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"Happy," "Saturday Church," "God's Own Country," "Freak Show" To Screen At Out On Film 2017

The Atlanta LGBT film fest celebrates 30 years of queer cinema.

Out On Film LGBT film fest turns 30 this week, with more than 120 films and documentaries screening from September 28 through October 8 at Atlanta's Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Michael Patrick McKinley’s feel-good film Happy: A Small Film with a Big Smile will headline the festival, and Damon Cardasis’ coming-of-age tale Saturday Church will close.

Out On Film's 2017 lineup also includes Francis Lee's God's Own Country, Trudie Styler's Freak Show, and Shaz Bennett's debut Alaska Is A Drag.

"This is, by far, our biggest festival to date in terms of the number of films we are showing, the most diverse slate we’ve ever presented, and the most venues," Festival Director Jim Farmer said in a statement.

Out On Film will also host select special events, including "Three Decades of Queer Atlanta: The American Music Show," which honors Georgia's groundbreaking American Music Show from the '80s through the early 2000s. (Drag Race's own RuPaul even got his start on The American Music Show in a special home video he sent to the show.)

The festival will also feature a screening of director Marlon Rigg's last film Black Is...Black Ain't in celebration of his 60th birthday. Riggs, who died in 1994, was a prominent LGBT documentarian and advocate in the '80s and '90s.

Out On Film 2017 runs September 28 through October 8 at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, Out Front Theatre Company, and the Plaza Theatre.

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