TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Inside Out, Canada’s largest LGBTQ film festival, and OUTtv, our national LGBTQ+ television network, today announced the first two recipients of their OUTspoken Documentary Film Financing Fund.
Announced earlier this year, the fund will finance two documentary projects from LGBTQ Canadian filmmakers, who were selected following an open call for submissions facilitated by Inside Out. The winning projects will also receive mentoring and production support from OUTtv and Inside Out. OUTtv will broadcast the completed documentaries on OUTtv, and also on OUTtvGo, OUTtv’s subscription video on demand platform, says the press release.
No Squad in the Wild, where “Yasmine, a 27 year-old queer, muslim woman of colour grapples with her future in Toronto’s Hip Hop scene” is one of the projects and it is directed Lovelen Kaur, says the release.
The second is The Archivist where “Sur Rodney is an artist, poet, writer, curator, and archivist. After leaving Montreal in the late 70s, his work as the director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery in the early 80s, his career would take a dramatic shift in the advent of the AIDS crisis,” says the release. It is directed by Tricia Hagoriles (pictured).
“We were truly overwhelmed by the calibre of talent in the submissions for the OUTspoken Documentary Financing Fund,” said Brad Danks, CEO of OUTtv, in the press release. “Our chosen titles… are two documentaries that stood out to us and demanded our attention.”
