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Marking its milestone 50th edition, Frameline (the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival) has group its closing nighttime film.
Fresh disconnected its Cannes world premiere past night, Teenage Sex & Death astatine Camp Miasma will adjacent retired nan 2026 version of nan movie festival, taking spot June 17-27, pinch writer and head Jane Schoenbrun receiving nan Frameline Queer Lens Award for Filmmaking earlier nan movie screens astatine nan Castro Theatre, wherever prima Hannah Einbinder will besides beryllium successful attendance.
Schoenbrun’s 3rd feature, Teenage Sex & Death astatine Camp Miasma stars Einbinder arsenic an enthusiastic young head who is tasked pinch resurrecting nan Camp Miasma slasher franchise aft years of subpar sequels and declining fandom. But erstwhile she visits nan original’s prima (Gillian Anderson), a now-reclusive character shrouded successful mystery, nan 2 women go entangled a blood-soaked world of desire, fearfulness and delirium.
“Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma is simply a genuinely staggering accomplishment successful filmmaking — 1 that could only beryllium shaped by nan singular Jane Schoenbrun,” said Kate Bove, Frameline’s subordinate head of programs, successful a statement. “Jane and their activity bespeak truthful overmuch of what makes queer and trans cinema truthful vital: An uncompromising vision, a ceremony of collaboration, and nan desire to springiness sound to experiences that consciousness astatine erstwhile achingly acquainted and startlingly unspoken. We’re honored to coming Jane pinch nan Frameline Queer Lens Award, and tin deliberation of nary amended venue to do truthful than nan Closing Night of nan world’s first LGBTQ+ movie show to scope its half-century milestone.”
Premiering Aug. 7 successful theaters via Mubi, Teenage Sex & Death astatine Camp Miasma marks Schoenbrun’s 3rd movie aft We’re All Going to nan World’s Fair (2021) and I Saw nan TV Glow (2024).
Frameline50 antecedently announced 11 days of programming, featuring 140 films from 35 countries, opening June 17 pinch D’Arcy Drollinger’s Lady Champagne, and featuring Brydie O’Connor’s Barbara Forever arsenic nan centerpiece film.
