OUT OK LBGT Film Festival opens tonight

All films for OUT OK LGBT Film Festival will be shown at Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104. Net Proceeds benefit OkEq - The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
 
Friday night...

GETTING GO The Go Doc ProjectDirector: Cory James KrueckebergUSA From the talented team that crafted the celebrated and festival favorite, Were The World Mine, director Cory James Krueckeberg, producer Tom Gustafson, and actor Tanner Cohen return with a sexy, smoldering story of lust and love in the 21st century.  GETTING GO brazenly blurs the line of fantasy and reality. Doc (Tanner Cohen), an introverted university student discovers the object of his on-line obsession: hunky stud and go-go dancer extraordinaire, Go (web sensation and business mogul, Matthew Camp).  Determined to get Go, Doc concocts a simple scheme with elaborate ramifications.  He emails Go to star in an imaginary school film project.  After several calculated meetings, Doc's wet dream morphs into real tender affection.  As their bond grows, Doc risks exposure and becoming a subplot in his faux film.  What is reality and what is fantasy? Beautifully photographed and artfully edited, GETTING GO is an ingenious and genre-bending film.  Up close and very personal, Krueckeberg's camera captures every heartfelt nuance with raw, naked honesty.  It's a masterful exploration of passion and seduction amidst today's technology.  Guaranteed to satiate the senses and fulfill your inner voyeur. WINNER!  Special Jury Prize, Inside Out: Toronto LGBT Film Festival.WINNER!  Emerging Film Award, North Carolina GLFF,WINNER!  Best LGBT Film, Rhode Island International Film Festival. *WARNING!  Graphic Content. Date: Friday, November 15, 2013.Time: 7:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS. *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Seating, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. 

Net Proceeds benefit OKEQ and The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
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FOUR films on Saturday!...

ANIMALSDirector: Marcal ForesSpain Pol (Oriol Pla), a 17 year old introverted teenager attends a private English language high school.  He lives with his older brother Llorenc (Javier Beltran) but has very little interaction with him.  His closest companion is Deerhoof, a tattered walking, talking, sentient teddy bear.  This is ANIMALS, Marcal Fores' dark and quirky elegy to the nightmarish world of post-adolescence. Llorenc is concerned with the arrested development of his sibling and threatens him with medical treatment.  Pol listens to Llorenc's counsel and begrudgingly frees himself of Deerhoof.  From this point, Pol's world, a fragile balance of imagined and real spirals into chaos.  A shroud of strange events envelops Pol.  His attempts to unravel and understand the unexpected death of a classmate, the attention of a sympathetic English teacher (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit), and the arrival of enigmatic Ikari (Augustus Prew), a dark brooding transfer student, challenges the sexually confused protagonist towards an existential crisis. Distinctly original and brimming with creativity and wonder, ANIMALS is mesmerizing and engrossing.  Ultimately, Fores' ominous dream scape is a coming-of-age mystery that evokes and provokes thought and sincere emotion.  Love, loneliness, and alienation are the primary themes that drive this tragic story.  Fores guides his viewer into a weird world of beauty and dread.  This is the bridge and the pit where adulthood emerges from immaturity.  "Imagination is a human construct." Catalan and English with English subtitles. WINNER!  Best Debut, 57th RNE Sant Jordi Cinema Awards. Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013.Time: 12:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS. *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Access, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. Net Proceeds benefit OKEQ, The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
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 IN BLOOMDirector: Chris Michael BirkmeierUSA IN BLOOM is an authentic depiction of modern gay relations.  Chris Michael Birkmeier's inspired and accomplished debut is a harrowing and poignant examination of Chicago's seductively hip queer scene and its various inhabitants. Pot smoking pot dealer Kurt (Kyle Wigent) and moody grocery store clerk Paul (Tanner Rittenhouse) lead a contented life of domestic bliss and everlasting love.  Tranquil and carefree for a seamless 2 years, they've built a life of comfort and predictability.  One fateful evening, their relationship is tested when Kurt meets Kevin (Adam Fane) , a hot single flirt.  After a brief moment of simmering heat and the possibility of the impossible, they exchange a kiss.  From that instant, Kurt is overwhelmed with guilt and curiosity.  He's unable and unwilling to go back.  Kurt and Paul's relationship begins to fray.  Compelled to move forward, Kurt places himself in jeopardy whilst pursuing Kevin.  As he struggles against an overpowering desire to stray, he strays further and further from Paul.  Kurt's inner turmoil is reflected in the dark streets during Chicago's tumultuous summer. IN BLOOM is an intimate and profound epiphany.  It's rich in detail and provocative in story-telling.  Featuring break-out performances from Wigent and Rittenhouse, Birkmeier's raw anti-romance is ground-breaking and revelatory.  IN BLOOM is gritty, voyeuristic, and painfully honest.     Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013.Time: 2:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS.  *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Access, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. 

