Fests and events, 10/18.

"For its 13th year, the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is running with a light 'homo horror' theme, actualized in the fest's camp-slasher trailer and carried out via screenings of choice queer-friendly horror flicks," writes David Schmader in the Stranger. "These films range from scrappy new works (Jason Davis's Scab, about hot young bloodsuckers) to hall-of-fame hits like 1983's The Hunger (starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and homoerotic wine spillage) and 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (hyped as the most gay-subtext-ridden horror flick in history)." Today through October 26.

"Singer Nick Cave will announce this year's Turner Prize winner," reports the BBC. December 1.

"The San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, which begins this weekend, is featuring the director of two films that had a tremendous effect on me when I saw them at previous SF DocFests," writes Adam Hartzell at Hell on Frisco Bay. "The director is Melody Gilbert and the two films are Whole and A Life Without Pain, part of a retrospective of Gilbert's work at this year's festival."

IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks send in a dispatch from the Hamptons International Film Festival, running through tomorrow. Stephen Garrett has more at the Circuit.

Jason Gray posts a dispatch from the Tokyo International Film Festival. Through October 26.

For the Vancouver Voice, DK Holm rounds up local goings on.

Brian Darr looks ahead to "Silent Movies In Big (and not-quite-so big) Spaces" screening the in the Bay Area.

Vladan Petkovic writes up an overview of the Zagreb Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through October 25.

The lineup's set for the 27th Annual 3 Rivers Film Festival, running in Pittsburgh from November 7 through 22.

Silverdocs is calling for submissions.

Online viewing in general. Haze is a doc about a fatal binge drinking incident; the Los Angeles Times' John Horn is primarily interested in how it's being distributed: "Unlike many movie services, Snag is free - the catch being that the movies carry quick commercials every eight to 10 minutes, which can't be skipped, as with TiVo. But what sets SnagFilms apart is its movie-playing widget, which allows everyone from bloggers to hockey moms to install a SnagFilms player on their personal Web pages, creating a network of what SnagFilms estimates as more than 11,000 tiny theaters for its online library of 450 documentary films, a few of which previously were released theatrically."

This item's in this entry because, as indieWIRE editor Eugene Hernandez notes, SnagFilms is also cooperating with the afore-mentioned Hamptons festival on its online extension. At the SpoutBlog, Karina Longworth spotlights one of the featured docs: The End of America, based on the book by Naomi Wolf and directed by Ricky Stern and Annie Sundberg, the team behind The Devil Came on Horseback.

Posted by dwhudson at October 18, 2008 12:25 PM