January PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL Titles Announced For 1/9 Screening

PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL titles announced for January 9 screenings Pride Films and Plays' monthly festival of LGBTQ independent films, which was launched in October, will continue with its fourth monthly festival on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. The theme for this 90 minute program of eight films is "Issues, Anxieties and Obsessions."

The screening will be held in The Broadway, Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway, Chicago, beginning at 7:30 pm. PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL

January 2018 Program
Another Day
Directed by Raj Rishi More, India, 11 min.

An abstract from a woman's life who is trapped in the institution of marriage and tries to find solace in the memories of her past. These memories holds a secret that she has never shared with anyone but how long can she endure it?

Pixelle
Directed by Alex Di Cuffa, U.K., 11 min

Priya, a young woman stuck in a dead-end job she hates, expresses a desire to spend time with a woman she's been chatting with on a lesbian chat room for over a year. As the pair spend the day together we realise that not is all it seems, with both women having elements of their lives that they hide and their own insecurities. Shala
Directed by Joao Inacio, Brazil, 10 min.

Shala is the story about Pedro, a young boy living in an orphanage in Amazon who has a hard time being adopted because of several prejudices, which includes the cruel indifference of adoptive parents towards children in his age group. The boy creates situations to draw the attention of adoptive parents, while at the same time creating an imaginary friendship with his only toy, a doll named "Shala." Sunset
Directed by Katie Ennis & Gary S. Jaffe, USA, 15 min.

In the days following Pearl Harbor, a young man must decide whether to serve overseas or stay in New York with his streetwise male lover. Today and Tomorrow and the Day After That
Directed by Samuel James Bellamy, USA, 6 min.

Walker fears his worsening anxiety will be a burden to his boyfriend, Carson, and must decide to say anything at risk of Carson leaving. Used
Directed by Rolando Nieves, USA, 15 min.

"Used" is a documentary that explores the underground world of men's used underwear buying and selling. Director Rolando Nieves chronicles a young man as he attempts to sell his used underwear for the first time and presents the lives of three men deep within the world and the clinical point of view of a medical professional. Versatile
Directed by Carlos Ocho, Spain, 15 min.

Alex and Hugo are a young couple who had been together for a little more than six months. One Friday night, when they arrive at Alex's flat, they will discuss some pending issues about their relationship sexual roles. What seems to start as a simple discussion will become something more serious exposing some important issues about the necessary things needed to make a relationship work. Xavier
Directed by Giovanni Coda, Italy, 8 min.

A police officer dies. Xavier depicts 12 hours of a couple's life before the killing and the subsequent desperation, which finds its peak in the letter in which one of the men tells to terrorists "You will not have my hate". LISTING INFORMATION

MONTHLY PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL - JANUARY SCREENING
January 9, 2018
7:30 pm
Reserved VIP seats $15.00, General Admission $10.00
Tickets available at www.pridefilmsandplays.com or by phone 800-737-0984.
The Broadway, Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway, Chicago

ABOUT PRIDE FILMS AND PLAYS

Pride Films and Plays changes lives through the generation of diverse new work (or work that is new to Chicago) with LGBTQ+ characters or themes that is essential viewing for all audiences. We accomplish this mission through fully-staged productions, writing contests and staged readings, film screenings, and special events. We foster long term relationships with artists to create programming that is as diverse, unique, and complex as the community we represent. In 2015, Huffington Post called PFP "A powerful and empowering entity." The company acquired its two performance spaces at 4139 and 4147 N. Broadway in July 2016, renaming the spaces the Pride Arts Center.

Pride Films and Plays is supported by The MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard Driehaus Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, City of Chicago's City Arts Fund, the Elliott Fredland Charitable Trust, Proud to Run, the AmazonSmile Foundation, Arts and Business Foundation, Tap Root Foundation and Alphawood Foundation.

PFP is a member of the Smart Growth Program of the Chicago Community Trust. Pride Films and Plays is a member of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois and The League of Chicago Theatres.

For more information, visit www.pridefilmsandplays.com or call 1.800.737.0984.

ABOUT PRIDE ARTS CENTER

Pride Arts Center (PAC), operated by Pride Films and Plays, opened in 2016 and consists of two performance spaces: The Buena at 4147 N. Broadway which has 50 seats and The Broadway at 4139 N. Broadway which has 85 seats. PAC has become an important part of the arts environment in the Buena Park neighborhood and beyond by hosting events including After Orlando, Bechdel Fest, SheFest and the 525,600 Minutes Cabaret. Additional tenants in 2017 include Walkabout Theater, New American Folk Theater, Cor Productions, Underscore Music Theater, 20% Productions, About Face Youth Theater, Another Door Productions, and of course Pride Films and Plays.

For more information about space at Pride Arts Center, visit www.prideartscenter.com, or www.pridefilmsandplays.com.

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