAPPLETHORPE, starring Matt Smith (Dr. Who, The Crown); and finally the double Outfest award-winning (Narrative Audience Award and International Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize) crowd-pleaser, TUCKED. Please email us at festivals@thefilmcollaborative.org for screeners. Also, we’ll be sending you in the next day or two info about an important New York-based non-profit organization that is producing a series of documentary shorts…so please be on the lookout for that!


	2018 \| USA \| 92 min. Director Gabe Silverman Co-Director Fiona Dawson Writers Jamie Coughlin, Gabriel Silverman Producer Jamie Coughlin Editor Gil Seltzer Cinematographer Gabriel Silverman		TransMilitary ABOUT THE FILM: TRANSMILITARY follows the Emmy™-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love. Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TRANSMILITARY chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve. The ban was lifted in 2016, but with President Trump now trying to reinstate it, their futures hang in the balance again. FESTIVALS 2018: SXSW, Frameline42 (Opening Night) AWARDS Audience Award, Documentary Competition (SXSW) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray, DVD MORE INFO: transmilitary.org Email us for screeners or streaming links.


	2018 \| USA \| 88 min. Directors Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon Producers Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon Executive Producers Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon Co-Executive Producer Gerald Herman Editor Hillary Demmon Cinematographer Robert Clift Music Anthony Taddeo Cast Montgomery Clift, Brooks Clift, Ethel “Sunny” Clift, Patricia Bosworth, Jack Larson, Judy Balaban, Robert Osborne, Eleanor Clift, Lorenzo James, Tucker Tooley, Vincent Newman, Michael Easton, Mollie Gregory, Woody Clift, Eddie Clift		Making Montgomery Clift ABOUT THE FILM: Montgomery Clift was one of the most influential actors in the history of cinema, bucking traditions on and off screen, but countless biographies have reduced him to labels like “tragically self-destructive” and “tormented.” Now, nephew Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon rigorously examine the flawed narratives that have come to define Monty’s legacy. Drawing on interviews with family and loved ones and a rich collection of unreleased archival materials from Monty and his brother, Brooks Clift, this fresh portrait of the actor’s passions, contributions and commitment to living and working in his own way gives one of Hollywood’s underappreciated legends his due. FESTIVALS 2018: Los Angeles Film Festival (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray MORE INFO: Facebook Page Email us for screeners or streaming links.


	2018 \| USA \| 94 min. Director Ondi Timoner Writers Ondi Timoner, Mikko Alanne Producers Eliza Dushku, Ondi Timoner, Nate Dushku, Richard J. Bosner Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber		Mapplethorpe ABOUT THE FILM: Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City’s underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989. Mapplethorpe revisits the titular photographer’s legacy, beginning at the moment just before he takes up residence in the Chelsea Hotel. There, Mapplethorpe begins to amass a portfolio of images—and, at the same time, to explore his formerly supressed attraction to men. But Mapplethorpe’s relentless ambition—as he says in one early scene, “I can’t just be Mapplethorpe the photographer,” fancying himself a “modern Michelangelo”—threatens to tear apart the relationships he cherishes the most. From the early ’70s until his untimely death at age 42, the film explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality, his struggle for mainstream recognition, and, looming above it all, the specter of the emerging AIDS crisis. Featuring Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown) and Marianne Rendón, the biopic offers a nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft and of the self-destructive impulses that threaten to undermine it all. — Tribeca Film Festival FESTIVALS 2018: Tribeca (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World, excluding the United States and Canada EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray MORE INFO: IMDb Page Email us for screeners or streaming links.


	2018 \| United Kingdom \| 120 min. Writer & Director Jamie Patterson Producer Finn Bruce Executive Producers Finn Bruce, Richard Jackson, Dominic Collins, Mark Gee, Joanna Gee, Minna Mills, Peveril John, Robina Talbot-Ponsonby, Nigel Talbot-Ponsonby, Edward Fremlin-Key, Chris Malcamson, Agshin Badalov Editor David Fricker Cinematographer Paul O'Callaghan Production Designer Laura Little Costume Designer Lucy Upton Prowse Sound Martin Pavey Music Richey Rynkowski Cast Jordan Stephens, Derren Nesbitt, Steve Oram, April Pearson		Tucked ABOUT THE FILM: When veteran drag queen Jackie Collins receives a diagnosis with six weeks to live, all he wants to do is perform his long-running act, and behave as if all is normal. But between a surprising new friendship with a rising young queen and unfinished business with his estranged daughter, he may just have the most eventful month and a half of his life. A feel-good film with charm and humor as well as surprising insight into our evolving understanding of gender identity across generations, this marks the first queer film from prolific young British director Jamie Patterson. FESTIVALS 2018: Outfest (World Premiere) AWARDS Best Narrative Audience Award and International Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize (Outfest) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray MORE INFO: IMDb Page Email us for screeners or streaming links.

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