Boston Film News & 7 Fluid Oz. Updates

Long Beach QFilm Festival to Screen The Commitment

20 Year Anniversary - QFilms - Long Beach LGBTQ Film FestivalThe Long Beach QFilm Festival will screen 7 Fluid Oz.’ award-winning production, The Commitment, on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 4:45 PM at the Art Theatre in Long Beach, CA.

The Commitment will screen as part of the “Men in Briefs” session. The session’s female counterpart, “Women in Shorts,” will screen on Saturday, September 7, at 2:30 PM.

The “Men in Briefs” screening session features short films from four different countries: Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The Commitment to Screen at DC Shorts Film Festival

DC Shorts Film FestivalThe DC Shorts® Film Festival will screen 7 Fluid Oz.’ short film, The Commitment, four times at the 2013 festival:

  • Saturday, September 21, at 4:30 PM
  • Monday, September 23, at 7:00 PM
  • Wednesday, September 25, at 9:00 PM
  • Saturday, September 28, at 3:00 PM

Kerri PattersonThe Commitment, written and directed by Albert M. Chan, will be represented at the festival by award-winning actress Kerri Patterson, whose performance in The Commitment earned her “Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film” from the Asians on Film Festival (Summer, 2012).

The Commitment to Screen at the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film FestivalThe Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival has announced that it will screen 7 Fluid Oz.’ award-winning film, The Commitment, at this year’s festival. The festival will take place from Wednesday, September 18, to Saturday, October 5, 2013 (The Commitment‘s time slot has not yet been released).

This will be The Commitment‘s first screening in China and its third screening in Asia. The Commitment also screened at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival and Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival.

The Commitment Screens at Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival7 Fluid Oz. Productions has just learned that its award-winning production, The Commitment, screened at Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival in Chennai, India, between Thursday, July 11, and Saturday, July 13, 2013. This is the second screening of The Commitment in India.

This year’s Reel Desires is the festival’s fifth year, and it took place at the Goethe-Institut, which works to expose German arts and culture to other societies around the world.

Philadelphia QFest to Screen The Commitment

Philadelphia QFest7 Fluid Oz.’ award-winning production, The Commitment, will screen at the 19th Annual Philadelphia QFest on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 2:30 PM at the Ritz East.

7 Fluid Oz. is honored to screen before the feature-length documentary, Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro.

Directed by Heather Winters, executive producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, and featuring Jon Bon Jovi and Deepak Chopra, Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro is the story of songwriter Desmond Child’s journey to create a family with his life partner, Curtis Shaw.