BentFest: guide to venues, directions, maps…

BentFest 2006 will be screening from a selection of well known Canberra venues.

The Coombes lecture theatre on the ANU Campus will host the Opening Night on the 10th and the Hot Pink Shorts competition on the 17th.


Click here for map of ANU Campus








Canberra Museum and Gallery, the home of our regular screenings throughout the year, will be the venue for the Amnesty Documentary: Dangerous Living, Screening on Sunday the 19th November and the lesbian film Saving Face on the 24th November.




The address of Canberra Museum and Gallery:
Cnr. London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City
Click here for map of Civic




The popular Canberra nightclub Holy Grail will host the close of BentFest 2006 and the Pride awards! Sordid Lives will be screening at Holy Grail on Thursday 30th November. Drinks and the Pride awards will precede the screening.

BentLenses - Annual General Meeting

BentLenses will be holding our Annual General Meeting at Westlund House - this Wednesday the 18th October 2006.
The meeting starts at 6:30pm.

*all welcome!

Map for Westlund House

Women in Love and Gillery's little secret - screening this Friday

It's movie time again this Friday the 20th October.
Can YOU keep a secret about the women you love?

"Women In Love"
(2005) USA, 59mins
Director: Karen Everet

A wild story of love and friendship set within the
sexually charged lesbian community of San Francisco.
Through home videos, candid interviews and video
diaries, award-winning lesbian filmmaker, Karen
Everett poses universal questions about the nature of
relationships, monogamy, and polyamory. Karen (My
Femme Divine) turns the camera on herself once more,
in this intensely introspective, raw, and fearless
autobiographical documentary that delves into the
difficult terrain of love, romance, relationships,
sex, polyamory, self-defined family, and how one
lesbian tries to juggle the various aspects of her
life. Beginning in the 1980s and culled from nearly
250 hours of home videos, candid interviews, and video
diaries, Everett captures a lesbian sexual renaissance
that was taking place in sex positive San Francisco in
the midst of the AIDS epidemic. While we are privy to
all the juicy, sexy details, we also follow Everett on
a personal journey that includes self-doubt, painful
loneliness, and heartbreak. Everett appeals to the
voyeur in us all as she unapologetically films even
the most sacred and intimate moments to bring her own
experience of lesbian life to the screen. (LD)

Short before the feature:
"Gillery's Little Secret" (2005) USA, 25minsDirector: Tina ScorzafavaBeautifully shot on super16 and superbly acted,starring Annabeth Gish, this short film tells thestory of a woman's journey to return home to confronta past love, uncovering a secret only now forced intothe light.

Time: tickets on sale from 7pm, film at 7.30pm
(come early and have a drink from the bar)

Cost: $12 Full / $7 Members & Concessions
(members don't forget your membership cards)

Location: Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG),
London Cct, Civic (opp. Bailey's Corner)

Festival - Tickets on Sale!

Bring a little extra cash to this Friday night's film because we'll have tickets on sale for the opening night of BentFest 2006, our annual film festival. The opening film is "50 ways of saying fabulous" and will screen at Coombes Theatre, ANU on Friday 10 November.
See our website for more details.

Also - many thanks to Theo from Symagy (& also from BentLenses) for our new BentFest logo!

50 ways of saying fabulous
Admit one







Luster is screening on Friday the 13th!

Don't be scared to go out this Friday the 13th. Come out with us and watch "Luster", a refreshingly funny and sexy black comedy. It's got a sexy young blonde, a musician into S&M, a clean-cut record store customer, a hunky cousin, and a lesbian artist seductress. Sound like a party you've been to?











Time: tickets on sale from 7pm, film at 7.30pm(come early and have a drink from the bar)
Cost: $12 Full / $7 Members & Concessions (members don't forget your membership cards)Location: Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG), London Cct, Civic (opp. Bailey's Corner)

Calling for entries: Hot Pink Shorts

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE ON CANBERRA?

Call for short film entries – BentFest 2006 ‘Hot Pink Shorts’ competition.

Canberra’s gay and lesbian film festival opens on the 10 November and runs to 1 December.

One of the most popular aspects of the festival is our short-film competition. Entries are now open for this!

The short film competition is open to all short films that have been made by, or for, members of the Queer community. Production date is open, although films that have been entered in previous Capital Queer Film Festivals are ineligible for the 2006 Competition. Films must not exceed 30 minutes in length. We can accept films only in VHS or DVD format.

Entries for the short film competition close Tuesday 24thth October 2005 and will be short-listed by the Bent Lenses Committee. All films on the short-list will be screened on the evening of Friday 24th November at The Australian National University’s Coombes Theatre. Judging of finalists will take place by a panel and announced on the evening of Friday 24th November.

First Prize is Aus$700. There is also an ‘audience favourite’ award of $300. This will be selected through an audience survey/poll on the night.

Our aim is to bring queer screen culture to Canberra and to support the development of independent film-makers. So, we encourage you to enter your short film for competition, even if you have never entered a festival before or are unsure if the film is good enough…. This will help our festival and also give you a chance to have your films shown publicly on the big screen. Where possible Bent Lenses will endeavour to screen, with due permission from the film maker, short films which are not short listed for competition.

For more information about the festival or to obtain an entry form, please email capitalqueerfilm@hotmail.com