QueerX 2021
The 2021 QueerX Awards brings together original content from LGBTQ creators, inclusive of all identities and perspectives. QueerX is at the nexus of the quickly evolving digital music and film industries.
As a part of the festival Revry, the only LGBTQ-first streaming media network, will present QueerX TV–a free always-on TV channel throughout the month of October that will host all of the festival’s “Official Selections” including international LGBTQ documentaries, dramas, comedies and music videos. The channel launched on September 7th and audiences will have the opportunity to screen all the selections and vote, in real time, on their category favorites. The audience will vote via QR codes that appear on the screen of the QueerX TV channel.
Key Awards Highlights include:
September 7th- October 31st: QueerX TV Presented by Lexus premiered on Revry and viewers can screen all the festival selections and vote for their favorite selections from the Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Feature and Music Video categories until September 30th.
October 11th: On National Coming Out Day, the QueerX Awards show will stream live on Revry with musical performances, special screenings of the winning films, as well as Revry’s annual honoring of influential celebrities who have made an impact on the community with the 2021 Revry Visibility Awards.
QueerX is proud to have Lexus as its Grand Sponsor. This year’s travel partner is The Florida Keys/Key West. This year’s media partners include; The Advocate, Out, Pride, Plus, Out Traveler, and Queerty. Key community partner Black Women Lead has also signed on for the festival.
Upcoming announcements include: Virtual music performances as well as Visibility Award Winners. Past awardees, industry participants, and sponsors include Tyler Oakley, Gigi Gorgeous, Dan Reynolds, LoveLoud, Tegan and Sara, Hannah Hart, Ari Fitz, Bebe Zahara Benet, Amber’s Closet, Viacom, EOne, IFC, Funny or Die, Brian Graden Media, Seed&Spark, Adaptive Studios and Powderkeg Media.
QueerX 2020 Official Selections Program Includes:
COMEDY
Pete Can't Play Basketball
Puss
Show For Ghosts (James Medley, Em Haverty)
Supreme (Dir. Youssef Youssef)
The Fae (Dir. Shelton Lindsay, Nessa Norich)
The Safety Plan (Dir. Jesse Randall)
Eat the Rainbow (Dir. Brian Benson)
Sweater (Dir. Nick Borenstein)
Flex
Four FruitBites 99 (Dir. Safi Jafri)
Beauty Boys Dir. Florent Gouelou)
Candis For President (Dir. Michelle Peerali)
Delivery Boy (Dir. Hugo Kenzo)
Demonhuntr Episodes 1-3 (Dir. Tim O'Leary)
Friends Like That (Dir. Francesca de Fusco)
Hell No (Dir. Teddy Alexis Rodriguez)
in[APP]licable (Dir. Cam Owen)
Mountain Lodge
New Flesh for the Old Ceremony (Dir. Elizabeth Rakhilkina)
DOCUMENTARIES
Sweet Sweet Kink: A Collection of BDSM Stories
Taiwan Pride for the World
Through the Windows (Dir. Bret Parker, Petey Barma)
To Love and Back (Dir. Jakov Sedlar)
Venture Out
We are the Radical Monarchs (Dir. Linda Goldstein Knowlton)
We Will Be Heard
What Do You See
Where My Girls
Of self-blessing
Stephen & James: Best Girlfriends (Dir. Dave Quantic)
Zero to Eighty (Dir. Patrick Ryan Gass)
Dennis: The Man Who Legalized Cannabis (Dir. Brandon Moore)
Transblack
Between Two Lines
We Dig!
Park View (Dir. Tab Ballis)
Being Sascha (Dir. Manuel Gübeli)
Dani Boi (Dir. TBC)
êmîcêtôsêt-Many Bloodlines (Dir. Theola Ross)
Gracefully
I Live Here (Dir. Shane Watson)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Imperial
Inferno (Dir. Andrew Blackman)
Is It Me
Look Up! (Dir.Monty Wolfe)
Marielle and Monica (Dir. Fábio Erdos)
My Neighbor, Miguel (Dir. Danny Navarro)
My Own Wings (Dr. Katia Repina and Carla Moral)
Once a Fury (Dir. Jacqueline Rhodes)
Proud to Be (Dir. Sam Meneses, Kyra Knox)
Queer-bomb
Sensorium (Dir. Elliot Mercer)
Surviving Voices - The Substance Use & Recovery Community
DRAMA
Our Bed Is Green
Parry Riposte (Dir. Goldbloom Micomonaco)
Riot
Save the Queen (Dir. Levin Hübner)
Simone is gone (Dir. Mathilde Chavanne)
Sisak
Smoke, Lilies and Jade (Dir. Deondray and Quincy LeNear Gossfield)
Teddy Mate (Dir. Rommel Villa)
The Change Up (Dir. Jordan Auten)
The One You Never Forget
They/Them
Thirst Trap (Dir. Steve Flavin)
To Take a Step with You (Dir. Martin Del Carpio)
Together Again
Top Ten Places to Visit in São Paulo
Two Men by the Sea (Dir. Gabriel Motta)
Where do the sounds go (Dir. Florent Gouëlou)
Funeral March
Coming Out
Fernanda's Spring
Tell-by Date
The Heirs
I Bleed
75 Cents (Dir. Safi Jafri)
Afternoon Sun (Dir. Gonçalo Pina)
ÃH (Dir. Alex El Dahdah)
Aimee Victoria (Dir. Chrystee Pharris)
Amor Sangue Dor (Love Blood Pain)
Aye, Boy
Bakla (Dir. Brandon English and Michael Thór)
Deviant (Dir. Benjamin Howard)
Disciple (Dir. Sebastian LaCause)
Dogana/Chapti
Edible (Dir. Kandis Golden)
Exchange
First Love (Dir. Florent Gouelou)
First Position. (Dir. Michael Elias Thomas)
Flood (Dir. Joseph Amenta)
Freed (Dir. Josza Anjembe)
Glances (Dir. Aleksei Borovikov)
Hugo 6 : 30 (Dir. Simon Helloco, James Maciver)
Iftah (Dir. Moti Rachamim)
In Case of Fire (Dir. Tomás Paula Marques)
In the Paint (Dir. Bryce Ferendo)
Juliet (Dir. Irina Storozhenko)
MC Jess (Dir. Carla Villa-Lobos)
Mino: A Diasporic Myth (Dir. Ashunda Norris)
Origami
FEATURE
Don Filipo (Dir. Tim Munoz)
Apricot Groves
Trade (Dir. Trae Briers)
Unwelcome Advances (Dir. Ricardo Alvarado)
MUSIC VIDEO
Livin' in the Light (Dir. Hannah Hefner and Emmanuel Henreid)
Please Boy (Dir. John Tancredi)
Sarah Mary Chadwick "Full Mood" (Dir. Tristan Scott-Behrends)
Waiting by Racquel
We Can't Breathe (Dir. Miranda Winters, Rocky Romano)
High Road No. 6
Walking Progress
Be My Light
Colours (Dir. Amandine Navarro)
Cymbol 'Best Friends'
Happy in Hell (Dir. Saalika Khan)
Here We Stand (Dir. Paco Beltrán)
Left for Dead (Dir. Tab Ballis)
Lights, Camera, Action [Official Music Video] (Dir. Maya Table)
Live It Up (Dir. Sabrina Petrini and Naemi Jaworowski)
