Geelong Pride Film Festival
| Welcome to Geelong Pride Film Festival |
2025 Geelong Pride Film Festival The 8th Geelong Pride Film Festival will be Thursday 1st May to Sunday 11th May 2025 at the Pivotonian Cinema, Village Cinemas Geelong and Platform Arts. The Geelong Pride Film Festival (GPFF) is an LGBTIQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Gender Diverse, Intersex and Queer) film festival in Geelong, Australia. Our non-profit community-run festival screens contemporary and classic LGBTIQ+ themed films in Geelong through an annual film festival and a series of special screenings and events. GPFF also supports local filmmakers through prizes and commissions. Classification The Classification Board grants GPFF special customs and censorship clearances that mean all audience members must be 18 years or over except where indicated. Concession Full-time students, pensioners, unwaged, seniors. Access The Pivotonian and Platform Arts and Village Geelong are wheelchair accessible. The Pivotonian and Village Geelong have assisted listening via an audio loop. Please contact GPFF if you have personal accessibility requirements. Assistance dogs welcome. Companion Cards are welcome. To book a companion card ticket please contact GPFF directly via tickets@gpff.org.au Acknowledgement of Country GPFF wishes to acknowledge that the Geelong Pride Film Festival is held on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation. We respectfully acknowledge them as Traditional Owners and pay respect to their Elders, past and present and their emerging leaders. We recognise their continuing connection to land, water, culture and community. Geelong Pride Film Festival supports all the elements of the Uluru Statement From the Heart - Voice, Treaty and Truth. Visit us on Facebook at Geelong Pride Film Festival. Festival Director Stephen Ryan Geelong Pride Film Festival Committee 2025 Committee Member - Lisa Carberry Vice President/Treasurer - Andrew Coon Programming Subcommittee Lead - Craig Jones Committee Member - Jodie O'Connor Chair/President - Stephen Ryan Secretary - David Scoble Committee Member - Michelle Walker GPFF Sponsors and Supporters The festival would not be possible without our sponsors and partners. The City of Greater Geelong support the festival through the Creative Communities grant program, the Victorian Government has supported GPFF since 2019 with a Pride Events and Festivals Fund grant. Lesbian Inc are supporting the 2025 festival with a community grant. EnergyAustralia is our Platinum Sponsor. Provincial Media our Gold media partners design our posters and program booklets which are printed with support from Snap Printing Geelong. WorkSafe Victoria, Meli, Thorne Harbour Health, Geelong Arts Centre, Platform Arts, Post Lab IO, Leura Park Estate are Gold Sponsors. MacKillop Family Services, Great Ocean Road Gin, Mt Pleasant Rd Brewers are Silver Sponsors. Ballroom Baby, Valley Road Nursery, Splatters Cheese Bar are Community Sponsors and Supporters. Deakin University are Bronze Sponsors. The Pivotonian Cinema, is the home of the Geelong Pride Film Festival showing diverse and high-quality independent cinema year-round. Platform Arts and Village Cinemas Geelong are also our venue partners. Beav's Bar Geelong is the official bar of the festival. Auslan Stage Left and Access Media are our accessibility partners. 2023 Geelong Pride Film Festival 2022 was held from 20 April to 30 April 2025 including 15 in-person screenings at the Pivotonian Cinema and Village Geelong. Rainbow Shorts 2023 - April 2023 - Village Cinemas Best in Show - April 2023 - Village Cinemas The Accidental Archivist + Q&A with Julie Peters - April 2023 - Platform Arts Esther Newton Made Me Gay - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Lonesome - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema NextGen+ Shorts - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Manscaping + Gay Shorts - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Of An Age - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Lesbian Shorts - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Gender Frontiers Short Films - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema The Venus Effect - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Where Butterflies Don't Fly - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Will-o'-the-Wisp - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema Happy Endings Short Films - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema 2022 Geelong Pride Film Festival 2022 was held from 1 April to 10 May 2022 including 13 in-person screenings at the Pivotonian Cinema and Village Geelong, a lecture event at Geelong Library and an online