Look for Witi’s new film, KAWA on DVD and digital May 8th from Wolfe. Check out the film’s trailer below!

It was 20 years ago that B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” to describe the early-’90s revolution in gay and lesbian filmmaking (and yes, they were all shot and released on actual film). It’s truly amazing that two decades later audiences have such unprecedented access to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) films via the vast array of new exhibition platforms extending far beyond the traditional movie theater (or as they say in Great Britain, “the cinema”). Today’s New Queer Cinema is a genuine multiplex of digital delivery platforms, traditional broadcast, satellite and cable on-demand channels, DVD, Blu-ray, and more. Want your movies downloadable, streaming, HD, mobile? You name it (just get them from legitimate legal sources, please — don’t get me started on the scourge of online movie piracy).

Given my 26 years of work as founder and CEO of Wolfe, the top exclusive distributor of LGBT movies in the world, I’m thrilled to announce that we’re taking things yet one step further to help LGBT audiences gain better access to all these wonderful and vitally important films.

For the past several months Wolfe has been working behind the scenes on an initiative to secure an “LGBT” category heading as part of all digital distribution platforms. This undertaking is just the latest highlight in Wolfe’s ongoing mission to facilitate the broadest possible access to our rich cinematic heritage. This month we’re thrilled to have achieved not just one but two success stories. I personally want to thank the folks at Hulu.com and YouTube Movies for their vision and leadership in launching new LGBT category headings on their platforms, to help LGBT viewers find the films they need to see.

You can browse these categories at the following links:

Hulu Gay and Lesbian

YouTube Movies LGBT

Take a look and you’ll see how exciting it really is.

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Internet video giant Hulu will launch a new LGBT category heading on the free, ad-supported Hulu and Hulu Plus, GLAAD and Wolfe Video announced today. The new category heading arises out of an initiative spearheaded by LGBT film distributor Wolfe Video, and will help users locate LGBT content more efficiently, including nearly 100 films.

“Wolfe has been working with content providers and retailers for more than twenty years on this simple but important distinction. Creating a visible category for gay and lesbian films continues to be a vitally important reflection of LGBT equality in our culture,” said Wolfe VP, Linda Voutour. "We’re extremely grateful to our colleagues at Hulu for taking such leadership in the digital delivery space.”

“Making such groundbreaking and popular LGBT films available and accessible to a wider audience can have a tremendous impact on LGBT people longing to see relatable stories onscreen,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “We applaud Hulu and Wolfe for their leadership in bringing stories that can touch, inspire and entertain so many.”

via Hulu announces new LGBT genre category | GLAAD.

Check out the Wolfe studio page on Hulu. And click thru to browse and view nearly 100 LGBT movies on Hulu!

Wolfe Releasing announced today that it has acquired American rights to Gayby. The film, which debuted at the SXSW Film Festival this year in Austin, will be released theatrically this year in partnership with The Film Collaborative and come out on DVD and VOD in 2013. Written and directed by Jonathan Lisecki, Gayby revolves around two old friends — a gay man and a straight woman — who decide to have a baby together the old fashion way.

via 'Gayby' Acquired By Wolfe Releasing For 2012 Bow.

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Wendie Malick – Elise
My favorite is THE CHILDREN’S HOUR. How a rumor of homosexuality destroyed the lives of two women… It’s both beautiful and terrifying. I also loved MILK and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

Jon Lindstrom – Paul
I am only answering if they include my complete list, but my all time favorite would be THE CRYING GAME. It has all the elements: great story, character, political intrigue, explosive violence and people that actually care about each other. And Neil Jordan can do no wrong. I think it’s a movie that stands up against any other ever made. My complete list of favorites are: GODS AND MONSTERS, MILK, THE GREEN, TORCH SONG TRILOGY and MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE.

