Outfest is In

HollywoodReporter.com – By Chris Edling

With over 200 films, 50,000 expected attendees, and 26 years of history at its back, Outfest: the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has reached a vintage that typically connotes old guard orthodoxy and establishment entrenchment. But if you ask interim executive director Kirsten Schaffer what makes L.A.’s longest continuously running film festival important, it’s all about the newbies…

The 26th annual Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival invites Angelenos over the rainbow from July 9-21.