Scud Interview (Love Actually… Sucks!) Posted on June 25, 2011 by Le Anne Lindsay Q: When it comes to love, sex and relationships, What do you hope our QFest audience will take away from this film (Love Actually… Sucks!) ? Scud: I reckon many audiences may find sympathetic experience from their own love. To me the film is a vibration, a sign, an exclamation to what love is and means to our life, and the fact that passion is often very fateful, as the shopkeeper...

Director Mark Bessenger Answers Q-Questions Posted on June 23, 2011 by Le Anne Lindsay We sent out a missive to all our QFest Film Directors to Answer 3 Questions for our QBlog. Mark Bessenger, Director of Bite Marks was the first to respond! Q: What was the first LGBT film you ever saw?  Did you watch it openly or in secret? MB: A gal pal of mine in college rented My Beautiful Laundrette, then gave it to me, saying she wasn’t going to have time to watch it, ...

  I'm certain  there are a lot of film festival attendees, those who attend for professional reasons and those that attend as film buffs, who would like to share their opinions about the films and the over all festival, but do not have or want the responsibility of maintaining a blog. That's where Tinsel & Tine comes in! Send your Film Festival Experiences and Film Reviews to tinseltine@gmail.com. Include pictures when possible. We will post it as dynamic conten...

LA CINEMATHEQUE: NEW FRENCH FILMS Launches year-round programming with premieres of Les Beaux Gosses on September 30; and Costa-Gavras’ Eden is West on October 22; Philadelphia Cinema Alliance forms a partnership with the Prince Music Theater, the Embassy of France and the French-American Cultural Foundation Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia Cinema Alliance (PCA), the nonprofit presenter of Philadelphia CineFest and Philadelphia QFest, will be expanding its year-round programming this mon...