THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 • DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM EISENHART AUDITORIUM AT THE ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER

Beam Us Up!2014 Festival Season Enters Warp Speed At The Festival Fair

Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014Time: 6:30pm Location: Eisenhart Auditorium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607

FILM PROGRAMS (FREE!) 8:00pm: Programmer’s Preview of the

Fall Festival8:20pm: To Be Takei

FESTIVAL FAIR (FREE!)6:30 - 9:00pm • First opportunity to purchase Festival

tickets. Buy your tickets early – Opening Night typically sells out during advance ticket sales!

• Become a member and enjoy the benefits during the Festival.

• Volunteer to help during this year’s Festival.• Have special needs? Members of our

Outreach Committee will be on hand to answer questions.

TRAILER PARK (FREE!)6:30 - 9:00pm• Relax at a table and view trailers of the

films in this year’s Festival

PALM COURT LOUNGE 6:30 - 9:00pm • Cash Bar• Complimentary light hors d’oeuvres

FESTIVAL FAIR INFORMATION

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Interpreting Services and Accessibility: To request interpreting services please contact the ImageOut office by Friday, September 5. Please use the

relay service at 1-800-662-1220 to make your request. This event is wheelchair accessible.

Contact ImageOut: Phone: 585-271-2640 Email: office@imageout.org

ImageOut Office: 274 North Goodman St., Suite A203, Rochester, NY 14607

This year’s Festival Fair features a FREE screening of the hit documentary To Be Takei.

ImageOut’s 7th Annual Festival FairClear your calendar for Thursday, September 11 - ImageOut’s Festival Fair is not to be missed!

We’ll be hosting our annual event at the Eisenhart Auditorium Complex at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. We’ll be showing trailers from films in the Festival and don’t miss our Programmer’s Preview at 8:00pm in the Eisenhart Auditorium featuring insider information on this year’s hottest films. And then at 8:20pm will be a free screening of To Be Takei, the hit documentary about George Takei that had its

world premiere at Sundance this year and is making the 2014 festival circuit.

Mix And Mingle With FriendsCome early and enjoy the elegant Palm Court Lounge with fellow film enthusiasts featuring complimentary light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar where you can purchase soft drinks, beer, wine, or your favorite cocktail.

Relax at a table in the adjoining Trailer Park as you review the program, view trailers, and plan your 2014 Festival experience – we’ll be running a continuous loop of film trailers to inform your film decisions. Then head over to ticket sales to make your discounted, advance ticket purchases. Can’t decide what to see? – A Full Festival Pass is a great value and gains you entry to all the programs in this year’s Festival.

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!The place to be on Thursday,

September 11th is the Eisenhart Auditorium as we get set to launch this year’s Festival.

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To Be Takei directed by Jennifer M. Kroot

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei boldly journeyed from a WWII internment camp, to the helm of the starship Enterprise, to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband Brad on this star’s playful and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.

“A unique blend of camp and conviction, To Be Takei deftly showcases George Takei’s eclectic personality and wildly disparate achievements, from Star Trek crewmate to gay-rights activist. Arguably more famous as himself than he was as Sulu, Takei goes from Comic-Con conventions to Congressional hearings, with stints as Howard Stern’s announcer in between. As with her delirious 2009 documentary It Came From Kuchar, director Jennifer Kroot grants her subject’s past and present endeavors equal vitality, effortlessly jumping backward and forward, and creating an alternate continuity that owes little to straight-ahead chronology.

Kroot’s task is simplified by the fact that Takei’s activities at any given point incorporate earlier incarnations. On the simplest level, his role as Sulu in the original Star Trek TV series leads to his reprisal of the part on the bigscreen. On a deeper level, Takei’s childhood years in desolate internment camps during WWII and his family’s loss of their home, business and savings (Kroot supplies archival photos of the prison-like barracks and the hateful graffiti greeting Japanese-Americans upon their release) becomes the topic of Takei’s college lectures, his testimony before Congressional redress committees and a Broadway-bound musical called Allegiance. Likewise, his crusade for ethnic equality fuels his fight for gay rights after he triumphantly emerges from the closet in 2005.

