OutSet Shorts
Outfest Forward
Program Running Time is 31 min
Outfest is thrilled to present the premiere screening of the 2016 OutSet Shorts. OutSet: The Young Filmmakers Project from The Los Angeles LGBT Center and Outfest, now in its fifth year, was created to empower and educate LGBTQ young people to tell their stories through film. A new crop of fellows between the ages of 16 and 24 participated in a five-month filmmaking lab, led by industry professionals and mentored by working filmmaker...
OutSet Shorts
Outfest Forward
Program Running Time is 31 min
Outfest is thrilled to present the premiere screening of the 2016 OutSet Shorts. OutSet: The Young Filmmakers Project from The Los Angeles LGBT Center and Outfest, now in its fifth year, was created to empower and educate LGBTQ young people to tell their stories through film. A new crop of fellows between the ages of 16 and 24 participated in a five-month filmmaking lab, led by industry professionals and mentored by working filmmakers who are also Outfest alumni. Don’t miss the inspiring screening of the five short films written, produced and directed by a new generation of storytellers.
Hey Stacy
USA, 2016, 6 min
An awkward teenage girl is peer-pressured by her friends to ask out her high-school crush.
Soless
USA, 2016, 7 min
A transgender woman begins to lose track of reality as she navigates the space between what is natural and what is artificial.
Called Home
USA, 2016, 6 min
After coming out to his father, Kal returns home from college expecting an accepting environment, but he quickly notices his father's hostility toward his emergence from the closet.
SO(U)L
USA, 2016, 7 min
A Chicana poet struggling with identity issues falls in love with a functioning alcoholic, propelling her toward tragedy and rebirth.
It's a Boy
USA, 2016, 5 min
Set in the near future, a young newlywed couple must decide what to do with their unborn baby boy after an ultrasound reveals he's gay.