festival. Swan Song - April 2022 - Village Cinemas Sweetheart - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Happy Endings Shorts 2022 - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Mascarpone - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Youth Shorts 2022 - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Gender Frontiers Short Films - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Finlandia - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Wildhood - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema No Straight Lines - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Lesbian Shorts - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Tove - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Firebird - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema Rainbow Shorts 2022 - April 2022 - The Pivotonian Cinema No Ordinary Man - April 2022 - Online Pat Rocco Dared - April 2022 - Online Bennedetta - February 2022 2021 Geelong Pride Film Festival 2021 was held from 14 April to 16 May 2021 including 15 in-person screenings at the Pivotonian Cinema and Village Geelong and an online festival. Supernova - April 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Documentary Shorts - April 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Happy Endings 2021 - April 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Ahead of the Curve - - April 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema From Now On - Short Films - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema And Then We Danced - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Breaking Fast - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Knowing Me, Knowing Her - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Rainbow Shorts 2021 - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Youth Shorts - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Steelers - May 2021 - Village Cinemas Geelong Summerland - May 2021 - Village Cinemas Geelong The Man with the Answers - May 2021 - Village Cinemas Geelong Rūrangi - May 2021 - Village Cinemas Geelong The Greenhouse - May 2021 - The Pivotonian Cinema Rainbow Shorts 2021 - January 2021 (Dive In - Mergulhe Em Mim, Three Triple As, Leeway, Abby and Emily Go to Palm Springs, I Am Me, Closets - Almariyaan, Taiwan Pride for the World, Prince of Hearts - Hartenprins, Threesome, Delivery Boy, GirlsBoysMix, Night of the Butterfly, I Don't' Know) 2020 Gay Chorus Deep South - October 2020 Same But Different - October 2020 Celebrating Elders - October 2020 - (A Rare Breed, Growing Older As Me: Cat, My Uncles, Out of the Closets and Into the Streets, Arth, Two Words, Till Death Do Us a Party, Time and Again) Happy Endings - October 2020 - (Life is Fine, 6:23 AM, Boldly Go, Kelly, The Curse, The Choice, Heaven, Misdirection, Pretty Boy, I know Her, Cocodrilo) Ode to Genevieve - 4 March 2020 - Piano Bar Geelong Rainbow Shorts (The Flag, The Open, Dario, What do you see, Till Deal Do Us a Party, 1 Year, Kiko's Saints, Altruistic, Kenosis Kiss, The Cream, Gestation (featuring Malibu Stacey), Repugnant - 4 February 2020 - The Pivotonian Cinema The Geelong Pride film Festival planned for 2nd - 5th April 2020 was postponed due to Covid. 2019 2018 Call Me By Your Name - 16 January 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema Tangerine - 10 February 2018 - Geelong Rainbow Festival Screening - The Pivotonian Cinema Program Launch - 12 March 2018 - National Wool Museum A Moment in the Reeds - 13 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema Australian Shorts - 14 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema Out in the Lineup - 14 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema Out in the Lineup Q&A with Tomas Castets and Joel Carnegie - The Pivotonian Cinema Signature Move - 14 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema A Moment in the Reeds - 14 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema The Feels - 15 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin - 15 April 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema Disobedience + Aleph Documentary - 26 July 2018 - The Pivotonian Cinema 2017 Beautiful Thing - 10 November 2017 - Courthouse Youth Arts GPFF Founding Committee Members: Stephen Ryan, Andrew Coon, Jodie O’Connor, Laura Lorcane Deriu, Lisa Gleeson, Simone Farnsworth
Sponsors and Supporters 
Previous Commission Recipients 2022 - Laura Baron and Chiara Watt - TWIN ROOM 2021 - Emmanuelle Mattana - CHERRY PICKING 2020 - Andrew Blogg - DARYL / POOFTA 2019 - Joshua Machuca - LOVE LOCKS 2018 - Harriet Crawford - THE WEDDING PLAN The screenplay commissions were supported by the City of Greater Geelong's Arts and Culture department. |
