Out on Film, Atlanta, Georgia's gay film festival, was established in 1987 and is one of the oldest gay film festivals in the United States devoted to the lesbian

Lesbian

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, gay

Gay

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, bisexual, and transgender

Transgender

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 community. The festival is now held in Midtown Atlanta

Midtown Atlanta

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 in October to coincide with LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month

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 and Atlanta Pride

Atlanta Pride

Atlanta Pride, also colloquially called the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival, is a week-long annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender pride parade held in Atlanta, Georgia . Established in 1971, it is one of the oldest pride parades in the United States.. According to the Atlanta Pride Committee as...

. Additional screenings and events are held throughout the year.

Out on Film is a non-profit all-gay and lesbian operated 501(c)(3) corporation. Programming includes films by, for and about the LGBT

LGBT

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 community.

Films

Out on Film programming is based on invitations to film makers to submit films for consideration. Annual submissions by, about, or of interest to the LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 community are accepted for consideration, including dramas, comedies, foreign films, and shorts. In 2009 two films premiered at the festival, Rivers Wash Over Me

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and A Cross Burning at Willacoochee. In 2010, among the more than 50 films, the festival hosted the world premieres of Quentin Crisp: Final Encore, and Fishnet. In 2011 3 films had their premier.

Sponsors

The non-profit festival relies solely on individual ticket sales and the support of local, regional and national sponsors.

Festival Dates

Year	Dates
2006	November 10-16
2007	October 11-17
2008	April 11-17
2009	May 28-31
2009	October 2-8
2010	October 1-7
2011	Sept 29 - October 6
2012	October 4-11

See also

• List of film festivals in North and Central America
• Atlanta Pride
  Atlanta Pride
  Atlanta Pride, also colloquially called the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival, is a week-long annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender pride parade held in Atlanta, Georgia . Established in 1971, it is one of the oldest pride parades in the United States.. According to the Atlanta Pride Committee as...
  
  
• List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films
• Midtown Atlanta
  Midtown Atlanta
  Midtown is the second largest financial district in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, situated between the commercial and financial districts of Downtown and SoNo to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead to the north...
  
  
• Atlanta