Throughout, Kroot blends in a plethora of well-chosen clips from Takei’s neverending career. For sheer entertainment, however, nothing can top Kroot’s inclusion of campy Star Trek excerpts as Takei, impressively bare-chested, manically wields a fencing foil or fearfully edges away from an alien femme fatale bent on seduction.”– Ronnie Scheib / Variety

To Be Takei Festival Fair FREE Screening Thursday, September 11 at 8:20pm in the Eisenhart Auditorium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center

Join ImageArt For Its Fifteenth Annual Exhibition. The opening reception is Friday, September 5 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester. Light refreshments will be served. The exhibition will run from September 4 to October 19, 2014.

A concept of gender and gender identity that challenges the traditional binary assumption has been creeping into American consciousness in the past years. Even among progressive thinkers it has proven to be full of complexity, subtle interpretation, changing trends, and personal preference. The gender spectrum is experienced and played out as a component of our culture but also as a very basic element of our own sense of identity. While this is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the LGBT community, even here there exists radically different degrees of acceptance and understanding. Whether female or male, straight, gay, trans, or gender-queer such pronouns as hers, his, zhe, S/he, Hir, butch, femme, boi, and myriad others can often confuse as easily as clarify.

Exhibit HoursTuesdays-Fridays, 10:00am-4:00pm. Special weekend hours during the ImageOut Film Festival October 11-12 and October 18-19 10:00am-4:00pm.

Thursday, September 11, 6:00 – 9:00pmFestival Fair – The first opportunity to purchase tickets, Eisenhart Auditorium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Rochester, NY.

Online Ticket Sales begin Tuesday, September 16 at 5:00pm and end Thursday, October 9 at 5:00pm.

In-Person Ticket Sales at the ImageOut office in Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman Street, Bldg A, Suite A203 Saturday, September 20 ...................12:30 – 4:00pm Sunday, September 28 ............................12:30 – 4:00pmThursday, October 2 ...................................6:00 – 8:00pmSaturday, October 4 ...................................12:30 – 4:00pmTuesday, October 7 ....................................6:00 – 8:00pm

2014 Festival Advance Ticket Sales – Save Up To 20% When You Purchase Your Tickets In AdvanceBe sure you get your tickets early before the most popular films sell out (Opening Night typically sells out during Advance Ticket Sales)!

Page 5 Book #288: “Ladies First” by Kieth Smith

Sneak Preview of the 2014 Film Festival The Fall lineup of films for the 22nd Annual ImageOut Film Festival is being finalized as we go to press with this issue of the newsletter. Here are four films that have already been confirmed that you won’t want to miss in October (see the advance ticket sales dates listed on page 3 to make sure you get your tickets early and enjoy the advance ticket sale discounts).

Tru LoveDirected by Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald

We all know somebody like Tru. Quickly closing in on middle age, she jumps from job to job, from

woman to woman, never able to fully commit and not really sure why. She has friends, she has talents; what she doesn’t have is love.

Her life takes an unexpected turn when she does a favor for her friend Suzanne, a workaholic lawyer whose widowed mother, Alice, is coming for a visit. Set in the winter with icy Toronto as the gorgeous backdrop, Tru Love is a touching romance that will sweep you along on the journey even as it asks: When you finally meet your soul mate, do traditional rules still apply? Should they?

~ Georgia Beers, ImageOut Programming Committee Volunteer

Boy Meets GirlDirected by Eric Schaeffer

Meet Ricky Jones. She’s a beautiful young woman in her early twenties

who lives in Kentucky. She’s got a job at the local coffee shop, she’s a fashionista who can whip up a drop-dead-gorgeous dress using only a tablecloth and her talent, and she has Robby, the same best friend she’s had since she was six years old. And oh, yeah. Ricky is a transgender girl.

Smartly written and directed by Eric Schaeffer, Boy Meets Girl is engaging and sweet, with gentle direction and witty, poignant dialogue. It’s a refreshingly honest, delightfully unique romantic comedy that will make you laugh, cry, and warm your heart.

~ Georgia Beers, ImageOut Programming Committee Volunteer

Appropriate BehaviorDirected by Desiree Akhavan

This year, we shine a bright pink spotlight on a film that had audiences buzzing at Sundance. Appropriate Behavior packs a punch, both comically and emotionally, with a modern story about the end of a relationship and the long, bitter, often humorous aftermath that paves the road to recovery.

Shirin is a twenty-something girl from Brooklyn, and she’s a mess. Her girlfriend, Maxine, has broken up with her. She’s lost her job. She has to

find a new apartment. And her brother, Ali, has just announced his engagement to the perfect specimen of a Persian woman, making Shirin’s traditional Iranian parents giddily happy. For Shirin, the pressure is on.

