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OUTtv backs LGBTQ filmmakers

LGBTQ+ network OUTtv has revealed the first two recipients of its joint initiative with Canadian LGBTQ film festival Inside Out to finance two documentary projects.

The OUTspoken Documentary Film Financing Fund, set up to support LGBTQ Canadian filmmakers, will see OUTtv and Inside Out provide mentoring and production support to No Squad in the Wild and The Archivist.

No Squad in the Wild, directed by Lovelen Kaur, follows Yasmine, a 27-year-old queer, Muslim woman of colour as she grapples with her future in Toronto’s hip-hop scene.

The Archivist, directed by Tricia Hagoriles, follows Sur Rodney, an artist, poet, writer, curator and archivist. After leaving Montreal in the late 1970s, his work as the director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery in the early 80s would help shape the art scene and art economy of New York’s East Village.

His career would take a dramatic shift upon the advent of the AIDS crisis, with his focus shifting to background activism and protecting the work of black gay artists that he would outlive.

The completed documentaries on will air on the OUTtv linear channel and OUTtvGo, its SVoD platform.

Brad Danks, CEO of OUTtv, said: “Our chosen titles are two documentaries that stood out to us and demanded our attention. We are thrilled to be highlighting these unique stories as part of our OUTspoken documentary strand by awarding them the funding to bring their visions to OUTtv viewers.”

Inside Out is Canada’s largest LGBTQ film festival and the single largest promoter and distributor of LGBTQ content in Canada. Founded in 1991, it is committed to representing the interests of LGBTQ voices within the Canadian film industry.

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