Christopher David Murrah – Andy
It’s not a gay movie necessarily but when I was a kid I loved it and I cling to it as an early sign that I was gay. AUNTIE MAME with Roz Russel is the greatest. What little gay boy doesn’t want to believe that there is some madcap aunt just waiting to broaden his horizons with gin and art and trips to Macy’s? The cast is amazing and practically crying out for drag impersonators and on top of it all the score is gorgeous. If you own it, watch it. If you don’t, order it, and tag on a copy of WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — my second favorite gay film also with a stellar cast.

Short and sweet from Megan Hilty – Ruthie
My favorite is LOVE, VALOUR, COMPASSION!

Ariel Shafir – Brian
I like films by Pedro Almodovar such as BAD EDUCATION and THE SKIN I LIVE IN. I also thought I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS was rather brilliant and funny… Mainly because of the ambiguity – I wouldn’t call these “gay” films or “straight” films. They are films that play upon our ideas of orientation or what we think we know about gay lifestyles and challenge us with stories that are much truer to the complexities of life. So that after seeing these films, it becomes more difficult for an audience to compartmentalize gay issues from human issues and hopefully that translates into the kind of society that can no longer separate gay rights from human rights.

James Duke Mason – Zack
Although there are plenty of great LGBT-themed films, I would have to say that THE TRIP is my favorite. It isn’t a perfect film, but I owe it my entire livelihood, as it was the movie that singlehandedly inspired me to come out. It gave me the courage to be who I am, and it made me realize that if I could have the kind of loving relationship with another man that was portrayed in the movie, then it was absolutely worth it, regardless of the consequences. A truly beautiful film.

Jay Arnold – Director
There are so many I love, but A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD is at the very top of my list. I think Michael Cunningham is simply brilliant. Everything about the film is unconventional. Unconventional love and the changing nature of families. Tender and beautifully acted, I believe this by far Colin Farrell’s best work ever. This film was not well accepted by critics, and yet I find it to be astonishingly touching, honest and authentic. The time line also mirrors my own age, so I very much related to growing up in the late 1960s, 70s and early 1980s. Another favorite film is BIG EDEN, a really sweet, upbeat and beautiful film that’s a must see.

Check out the trailer for WHAT HAPPENS NEXT below and get your hands on the DVD — freshly available from fine retailers everywhere!

Reserve your copy of JOE + BELLE now from Wolfe or look for it at fine retailers everywhere on July 3rd.

Discover Zac’s acting talents in A WARM WIND — now available at WolfeVideo.com and at fine retailers everywhere.

Enjoy Matthew’s acting talents in the exciting Wolfe release, PORNOGRAPHY: A THRILLER. You can also see him in his most recent film, I WANT TO GET MARRIED, as well as: ROLE/PLAY, REDWOODS, SOCKET, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN and BACK SOON).

“One of my favorite gay films is John Greyson’s masterpiece LILIES (1996). I saw the film at the Berlin Gay and Lesbian Film Fest. I was lucky enough to have two of my films play at the fest. Leather Jacket Love Story (1997) and Skeletons (1997) starring Christopher Plummer. I had just gotten off the plane and was suffering from jet lag. The film started at midnight and I made it to the theatre just in time. I was simply blown away by this incredible film. The film is a breathtaking, emotionally powerful love story. Lots of tears. The combination of the surreal nature of the film, the jet lag and sleep deprivation made the experience as close to a fever dream as I could imagine. The cinema was packed but was dead silent during the screening. You could hear a pin drop. I’ll never forget that night.”

David’s many films also include the beefcake chiller, Beastly Boyz and the popular 1313 homoerotic horror series which includes such productions as: 1313: Haunted Frat (“A bunch of tasty hunks running around in their tightie whities.” —BigDaddyHorrorReviews.com), 1313: Hercules Unbound and 1313: Frankenqueen.

