Hello from Pride Films and Plays -  

 

As we begin our second year, PFP is following an ambitious agenda developing new LGBT plays and screenplays that are important to the community, and essential viewing for our friends, co-workers, and family members. With the current crop of presidential hopefuls warming up, our work is more vital than ever. Please make a donation here today as we link an international network of writers to film and theater professionals everywhere.   

 

To fully realize our dreams, we need the assistance of individual donors. Your support last year allowed us to award $7,000 to contest winners and finalists - playwrights and screenwriters from Australia to L.A.! With your help, we conducted the first Great Gay Play and Great Gay Screenplay Contests, each concluding with staged readings of the finalists hosted by our performance sponsor Center on Halsted. We have been promoting the finalists of those contests to film producers and theater companies. We are excited that three of the five screenplay finalists from last year are moving to production, and the winner of the play contest, Learn To Be Latina by Enrique Ureata, is receiving productions across the country.

 

Our Women's Work program read screenplays and stage plays written by women that featured lesbian themes. And we are in the initial planning stages for Gender Fest, a weekend of entertaining and educational work that will give us all greater understanding of issues regarding gender today.

 

Your financial support will move us closer to our goal of producing fully staged plays, and filming our first short work! I hope you will assist our unique arts organization as we grow.  We believe we can have a huge impact on how the world views the stories we endeavor to tell.   

   

Please join our team by making a donation here now!

   

In addition to your financial support, we hope you will join us at our exciting range of fall events. Check www.pridefilmsandplays.com for details for:

• September 7 to 11 -Women's Work Weekend, featuring staged readings of four new lesbian plays and four new lesbian screenplays, at Center on Halsted.
• September 19, 6:30 to 8 - And the Winner Wasn't, an evening of Oscar-nominated songs at Sidetrack, with the announcement of our five finalists in the 2011 Great Gay Screenplay Contest.
• October 20, 6:30 - a very special event hosted by Michael Leppen kicking off our Great Gay Screenplay Weekend.
• October 21 - 23 - Screenplay Finale Weekend, staged readings of the five finalists in the Great Gay Screenplay Contest.
• November 3 - 26 - Love Sucks, a new comedy.
• December 17, Stage 773 - A Holiday Review sponsored by Lampkin Music Group and featuring PFP Ensemble Members.

Pride Films and Plays has a lot to say and a lot to do.  Please help our cause by making a donation here today.

 

On behalf of the artists whose work we are supporting, and the Artistic Associates and Ensemble Members of Pride Films and Plays, I thank you for your support.

 

David Zak

Executive Director