Sofia Coppola-Produced Gay Drama ‘Fairyland’
Frameline Film Fest will open with a screening of the Sofia Coppola-produced movie Fairyland.
Fairyland will be followed by the festival’s Oakland Centerpiece event, which will screen “Cora Bora” on June 15. Its Pride Kickoff screening will be of “God Save the Queens” on June 22.
Gay Directors, Gay Films? By Emanuel Levy (Columbia University Press, August 2015).
“’Fairyland’ is the perfect film to open Frameline47 as it’s a film anchored in the rich, gay history of San Francisco, and connected to the heart and soul of The Castro,” says Allegra Madsen, director of programming at Frameline.
“Adapted beautifully from Alysa Abbott’s memoir, ‘Fairyland’ is a quintessentially San Francisco story of a queer father-daughter relationship during the ‘70s and ‘80s.”
Directed by Jordan Danger, “God Save the Queens” stars “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumni including Alaska, Laganja Estranja, Kelly Mantle, Manilla Luzon and Michelle Visage. The film follows the queens when they end up in a therapy retreat and each try to salvage their careers after their separate PR nightmares