Enjoy the trailer for 1313: Haunted Frat:

“This isn’t just the best foreign film I’ve seen this year, it’s the best film, period — a cutting-edge visual and emotional powerhouse. Its central figure is Dominik, a spoiled-brat high school senior whose permissive father and mother (a government minister and famous costume designer) are too busy with their careers to notice his “issues” — including the gay inclinations that lead to his outing and humiliation on the Internet. In loco parentis, Dominik seeks love/support online in The Suicide Room, finding it in both the real and virtual incarnations of a troubled girl named Sylvia.”

Read the rest at: Film reviews: CMU international festival a trove of smart, poignant delights.

Order the DVD of @SuicideRoom now from WolfeVideo.com or get it at fine retailers and digital platforms everywhere.

“If you live in North America, you probably first saw 28-year-old Australian actor Xavier Samuel in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Riley Biers, the (doomed) vampire tasked with helping to create a new vampire army. Twi-hards know that Samuel won’t be sinking his teeth into another Twilight film, but you can see him in the pseudo-historical drama Anonymous now available on DVD and Blu-ray. The twisty film is based on the theory that the historical William Shakespeare is a fraud and the real Bard is Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Samuel plays Henry Wriothesley, the illegitimate son of de Vere and Queen Elizabeth I. We called Down Under, where Samuel’s new romantic comedy A Few Best Men just opened in theaters, and asked the affable actor to wax philosophical about the impact of Shakespeare and vampires on his life.”

via 5 Questions With ‘Anonymous’ Aussie Actor Xavier Samuel.

Get your copy of THE SURF AND TURF DOUBLE FEATURE (on sale now for an extra 10% off for only $17.96 exclusively at WolfeVideo.com) — featuring the high-energy surfing drama, NEWCASTLE and the upscale NYC urban drama, THE NEW TWENTY.

Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Set in Huntington Park, near downtown Los Angeles, this earnest and beguiling coming-of-age tale follows two Chicana teens in the midst of the delicate dance of self-discovery and sexual awakening as they explore a new friendship and young love. An assured feature debut that puts the Chicana experience firmly on the cinematic map.

Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
As her very name suggests, San Francisco midnight movie maven Peaches Christ has a passionate understanding of cinematic religiosity and cult rites. These enthusiasms also run wildly through the outrageous career of Ken Russell (1927-2011), including one of Russell’s greatest commercial successes, the 1975 rock opera Tommy. Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey and Tina Turner as the Acid Queen are all at their peak of their sex appeal in this musical tale of pinball wizardry and modern idolatry gone mad. For one night only, the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas will be the Church of Ken Russell, and Peaches will be your preacher.

Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Author Stephen Elliott’s debut film, a visual love letter to San Francisco, takes a gritty look at a youth who never loses her innocence, even as she delves into the fetish world of porn. Cherry considers the delicate tension between body and self by focusing on society’s objects of desire.

Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Sumptuous and intimate, Benoît Jacquot’s portrayal of court life at Versailles during four crucial days of the French Revolution is a fascinating picture of social breakdown—mounting chaos calmly observed. Diane Kruger is electric as the youth-obsessed Marie Antoinette, and Léa Seydoux wonderfully enigmatic as the queen’s reader and confidante.

How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Unavoidably elegiac yet also defiantly joyous, this stirring history of AIDS activism revisits the controversial kiss-ins and “Silence = Death” sloganeering of agitprop groups ACT UP and TAG, whose street-savvy members challenged governmental indifference and Big Pharma greed to achieve remarkable breakthroughs in HIV treatment.

Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
Iris (Emily Blunt) sends her best friend Jack (Mark Duplass) to a cabin on Puget Sound, thinking the isolation will help him come to terms with his brother’s death. Friendships and sibling bonds are soon tested in this funny, truthful and largely improvised dramatic comedy from the maker of Humpday.

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Jack and Diane (pictured above), directed and written by Bradley Rust Gray. (USA) – World Premiere. Tomboy Jack and bubbly Diane fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe, their budding love is tested. Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) brings his unique vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love.

