Frameline Film Fest features two furry documentaries – furs invited to a red carpet event.
by Patch O'Furr
Wear YOUR best carpet!
- FURSONAS – Sunday, June 19, 9:15 PM (86 min.) Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St, San Francisco. “Through a furry fray of intimate dramas and dilemmas, the fascinating individuals and universal longings of furries—or folks who don anthropomorphic body suits for role-play—come into snuggly view.” Tickets here.
- FURRIES – Monday, June 20, 9:15 PM (33 min.) Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St, San Francisco. Info here: “Furries looks beyond the fur to discover the importance of identity, creativity, and the community’s people.” Tickets here for the ONLY IN SAN FRANCISCO shorts program: “From dancing leather daddies and celebrated drag kings and queens to the imaginatively sexy and romantic and a trip to a Furry convention, this batch of shorts truly embodies the “only in San Francisco” spirit.”
- $12 for each show. Ticket sales open on June 3, 2016. Find more at their site, and here’s a program for the whole festival.
“I can’t believe it – we’re right next to Michael Moore’s latest on Google Play,” said Fursonas director Dominic Rodriguez. “It finally got real for me when I realized you could watch it on planes.”
I checked the “documentary” category, and there it was, the second most popular movie. Since mid-May, it’s still on the front page. That’s quite a step up from all the years when Dominic was working on just another student project made for passion. He said the crew still felt like students even when they were accepted to the Slamdance fest, where a distributor picked up the movie.
There’s more greatness to come. And the public is loving it as much as furries who praise it. (Not all, since it is polarizing in some ways – but man, it is special to read outsider opinions like this.)
“…a tender and nuanced meditation on a community that’s still trying to find itself… a noteworthy achievement for having the skill and will to let the narrative breathe.” – Criterioncast.com