Net proceeds benefit OKEQ, The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
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FREE FALL
(Freier Fall)Director: Stephan LacantGermany FREE FALL is a classic coming out story of yearning and confusion as told through the fresh eyes of director Stephan Lacant. Marc (Hanno Koffler), a young hyper-masculine police cadet, has a predictable life of supportive family, burgeoning career, and a loving pregnant girlfriend.  During a training exercise, he has an altercation with Kay (Max Riemelt), a handsome new trainee.  Through happenstance, Kay is assigned to Marc's unit.  As tension subsides, Marc and Kay become friends and exercise partners.  After an ordinary morning jog, Kay slyly locks lips with Marc.  Aghast, Marc bolts from the scene leaving Kay in the crisp cold air. It's at this juncture that Marc's ordered life is jolted from its slumber.  Kay rouses feelings in Marc that never existed before.  He begins a torrid affair whilst his life spirals out of control.  Neither Marc nor kay understands the tangled web of lies and deceit. FREE FALL traverses common terrain in its build-up to its uncommon conclusion.  Lacant tells an honest tale of love's loss and life's gain.  The two attractive protagonists are three dimensionally drawn and performed with sincerity and passion.  Marc and Kay fall into the murky depths of uncertainty and heartbreak.  They will leave you breathless in their wake. German with English subtitles. Winner!  Best Feature, Philadelphia Q Fest. Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013.Time: 4:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS. *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Seating, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. Net proceeds benefit OKEQ and The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center._______________________________________________________ REACHING FOR THE MOON(Flores Raras)Director: Bruno BarretoBrazil Renowned director Bruno Barreto (Oscar nominated Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) returns to the big screen chronicling the passionate and tempestuous romance between Pulitzer prize winning American poet, Elizabeth Bishop and influential Brazilian architect, Lota de Macedo Soares. Following a fallow period of writer's block, Elizabeth (Miranda Otto, Lord of The Rings) accepts an invitation to Rio de Janiero from Mary (Tracy Middendorf, Boardwalk Empire), an ex-Vasser school mate.  Arriving on the sandy shores of 1950's Rio, Elizabeth is overwhelmed by the heat and the cacophony of scents and sounds.  Mary and her partner Lota (Gloria Peres) rescue Elizabeth and sweeps her away to their country estate in the lush mountains of Rio. Elizabeth's patrician personality immediately clashes with Lota's brusque manner.  Hostilities eventually give way to attraction as the pair engage in a fiery affair.  Thus begins a complicated yet enduring love affair amidst the uneasy politics of Brazil. REACHING FOR THE MOON is a classic love story that inspires and honors those that dare to love. "Too Pretty, dreamlike mimicry!  O falling fire and piercing cry and panic, and a weak mailed fist clenched ignorant against the sky!  -The Armadillo English and Portuguese with English subtitles. Winner!  Best Feature, Long Beach Q Festival.Winner!  Best Director, Long Beach Q Festival.Winner!  Best Feature, Frameline.Winner!  Best Feature, Audience Award, OUTFEST Film Festival. Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013.Time: 7:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS. *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Seating, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. Net proceeds benefit OKEQ and The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
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And on Sunday...
 THE CROWN JEWELS(Kronjuvelerna)Director: Ella LemhagenSweden From the moment Fragancia (Alicia Vikander) and Richard (Bill Skarsgard) enter the world, they were destined to lead intertwined lives.  They were born on the same day, at the same time, and in the same hospital.  Unfortunately, at the moment of birth, Richard's father accidentally drops his son, changing his life forever. Fragancia, an independent and responsible daughter to a working class family, meets her new neighbour and is immediately infatuated.  Petterson-Jonsson (Bjorn Gustafsson), a blond charmer, is a talented figure skater and a genius on ice with a secret crush. One cold blustery evening, a gunshot is heard.  Richard falls to the ground.  Circumstantial evidence points to Fragancia's guilt.  She spurned Richard's advances.  Eyewitness accounts places her younger brother in Richard's company before he mysteriously vanishes.  And lastly, Richard's wealthy family owns the factory from which her father was terminated. Director Ella Lemhagen (Patrick 1.5) unravels a fantastical fable of murder, mystery, and unrequited love.  With cosmic elements and spiritual undertones, THE CROWN JEWELS is a crowning achievement of surprise and wonder.  Swedish with English subtitles. Winner!  Crystal Bear for Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival. Date: Sunday, November 17, 2013.Time: 2:00pm.Venue: Circle Cinema, 10 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, 74104.Price: $10 or free with an OUT OK VIP PASS. *OUT OK VIP PASS includes admission to ALL films, Priority Seating, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge. Net Proceeds benefit OKEQ and The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center. For information about the LGBT Film Festival "OUT OK," contact:www.out-ok.com or philip_au@att.net