Out in Africa- South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

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Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa September 2009, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: July 2009, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1995
- Genre: Gay - Lesbian (click to see)
- Attendance: 18000
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 400
- Total Number of Films Screened: 28
- Total Screenings: 104
- Total National and International Premieres: 4
- # of Shorts Screened: 8
- # of Features Screened: 20
- Retrospective
- Has Panels
- Has Seminars
Festival Website:
http:/ / www.oia.co.za/
Festival Description:

The Out In Africa South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was launched in 1994, to celebrate the inclusion in the South African Constitution of a clause prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

The Festival, an annual event that has now celebrated its fourteenth year, is the largest, best dressed, best attended and longest running human rights themed film festival on the African continent.

Out In Africa is a Section 21 NGO / NPO that produces the South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Out In Africa has facilitated Script Development Workshops and Filmmaking workshops that, since 2004, have produced 22 short films.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.oia.co.za/ files/ OUT_IN_AFRICA_FILM_Submission_form_2008.doc
Email: info(at)oia.co.za

Phone: +27 21 461 4027

Fax: +27 21 461 4062

Mailing Address: 1st Floor, 27 Caledon St.
Cape Town 8001
South Africa