RESTORATIONS

Parting Glances (1986) was restored as part of the Outfest Legacy Project, a collaboration between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding made possible by The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation and members of Outfest.

Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Digitally remastered by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in conjunction with Sundance Institute and Outfest UCLA Legacy Project.

Galvanized by the Briggs Initiative and Anita Bryant’s moral-religious crusade, queer activists took to the streets en masse in 1977 to protest legislative efforts to force gays and lesbians back into the closet. Newly restored by Frameline, Outfest, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Based on Jane Rule’s novel Desert of the Heart (1964), Donna Deitch’s narrative feature debut centers on a burgeoning lesbian romance between libertine casino worker Cay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau) and repressed university professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) in Reno, Nevada in the late 1950s. Digitally restored by The Criterion Collection/Janus Films and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and Sundance Institute.

Different From the Others (German title: ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN), directed by Richard Oswald and co-written by the famed psychologist who founded the German homosexual emancipation movement in 1897, Magnus Hirschfeld, is believed to be the only film of a group of gay-friendly movies made during Germany’s Weimar Era that escaped systematic destruction by the Nazis.