San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival, the world’s first continually operating LGBTQ film festival, was forced to postpone their June festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now they’re back, rescheduled for September 17 through 27, 2020 as a socially-distanced festival. Some films will be screened at Bay Area drive-in theaters. All of them will also be available through digital screenings.
The festival will feature 39 films (including 18 premiers) from 24 different countries.
Audiences can purchase a Castro Pass, which grants access to all but eight of the films, or can purchase individual tickets for specific films.
Shit & Champagne Showcase
Kicking off the festival will be D’Arcy Drollinger’s Shit & Champagne. (Drollinger recently became the sole owner of Oasis nightclub, which has presented stage productions of Shit & Champagne.)
From the website:
San Francisco’s own drag queen extraordinaire D’Arcy Drollinger trades the stage for the big screen in his first feature Shit & Champagne, a wacky send-up of ’70s sexploitation flicks. Drollinger stars as the titular Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White, a charismatic stripper who finds herself in danger after her fiancé and half-sister are both murdered. When the cops refuse to investigate, Champagne takes matters into her own perfectly manicured hands to find answers.
A string of messy booty bump incidents leads Champagne to uncover an evil plot at mega retail chain store Mall-Wart and a discount escort service run by an evil mystery woman. As Champagne becomes increasingly embroiled in the seedy underbelly, she has no choice but to go undercover to get to the bottom of things. Adapted from Drollinger’s wildly successful stage show, Shit & Champagne is fiendishly fun wall-to-wall slapstick and camp, thanks to the unerring comic timing of Drollinger and a supporting cast of all-star drag talent, including Drag Race’s Alaska Thunderfuck and local faves Steven LeMay and Matthew Martin.
Sizzle Reel
Check out Frameline’s promotional trailer for this year’s festival:
