Film

To Eau Queer and Beyond

6th annual Eau Queer Film Festival to be its biggest yet

Eric Christenson |

“From This Day Forward”
“From This Day Forward”

The Eau Queer Film Festival, currently Eau Claire’s only film festival, is heading into its sixth year with a whole slew of important films from a wide range of genres including feature-length comedies and dramas like Game Face, a documentary about the challenges that queer athletes still face in sports focusing on trans MMA fighter Fallon Fox and gay college basketball player Terrence Clemens. The theme of this year’s festival is “Beyond Binaries,” and it aims to shed light on the plurality of sexual and gender identities that are represented in the different films being screened and use the power of cinema to bridge the gap between the UWEC campus and local queer communities. The festival’s opening night screening of From This Day Forward – a film by Sharon Shattuck that delves into her entire family’s transitional period when her father came out as transgender – is bolstered by a Q&A with Shattuck after the screening. The festival is so unique to this area and the whole Midwest and it all kicks off on the UWEC campus on Sept. 30 in the Woodland Theater. For an entire look at the screenings, check out the listings to the right. To learn more about the Eau Queer Film Festival, its mission, and the documentary work some students did in conjunction with the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, visit www.eauqueer.com.

The Eau Queer Film Festival: Beyond Binaries • Sept. 30 through Oct. 4 • Woodland Theater, Davies Center, UW-Eau Claire • Free • www.eauqueer.com