Sur Rodney (Sur), Columbia Gaza Solidarity Camp & Phranc Docs Secure Support Of Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Fest’s RE:Focus Fund

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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Out, the Toronto based organization that leads Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQ+ film festival, has revealed the 2024 recipients of its RE:Focus Fund supporting post-production and promotion, with the 14 grantees hailing from Canada, the U.S.

Pakistan, Chile and Singapore. The selection includes Canadian filmmaker Tricia Hagoriles’s documentary feature The Archivist: Sur Rodney (Sur) exploring the titular Canadian artist’s mission to preserve the work of gay artists dying around him in the AIDS crisis in New York in the 1980s.

The fund is also supporting U.S. directorial duo Gaia Caramazza and Kira Boden-Gologorsky short doc The Encampment going behind the scenes of the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity encampments, and Paige Gratland’s Phranc: The Butch Closet, in which the artist reflects on a retrospective of her work at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica last year.

Fiction works include Brittany Alexia Young’s comedy Munchies about a reunion between two high school friends that takes a dark turn when junk food cravings lead them to raid a convenience store, as well as Radha Mehta and Saif Jaan’s Witness, about a imam who faces a crisis of faith. “We were overwhelmed to witness a record number of submissions for this year’s RE:Focus Fund Post-Production Grant, a testament to the astounding growth of 2SLGBTQ+ storytelling,” said Jenna Dufton, Director of Festival Programming at Inside Out. “The incredible range of Canadian and international projects selected this year underscores the importance of supporting queer voices globally.