Yossi (Ha-Sippur Shel Yossi), directed by Eytan Fox, written by Itay Segal. (Israel) – World Premiere. Returning to the role that won him TFF’s Best Actor award in Eytan Fox’s Yossi & Jagger in 2003, Ohad Knoller is extraordinary as Yossi, a closeted gay man living a solitary existence in Tel Aviv. A chance encounter with a group of soldiers ignites Yossi’s desire to live an open, fulfilling life. Written and directed with uncommon honesty and compassion by Fox, this is a deeply moving film about the power of second chances. In Hebrew with subtitles.

Una Noche, directed and written by Lucy Mulloy. (UK, Cuba, USA) – North American Premiere. Fed up with catering to the privileged tourist class, Cuban teens Raul and Elio are tantalized by the promise of a new life in Miami. Accused of assaulting a foreigner, Raul has no choice but to flee, but Elio must decide whether his own escape is worth abandoning his beloved sister. Brimming with the nervous energy of Havana’s restless youth and evocative cinematography of the sun-bleached capital, Una Noche follows one sweltering day, full of hope and fraught with tensions, that burns to a shocking climax. In Spanish with subtitles.

Any Day Now, directed by Travis Fine, written by Travis Fine and George Arthur Bloom. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star in TFF alum Travis Fine’s (The Space Between) touching and occasionally incendiary drama.

Keep the Lights On, directed by Ira Sachs, written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias. (USA) – New York Premiere, Narrative. For Erik and Paul, what begins as a meaningless late-night hookup evolves into a serious, committed relationship. Acclaimed director Ira Sachs offers an honest, unflinching portrait of a relationship that is by equal measure loving and destructive. Uncompromising in its depiction of drug addiction and the sacrifices we make for the ones we love, Sachs’ film is a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful look at the way love changes over time.

Your Sister’s Sister, directed and written by Lynn Shelton. (USA) – New York Premiere, Narrative. Jack (Mark Duplass) hasn’t recovered from his brother’s death. His best friend—and late brother’s ex—Iris (Emily Blunt) sends him to her family’s isolated cabin for some quiet reflection, but complications, rivalries, and surprising revelations arise when both Iris and her heartbroken sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) end up at the cabin as well. Lynn Shelton’s long-awaited follow-up to Humpday heralds a graceful maturation of the reliably against-the-grain filmmaker.

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Discover Hale’s amazing performance in PRIVATE ROMEO. Coming to DVD and digital June 5th from Wolfe. Hale also gives a terrific performance in PEDRO — the popular drama about the late HIV+ gay reality TV star Pedro Zamora.

Enjoy the trailer for PRIVATE ROMEO:

The nominations for Best Lesbian Movie were announced February 22nd. Wolfe is proud to be represented this year by the wonderful Swedish lesbian romance, KISS ME (pictured above).

Voting is open now through March 21, 2012. The winners will be announced March 30, 2012. You will be able to vote once per day.

This year’s nominees are:

Jamie and Jesse Are Not Together
Pariah
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Hit So Hard
Kiss Me (With Every Heartbeat)

Click thru on the link below to cast your vote today.

Vote for the Best Lesbian Movie of 2011 – Readers Choice Awards at About.com.

If you loved the 2007 soap opera version of Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica) — get ready for the movie version! Shooting in Spain in May 2012 and featuring the return of our favorite Euro-Shane bartender Celia Freijeiro as Nines. Watch the fun teaser and stay tuned.

P.S. Click here to get your hands on the US DVD release of the original Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica) (on sale for only $9.95 right now at WolfeVideo.com)!

DigitalSpy.com reports that the stunning actress has been cast in the new CW medical drama pilot First Cut:

“The Event star Zadegan will play Gina, a heart surgeon with a ‘rock star’ persona… The actress previously starred in the final season of 24 and recently appeared in episodes of A Gifted Man and Harry’s Law.”

Meanwhile Entertainment Weekly showcases the trailer for Zadegan’s new movie, METH HEAD — from writer-director Jane Clark and co-starring Lukas Haas in the title role (with Zadegan as his fellow meth user and confidante).

