Making Scenes Film and Video Festival
The Making Scenes Film and Video Festival was an annual
The event was created in 1992 by a small group of gay and lesbian film buffs after attending Toronto's inaugural Inside Out Film and Video Festival in 1991.[1] Its launch saw some minor controversy over the city's approval of a municipal arts grant to the organizing committee, which some critics tried to connect to the city's denial of a grant to the long-running Kiwanis Music Festival.[2] In its first two years the event was staged in the Alumni Auditorium at the University of Ottawa,[3] while in 1994 it moved to the auditorium of the National Gallery of Canada.[4] It later moved to other venues, including the World Exchange Plaza[5] and the ByTowne Cinema.[6]
In 1999 the festival staged a special preview screening of Thom Fitzgerald's film Beefcake, which had already screened at a couple of film festivals in the United States but had not yet opened theatrically in Canada, as a fundraiser several months before the regular festival.[7]
The festival ended operations in 2005.[8] In its place, Inside Out launched an Ottawa edition in 2007.[9]
References
- ^ a b Jay Stone, "The little film festival that grew". Ottawa Citizen, April 28, 1996.
- ^ Noel Taylor, "Gay festival spotlights Canadian films". Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1992.
- ^ "Lesbian, Gay festival runs until June 12". Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 1993.
- ^ Jay Stone, "Local festival Xposes gay, lesbian videos". Ottawa Citizen, April 28, 1995.
- ^ Steven Mazey, "Films not just about gay characters". Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 1999.
- ^ Steven Mazey, "British TV hit opens: Making Scenes festival Gay/lesbian filmfest runs this weekend and next". Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 2001.
- ^ "'Beefcake' preview to raise funds for Making Scenes". Ottawa Citizen, July 2, 1999.
- Kingston Whig-Standard, January 12, 2005.
- ^ "Gay ghosts premiere at film fest; Poltergay will appeal to all audiences, says festival director". Ottawa Citizen, October 24, 2007.
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