SPECIAL PROMOTIONS!!!
25TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY DISCOUNTS
Buy tickets to both the AVANT-GARDE MASTERS and HOMOEROTICISM IN THE AVANT-GARDE programs (Sunday) and you will receive a $5 discount to the 25th Anniversary Party Sunday evening!
Buy a ticket to the CLOSING NIGHT EVENT (20 Centimeters) and you will receive a $5 discount to the 25th Anniversary Party!
Discount coupons will be handed out at each of the programs. (Discounts cannot be combined. One discount per person only.)
UGLY DUCKLING
Admission to this program is free for anyone under 18 years of age. Just
show your ID -- or look young and we'll believe you!
FILM ROW CINEMA
Don't forget that we offer a special pass just for screenings at Film Row
Cinema: 5 screenings for just $40. Film Row passes can be purchased at any of our venues.
Celebrate our 25th anniversary with us at what is unquestionably the most exciting Reeling Film Festival yet!
Reeling 2006 will unspool eleven unforgettable days of outstanding films, visiting directors and actors, and our most spectacular parties ever! This year’s festival programming ranges from the slickest productions to the farthest reaches of the avant-garde. There is something for everyone: hilarious romantic comedies, touching dramas, stories of sexual entanglement and intrigue, eye-popping musicals, foreign films, zany shorts, and wacky B movie camp, as well as compelling documentaries on subjects ranging from transgendered women (MtF) in prison to a Christian summer camp for queer teens.
Reeling’s Opening Night on November 2nd promises to be the talk of the town as we present the world’s first ever gay sequel, Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, featuring the homegrown talent of director Phillip J. Bartell and actor Jim Verraros of American Idol fame. Following the screening at the historic Music Box Theatre, we’ll celebrate our opening in lavish style at the stunning Architectural Artifacts. A three-story atrium filled with fantastical vintage treasures, this magical space is the ideal setting for a night of performance art and dancing to the music of local girl band 8 Inch Betsy.
We close the festival on November 11th with the flamboyant musical that has been wowing audiences at festivals around the world: Ramón Salazar’s smash hit 20 Centimeters. A unique mix of musical numbers, a neo-realist story, and Almodovarian characters, this kitsch fantasy is about a pre-op transgender narcoleptic hooker who falls asleep uncontrollably and finds herself in a wildly imaginative dream world where she is the star of her own elaborately choreographed Technicolor musicals. The closing night screening will take place at Film Row Cinema at Columbia College, with the after party at Columbia’s Conaway Center, where the audience can be the stars of their own performances with a night of karaoke drag!
Just because our “official” closing is on November 11th it doesn’t mean the party is over! On Sunday, November 12th, we will celebrate the avant-garde film roots of the festival with our 25th Anniversary Party. We will party “vintage” style at Andersonville’s Brown Elephant Resale Store (located in a 1930s movie theater), which will be transformed for one night only into a gallery of experimental film, video and performance. We will be featuring exciting new experimental queer video alongside the work of groundbreaking avant-garde filmmakers shown in our festival’s very first year. The highlight of the evening will be a live animation performance by award-winning Canadian artist Daniel Barrow, including the world premiere of his new video, aptly titled Artist Statement.
Reeling 2006: The 25th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival opens on November 2nd at the Music Box Theatre and will continue through November 12th at venues including the Landmark Century Center Cinema, Film Row Cinema, and Chicago Filmmakers.
