FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 9, 2007
Contacts:
Damon Romine
Entertainment Media Director, GLAAD
(323) 634-2012
romine@glaad.org
Cathy Renna
Renna Communications
(917) 757-6123
cathy@rennacommunications.com
GLAAD to Donate Film and Television Collection to the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation at UCLA
LOS ANGELES – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Outfest, a leading showcase for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) film and video in Los Angeles, by announcing an ongoing collaboration with the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, a partnership between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Beginning this month, GLAAD will donate its extensive annual film and television collection to the Outfest Legacy Project.
“Each year, GLAAD monitors and archives thousands of hours of film and television,” said GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. “We are thrilled that this collaboration with Outfest and UCLA ensures all of this important material will be made available to the public for generations to come.”
"GLAAD'S donation is a significant and welcome addition to the Outfest Legacy Collection at UCLA," said Outfest Executive Director Stephen Gutwillig. "GLAAD has long played a crucial role acknowledging representations of LGBT lives in the media. Now, GLAAD is helping conserve them for all time."
“GLAAD’s material is a treasure trove of tremendous historic, cultural and social significance,” said Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “It’s an honor to have these moving images as part of the Outfest Legacy Collection at UCLA.”
In previous years, GLAAD donated its film and television archives to ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. In March of this year, ONE deposited its vast assemblage of moving image material—more than 1,500 films and 3,000 videos—including GLAAD’s collection, with the Outfest Legacy Project. The deposit nearly doubled the Outfest Legacy Project’s holdings, which had already comprised the world’s largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films.
About GLAAD
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information, visit www.glaad.org
About Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation A landmark partnership between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation was launched in 2005 and is the only program in the world devoted to addressing the crisis in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) film preservation. The Outfest Legacy Project has already established the largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films in the world and created tools to educate filmmakers and the public on film preservation and storage. Project goals also include striking new prints for widespread public exhibition, and expanding access of LGBT films and videos to researchers and the public. The Outfest Legacy Project will unveil its inaugural film restoration, Bill Sherwood’s beloved PARTING GLANCES (1986), at the Legacy Gala of Outfest 2007 on July 16, 2007. The Outfest Legacy Project’s next feature film restoration is WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES, the landmark documentary created by the Mariposa Group in 1977. For more information, visit www.outfest.org/legacy.html
About UCLA Film & Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to insuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come. A unique resource for media study, the Archive holds one of the largest collections of media materials in the United States—second only to the Library of the Congress in Washington, D.C.—and the largest of any university in the world. For more information, visit http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