Brooklyn-native and writer/director/actress Desiree Akhavan (TV’s Girls) is definitely one to keep an eye on. She’s been compared to Lena Dunham more than once, and she’s a talented young woman who brings her own style of wit and sentiment to Shirin. Surrounding herself with a supporting cast of fresh, talented faces (and a few that are more familiar), Akhavan manages to pull off a film that embraces modernity rather than tradition and shows us that not everybody fits into a neat and tidy little package. Nor should they.

~ Georgia Beers, ImageOut Programming Committee Volunteer

The 10 Year PlanDirected by JC Calciano

Myles is an attractive, successful attorney, and a desperately hopeless romantic. His sexy BFF,

Brody (Michael Adam Hamilton, CSI, Desperate Housewives) couldn’t be more different, content to “love ‘em and leave ‘em.” But when Myles is ditched by yet another terrified date, Brody consoles him by promising Myles that if he hasn’t found The One in the next 10 years, he and Myles will take their friendship to the next level.

The 10 Year Plan, a sweet, funny, and sexy film from director JC Calciano (director of ImageOut 2010 selection Is It Just Me?), has been winning audiences in the film festival circuit, and will definitely charm its way to your hearts as well. So make sure your Festival plans include this light-hearted romantic comedy.

~ Christopher Roesch, ImageOut Programming Committee Volunteer

Required Summer Reading!To foster dialogue, build community, and showcase the creative works of LGBTQ writers, ImageOut is proud to announce ImageOutWrite, volume #3!

ImageOutWrite will celebrate its third volume this fall with a collection of contemporary fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from fourteen local, national, and international writers. The collection will be available on our website in September in both ebook and print copies.

If you haven’t picked up Volumes 1 and 2 of ImageOutWrite yet, check out our ImageOutWrite page from the programs menu on our website: www.imageout.org!

ImageOut is pleased to present a free screening of Gayby at the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival. Gayby will be screened at 7:30pm on Monday, September 22 at the “Pedestrian Drive-In” – an outdoor theater in the Spiegelgarden (adjacent to the Magic Crystal Spiegeltent) on Main Street diagonally across from the Eastman Theatre.

Gayby is the story of Jenn and Matt, best friends from college. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can’t get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together – the old-fashioned way. Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.

Gayby was first screened in Rochester as ImageOut’s Closing Night Selection in our 20th Anniversary Festival. If you missed it at the Festival here’s your chance to catch this hilarious comedy on the big screen. And if you saw it at ImageOut, then here’s your chance to see it again and catch the rapid-fire jokes you missed the first time (you’ll catch every one-liner because you’ll be listening with headphones).

ImageOut Presents a Free Screening of Gayby at the Rochester Fringe Festival.

ImageOut’s free screening of Gayby will be screened at 7:30pm on Monday, September 22 at the “Pedestrian Drive-In” – an outdoor theater in the Spiegelgarden on Main Street diagonally across from the Eastman Theatre.

Photo by Erich Camping

Now is the time to become an ImageOut member. An investment in ImageOut will pay dividends for you and for the Festival. At many donor levels you will get great perks that will enhance your Festival experience – including free tickets, reserved seating, and admission to special member-only events. Plus you will get the satisfaction that you have helped to make this, the 22nd annual Festival, a celebration of film and community.

If you contribute by September 12, you’ll be acknowledged in the 2014 on-screen member listing and be able to claim special member benefits. Join the growing list of ImageOut supporters, our partners in presenting a great ten-day event and year-round film and cultural experiences.

Take a few moments to fill out the form on this page and mail it to the ImageOut office, call the office at 585-271-2640, or donate online at www.imageout.org.

Become An ImageOut Member TodayBY JOHN WILLIAMS // ImageOut Development Director

2014 Member Levels & Benefits

Memberships are for the calendar year. 2014 ImageOut memberships expire on December 31, 2014.

Become an ImageOut Member at the Marquee Society Level and be invited to the Member and Filmmaker Brunch which will be held on Sunday, October 12th.

Marquee Society memberships start at the Assistant Producer Level – $250 for individuals or couples.

An Informal Gathering for Marquee Members, Visiting Filmmakers,

Actors, and Festival Guests.

Renew or Become a New Member: fill out the form below and mail it to ImageOut, 274 North Goodman Street, Suite A203, Rochester, NY 14607. You can also become a member by calling the ImageOut office at 585-2712640 or online at www.imageout.org.