Orlando Film Festival showing Open Dialogues: Gen QueerZ on Nov. 2-3

The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood’s documentary film short Open Dialogues: Gen QueerZ has been selected for inclusion in the 19th Orlando Film Festival, taking place Oct. 31 to Nov. 7.

Gen QueerZ will be screened with four other documentary film shorts beginning at noon on Saturday, Nov. 2, and 4 pm on Sunday, Nov. 3 at the CMX Plaza Cinema Café, 155 S. Orange Ave., in downtown Orlando. See www.offvirtual.com for a complete schedule.

Named one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by Moviemaker Magazine, the Orlando Film Festival showcases new independent cinema from around the world. The 2024 festival will feature more than 300 films, culminating with an awards ceremony on Nov. 7.

The fourth film in the Center’s Open Dialogues series, Gen QueerZ gives voice to college and university students who are among the first generation to be “out” while attending high school and living at home. Their stories reflect a diversity of gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and academic studies while exploring allyship, threats, and the dynamics of being out at home with family.

This is the fourth Open Dialogues film to be an Official Selection of the Orlando Film Festival, following Queer Allies (2023), Black Voices | Black Stories (2022) and Stories From the LGBTQ Community (2021).

Open Dialogues: Gen QueerZ is funded by support from The Our Fund Foundation, The Windhover Foundation/Quadracci Family, and the Dara and Jarrett Levan Fund for the Arts at the Community Foundation of Broward.

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