Thank you to all who attended the eQuality Film Fest!
The First Annual eQuality Film Fest, benefiting the Q Center @ AIDS Community Resources, was a tremendous successs, thanks to all of you who came to be part of history at Syracuse's first-ever gay film festival. To volunteers, vendors, ticket buyers, and movie goers, thank you!
With the Fagbug parked front and center outside the Palace Theatre in Eastwood, dozens of young people who use the Q, parents, and community supporters viewed three award winning films and engaged in a "talk-back" with filmmaker Drew Emery. Emery gave the audience updates on the couples interviewed in his film Inlaws & Outlaws. He also spoke of his experiences growing up gay in Syracuse before there was such a thing as the Q Center. Emery asked Syracuse to make a commitment to the Q Center. For anyone who gave $60 that day to the Sponsor a Child campaign, Emery donated a signed copy of his film.
"Drew is a Nottingham Grad and a insightful man Syracuse should be very proud to call its own," said Maureen Harrington O'Neill. "He dedicated himself full-time to the eQuality Film Festival from the time he got off the plane on Thursday until he left on Monday - television appearances, radio interviews, a tour of the Q Center and meeting the AIDS Community Resources staff."
We look forward to another successful year next fall at the Annual eQuality Film Festival.