Check out the intense NSFW trailer here:

Discover Jan Komasa’s gripping gay drama, @SUICIDEROOM new DVD and Digital from Wolfe.

Enjoy this sneak peek Gay Kiss clip from @SUICIDEROOM:

Three. Hot. Gay. Minutes. Enjoy this steamy gay kiss from @SUICIDEROOM — coming to DVD and Digital March 13th from Wolfe. Reserve your DVD today right HERE.

@SUICIDEROOM Description:
Moody, dark and handsome Dominik (Jakub Gierszal, aka “the Polish James Dean“) is tormented by his classmates after video footage of his drunken kiss with bully Alex is spread across the Internet. Grappling with the public humiliation Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based “suicide room” where the pink-haired rebel Sylvia consoles him. “We’re freaks, weirdos, outside the norm. You’re different. Treasure that,” she tells him. As Dominik’s depression worsens, and his wealthy, inattentive parents fail to deal with the problem, @SuicideRoom follows Dominik’s virtual experience (in stunning animated sequences) as his online adventures begin to dangerously bleed into his real life.

“From the moment you see him, it is clear that Gierszał was born to be on the big screen. Revealing a kaleidoscope of emotions, his ability to draw you into a story is unparalleled. He is touching, believable, sensitive – a pure and unique talent.”

Gierszal, who has also been described by the media as “the Polish James Dean” can now be seen by US audiences in the chilling gay drama, @SUICIDEROOM (on DVD and digital from Wolfe starting March 13th).

Watch the trailer here:

Discover Madeleine’s wonderful film, CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME.

We just love this music video from a bunch of talented musicians in the UK. Please check it out and support them if you can.

“What happens when you take one of the most well-known stars of daytime soap opera, put him in the mix with one of television’s funniest women and throw in a hot cutie as his love interest? Voila! An endearing romantic comedy for the LGBT community, which takes a look at a man in a mid-life crisis whose true longing and desires finally come to the surface.

This week the DVD release of What Happens Next is available through Wolfe Video. And if you are a lover of General Hospital, Port Charles and As the World Turns you will get to see Daytime Emmy-nominated Jon Lindstrom in a role that is quite the departure from his previous afternoon TV incarnations of Ryan Chamberlin, Kevin Collins or Craig Montgomery. In What Happens Next, Lindstrom plays Paul, the epicenter of the movie whose life is about to change dramatically with a chance meeting with a much younger man and some foibles with his sister, played by Hot in Cleveland’s Wendie Malick.

Frontiers caught up with Lindstrom to get his take on playing gay and the message that the film hopes to communicate to its audience, his thoughts on the political landscape of marriage equality and if he ever would return to the soaps, especially General Hospital, where this week rumors are abound that a return may be in the works! Here’s our chit-chat with the charming and disarming Jon Lindstrom.”

Read more at Jon Lindstrom Stars in Gay Rom-Com What Happens Next.

Have you explored Wolfe’s Official YouTube Channel? Wolfe is proud to present a complimentary selection of top LGBT short films from our vast library. Start off with the popular hilarious gay blind date comedy, AVAILABLE MEN (above) and then click below to move on through an excellent 80 minute program of top LGBT short movies from Wolfe. Just click HERE to watch Wolfe’s Top LGBT Short Films on YouTube (program description below).

Available Men (15 mins)
David Dean Bottrell’s brilliant West Hollywood blind-date mix-up.

Interviews with My Next Girlfriend (13 mins)
A very particular single lesbian screens future prospects in a hilarious interview process.

Transit (4 mins)
Enjoy the simple pleasures of lesbian cruising, subway style.

Last Exit (14 mins)
Out and proud Cody (the stunning Maryfrances Careccia) still has some feelings for her straight, married ex-girlfriend Heather.

Shugar Shank (18 mins)
Meredyth Wilson’s rock n’ roll tale of teen tomboy longing.