Wolfe To Be Honored at Fresno Reel Pride (Sept 15-19)
On the evening of September 19th, the board of Fresno’s Reel Pride Film Festival (September 15-19) will present the Reel Pride Achievement Award in Queer Cinema to Kathy Wolfe and Maria Lynn of Wolfe Video in honor of the company’s 25th anniversary year.
When founder Kathy Wolfe describes the origins of Wolfe Video, she credits an early Frameline screening of the landmark documentary Word Is Out as her catalyst. The message she took out of the theatre that night — about being out and proud and actively working to improve lesbian and gay lives — resulted in the birth of Wolfe Video.
From the beginning twenty-five years ago, Wolfe has evolved into the largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films. The company’s films are now reaching viewers via film festivals, theatrical and non-theatrical releasing, broadcast, DVD, and digital delivery.
Launched in 1985 on the eve of the “Gay New Wave,” which included the theatrical releases of classics like Desert Hearts and Parting Glances, this Northern California company began by producing short lesbian videos. When Maria Lynn, Wolfe’s current President, came aboard, her extraordinary business sense paved the way for the team’s skyrocketing success. They company’s first big break came from the support of Lily Tomlin, who chose Wolfe to distribute her entire catalog of performance works. With Tomlin’s films, Wolfe built a loyal customer base for their mail order distribution business.
Wolfe’s popular library of titles includes award-winning Reel Pride favorites like Big Eden, Claire of the Moon, Loving Annabelle, Were The World Mine, Itty bitty Titty Committee, and Brother To Brother. This tradition of excellence continues this year with the stunning Peruvian feature and Closing Night film titled Undertow (Contracorriente), one of Wolfe’s newest acquisitions among hundreds of other features, documentaries and shorts.
Get your tickets and find complete details for Fresno Reel Pride.
Kathy Wolfe to Receive Barbara Gittings Award at QFest
Philadelphia’s LGBT Film Festival, QFest will honor Wolfe Founder and CEO Kathy Wolfe with this year’s Barbara Gittings Award in honor of Wolfe’s groundbreaking work in LGBT film distribution. The award presentation will be made on Saturday, July 10th at the 4:45pm screening of Wolfe’s MY NORMAL at the Ritz East 2 Theater, Philadelphia, PA.
Here’s a nice little excerpt from the festival program note:
“As a small child, Kathy Wolfe’s fascination with her mother’s 8mm movie camera landed her the role of the Wolfe family archivist. Little did she know that these fledging attempts at filmmaking would sustain a successful career. She created a ground-breaking and respected company, Wolfe Video where she is the CEO.
But let’s back up. In 1970, in her early twenties, Kathy and Bill Plate founded Arrow Graphics a specialty graphics services company based out of San Jose. A decade later the company employed 150 workers in five states. In 1981, intrigued by the availability of public access television programming, Kathy began to hone her skills as a videographer, producing and directing documentaries on a broad range of topics of interest to women. Realizing that there was a largely untapped audience of lesbians and gay men eager for affirmative images, in 1985, she founded Wolfe Video. What began, as a small mail order company twenty-five years ago, is now, the oldest and largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films in North America.”
Read more at Philadelphia QFest 2010
AND THEN CAME LOLA — SF DVD Release Party
All the girls came out last week for Wolfe’s San Francisco AND THEN CAME LOLA DVD Release Party at Orson Restaurant, Bar & Lounge. The evening was co-presented by Frameline & Curve Magazine. LOLA co-director Megan Siler is pictured above at the event with Wolfe President Maria Lynn and Director of E-Commerce Jenni Olson to the left; and Curve staffers Flo and Diana to the right.
AND THEN CAME LOLA is coming to fine retailers everywhere on May 18th. Watch the trailer or reserve your copy now at WolfeVideo.com!
See more event pictures here: AND THEN CAME LOLA DVD Release Party – Curve Magazine – Web Articles 2010.
AND THEN CAME LOLA DVD Release Party (San Francisco, May 13th)
Wolfe presents: The San Francisco DVD Release Party for AND THEN CAME LOLA on Thursday, May 13th from 7-10pm at Orson Restaurant, Bar & Lounge (508 4th St., San Francisco). Join filmmakers Megan Siler & Ellen Seidler for this festive evening celebrating the fabulously creative and sexy lesbian feature, AND THEN CAME LOLA — and you might even win a free copy of the DVD to take home! Co-presented by Frameline & Curve Magazine. AND THEN CAME LOLA is coming to fine retailers everywhere on May 18th. Watch the trailer or reserve your copy now at WolfeVideo.com!
Visit the official Facebook San Francisco DVD Release Party event page to RSVP now!
Training Rules DVD Release Party
TRAINING RULES co-director Dee Mosbacher, NCLR’s Helen Carroll and Wolfe President Maria Lynn are pictured here at last month’s TRAINING RULES DVD Release Party at Orson restaurant. The party was co-presented by GoGetYourGirlOn.com, Curve Magazine and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
Click thru for more photos of the Training Rules DVD Release Party on CurveMag.com.
Ashleigh Sumner Solo Show (San Francisco — February 13)
You may recognize her name as the star of the hit lesbian movie, AND THEN CAME LOLA. Out Los Angeles actress Ashleigh Sumner is also an accomplished painter whose first San Francisco solo show opens this weekend at a.Muse art gallery (614 Alabama St., San Francisco). Join Sumner at a public reception on Saturday, February 13th from 7-10 pm and discover her bold abstract paintings (and try to resist the urge to pester her for an autograph). More details at:
http://www.yourmusegallery.com/
Paris je t’aime!
Congratulations to the Paris Lesbian, Gay, Trans Film Festival on their 15th anniversary event unspooling November 16th to 22nd. Attendees will enjoy a stellar line-up of the best queer cinema including such excellent Wolfe releases as WERE THE WORLD MINE and GAY SEX IN THE ’70s.
For all you queer movie-lovers around the world, don’t forget to check out the WolfeQueerFestDirectory — a wonderful resource that lists more than 100 LGBT film festivals all across the globe. The directory is updated regularly and includes a chronological listing of queer film events spanning the spectrum from Cape Town, South Africa to Santiago, Chile. Explore this amazing compendium now — your virtual tour guide to the world of queer film festivals.
Eye Candy of the Week: Allan & Mitchell
Also last Sunday, POWER UP’s official photographer snapped THIS lovely portrait of celebrated director Q. Allan Brocka (RICK & STEVE, EATING OUT, BOY CULTURE) and his cute boyfriend Mitchell Lucas at the annual POWER UP Gala in Los Angeles.
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