VQFF Ticket Give-Away

Sad Mag is proud to be counted among the Van­cou­ver Queer Film Fes­ti­val’s com­mu­nity spon­sors this year. With ninety films being screened at four major cin­e­mas this year, the festival—now in its 22nd year—has grown to an impres­sive size. In a year of dras­tic cuts to gov­ern­ment fund­ing for the arts, a pro­gram of this  qual­ity and diver­sity is to be admired.

The fes­ti­val kicks off tonight and runs until August 22. Sad Mag has a pair of tick­ets to give away to the Fri­day, August 20 screen­ing of Cheryl Dunye’s “The Owls.” To enter, copy and paste the fol­low­ing into Twitter:

RT to enter to win 2 tix to the @queerfilmfest’s screen­ing of “The Owls” from @sadmag http://ow.ly/2oqE9

The con­test is now closed. Con­grat­u­la­tions to our win­ner, @onewetfoot!

From the program:

THE OWLS

Fri | Aug 20 | 5:00 | Granville 7 Theatre

“The Owls” reunites Guin­e­vere Turner and VS Brodie, the lead­ing actors of the les­bian cult hit “Go Fish.” This iconic queer cin­ema cou­ple is cast along­side a slate of les­bian film mav­er­icks, includ­ing Skyler Cooper, Deak Evgenikos and direc­tor Cheryl Dunye (“The Water­melon Woman”).

This film can boast being a truly exper­i­men­tal, col­lab­o­ra­tively cre­ated thriller, mur­der mys­tery, dyke drama. Sound allur­ing, yet hard to pic­ture? Imag­ine “Mul­hol­land Drive” meets “I Know What You Did Last Sum­mer” meets a les­bian fem­i­nist col­lec­tive meet­ing, all set in the stark Cal­i­for­nia deserts out­side of Bev­erly Hills. Made by The Par­lia­ment Film Col­lec­tive, co-founded by Dunye to help queer film­mak­ers pro­duce excit­ing and orig­i­nal work, “The Owls” employs a hybrid of drama and auto-documentary film­mak­ing. The action hones in on four older dykes (Older Wiser Les­bians = Owls), who seem to have learned very lit­tle about healthy rela­tion­ships and liv­ing drama-free. They are barely keep­ing it together while hid­ing a dark secret.

The Owls | Cheryl Dunye | USA | 2010 | 66 min