PFLAG Film Festival Official Press Release

PFLAG Modesto will be hosting the Fourth annual MoFest Film Festival all day Saturday October 11th at the State Theatre, 1307 J Street in downtown Modesto. This event includes premier screenings of short and feature films celebrating the diverse lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities.

The matinee starts with a reception at 2:00 in the afternoon. The films begin with a special showing of short interviews with area residents (2:30). Following the interviews will be a short comedy film, King County (2007), in which a community theatre company searches for the next 80’s movie to turn into a Broadway smash hit. Another short is next, How Do I Say This? I’m Gay? (2007), about a talk show is aimed at college students dealing with the tribulations of coming out. The matinee feature is Tru Loved (2008), a high school story with a happy ending, written and directed by Stewart Wade…�?Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love…�?

The evening celebration starts with another reception at 6:00 PM. Short interviews of local

Residents begins at 6:45, followed by King County and How Do I Say This? I’m Gay.

The feature of the night will be the award-winning Were the World Mine (2008), written and directed by Tom Gustafson, “If you had a love potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you?�?

Tickets are $10.00 for each show, or $15.00 for those attending both, and can be purchased from PFLAG members, or at the door. PFLAG Modesto (Parents, Family, Friends of Lesbians and Gays) acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

www.pflagmodesto.org How you can help? Call 527-0776