Filmmakers to Appear for Outfest Legacy Project Screening Series

Filmmakers Cheryl Dunye, Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner will appear at a special screening of their films through the Outfest Legacy Project Screening Series on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, at 7 p.m.

Troche and Turner produced and wrote the landmark lesbian feature film Go Fish in 1994. Turner also co-stars in the film with V.S. Brodie.

Dunye wrote, produced and starred in the short film “She Don’t Fade,” a 1991 expose on the travails of a single Black lesbian who believes she’s come up with a “new approach to women.”
Outfest Members receive 2-for-1 tickets at the Billy Wilder Theater box office, on the courtyard level of the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

The Legacy Project is a collaborative effort between the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest to restore queer film and video. Prints from the Legacy collection are screened on a bimonthly basis.
For more information, go to outfest.org/legacy.

About the films:

GO FISH
Directed by Rose Troche, 1994, 35mm, b/w, 86 min.
Sexy and idiosyncratic, Go Fish is a landmark of lesbian and independent film. Its deceptively simple story, in which single Max (Turner) courts not-so-single Ely (Brodie), is conveyed with freewheeling narrative invention, a gritty black-and-white aesthetic and a keen observation of lesbian mating rituals, humor and politics. Tough and tender by turns, the film illustrated a new ensemble of lesbian feelings on screen; edgy, lusty and ringing with authenticity.
Producer: Rose Troche, Guinevere Turner. Screenwriter: Guinevere Turner, R. Troche. Cinematographer: Ann T. Rossetti. Editor: Rose Troche. Cast: Guinevere Turner, V.S. Brodie, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez, Anastasia Sharp.

SHE DON’T FADE
Directed by Cheryl Dunye, 1991, Digital video, b/w, 24 min.
This charming short traces the dating exploits of Shae, a single black lesbian who’s developed a “new approach to women.” The deceptively simple film solidified the breezy, confessional style that became a Dunye trademark, later infusing her feature debut, 1996’s The Watermelon Woman.
Producer/Screenwriter/Editor: Cheryl Dunye. Cinematographer: Paula Cronan. Cast: Cheryl Dunye, Zoie Strauss, Paula Cronan.