CAP + Our House + Prism Health are proud to sponsor the 2022 QDoc Film Festival! Founded in 2007 by Russ Gage and David Weissman, and directed by Molly King and Deb Kemp since 2017, QDoc has shown award-winning films fresh from Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Amsterdam and other top-tier festivals. We have shown historical films, personal stories, artist biographies, experimental work and topical films dealing with current controversies. 

Visiting artists have included prominent filmmakers from all over the U.S. and from as far as Italy and Australia, who have participated in lively discussions after the screenings. We have hosted emerging filmmakers as well as 3 Academy Award winning directors, enabling dynamic audience interaction with artists.

Documentary as a form of expression is as vital and energetic as it has ever been, and QDoc brings the highest caliber of films – and their makers – to share with Portland audiences. We hope you will join us in celebrating this amazing event. Check out the info for some films we think you’ll like and visit the festival site to see what else might pique your interest!

FOR THE LOVE OF FRIENDS
Friday, November 11th | 7:30pm

Oregon Premiere. In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and fear, he returns home to his own HIV diagnosis. Though the run finishes, Brent’s activism never stops.

Subject Brent Nicholson Earle and Producer Alex Charner in attendance.

IMPRESARIO
Saturday, November 12th | 3:30pm

Oregon Premiere. It’s impossible to imagine San Francisco’s queer cultural life in the past 5 decades without the singular presence of trailblazing gay filmmaker and organizer Marc Huestis. His most profound impact was as a creator of extravaganzas—some to support community causes, and later star-studded events which brought together the best of San Francisco’s performance community in celebration of camp icons and revered movies. Impresario is a celebratory, and sometimes bittersweet, portrait of Marc, lovingly crafted by first-time director Lauretta Molitor, and including interviews with Mx Justin Vivian Bond, John Cameron Mitchell, David Weissman and more.
Director Lauretta Molitor in attendance.

ALL MAN: The International Male Story
Saturday, November 12th | 5:15pm

Journey across three decades of the iconic men's fashion catalog that had an unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. This character-driven documentary crafts a portrait of a band of outsiders who changed the way men would look—at themselves, at each other—and how the world would look at them. This is their story—a modern day fairy tale about a dream that really did come true.

Co-Directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed in attendance.
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