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.

About Geelong Pride Film Festival 

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.

Geelong Pride Film Festival Committee 2025

Chair/President - Stephen Ryan

Vice President/Treasurer - Andrew Coon

Secretary - David Scoble

Committee Member - Jodie O'Connor

Committee Member - Lisa Carberry

Committee Member - Michelle Walker

Programming Subcommittee Lead - Craig Jones


GPFF Sponsors 
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.  Deakin University and Energy Australia are our Principal Sponsors. GLOBE Networking have provided a community grant for the 2024 festival.  Provincial Media our Gold media partners design our posters and program booklets which are printed with support from Snap Printing Geelong. Nicholes Family Lawyers, WorkSafe Victoria, Meli, Thorne Harbour Health, Post Lab IO, MacKillop Family Services, Platform Arts are Gold Sponsors.  Great Ocean Road Gin are Silver Sponsors. Liberty Disability Services, Ballroom Baby, Valley Road Nursery, Splatters Cheese Bar, Village Cinemas, Woodcraft Flooring 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.


Geelong Pride Film Festival Screenplay Commission (2018-2022)

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.  

Previous Screenings and Events

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
RÅ«rangi - 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

Pain and Glory - December 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Polyester - October 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Rocketman - 20 June 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Becoming Colleen - 16 May 2019 - Courthouse Youth Arts
Thomas Banks Quest for Love - 16 May 2019 - Courthouse Youth Arts
Wild Nights With Emily - 7 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Ginger - 7 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Mapplethorpe - 7 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Dykes, Camera, Action! - 7 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Dyketactics - 7 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Mario - 6 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Rafiki - 6 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Australian Shorts (Joy Boy, Shepherd, Broken, Jupiter, Cherry Season, Great Again, Ladies Lounge, Bodies, Sammy the Salmon) - 6 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
TransMilitary - 6 April 2019 - Courthouse Youth Arts
Tucked - 5 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
Thomas Banks Quest for Love - 5 April 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema
A Kid Like Jake - 9 February 2019 - Geelong Rainbow Festival Screening - The Pivotonian Cinema
The Favourite - 24 January 2019 - The Pivotonian Cinema


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

















 - April 2023 - The Pivotonian Cinema